iStopMotion vs RealityScan Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iStopMotion
Create stop motion animations and time-lapse recordings with ease. This app allows users of all ages to tell stories frame by frame, making it a fun creative experience for families and an educational tool for classrooms. Features include camera overlays, instant playback, and audio import.
- Camera Overlay
- Instant Playback
- Timeline and Navigator
- Import or Record Audio
- Remote Camera Support
- Flip Book Printing
Read full descriptionHide full description
Join many thousands of iStopMotion fans and enjoy the excitement of creating stop motion animations (AKA claymation or stop action movies) and time lapse recordings with the highly-rated iStopMotion. You can be a master filmmaker, directing your own blockbuster animation movie. It's fun and easy for everybody from kids to grandparents to tell your story frame by frame, featuring your favorite toys. Turn the time spent with your children into a great creative experience and wow friends and family at your opening night. iStopMotion is also used in hundreds of classrooms all over the world in all disciplines, honing creativity, problem-solving and communication skills in students of all ages. KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS Camera Overlay – Overlay the current live camera image with the previous one and see the changes unfold before your eyes. Animate more quickly and with a higher degree of accuracy. Instant Playback – Being able to play back your work at any time without a long wait leads to instant gratification. Beautiful Timeline and Navigator – Never get lost and quickly navigate through your movie, even if there are hundreds of frames. Import or Record Audio – Easily animate to a prerecorded sound track like the pros or dub your movie after shooting. A waveform view helps you recognize significant events in the sound track making it easy to match sound with the animation. Remote Camera – Position your camera more conveniently and avoid touching the camera device for capturing a frame with iStopMotion Remote Camera (download separately from the app store) - a free complementary app to iStopMotion! Theater – Be inspired by what other people create with iStopMotion or share your own masterpiece with the world. Flip Book Printing – Create a PDF that contains the key frames of your animation to print out and assemble into a nice flip book to show off to your friends and family. For more information, great examples, a forum and tech support go to boinx.com/istopmotion/ HIGH RATINGS FOR ISTOPMOTION "Once again, Boinx has done an excellent job…" – Steve Sande, TUAW.com "I was truly impressed with the quality of movies I could make with this software." – Derrick Story, TheDigitalStory.com *** Winner Macworld Best of Show 2013 *** *** Winner Macworld Best of Show 2012 and Mac Observer Editors Choice Awards ***
RealityScan Mobile
Capture the world in 3D using your iPhone or iPad. This app offers AR guidance for creating realistic 3D models of objects and places, with direct upload capabilities to Sketchfab for sharing and selling your creations.
- AR guidance for 3D scanning
- Create realistic 3D models
- Upload directly to Sketchfab
- Preview model quality with color coverage
- Crop box for easy object selection
- Project library for management
Read full descriptionHide full description
Capture the world with RealityScan Mobile, a free to download 3D scanning app with AR guidance. Create realistic 3D models with your iPhone or iPad and upload them directly to Sketchfab. 3D scan objects easily—wherever you are - No special hardware! Scan with just your phone. - Preview portrayal in colors to reflect photo coverage of the model for quality check. - Easily select objects for export with the crop box. - Enhanced Project Library for storing and managing your projects - Upload to Sketchfab, the ultimate platform for publishing, sharing, and selling 3D, VR and AR content. Use 3D scans to: - Create realistic assets for your game, project, VFX, or AR/VR experience. - Create assets for 3D visualization, 3D prints, and prototypes. - Capture and preserve your memories by 3D scanning special objects or places that have meaning to you. - RealityScan Mobile is compatible with any iPhone or iPad device which supports iOS 16.0 and higher. There is so much more to come—more integrations, more uses, more technological breakthroughs. But for now, we’d love any and all feedback. And if you create something fun, share it using #realityscan. We’ll be highlighting our favorite finds on all of our channels. Website: https://www.realityscan.com/mobile Privacy Policy: https://www.epicgames.com/site/privacypolicy
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is price: RealityScan Mobile at Free against iStopMotion's $9.99. RealityScan Mobile also leads on ratings volume (336 vs 23). iStopMotion's advantage is review sentiment (63% vs 32%) and device support (4 vs 2). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
RealityScan Mobile is free to download; iStopMotion costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.8 for iStopMotion against 3.8 for RealityScan Mobile. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RealityScan Mobile has 336 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of iStopMotion's written reviews are positive against 32% of RealityScan Mobile's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iStopMotion | RealityScan Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (23 ratings) | 3.8 (336 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.9% of reviews — better | 32.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 336 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Boinx Software International GmbH | Unreal Engine |
Customer experience
iStopMotion
RealityScan Mobile
User reviews
iStopMotion
From 23 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great for stop motion animation
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🔍 Useful onion skinning feature
- 📱 Ability to use iPhone as remote camera
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and freezes
- 🔒 Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
- 🔒 Doesn't work on iPad 1
- 🔒 Remote camera feature not reliable
- 🔒 Inability to reorganize frames
RealityScan Mobile
From 336 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great detail
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Fantastic and surprising
- 🚀 Awesome new features
- 👍 Working good for me
Room to improve
- 🐛 Not working
- 🐛 Crashes too often to be usable
- 🐛 Phishing scam?
- 🐛 Log in loop
- 🐛 what happened??
Bugs and requests
iStopMotion
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frames disappearing or showing as black screens
- Exported videos not saving properly
- Remote camera connection issues
- App crashing on launch or during use
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to import images from camera roll
- Implement voice recording and audio editing
- Add option to loop animations
- Improve focus and exposure controls
- Implement frame reordering and editing
RealityScan Mobile
Reported bugs
7 issues- Images just don't align
- Logging in loop
- Spinning forever
- Login failure
- Data loss after update
Show 2 moreShow fewer
- Login issues
- Crashes and processing issues
Requested features
10 requests- Wide angle lens Selection
- Export and usage of app data into Reality Capture
- Remote app on the Apple Watch and Compatibility for the DJI Osmo panning and tilt features
- Retopology filter
- Shape recognition
Show 5 moreShow fewer
- More captures you can add to make a quality image/ bigger mesh
- Unleash the LiDAR scanners on the Pro model phones and iPads
- Landscape mode
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
In-app purchases
iStopMotion
No in-app purchases
RealityScan Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is iStopMotion free?
Is RealityScan Mobile free?
Which has better reviews, iStopMotion or RealityScan Mobile?
Do iStopMotion or RealityScan Mobile have ads?
Which is updated more often, iStopMotion or RealityScan Mobile?
Other comparisons















