Comparison

iStopMotion vs Procreate Dreams

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Camera Overlay
  • Instant Playback
  • Timeline and Navigator
  • Import or Record Audio
  • Remote Camera Support
  • Flip Book Printing
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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 ***

About

Procreate Dreams

Create stunning 2D animations, expressive videos, and captivating stories with powerful yet intuitive tools. This app offers a rich brush library, advanced frame-by-frame animation features, and seamless integration of video, audio, and text for professional-quality creations.

Highlights
  • Frame-by-frame animation tools
  • Multi-track timeline
  • Keyframe animation
  • 300+ textured brushes
  • Video, photo, and audio editing
  • Real-time rendering engine
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Procreate Dreams is an award-winning animation app, packed with powerful tools that anyone can use. Create rich 2D animations, expressive videos, and breathtaking stories on iPad. With over 300 beautifully textured Procreate brushes, Procreate Dreams is perfect for creating gorgeous hand drawn, frame-by-frame animations. Highlights: - Powerful frame-by-frame animation tools. - Responsive Multi-track timeline. - Keyframes for motion and cinematic animations. - Record motion or effects effortlessly through touch. - Handcrafted animation brush library. - Next generation, realtime rendering engine. Create frame-by-frame animations: - Explore over 300 beautifully textured brushes to bring artistic soul to your work. - Compatible with all Procreate brushes - Up to 16K resolution for drawings. - Paint outside your stage. - Customizable onion skins. - Automatic, freehand/lasso, and shape selections. - Permanently transform, warp and distort your drawings. - Blend modes and clipping, luminance, and layer masking - Apply permanent filters & adjustments. Compose video, photos, audio, and type: - Import, edit and trim video. - Draw-over your content. - Add voice-overs and music. - Craft titles, type and credits with typography styling, and design attributes. Add animated motion and effects: - Add keyframes to your content for precise transitions of motion and effects. - Modify easing to refine your timing. - Move, scale, rotate, warp & distort animations. - HSB, opacity, gaussian blur, lens blur, noise, and sharpen effects. - Group content to unlock the power of layered animations. Import existing assets and content: - Import video & photos in JPG, PNG, TGA, Procreate, MP4, GIF, and ProRes format. - Import audio in MP3, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, AAC, CAFF, M4A, AC3, and MP2 format. - Import custom and purchased Procreate brushes. - Import layered Procreate files. - Import Procreate Animation Assist as a Flipbook. Share your work with the world: - Export MP4s and MOVs in H264, HEVC, and ProRes codecs. - Export transparent video. - Export PNG sequences with transparency for professional pipelines. - Export your current frame as a transparent image. - Share your .drm files with your audio and video included. Next generation technology - Seamlessly mix drawing, frame-by-frame animation, keyframing, video editing, and compositing. - Real-time rendering makes waiting a thing of the past. - Never lose artwork again with continuous auto-save and undo history.

Screenshots

iStopMotion4 screens

Verdict

The call

iStopMotion and Procreate Dreams both sit at 3.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 63% of iStopMotion's written reviews are positive against 41% of Procreate Dreams's. iStopMotion also leads on price ($9.99 vs $12.99) and device support (4 vs 1). Procreate Dreams's advantage is ratings volume (537 vs 23). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

iStopMotion costs $9.99 and Procreate Dreams $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.8 for iStopMotion against 3.9 for Procreate Dreams. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Procreate Dreams has 537 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 41% of Procreate Dreams's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iStopMotion ships an update every 2 months, Procreate Dreams monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
iStopMotion versus Procreate Dreams: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriStopMotionProcreate Dreams
Price$9.99 — better$12.99
Rating3.8 (23 ratings)3.9 (537 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.9% of reviews — better41.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23537 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.3
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB1.7 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBoinx Software International GmbHSavage Interactive Pty Ltd

Customer experience

iStopMotion

All ratings23 ratings
Positive65.2%
Neutral13.0%
Negative21.7%
Written reviews175 reviews
Positive62.9%
Neutral5.1%
Negative32.0%

Procreate Dreams

All ratings537 ratings
Positive71.9%
Neutral10.8%
Negative17.3%
Written reviews2,212 reviews
Positive41.0%
Neutral24.4%
Negative34.6%

User reviews

iStopMotion

From 23 App Store ratings

What 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

Procreate Dreams

From 537 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Smooth animation experience
  • 🚀 Intuitive interface
  • 💡 Potential for great app
  • 🚀 Powerful animation tools
  • 👍 Clean and simple UI

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
  • 🔍 Missing key features like lasso tool and layer management
  • 🔍 Lack of brush customization and import options
  • 🔍 Clunky timeline and onion skin functionality
  • 🔍 Unintuitive navigation and hidden features

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

Procreate Dreams

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Undo/redo issues, sometimes undoing more than intended
  • Crashes and freezes when working with complex animations
  • Inconsistent behavior when importing assets from Procreate

Requested features

6 requests
  • Lasso tool for selecting and transforming parts of drawings
  • Ability to merge, reorder, and manage layers
  • Custom brush creation and import options
  • Improved timeline controls and onion skin visibility
  • More intuitive UI and better discoverability of features
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  • Ability to set custom canvas size and frame rate

In-app purchases

None

iStopMotion

No in-app purchases

None

Procreate Dreams

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iStopMotion free?
iStopMotion costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Procreate Dreams free?
Procreate Dreams costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iStopMotion or Procreate Dreams?
Procreate Dreams is rated higher. iStopMotion averages 3.8 out of 5 from 23 ratings, while Procreate Dreams averages 3.9 from 537 ratings.
Do iStopMotion or Procreate Dreams have ads?
Neither iStopMotion nor Procreate Dreams shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iStopMotion or Procreate Dreams?
iStopMotion ships an update every 2 months, and Procreate Dreams monthly. Most recently, iStopMotion was updated on October 16, 2026 and Procreate Dreams on October 17, 2026.

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