Cinemagraph Pro vs Draw Motion with Stabilization
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cinemagraph Pro
Create professional-quality cinemagraphs, a unique blend of still images and subtle motion, with this powerful mobile editing tool. Easily capture or import footage, use magical live masking, and refine your creations with advanced editing options for stunning visual storytelling.
- Magical Live Masking
- In-app capture or video import
- Trim and loop editing
- Overlay images and text
- Advanced color and tone adjustments
- 4K export
- iCloud Drive support
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Cinemagraph Pro, the most powerful tool to create visual imagery that gets noticed — in a class of its own. Cinemagraphs made easy. The only professional editing tool on-the-go with all the features of Apple Design Award winner Cinemagraph Pro for macOS, available on your iPhone and iPad. Cinemagraph Pro is the app that defined a new medium for visual storytelling — the hybrid of natural motion and still imagery. Without being an expert in photo or video editing tools, you, too, can create professional high quality cinemagraphs that stand out and get noticed. What used to take hours or days to create is now possible in seconds. Discover • Be inspired by the amazingly creative work posted to Flixel • Browse the latest and many curated collections • Upload your cinemagraphs to be featured Learn • Video tutorials to walk you through the steps of how to create a great cinemagraph • Start with the beginner tutorial and work your way to advanced • Download the tutorial documents to follow along and practice • Case studies and more to learn the best ways to use cinemagraphs to get noticed Create • Capture in-app or import any video shot on a tripod (up to 4K on supported devices) • Magical Live Masking using our patented method that reveals motion as you paint over the still image • Easily trim to achieve a perfect loop • Quickly select the best still image • Set the loop to bounce or repeat with a crossfade • It’s that easy Advanced Editing • Overlay layer for adding images and text on top of your cinemagraph • Crop, rotate, and straighten to frame the image just right • Export, modify, and import a still image • Adjust the speed or add a delay • Start with preset filters and then customize the color, light, and tone curve Made for Professionals • Shoot and edit high quality 4K imagery • Document-based so you can edit later, duplicate, and share • iCloud Drive support so it doesn’t matter where the document was created — you can keep editing on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Sharing • Export as H.264, HEVC, Live Photo, or GIF • Upload to Flixel for easy sharing and embedding • Custom crop and export settings designed to make social posts or ads as easy as possible • One tap upload to Facebook Ad Manager Flixel Plans Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews at the purchase price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the Account Settings after purchase. Subscriptions are one month or year in length. For Terms of Service see https://flixel.com/terms/
Draw Motion with Stabilization
Easily create captivating cinemagraph videos by drawing masks on your footage to highlight moving or steady areas. This app simplifies the process of making living images, perfect for sharing on social media.
- Draw masks to reveal motion
- Video stabilization
- Create cinemagraphs
- Looping video option
- Export to video or GIF
- Quick share buttons
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Draw Motion app lets you create stunning cinemagraph videos - just draw on video to mask moving & steady areas. Cinemagraphs, or living images, are a mixture of photography & videos. Living photos always look impressive and are a great way to express yourself, especially on Instagram or Tik Tok. Our video stabilizer feature helps you to create cinema graph even easier. Right after choosing video press Stabilize and wait few moments while stabilization process does it job. How to create a cinemagraph with Draw Motion: - Just use your finger to draw the mask: live-masking reveals motion as you paint over the video. Select "Loop" if you want. - Click Save. That’s it - now you can share your cinemagraph! Creating a living image is made very easy! Quick share buttons are available after you are done with creating cinemagraph. Export cinemagraphs to video files or gif (gifs) of desired quality and share them with us using #drawmotion tag!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Draw Motion with Stabilization at 52% against Cinemagraph Pro's 22%. Draw Motion with Stabilization also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.6). Cinemagraph Pro's advantage is ratings volume (6.3K vs 69) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Cinemagraph Pro sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Draw Motion with Stabilization sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Cinemagraph Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cinemagraph Pro has 6.3K ratings behind it against 69, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 22% of Cinemagraph Pro's written reviews are positive against 52% of Draw Motion with Stabilization's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Cinemagraph Pro ships an update every 3 months, Draw Motion with Stabilization monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Cinemagraph Pro | Draw Motion with Stabilization |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (6.3K ratings) — better | 4.3 (69 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 22.4% of reviews | 51.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6.3K — better | 69 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 161 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Flixel Software Ltd | Sergey Pekar |
Customer experience
Cinemagraph Pro
Draw Motion with Stabilization
User reviews
Cinemagraph Pro
From 6.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Unique app
- 🚀 Powerful features
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Great for creating cinemagraphs
- 👍 Smooth performance
Room to improve
- 💰 Expensive subscription model
- 💰 Overpriced for casual users
- 🔒 Requires account creation
- 🐛 Crashes and bugs
- 🔍 Difficult to navigate
Draw Motion with Stabilization
From 69 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Innovative concept for cinemagraphs
- 👍 Easy to use for some users
- ✨ Creates interesting and trippy animations
- 💰 Affordable watermark removal
- 🚀 Fast processing for some users
Room to improve
- 🐛 Constant crashing
- 🐌 Extremely slow processing
- ❌ Unusable due to bugs
- 💧 Watermark present (unless paid)
- 📉 Renders in lower quality
Bugs and requests
Cinemagraph Pro
Reported bugs
3 issues- Update not installing properly
- Importing and exporting issues
- Frequent crashes and freezes
Requested features
4 requests- Add option to purchase individual exports without subscription
- Improve watermark placement and visibility
- Implement more user-friendly pricing structure
- Enhance stability and reduce crashes
Draw Motion with Stabilization
Reported bugs
20 issues- App crashes frequently
- App freezes on launch
- App crashes when saving edits
- App cancels operations if screen is touched
- Video stabilizer creates glitches
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- Video renders in lower quality
- App crashes when trying to save video
- App crashes when trying to process video
- App crashes upon start
- App not launching
- App will not load videos longer than 1 second
- App will not save correctly (video part blacked out)
- Cannot get videos to load
- Projects disappear after export errors
- File save error every time
- App crashes and doesn't save
- Undo button works incorrectly
- Unable to initialize camera
- App loses buttons randomly
- App crashes 98% of the time
Requested features
6 requests- Add eraser brush for better masking
- HD quality upload options
- Option to change transparent part at the start of the video
- Ability to load saved video from library
- Feathering options for selections
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- In-app purchase for watermark removal
In-app purchases
Cinemagraph Pro
- Flixel Cloud Web$9.991 Month
- Cinemagraph Pro for iOS1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Mobile$14.991 Month
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- Flixel Cloud Web+Apps$19.991 Month
- Flixel Cloud Web+Apps$29.991 Month
- Professional$29.991 Month
- Cinemagraph Pro for iOS1 Month trial$79.991 Year
- Mobile$99.991 Year
- Flixel Cloud Web+Apps$199.991 Year
- Professional$199.991 Year
- License$299.99
Draw Motion with Stabilization
- Pro$1.99
Questions
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