Stop Motion Maker vs Stopmotion Animation Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stop Motion Maker
Easily create your own stop-motion videos by capturing a sequence of images. The app guides you through the process, from taking photos to previewing and exporting your final animation to your device's photo album.
- Capture image sequences
- Preview animations
- Export videos
- Camera access
- Photo library access
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Take a sequence of images and make your own stop-motion video. How to use. - Choose "create" button. - Your camera will start, Click "photo" button to take an image. - If you have enough image sequence, Click "done" button. - At preview screen. You can touch on "Play" button to see preview and Click on "Export" button to save video into photo album. Troubleshooting: - Camera doesn't work. Please make sure that allow the application to acess "Camera. - Export doesn't work. Please make sure that allow the application to access "Photo library". If you have any feedback, feature requests, bugs. Please send me an email. I will fix it as soon as possible. Thanks for your support :) im.oab.ps@gmail.com
Stopmotion Animation Studio
Create your own stop motion movies with this easy-to-use animation app. Features include frame editing, overlay mode, and full camera control. Share your creations on YouTube and other platforms.
- Easy-to-use interface
- Overlay mode for frame comparison
- Animation guides
- Frame editing tools
- Interactive timeline
- Auto-save functionality
- Remote Bluetooth capture
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Get Stopmo Studio, the world’s easiest app to get you into stop motion moviemaking today! All you need is an iPhone or iPad, a tripod, the right software, and a bit of creativity With it’s easy to use interface Stopmo Studio lets you create beautiful movies like Wallace and Gromit or those groovy Lego shorts on YouTube. It's simple to use, deceptively powerful and insanely fun to play with. Stop Motion Studio is a powerful, full-featured stopmotion editor with a whole host of features: • A simplistic, easy-to-use interface • Overlay mode showing the differences between frames • Animation guides to position animated objects more easily • Copy, paste, cut, and insert frames at any position • Interactive timeline so you never get lost, even if you have hundreds of frames • Auto-save, so that you never lose your work • Remote Bluetooth functionality so that you can capture frames without touching the screen • Full camera control with automatic or manual white balance, focus and exposure and expert mode **Share with friends and family: • Save to your photo library or share to YouTube . • Save all images for further processing. **Learn to animate • Watch the included tutorial videos. • Read the comprehensive manual. • Use the animation tips and tricks provided. LIST OF FEATURES: - Shoot using Expert Mode with simple gestures - Simple camera settings for fast shooting - Edit your movie easily using the intuitive timeline - Use Ghosting mode to see previous frames and pose your characters - Export your movie out as a 720p HD .mp4 movie - Share on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram - Auto-save ensures that you'll never lose your work - Bundled making of VIDEO DEMOS provide easy to follow learning
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Stop Motion Maker at every 2 weeks against Stopmotion Animation Studio's every 4 weeks. Stop Motion Maker also leads on review sentiment (49% vs 41%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 10.0). Stopmotion Animation Studio's advantage is ratings volume (383 vs 51). 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 Motion Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Stopmotion Animation Studio sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.8 for Stop Motion Maker against 3.9 for Stopmotion Animation Studio. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stopmotion Animation Studio has 383 ratings behind it against 51, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 49% of Stop Motion Maker's written reviews are positive against 41% of Stopmotion Animation Studio's.
Stop Motion Maker ships an update every 2 weeks, Stopmotion Animation Studio every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stop Motion Maker | Stopmotion Animation Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (51 ratings) | 3.9 (383 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 49.3% of reviews — better | 40.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 51 | 383 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 10.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 205 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pollapee Sroysuwan | Arjun Gupte |
Customer experience
Stop Motion Maker
Stopmotion Animation Studio
Bugs and requests
Stop Motion Maker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Stopmotion Animation Studio
Reported bugs
8 issues- Camera orientation inverted/upside down
- App crashes when reaching frame limit
- Blank white screen when taking pictures
- Videos duplicate when viewed
- App force closes and loses unsaved work
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- Blank screen footage appears in videos
- App becomes unresponsive/blank screen
- Crashes on devices with adequate specs
Requested features
8 requests- Increase free frame limit to 40-120 frames
- Add eraser/editing tool for removing support objects
- Improve camera quality and reduce blur
- Fix upside-down camera orientation
- Add auto-save functionality
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- Reduce or eliminate paywall requirements
- Fix video duplication issue
- Better save management system
In-app purchases
Stop Motion Maker
- Remove Ads$0.99
Stopmotion Animation Studio
- Discount to Pro$7.99
- Upgrade to Pro$9.99
Questions
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