Comparison

Sphereview 360 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

Sphereview 360

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Sphereview turns your 360° panoramic photos and videos into an immersive viewing experience. This free app has been created so that iPhone and iPad users can view 360 photos and videos stored in their Apple Photos library. It is fully compatible with images taken on many popular 360 cameras such as the Insta360 X-series. • Browse your 360° photo library in a clean, zoomable grid • Tap any photo to look around in full 360° then drag to pan, pinch to zoom • Switch to Little Planet or Tunnel mode for a fun, distorted spherical perspective • Save your favourite little-planet views as new photos • Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac Sphereview is completely private: it only reads the photos already in your library, and nothing is ever uploaded, tracked, or shared. No account, no ads, no analytics.

About

Stop Motion Movie Maker

Create animated movies by taking sequential photos of objects. Add titles, music, sound effects, and visual filters to bring your creations to life. Save and share your finished stop-motion films.

Highlights
  • Sequential photo capture
  • Add titles and speech bubbles
  • Library of sound effects and songs
  • Custom music import
  • Visual filters and looks
  • Remote camera control options
  • Studio mode for advanced editing
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

Sphereview 3604 screens
Stop Motion Movie Maker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sphereview 360 at none against Stop Motion Movie Maker's 1. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Stop Motion Movie Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sphereview 360 asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Sphereview 360 versus Stop Motion Movie Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSphereview 360Stop Motion Movie Maker
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPaul MoyneCaLa Studios

In-app purchases

None

Sphereview 360

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Stop Motion Movie Maker

One-time1
  • Stop Motion Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Sphereview 360 free?
Sphereview 360 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stop Motion Movie Maker free?
Stop Motion Movie Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sphereview 360 or Stop Motion Movie Maker have ads?
Neither Sphereview 360 nor Stop Motion Movie Maker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sphereview 360 or Stop Motion Movie Maker?
Sphereview 360 ships an update fortnightly, and Stop Motion Movie Maker fortnightly. Most recently, Sphereview 360 was updated on November 5, 2026 and Stop Motion Movie Maker on November 6, 2026.

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