Comparison

iMotion vs ThingLink

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

ThingLink

Create engaging interactive experiences with images, videos, and 360 media. Add clickable tags to build virtual tours and learning materials. Supports over 80 languages with Immersive Reader integration.

Highlights
  • Create interactive images, videos, and 360 media
  • Add clickable tags with text and audio
  • Build virtual tours and learning experiences
  • Immersive Reader integration for 80+ languages
  • Track engagement and learning analytics
  • Mobile device camera integration
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The easiest way to create exciting, interactive experiences and virtual tours! Quickly create and share interactive images, videos, 360 media, and 3D models with clickable tags. Build experiences that engage and excite. ThingLink’s Immersive Reader integration makes your materials readable in over 80 languages. Use ThingLink in education • Create personalized, adaptive learning learning experiences that are proven to improve learning outcomes. • Use ThingLink on iPads and tablets in the classroom to develop digital literacy and future-ready skills. • Track engagement on all learning materials, videos and virtual tours, also suitable for educational research. • Make interactive infographics, maps, virtual tours, curriculum organizers, project-based learning presentations, escape rooms and digital breakouts for blended and distance learning. • Ideal for blended and hybrid learning, self-paced online learning in higher education. Use ThingLink for corporate training • Easily recreate local work environments and situations to develop competencies, practical knowledge and skills. • Train employees using virtual learning environments, simulations, and scenarios. • Share instructions and status updates with annotated photos and videos. • Improve productivity, save in logistics, content production and translation costs. • Learning analytics: Automate and scale mandatory training, track completion rate per learner. • Technology integration with existing learning management systems (LMS). Use ThingLink for marketing and communications • Increase time spent and clicks on infographics, floorplans, maps, virtual showrooms, product catalogs, and videos. • Ideal for boosting product marketing, brand engagement, internal communications, company website, social media and customer engagement. • Track engagement and collect data for your next campaign. Easily go back to edit and improve projects any time directly from the mobile app! Trusted by over 8 million creators, teachers, and learners around the world, ThingLink is a must have app in your suite of 21st century digital content creation tools. We’re the pioneer of interactive media, easy virtual tours and immersive scenarios. ThingLink is transforming corporate training, teaching and learning with its innovative interactive media solution. Awards and mentions: The 101 Hottest EdTech Tools According to Education Experts (number 17!), UNESCO ICT in Education Prize. Shoot, snap or upload your media Integrated with your mobile device camera: Capture photos, video and even 360 media with your mobile device, then just select and annotate them with the ThingLink app in minutes! Be inspired Access our professional 360 degree image collection to clone for your own use. Use our integration with Unsplash to get access to unlimited images. Ideal resource for course design, professional development, trainers, curricula planning, homework and documenting assignments. Easy to Use Editor Add text and audio notes, links, quizzes, Google apps, and other embeds from websites, images and video to hotspots. Add transitions from one scene to another, change icons, adjust colors, even record audio directly into a tag or so that it plays when the image is viewed! Organize and share digital learning resources Organize folders and share your interactive media amongst colleagues, easily publish to the web, any learning management system, Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Moodle, Moocs, or other platforms. Access your analytics all from within the mobile app. Virtual Reality 360 Scenes / Virtual Tours Use the tour tag to combine one scene with another and create an immersive walk-through or virtual tour. Visualize tours on VR Headsets, Oculus, Class VR, and Google Cardboard. Start creating now! Follow @thinglink on social media for tips. Need help or have a request? support@thinglink.com

Screenshots

iMotion4 screens
ThingLink4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: iMotion at 4.5 against ThingLink's 3.8. iMotion also leads on review sentiment (73% vs 38%) and ratings volume (2.8K vs 10). ThingLink's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence and device support 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. iMotion sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. ThingLink asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iMotion holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iMotion has 2.8K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of iMotion's written reviews are positive against 38% of ThingLink's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iMotion ships an update every 2 months, ThingLink every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
iMotion versus ThingLink: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriMotionThingLink
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2.8K ratings) — better3.8 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews — better37.7% of reviews
Number of ratings2.8K — better10
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size146 MB30 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSKETCHES SRLThinglink

Customer experience

iMotion

All ratings2,819 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral5.0%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews1,195 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral8.5%
Negative18.7%

ThingLink

All ratings10 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.0%
Written reviews106 reviews
Positive37.7%
Neutral5.7%
Negative56.6%

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

ThingLink

From 10 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use and intuitive interface
  • 🎓 Great for educational purposes and student engagement
  • 🖼️ Excellent multimedia capabilities with video and image linking
  • 💻 Works across multiple devices (laptops and mobile)
  • 🔗 Multiple links can be added to single images

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent app crashes and glitches
  • ❌ Data loss - work deleted after saving
  • 🔐 Login and authentication issues
  • ⚠️ White screen glitches and broken functionality
  • 🔄 Inconsistent performance and reliability

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

ThingLink

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • App crashes when taking photos or videos
  • Icon options fail to download (infinite spinning)
  • Login functionality broken or extremely difficult
  • Projects deleted unexpectedly
  • White screen display on startup
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  • Image processing stuck in infinite loop
  • Video playback errors with skin loading
  • Caption text disappears
  • App shuts down immediately after opening
  • Signup page appears repeatedly
  • 360 image functionality not working
  • Incompatibility with VR headsets

Requested features

12 requests
  • Landscape mode support
  • Ability to edit images after publishing
  • Reduce size of hotspot symbols
  • Longer video duration limits
  • Ability to tag images within images
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  • Save projects to camera roll
  • Dark mode option
  • Open In feature for sharing to other apps
  • Better icon customization options
  • Zoom capability for embedded pictures
  • Content filtering for educational use
  • Account name change functionality

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

ThingLink

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iMotion free?
iMotion is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ThingLink free?
ThingLink is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iMotion or ThingLink?
iMotion is rated higher. iMotion averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2.8K ratings, while ThingLink averages 3.8 from 10 ratings.
Do iMotion or ThingLink have ads?
iMotion shows ads; ThingLink does not.
Which is updated more often, iMotion or ThingLink?
iMotion ships an update every 2 months, and ThingLink every 3 months. Most recently, iMotion was updated on October 15, 2026 and ThingLink on October 8, 2026.

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