Join 25 million creators making stop motion animation with ease.
Stop Motion Studio is the Apple-featured app for creating stunning stop motion films.
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Stop Motion Studio is the easiest and most powerful stop motion animation maker for iPhone and iPad. Create beautiful animated films with LEGO, clay, drawings, or everyday objects — no experience required.
Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned animator, Stop Motion Studio gives you everything you need to turn your ideas into motion.
Loved by Millions Worldwide
* Over 25 million creators and counting
* Rated 4.7 stars with more than 65,000 reviews
* Featured in Apple’s “Life on iPad” TV commercial
“Stop Motion Studio makes it easy to create your own stop-motion movies.” – The Washington Post
“Brings out the LEGO moviemaking geek in all of us.” – TechNewsWorld
Create and Edit with Precision
* Onion skinning and animation guides for perfect alignment
* Interactive timeline and frame-by-frame editing
* Copy, paste, cut, and insert frames with ease
* Rotoscoping: draw over videos for unique effects
* Built-in drawing tools, text cards, and speech bubbles
* Erase unwanted objects and add facial expressions or layers
* Merge frames to simulate motion blur or speed effects
Capture Every Frame
* Full manual camera controls: focus, exposure, ISO, and white balance
* Timelapse capture mode for automatic shooting
* Use your Apple Watch or another device as a remote camera
Add Sound and Style
* Record voiceovers and narration directly in the app
* Add sound effects, background music, or import from your library
* Use filters, fades, and transitions for cinematic results
* Green screen effects let you place characters anywhere
Share Your Masterpiece
* Export your films in 4K or 1080p HD
* Share directly to YouTube, TikTok, or save as a GIF or iMessage sticker
* Transfer projects via AirDrop, iCloud, or Dropbox
* Start on iPhone and finish on Mac — your work stays in sync
Learn and Improve
* Step-by-step tutorials and creative tips included
* Built-in manual for quick guidance and inspiration
Yours to Create
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Your data stays private and your creativity stays yours.
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Join millions of creators and bring your imagination to life — one frame at a time.
Stop Motion Studio works with most DSLR cameras from Canon.
Visit our support page for a list of supported cameras:
https://helpdesk.cateater.com/help/en-us/3/7
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Everything a beginner animator needs for stop motion
Dadimator
This is a great tool for beginning stop motion animators packed with a lot of features that are fairly easy to use. It has all of the basics you need, like taking and managing frames, adding sound effects, green-screening, title and credit slides, transitions, watermarking, and so on. Another plus is all of the great tutorials explaining how to do stop motion and how to make the best use of the features in Stop Motion Studio.There is a lot you can do with this tool but for bigger projects it can end up being a bit clunky compared to other, more professional tools. For example, it only allows a single sound channel per frame and the controls for editing sound are pretty basic. For green screening, you cannot pick a custom mask color. Bulk editing of slides is not available for the most part. The tool also forgets camera settings every time you close a project.Overall, this is a great tool for the price. I highly recommend it for anyone just getting started with stop motion animation.
Very good app with a major flaw
RonaldHayden
This app is great for getting started, and for the amazingly well-done digital face/talking technology.I am now using DragonFrame as my main app, but still using Stop Motion Studio for the facial features.Unfortunately I want to do my project in 4:3, the old TV aspect ratio, but no matter how I set the aspect ratio, the app *always* exports in 16:9. So if I want to keep using the digital faces, I am stuck with that aspect ratio, and at a lowly 1920x1080 because that's the only size that I've been able to reliably import and export without problems.
Lacking a critical feature
Lerm7
I purchased Stop Motion Studio Pro 2 because it seemed simple, adequite for what I needed to accomplish (i.e. amateur claymation), inexpensive, and compatible with my current hardware. I read the entire manual, and familiarized myself with the program. Unfortunately, the software did not seem to facilitate the level of quality and efficiency I needed when shooting a test scene to evaluate its lip-syncing capabilities.My lip-sync process is to record the dialogue in Logic, import the files into the animation software, and film the shot in context to the aforementioned audio. Stop Motion Studio Pro 2 doesn't seem to allow the audio files to exist seperately from an image/frame. Therefore, I have to shoot a frame before I can even import the audio, and I can't move it around the timeline without a drawn out process of opening menus, deleting, and importing the file redundantly. Also, the scrub feature only works on images/frames (i.e. no audio).While Stop Motion Studio Pro 2 is easy to learn and includes a number of cool features, its inability to import and manipuate audio before visually capturing the scene is crippling to my workflow and the quality of the final product.
bad interface
Kyoung21b
While a lot of things are easy to do in stop motion pro I found the interface pretty bad. E.g. I wanted to combine the seperate scenes I made into a single video. The tutorial video saya just cut and paste the frames you're interested in and add them to the overall project. Well, I have a lot frames in some of the individual projects so I assumed I could just "Select All" the frames, copy them, and add to the overeall project. Well I've been sitting here for 2 hours trying to figure out to do that. Firstly the Select All function in the Edit drop down is grayed out. Then when I select all the frames that are showing, and try to go to the next set, the first set are automatically deselected. So, e.g., out of 200 frmaes, I guess I'm supposed to select and copy about 20 frames (the ones that are showing in the bottom window)), go out to the overall project and paste them, then repeat this procerss 10 times !?!? That's pretty brain dead, and in searching many many tutorials I could find nothing suggesting any way around this.
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Version 25.12
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