Stop Motion Lab vs Stop Motion MT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stop Motion Lab
Create stop motion animations with ease on your iPhone or iPad. Capture frames, edit them, add sound, and export your creations as MP4 or GIF. Perfect for claymation, classroom projects, or polished animations.
- Frame-by-frame capture
- Onion skinning
- Brightness, contrast, saturation adjustment
- Background music and voiceovers
- MP4 and GIF export
- Watermark-free exports (Pro)
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Stop Motion Lab is a powerful, easy-to-use stop motion animation app for iPhone and iPad. Capture frames with your camera, arrange them into animations, add music or voiceovers, and export as MP4 or GIF, all on your device. Whether you're making your first claymation, running a classroom project, or building a polished animation, Stop Motion Lab gives you practical tools without getting in your way. CAPTURE • Tap to capture, use a timer, shoot timelapse, or trigger frames hands-free with clap detection • Set intervals from 1 second to 30 minutes • Use onion skinning to line up each new frame • Lock camera focus and exposure for consistent shots EDIT • Adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation • Apply color effects to single frames or entire projects • Rotate, flip, reorder, duplicate, and delete frames • Hold frames for dramatic pauses SOUND • Add background music from the built-in library • Import your own audio files • Record voiceovers directly in the app PLAYBACK & EXPORT • Adjust FPS • Preview with loop, bounce, or reverse playback • Export as MP4 or animated GIF • Choose from multiple resolution options • Save to your device or share directly PRO UPGRADE Stop Motion Lab Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks: • Watermark-free exports • 1080p and 4K resolution • Image sequence export as JPEG or ZIP • Extra music tracks PRIVACY • No account or sign-in required • No ads • No subscriptions • Your projects, photos, and audio stay on your device • Diagnostic crash reports help us fix bugs Made by a small team in Boulder, Colorado.
Stop Motion MT
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Full control stop motion: manual camera, external Bluetooth/USB keyboard, onion skin, reference video, and frame-by-frame synced audio. Stop Motion MT (from "Mágicas e Truques," or Magic Tricks) is an app dedicated to animating objects by capturing sequential photos, which can be previewed and edited within the app and exported as an MP4 video or as a ZIP-compressed sequence of JPG images. The interface is simple and intuitive, bringing together everything you need for full-control animation. The goal is to democratize access to stop motion, both for beginners and for those who want to create professional-level animations. The app's main differentiator is external keyboard control. Stop Motion MT works with Bluetooth and USB keyboards, so every function can be operated without touching the camera: not only capturing frames, but also stepping forward and back frame by frame, playing clips or the entire scene, onion skin, flip, FPS, and much more. The camera offers full control, from automatic to 100% manual mode, and even photographic settings — focus, zoom, white balance, shutter speed, and ISO — can be controlled remotely and changed frame by frame, and even animated. All settings are saved per scene, ensuring far finer control and a smoother animation workflow. On the timeline, you can delete, duplicate, and repeat frames or entire sections (with undo), and easily change playback speed in frames per second — all without touching the original photos. The app also lets you import a reference video to animate over, with adjustable opacity, scale, and position, and add an audio track synced frame by frame, with a waveform on the timeline and frame-by-frame listening for checking sync. Complete your workflow with adjustable onion skin, composition grids, time-lapse mode, and a final export with reference and audio already included in the video — all within the app, with no internet required. In the free version, scenes are created in 720p with every feature unlocked; the Pro version adds Full HD and 4K resolutions for professional delivery. Stop Motion MT is an independent app, created by an animator with over 28 years of stop motion experience. By supporting the Pro version, you directly support the app's development and help bring new features and continuous improvements.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stop Motion MT at none against Stop Motion Lab's 1. Stop Motion MT also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Stop Motion Lab's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Stop Motion Lab sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Stop Motion MT asks for nothing beyond the download.
Stop Motion Lab ships an update every 5 days, Stop Motion MT monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stop Motion Lab | Stop Motion MT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (31 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zerostatic LLC | PEDRO IUA CORTINHAS FONTES |
In-app purchases
Stop Motion Lab
- Pro Unlock$5.99
Stop Motion MT
No in-app purchases
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