Stop Animator vs Onion Cam2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stop Animator
Create stop motion and time-lapse videos with ease. Features include a full-screen capture window, adjustable frame rates, and helpful tools like onion skinning and grids for precise frame composition. Save your progress in projects and capture automatically at set intervals.
- Full-screen capture window
- Adjustable frame rate
- Onion skinning and grid tools
- Automatic interval capture
- Project saving and resuming
- Portrait and landscape support
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Stop Animator is perfect for anyone interested in making stop action or time lapse videos. • Full-screen capture window gets you a close-up view of each frame before it is captured • Support for both portrait and landscape orientations • Saves all your work to projects that can be picked up again later • Adjustable frame rate allows for complete control over the production and style of the video • Onion skinning and grid tools can help you decide how to compose each frame • Option to capture automatically at user-defined intervals, perfect for creating time-lapse videos exactly how you want them
Onion Cam2
Create stop-motion and time-lapse movies with ease. This app allows you to capture images sequentially, using an onion-skin feature to guide your next shot. You can then arrange your photos, export them as a movie, and save multiple projects.
- Onion-skinning for guided capture
- Guideline display
- Change picture order
- Export movies
- Save multiple projects
- Adjust movie export settings
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‘Onion Cam2’ is a simple and useful app, which can take a time-lapse photography and create a movie by one-stop. You can make interesting and great movies using your creativity! Please check this out, also for the people who have not tried creating a time-lapse photography! 'Onion Cam2' is the successor to 'Onion Cam'. The main difference is that 'Onion Cam2' now stores captured images in the app. Also, I was able to export it sideways. Other than basic camera functions, the functions below are implemented. ・Onion-skin function You can take a picture with checking the translucently displayed picture you took last time. By this function, you can take gradually changing time-lapse photography easily. You can adjust transparency and choose display and non-display mode by one tapping. ・Guideline display You can set displaying guidelines. You can choose display and non-display mode by one tapping. ・Changing order function You can change the order of the pictures. ・Exporting movie function You can export movies by this app. You can set the time of switching pictures and the size of exporting file. ・Saving several projects You can save several(32 projects for this version) projects. 【Supported OS】 iOS 17.6 or later 【Disclaimer】 While we try our best, we will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by the use of this application such as bugs or errors.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Stop Animator at every 2 months against Onion Cam2's every 6 months. Onion Cam2's advantage is review sentiment (63% vs 48%) and ratings volume (5.5K vs 924). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Stop Animator sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Onion Cam2 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Stop Animator against 4.5 for Onion Cam2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Onion Cam2 has 5.5K ratings behind it against 924, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 48% of Stop Animator's written reviews are positive against 63% of Onion Cam2's.
Stop Animator ships an update every 2 months, Onion Cam2 every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 4, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stop Animator | Onion Cam2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (924 ratings) | 4.5 (5.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.6% of reviews | 63.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 924 | 5.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Independent Developers, LLC | Yosuke Seki |
Customer experience
Stop Animator
Onion Cam2
User reviews
Stop Animator
From 924 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💫 Excellent for stop motion animation
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 🎨 Great for creating cool videos
- 🙌 Awesome for Lego stop motion
- 🤩 Fantastic app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and glitches
- 🤑 Paywall for basic features
- 🔍 Difficult to find saved videos
- 🕰 Slow and laggy performance
- 📤 Unreliable saving/exporting
Onion Cam2
From 5.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 👍 Onion skin feature helpful
- 🚀 Great quality exports
- 👍 Simple and straightforward
- 🚀 Good for beginners
Room to improve
- 🐛 Camera shakes even when stationary
- 🐛 Crashes when switching camera
- 🐛 Inability to watch/preview videos
- 🐛 Inability to export videos
Bugs and requests
Stop Animator
Reported bugs
5 issues- Camera not working
- Randomly deletes projects
- Autosave feature causes data loss
- Upside down camera orientation
- Freezes and black screens
Requested features
5 requests- Add audio/music support
- Implement editing tools
- Allow importing photos from gallery
- Provide more customization options
- Add countdown timer for taking photos
Onion Cam2
Reported bugs
3 issues- Frames snap back when moved
- App crashes when trying to create new video
- Brightness/zoom settings don't save
Requested features
6 requests- Add sound effects and audio
- Ability to adjust frame rate
- Add multi-select and batch editing tools
- Increase maximum number of frames
- Add timer/remote shutter function
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- Improve video playback and export
In-app purchases
Stop Animator
- Variable Frames Per Second$1.99
- Time Lapse$1.99
- Onion Skinning$1.99
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- Ad Removal$3.99
- Feature Pack$4.99
Onion Cam2
- Remove ads$3.99
Questions
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