Comparison

Stop Animator vs Stop Motion Movie Maker

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

Stop Motion Movie Maker

Features
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Turn figures, toys, clay and puppets into real movies, one picture at a time. Move something a tiny bit and press SNAP. Do it again, and again. Press Play and watch it come alive. Stop Motion Movie Maker takes a minute to learn and goes as deep as you want. FIVE BIG BUTTONS, ONE JOB EACH - Snap takes a picture. - Oops takes back the last picture. - Play plays the movie so far. - Ghost shows your last picture faintly over the camera, so every move lines up. - Done, pressed twice, saves the movie to Photos and starts a new one. After the first picture, the camera locks its focus, exposure and white balance, so your movie doesn’t flicker. Pick a speed: Slow, Medium or Fast. Hold the phone upright for a tall movie, or sideways for a wide one. NO HANDS IN THE SHOT Turn on Auto Snap, move something and take your hands away. The picture is taken once everything holds still. Auto Snap waits while a hand is still in the picture and never takes the same picture twice. Nobody touches the phone, so the camera never wobbles. MAKE IT A REAL MOVIE - Words and speech bubbles that pop in and wiggle - 54 sound effects: boings, bonks, splats, robots, lasers, creaky doors and a drum roll - 9 songs, plus a voice-over you record yourself - My Songs: bring your own music from Files, the Music app, or any app’s Share button and AirDrop - 11 one-tap looks, including Old Movie, Comic, Sketch, Pixels and Neon - An opening title with a live preview - An ending: “The End”, or rolling credits (“Directed by”, “Starring”…) that pick up the song by themselves STOP ANY TIME Every movie saves itself as you go, so you can come back tomorrow and keep snapping. When it’s finished, save it to Photos or share it. PUT THE STAGE ON THE BIG SCREEN Great for classrooms, libraries, museums and parties. Connect a TV or monitor with an HDMI adapter or AirPlay: the TV shows the live stage and the phone becomes the remote. Take pictures with a keyboard, a box of big arcade buttons, a foot pedal, a game controller (including the Xbox Adaptive Controller), a Bluetooth camera remote, the volume buttons, Camera Control or AirPods. Museum mode opens straight into a fresh movie for the next person and works with Guided Access. On iPhone Duo, half-fold the phone and it stands up as its own tripod, while the outer screen shows the puppeteers what the camera sees. STUDIO MODE Switch it on in Settings for manual camera controls, a self-timer, time-lapse, shooting on twos, scenes, a frame editor, a timeline you can move and trim, keyframes and “record path” motion, transitions, speed, reverse and boomerang, video import, 4K and HEVC export, and project backups. FREE, WITH ONE OPTIONAL UPGRADE Make as many movies as you like for free. Free movies save at 720p with a colorful “Made with Stop Motion Movie Maker” badge in the corner. Stop Motion Pro is a single one-time purchase, not a subscription. It unlocks: - 1080p HD and 4K movies - Movies without the badge - Emoji stickers - Adding photos as movie frames - Animated GIFs PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads, no tracking, no account and no analytics. The app collects nothing. Your pictures and movies stay on your devices, and in your own iCloud if you keep sync on, until you save or share them. Auto Snap’s hand check runs on the device too. Requires an iPhone or iPad with a camera. Also on the Mac, with a webcam or your iPhone as the camera. Privacy Policy: https://stopmotionmoviemaker.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Stop Animator4 screens
Stop Motion Movie Maker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Stop Motion Movie Maker at 5.0 against Stop Animator's 4.4. Stop Motion Movie Maker also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Stop Animator's advantage is ratings volume (936 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). 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 Stop Motion Movie Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stop Motion Movie Maker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stop Animator has 936 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stop Animator ships an update every 2 months, Stop Motion Movie Maker fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Stop Animator versus Stop Motion Movie Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStop AnimatorStop Motion Movie Maker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (936 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings936 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIndependent Developers, LLCCaLa Studios

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

Stop Motion Movie Maker

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
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  • Ad Removal$3.99
  • Feature Pack$4.99
1 purchases

Stop Motion Movie Maker

One-time1
  • Stop Motion Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Stop Animator free?
Stop Animator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stop Motion Movie Maker free?
Stop Motion Movie Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Stop Animator or Stop Motion Movie Maker?
Stop Motion Movie Maker is rated higher. Stop Animator averages 4.4 out of 5 from 936 ratings, while Stop Motion Movie Maker averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Stop Animator or Stop Motion Movie Maker have ads?
Stop Animator shows ads; Stop Motion Movie Maker does not.
Which is updated more often, Stop Animator or Stop Motion Movie Maker?
Stop Animator ships an update every 2 months, and Stop Motion Movie Maker fortnightly. Most recently, Stop Animator was updated on October 22, 2026 and Stop Motion Movie Maker on October 29, 2026.

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