Stop Animator vs Video2StickFigure
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
Video2StickFigure
Transform live video into animated stick figures in real-time. Save your creations as GIFs or MP4s, customize colors, and share them instantly on social media. It automatically detects a single human figure to generate the animation.
- Real-time stick figure animation
- Save animations to device
- Customizable colors
- GIF and MP4 output
- Automatic human figure detection
- Social media sharing
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Take live video and superimpose a stick figure onto the video! * Real time stick figure * Save animation to your device * Change colors! Share with your friends and post to social media! * Choose GIF or mp4 output formats Simply point your camera to someone, or have someone else take a video of you! The app will automatically detect one human figure in the video and will draw head and limbs to create an animated stick figure! Disclaimer: This app comes with full screen ads which will be shown while the animation is encoded. The encoding time is NOT artificially lengthened to show ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Stop Animator at 924 against Video2StickFigure's 5. Video2StickFigure's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 Video2StickFigure 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 4.4 for Video2StickFigure. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stop Animator has 924 ratings behind it against 5, 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 50% of Video2StickFigure's.
Stop Animator ships an update every 2 months, Video2StickFigure every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stop Animator | Video2StickFigure |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (924 ratings) | 4.4 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 47.6% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 924 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Independent Developers, LLC | Yuki Konda |
Customer experience
Stop Animator
Video2StickFigure
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
Video2StickFigure
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Video2StickFigure
- Premium Service 6 months$1.99
Questions
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