Comparison

Stop Animator vs Caturday Widgets

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

About

Caturday Widgets

Features
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Caturday puts a new cat on your Home Screen. Add the widget and a fresh cat photo turns up throughout your day. No notifications, nothing to tap, nothing to keep up with — just a quiet moment whenever you happen to glance at your phone. In the app any photo becomes something you can look into: a real-time depth effect separates the cat from its background, so dragging a finger across the screen shifts the perspective and the picture gains real depth. It runs entirely on your device. Every photo is a public post from the cat community on Mastodon, screened before it reaches you, and each one links back to its original post so you can find the person who took it. Caturday Pro • A wider tilt range, for a stronger depth effect • Your own cats: pick one album from your photo library and Caturday shows those instead An album you import stays on your device. No account, no sign-up, no tracking, no analytics, no ads.

Screenshots

Stop Animator4 screens
Caturday Widgets3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Caturday Widgets at none against Stop Animator's shown. Caturday Widgets also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Stop Animator's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.5). On price, in-app purchases 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. Stop Animator sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Caturday Widgets sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stop Animator ships an update every 2 months, Caturday Widgets fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Stop Animator versus Caturday Widgets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStop AnimatorCaturday Widgets
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (936 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews47.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings936 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB266 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIndependent Developers, LLCwerk01

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

Caturday Widgets

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Stop Animator

One-time5
  • Variable Frames Per Second$1.99
  • Time Lapse$1.99
  • Onion Skinning$1.99
Show 2 more
  • Ad Removal$3.99
  • Feature Pack$4.99
1 purchases

Caturday Widgets

One-time1
  • Caturday Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Stop Animator free?
Stop Animator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Caturday Widgets free?
Caturday Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Stop Animator or Caturday Widgets have ads?
Stop Animator shows ads; Caturday Widgets does not.
Which is updated more often, Stop Animator or Caturday Widgets?
Stop Animator ships an update every 2 months, and Caturday Widgets fortnightly. Most recently, Stop Animator was updated on October 22, 2026 and Caturday Widgets on October 11, 2026.

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