Comparison

iMotion vs iMotion Pro

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

Head to head
About

iMotion

Create captivating time-lapse and stop-motion videos with ease. This app offers multiple capture modes, professional rendering quality, and full camera control to help you animate your world and share your creations.

Highlights
  • Time-Lapse & Stop-Motion creation
  • Multiple capture modes (time-lapse, manual, mic trigger, library import)
  • 4K UHD, 1080p, 720p export options
  • Full camera control (focus, exposure, white balance)
  • Export videos, photos, and GIFs
  • Frame-by-frame animation preview
Features
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Bring Your Photos to Life with iMotion! iMotion makes it easy to create stunning time-lapse and stop-motion videos in just a few minutes. From creative storytelling to learning, memories, and social content, iMotion gives you everything you need to animate the world around you. Key features: - Time-Lapse & Stop-Motion: ****Create smooth, high-quality animations without technical complexity - Multiple Capture Modes: Choose the perfect way to create: time-lapse, manual capture, microphone trigger, library import - Professional Rendering Quality: Capture and export your creations in 4K UHD, 1080p, or 720p HD for high quality results - Full Camera Control: Adjust focus, exposure, and white balance manually to maintain full control over every frame - Easy Sharing: Export videos, photos, and animated GIFs directly to your Photo Library or share on social networks How It Works: 1. Capture photos or import frames using your preferred mode 2. Arrange and preview your animation with frame-by-frame precision 3. Customize settings and refine your result 4. Export and share your story in seconds Download iMotion and bring your time-lapse and stop-motion ideas to life. Subscribe to access to premium app features; subscription details are the following: - Length: weekly, yearly - Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase - You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Account Settings after the purchase - Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period - The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period - When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when purchasing a subscription Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

iMotion Pro

Create captivating time-lapse and stop-motion videos with an intuitive yet powerful tool. Enhance your stories, animate objects, and capture life's moments with professional rendering and easy sharing options.

Highlights
  • Time-lapse and stop-motion creation
  • Professional rendering
  • Easy video sharing
  • 4K UHD, 1080p & 720p exports
  • Multiple capture modes
  • Unlimited movie length
  • Add audio soundtracks
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Create your own time-lapse and stop-motion stories OR Your time-lapses and stop-motions (almost) like magic! OR Enhance your stories in minutes with time-lapse and stop-motion • Enhance your stories and make your photos real! • An intuitive app for professional rendering • A complete, fast, powerful and universal tool • To share your videos easily iMotion Pro is iMotion with "Full Version" In-App purchase included. # Where will iMotion take you? Time-lapse and stop-motion are everywhere: in the cinema, on television, on social networks… We cannot miss the charm of these fast and efficient stop-motion and time-lapse videos. They are now at your fingertips thanks to the iMotion app. Amaze your family by bringing precious memories to life, surprise your students with clear demonstrations, impress your customers by telling them a story, amaze your friends by bringing photos, landscapes and slices of life to life… only in a few minutes! With iMotion, the only limit is your imagination! # Is the iMotion app made for you? You are looking for a stop-motion / time-lapse app: • Simple and intuitive, • Powerful, offering a professional result, • With an unlimited number of photos and videos: never stop creating! • Offering the export of your videos directly to your photo library, your iTunes sharing folder, your email, your iOS apps and social networks, • Making you forget all the technical aspects: download, edit and publish, it's ready! • Without watermark or advertising, If you find yourself in one or more of this information, then iMotion is for you! # Inspiration: the only limit is your imagination! • Make your own animated films to entertain the whole family, • Simplify learning with a smooth, step-by-step tutorial, • Capture a landscape, a sunset, the colors of the sky or a memorable city, • Animate your favorite objects, your OOTD, your best recipes, • Freeze memories of your child growing up, • Immortalize the evolution of your pregnancy or your weight loss, • Compile your selfies for a fun effect… # Features: unleash your creativity, iMotion has thought of everything else! • 4K UHD, 1080p & 720p HD capture & exports • Universal binaries iPhone / iPad / iPodTouch • 5 capture modes (time-lapse, manual, microphone, wifi remote, photo library import) • Portrait (for Instagram and Tiktok) and landscape (for Youtube) orientations supported • Rear and front cameras supported • Flash light & camera zoom support • Onion skin support • Change camera settings (Manual Focus, Exposure & White balance) • Export: videos, photos and animated GIF to your Photo Library, iTunes Sharing Folder, Mail and iOS apps and social networks (Instagram, TikTok, Youtube…) • Unlimited movie length, even with the free version • Add audio soundtrack to your movie with iPod import, microphone and Files • Import multiple frames from your Photo Library • Export frames to your Documents folder while capturing • Export & import your movie project Download “iMotion Remote” app for free to preview and remote your capture from an other device iPhone/iPad/iPodtouch. # Watch movies made with iMotion Browse the iMotion gallery to see examples of videos made by iMotion users: http://www.youtube.com/imotionhdgallery # Who is behind Fingerlab? • Fingerlab is an independant mobile & desktop app publishing studio, based in Paris, France, founded in 2010. • We are indie developers and our goal is to create the greatest user experience for mobile devices. We are driven by our passions: music, photography and apps. • Fingerlab won the Apple Design Award in 2012 for its app "DM1-The Drum Machine", and all Fingerlab apps have been featured on the AppStore in multiple categories. Watch us : vimeo.com/​fingerlab Follow us : twitter.com/​fingerlab Powered by Fingerlab http://www.fingerlab.net

Screenshots

iMotion4 screens
iMotion Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: iMotion at Free against iMotion Pro's $5.99. iMotion also leads on review sentiment (70% vs 32%) and ratings volume (2.8K vs 84). iMotion Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, 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

iMotion is free to download; iMotion Pro costs $5.99 up front. iMotion sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. iMotion Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iMotion holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iMotion has 2.8K ratings behind it against 84, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of iMotion's written reviews are positive against 32% of iMotion Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iMotion ships an update every 2 months, iMotion Pro every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
iMotion versus iMotion Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriMotioniMotion Pro
PriceFree — better$5.99
Rating4.5 (2.8K ratings) — better4.3 (84 ratings)
Positive reviews69.8% of reviews — better31.7% of reviews
Number of ratings2.8K — better84
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.012.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size146 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSKETCHES SRLSKETCHES SRL

Customer experience

iMotion

All ratings2,819 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral5.0%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews543 reviews
Positive69.8%
Neutral9.4%
Negative20.8%

iMotion Pro

All ratings84 ratings
Positive81.0%
Neutral7.1%
Negative11.9%
Written reviews82 reviews
Positive31.7%
Neutral11.0%
Negative57.3%

User reviews

iMotion

From 2.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Simple and intuitive interface
  • 🎨 Great for stop motion and animation
  • 🎥 Helpful features like onion skin and remote control
  • ⭐️ Useful for school projects and hobbies

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Many features locked behind paywall
  • 🐛 Bugs with frame order and black images
  • 🔍 Limited camera controls and zooming
  • 🔀 Issues with resuming projects and maintaining frame order
  • 🔇 No audio/voiceover support

iMotion Pro

From 84 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great for beginners
  • 👍 Easy to use interface
  • 👍 Good for spontaneous stop motion
  • 👍 Works well for small projects
  • 👍 High quality video output

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashing
  • 🐛 Shaky and unprofessional videos
  • 🐛 Fuzzy picture quality
  • 🐛 Onion skin distorted
  • 🐛 Slow trigger time

Bugs and requests

iMotion

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Frames get scrambled when resuming projects
  • Frequent app crashes, especially with longer animations
  • Imported photos sometimes display as black
  • Issues with exporting and saving completed videos

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to import entire photo albums
  • Implement portrait mode and aspect ratio options
  • Allow adding sound effects and background music
  • Improve frame management and reordering capabilities
  • Provide more advanced editing tools and effects

iMotion Pro

Reported bugs

50 issues
  • Crashing all the time
  • Picture quality looks bad
  • Camera weirdly zoomed in
  • Sensitive to slight movements
  • Videos come out shaky
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  • Fuzzy thanks to weird zoom
  • Onion skin feature appears incorrectly distorted
  • Trigger time takes 5+ seconds
  • Bug on the first frame
  • First shot is reinterpreted
  • Onion skin stays on first frame
  • Edit menu does not work
  • Cannot playback video
  • Imported photos appear as a black screen
  • No way to save video in progress
  • No microphone option
  • Cannot see previous movies from iMotion
  • Drains battery rapidly
  • Phone overheats
  • App crashes every time it's opened
  • Cannot export pictures without restarting iPhone
  • Cannot use selfie camera
  • Description is misleading regarding HD quality with iMotion remote
  • Cannot access camera roll
  • Cannot resume a video
  • Resume button not present
  • App doesn't recognize camera
  • Capture button never shows
  • Controls aren't showing up
  • Controls missing after iOS 8 update
  • App freezes when device is turned landscape
  • App crashes every few hours
  • Low res uploads to Facebook
  • Resume feature gone
  • Tools missing after update
  • No music added
  • iMotion Remote app no longer working
  • Sound input is crippled
  • Gallery rejection emails are long and wordy
  • Blurs camera and zooms in
  • Pro version does a close-up and takes pictures off to the right
  • Audio screwed up on export
  • Kicks off app during filming
  • Super hard to resume filming
  • Restarts animation mid-way for like 4 seconds
  • Freezes in landscape
  • 1080p is not supported on iPad mini Retina display
  • No control buttons visible
  • Crashes since iOS 8 update
  • App doesn't open due to compatibility or bug

Requested features

11 requests
  • Import from files
  • Masking feature
  • Zoom feature
  • Manual exposure control
  • Expand photo import limit
Show 6 more
  • Selfie camera support
  • Duplicate frames
  • Dark mode support
  • Manual focus
  • Auto-exposure/auto-focus lock
  • Keep taking pictures during low battery notification

In-app purchases

5 purchases

iMotion

Subscriptions4
  • Weekly premium7 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Weekly premium$2.997 Days
  • Yearly premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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  • Yearly premium$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • iMotion Full Version$5.99
None

iMotion Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iMotion free?
iMotion is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is iMotion Pro free?
iMotion Pro costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iMotion or iMotion Pro?
iMotion is rated higher. iMotion averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2.8K ratings, while iMotion Pro averages 4.3 from 84 ratings.
Do iMotion or iMotion Pro have ads?
iMotion shows ads; iMotion Pro does not.
Which is updated more often, iMotion or iMotion Pro?
iMotion ships an update every 2 months, and iMotion Pro every 4 months. Most recently, iMotion was updated on September 26, 2026 and iMotion Pro on September 24, 2026.

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