Stop Motion Movie Maker
Animate Toys, Clay & Puppets
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
New: iPhone Duo support and a Mac app! iCloud sync puts your movies on every iPhone, iPad and Mac you use. Plus add your photos from your Photo Library into the timeline.
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/
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Stop Motion Movie Maker comes to the Mac, and your movies come with you.
- iCloud sync: your movies show up on every iPhone, iPad and Mac signed in to the same Apple Account. Snap on the phone, decorate on the iPad, finish on the Mac. Turn it off in Settings if you like.
- A Mac app: a big studio window with menus and keyboard shortcuts. Use a webcam or your iPhone as the camera, drag pictures in from Finder, and give the stage its own window for a second screen or a projector. Stop Motion Pro works there too, with no second purchase.
- iPhone Duo: half-fold it and it stands up as its own tripod, with the picture on the upright half and the buttons on the half lying flat. The outer screen shows the puppeteers what the camera sees, with a SNAP button of its own.
- Drag things along the timeline: tap a sticker, word, sound or clip, then drag it to just the right moment. Stickers and sounds ride along with their clip.
The developer, CaLa Studios, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- CaLa Studios LLC
- Size
- 12.9 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Stop Motion Pro $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 CaLa Studios LLC
