Sound, green screen, titles, drawing and 4K — all free, no watermark, no subscription, no account. New in 2.6: iPad, Studio, sound effects and text to speech.
The stop-motion app that shoots by itself the moment your hands leave the frame. Free, no subscription, no ads, no account, no internet.
FrameFold turns a video of your working process into a stop-motion — automatically, and entirely on your iPhone or iPad.
The app finds the calm moments in your footage, drops every frame with your hands in it, compensates for shake and assembles the result. Nothing leaves your device: no cloud, no account, no tracking.
AUTOMATIC CAMERA
Phone on a tripod, then work — FrameFold fires by itself as soon as your hands leave the frame and the scene settles. Exposure and white balance are locked, and the shutter speed snaps to the mains frequency so artificial light can't streak your frames. With onion skin, drift check, an interval trigger and a spirit level.
SHARP, OR NOT AT ALL
The app measures image sharpness continuously and only locks focus once it has actually settled. If sharpness drops later, it refocuses on its own. A frame that isn't sharp never makes it into the work. On a tripod focus stays locked; handheld it keeps tracking — the motion sensor decides which applies.
APPLE WATCH AS A REMOTE
Fire and finish from your wrist, with the frame count and status on the watch face. Nobody has to touch the tripod. The volume buttons on headphones and AirPods fire too, and holding the shutter starts a countdown.
STUDIO ON IPAD
From Advanced mode the iPad becomes a pro workspace: timeline, toggle between live view and captured frames, multi-frame onion skin, aspect masks, loupe, multiple audio tracks with waveform, voice recording while the film plays and an X-sheet with mouth shapes.
EDIT AND SCORE
Duplicate a frame to hold a pose longer, drag frames into a new order, export at up to 24 fps — and lay music or sound from your files under the film.
THE FILM GROWS AS YOU WORK
While you work, the stop-motion is already playing as a loop — in the viewfinder and on the studio monitor next to the camera feed.
FLIP BOOK
Every work becomes a print-ready flip book: A4 sheets with cut lines, a binding edge and numbered leaves. Cut, staple, flip — the film becomes an object again.
STUDIO MONITOR
Connect a screen or projector and it shows the camera feed alone, with a catalogue line — no controls. For classes and studio visits: everyone watches, the phone stays untouched on the tripod.
VIDEO TO STOP-MOTION
Pick an existing video, the calm moments get found, hands removed, duplicates sorted out. You check every frame on the contact sheet before it's assembled.
THREE MODES
Simple (pick, shoot, done — made for teaching), Advanced (aspect, frame rate, resolution, playback) and a studio mode with paper relief, image echo, print look, fold transitions, an exhibition reel and print-ready contact-sheet and fold-template PDFs.
WORKS, NOT FILES
Projects collect frames across any number of sessions, with a 30-day trash. The result arrives like an edition: "Sheets 01–24 · Series of 24 · dated 2026".
Built as a bespoke tool for the artist Aldo Tolino, whose work folds printed photographs into objects and photographs them again — image, object, image.
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FrameFold 2.6
Now on iPad too – and with sound.
• Undo and redo for everything in a work (reordering, removing, text …) – by button or ⌘Z. The Studio is now on iPhone too (live settings → Studio).
• Text, speech bubbles and drawing: press and hold a frame → “Text & drawing …”. Text and bubbles span several frames, drawings belong to one frame.
• Full resolution: every frame comes as a photo from the sensor, export up to 4K. Plus lens choice (ultra wide, telephoto, front camera), clap to shoot, adding photos as frames and looks for the whole film.
• iPad: FrameFold runs on iPad, portrait and landscape. In a stand, viewfinder and frames follow the way the device is turned.
• Green screen, title and credits: replace green or blue with an image or a movie, plus a title card before the film and credits after it.
• Studio on iPad: from Advanced mode the camera becomes a pro workspace – timeline, toggle between live view and captured frames, multi-frame onion skin, masks, loupe, multiple audio tracks with waveform, X-sheet with mouth shapes.
• Record voice: the film plays along while you speak – the recording lands exactly in the right place. It stays on the device.
• Music or sound: pick an audio file in the work view – it plays under the exported film.
• Up to 30 fps: 15, 24, 25 and 30 fps for smooth motion.
• Manual camera (from Advanced): set ISO, shutter speed, focus and white balance yourself – the automatic metering then stays out of it.
• Duplicate and reorder frames: press and hold a frame for “Duplicate”, “Move earlier” and “Move later” – or simply drag it to a new place in the contact sheet.
• Sound effects and text to speech: attach pop, whoosh, drum roll, ta-da and more to any frame – or have a voice speak typed text. Everything is made on the device. Plus a help section with short guides in the settings.
• Now also in Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Japanese and Portuguese – and a sample work is waiting on first launch to try things out.
Version 2.6
The developer, Rainer Bracharz, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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