iStopMotion

Name: iStopMotion
Price: 9.99 USD
Rating: 3.8 (23 reviews)
Author: Boinx Software International GmbH

By: Boinx Software International GmbH

Your story, frame by frame

Features & Capabilities

Join many thousands of iStopMotion fans and enjoy the excitement of creating stop motion animations (AKA claymation or stop action movies) and time lapse recordings with the highly-rated iStopMotion.

You can be a master filmmaker, directing your own blockbuster animation movie. It's fun and easy for everybody from kids to grandparents to tell your story frame by frame, featuring your favorite toys. Turn the time spent with your children into a great creative experience and wow friends and family at your opening night.

iStopMotion is also used in hundreds of classrooms all over the world in all disciplines, honing creativity, problem-solving and communication skills in students of all ages.

KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Camera Overlay – Overlay the current live camera image with the previous one and see the changes unfold before your eyes. Animate more quickly and with a higher degree of accuracy.

Instant Playback – Being able to play back your work at any time without a long wait leads to instant gratification.

Beautiful Timeline and Navigator – Never get lost and quickly navigate through your movie, even if there are hundreds of frames.

Import or Record Audio – Easily animate to a prerecorded sound track like the pros or dub your movie after shooting. A waveform view helps you recognize significant events in the sound track making it easy to match sound with the animation.

Remote Camera – Position your camera more conveniently and avoid touching the camera device for capturing a frame with iStopMotion Remote Camera (download separately from the app store) - a free complementary app to iStopMotion!

Theater – Be inspired by what other people create with iStopMotion or share your own masterpiece with the world.

Flip Book Printing – Create a PDF that contains the key frames of your animation to print out and assemble into a nice flip book to show off to your friends and family.

For more information, great examples, a forum and tech support go to boinx.com/istopmotion/

HIGH RATINGS FOR ISTOPMOTION

"Once again, Boinx has done an excellent job…" – Steve Sande, TUAW.com "I was truly impressed with the quality of movies I could make with this software." – Derrick Story, TheDigitalStory.com

*** Winner Macworld Best of Show 2013 *** *** Winner Macworld Best of Show 2012 and Mac Observer Editors Choice Awards ***

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Boinx Software International GmbH

Rating:

3.80

(23) 3.80

Version:

4.0 Last updated: 2019-03-27

Version code:

829725472

Creation date:

2011-12-15

Compatible devices:

Size:

35.22MB

Price:

9.99

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-04

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# 287,180 ▲ 786,677

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Developed by:

Boinx Software International GmbH

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/istopmotion/id484019696

Website:

https://boinx.com/istopmotion/

User Reviews

iStopMotion is praised for its remote camera support and general usefulness, and some users express strong, positive sentiment. However, it suffers from frequent crashes, unreliable saves/shares, and price concerns, especially on older devices and OS versions. Missing editing features and startup issues further impact reliability. Overall, the app shows potential, but reliability and value issues limit widespread appeal.

Pros

Remote camera function / compatibility with external cameras
Generally useful and functional for stop-motion creation
Positive overall sentiment across multiple reviews (great/amazing tone)
Audio support / works with sound

Cons

Frequent crashes and stability issues across iPadOS/iOS and devices
Unreliable saving/exporting to Photos and sharing to other apps
Price/value concerns (perceived as overpriced)
Compatibility issues on older devices/OS versions (older iPads, iOS 12) leading to unusable experiences
Missing essential editing features (undo/redo, frame reordering/inserting; linear workflow)

Recent reviews

App crashes to the desktop, no longer works with current iPadOS.

by pf*****, 2025-11-10

Does not allow taking stop motion videos in portrait mode. This should be a no-brainer feature but the app actually prevents you from doing this and always defaults to landscape view even when rotating the phone. Very bare bones app with poorly designed UI/UX. Not worth $10 👎

by me*****, 2024-08-30

I purchased this program quite a few years ago, and v4.0 appears to run just fine on an iPhone running iOS 14 as well as an iPhone 6 on iOS 12.5.1. However, I have an older iPad that also can’t upgrade beyond OS 12.5.2 and it is unusable on that device. The app crashes on the iPad whenever I attempt to open a clip.