Comparison

Life Lapse Stop Motion vs Flotogram

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Life Lapse Stop Motion

Create captivating stop motion animations with ease using this intuitive app. Features include a 4K camera with ghost overlay, powerful editing tools, and built-in social media sharing. Perfect for beginners and professionals alike.

Highlights
  • 4K UHD stop motion camera with ghost overlay
  • Auto-stitching stop motion editor
  • Beginner-friendly interface
  • Stop motion tutorials
  • Blend stop motion with live action
  • 20+ one-click editing tools
  • Add music and sound effects
Features
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Stop Motion by Life Lapse lets you create your own stop motion movies and animations at home. - Create stunning stop motion animations with ease. - Download, share, and post to Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and other social media. - 4.8/5 from 35,000+ ratings in the App Store, App of the Day in 2024 and 2021. Unleash your creativity with Life Lapse: the ultimate EASY stop motion maker. Craft captivating animations, from mesmerizing stop motion to engaging social media content that will stop the scroll. Download Life Lapse now and experience stop-motion animation like never before. Our Features: ~ Stop Motion Camera: Shoot and film in 4K UHD resolution with our ghost overlay and hands-free tools like an interval timer ~ Stop Motion Editor: Life Lapse auto-stitches everything for you, making the stop motion process quick and easy ~ Easy to use + beginning friendly: Intuitive interface for all animators, even a beginner! ~ Stop Motion tutorials: dozens of tutorials to learn different stop motion techniques ~ Blend stop motion with live action from a single shot! Select "Life Lapse" project to shoot truly magical videos by using layers & masking. ~ Edit stop motion videos in seconds! 20+ Pro editing on-click stop motion tools (freeze, boomerang, reverse, filters and re-align after you've shot & more) ~ Easy to animate perfectly with our ghost/onion skin layer in camera. See your previous photo so you know how to move your animation next. ~ Add music and sound effects: Add and change the music soundtrack and sounds in your video. ~ Filters to make your video look amazing: Add video filters to control how your video looks and feels. ~ Easy to share on Social Media: Easily prepare your videos for Instagram or TikTok using our built-in guidelines. ~ Make your animations looks smooth and professional: Speed controls help make your animations smooth and silky! ~ Download to your phone: Save videos to your phone so you can send them to friends and family. Try PRO for Free: If you want to make more professional animations, experience the best stop-motion tool that is made for video content creators for FREE with a 7-day trial. After the 7 days is up, unless canceled before the 7 days, you will get access to Life Lapse with the annual subscription rate. Find us on Instagram/TikTok and share your work! See how others are using Life Lapse on Instagram at @LifeLapse_App or by searching #LifeLapse. We also feature Life Lapse video creators on our Instagram. For a chance to have YOUR stop motion videos featured share your Life Lapse video on Instagram & tag #LifeLapse or @LifeLapse_App. Send us your Feedback - support@lifelapseapp.com Have some feedback for us? Suggestions for new features? Or maybe just some questions on how to use the app? We’d love to hear from you! E-mail us at support@lifelapseapp.com with any questions and feedback you have and we’ll answer within 48 hours. Privacy Policy & Terms & Conditions: https://www.lifelapseapp.com/legal

About

Flotogram

Create and animate unique AR photography and video experiences. Place your photos into augmented reality scenes and explore various recording and playback modes, including distance recording and adjustable frame rates. Save, load, and upload your creations to iCloud.

Highlights
  • Augmented Reality scene placement
  • Animated photo and video creation
  • Distance record mode
  • Adjustable frame rate playback (0-60fps)
  • Layering system
  • Undo and reset functionality
  • iCloud integration
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Floto leaves your photos right where you take them. Look slowly round the room, tap the red button, and the photo stays there. Take a step to the side. It kept its shape. Take another and another and you've got a stack of photos hanging in the air, yours to walk round. WALK AND TAKE Switch on distance mode and just walk. Floto takes a photo every half metre or so, and lays them out behind you like a trail. Or hold the red button and it films, at whatever frame rate you like, and turns the video into a stack. PLAY IT BACK Press Play and your wave happens again, right where it happened. Forwards, backwards, or ping-pong it over and over. Slow it right down, or speed it up to 60 frames a second. MOVE THEM Drag one with a finger. Pinch to size it, twist to turn it, two fingers up to raise it. Hold and drag to pull off a copy. Drag one into a bottom corner to bin it, and Undo brings it back. LIFT SOMETHING OUT OF THE ROOM Hold your finger on a mug, a plant or your other hand. Floto lifts it off as a cut-out with real depth, sitting right on top of the original. Slide it off to the side. MAKE IT LOOK LIKE SOMETHING Put your photos on paper: Polaroid, thin borders, plain, semi-gloss, worn. Choose how thick they are and how they cast shadows. MAKE A SHAPE OF THEM Turn a stack into a line, a panorama, a carousel, or the path you walked. Trim every photo at once, front to back. FLY ROUND IT Swap your camera for a virtual room and orbit your photos with a finger. No walking required. KEEP IT Everything you make is saved as you go and backed up to your own private iCloud, so a new phone brings it all back. Capture a scene as a video to share. THE FEED Post a stack to the Feed and see what other people have left in their rooms. You can report a post, block someone, or delete your own whenever you like. FLOTOS Everyone starts with 500 free Flotos and every feature. A Floto is one photo in the room. After that you get 50 a day, and Captures carry a small Floto mark. Your first post to the Feed each day adds another 50. One purchase unlocks Floto for good, with no subscription and no ads. If you bought Floto when it was a paid app, it's already unlocked. Nothing to do. Floto works best on an iPhone with LiDAR (the Pro models), and still works without, with less detail in 3D. Floto is called Flotogram on the App Store. Same app. Questions: support@flotogram.com

Screenshots

Life Lapse Stop Motion4 screens
Flotogram3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Life Lapse Stop Motion at 4.8 against Flotogram's 3.9. Life Lapse Stop Motion also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 28 months) and ratings volume (9.5K vs 8). Flotogram's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Life Lapse Stop Motion sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Flotogram asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Life Lapse Stop Motion holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Life Lapse Stop Motion has 9.5K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Life Lapse Stop Motion's written reviews are positive against 60% of Flotogram's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Life Lapse Stop Motion ships an update every 2 weeks, Flotogram every 28 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Life Lapse Stop Motion versus Flotogram: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLife Lapse Stop MotionFlotogram
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (9.5K ratings) — better3.9 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews68.9% of reviews — better60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings9.5K — better8
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 28 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size241 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBolandia Creative Inc.Lucky Bulldozer Limited

Customer experience

Life Lapse Stop Motion

All ratings9,456 ratings
Positive94.8%
Neutral2.3%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews488 reviews
Positive68.9%
Neutral7.8%
Negative23.4%

Flotogram

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%

Bugs and requests

Life Lapse Stop Motion

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes when trying to preview/download videos
  • Issues with importing external photos/videos
  • Freezing and performance problems
  • Inconsistent behavior across devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more free music/audio options
  • Improve stability and reduce crashes
  • Allow more customization in free version
  • Add support for external photo/video import
  • Improve iPad optimization

Flotogram

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Life Lapse Stop Motion

Subscriptions4
  • Stop Motion Pro Weekly$6.997 Days
  • Stop Motion Pro Monthly$8.991 Month
  • Stop Motion Pro7 Days trial$49.991 Year
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  • Life Lapse Pro7 Days trial$79.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access2 variants$129.00
None

Flotogram

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Life Lapse Stop Motion free?
Life Lapse Stop Motion is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flotogram free?
Flotogram is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Life Lapse Stop Motion or Flotogram?
Life Lapse Stop Motion is rated higher. Life Lapse Stop Motion averages 4.8 out of 5 from 9.5K ratings, while Flotogram averages 3.9 from 8 ratings.
Do Life Lapse Stop Motion or Flotogram have ads?
Neither Life Lapse Stop Motion nor Flotogram shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Life Lapse Stop Motion or Flotogram?
Life Lapse Stop Motion ships an update every 2 weeks, and Flotogram every 28 months. Most recently, Life Lapse Stop Motion was updated on October 19, 2026 and Flotogram on October 5, 2026.

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