Stop Motion Studio: iPhone vs Android
Stop Motion Studio gets 5k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Stop Motion Studio by CATEATER, LLC is on both the App Store and Google Play. Here are both versions together: downloads, users, revenue, ratings and chart positions, store by store with totals.
Rating
4.0 ★
142k ratings, both stores
Measured
Best rank now
#8
Android · 
Family Free
Family FreeMeasured
App Store
App details
App ID
441651297
Publisher
CATEATER, LLC
Publisher country
United States
On the store since
Sep 2011
15 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 16.6+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
17
CS DA NL EN FR DE IT JA KO PL PT RU …
Size
188 MB
Also listed in
Utilities
Google Play
App details
App ID
com.cateater.stopmotionstudio
Publisher
Cateater, LLC
Publisher country
United States
Content rating
Everyone
Stop Motion Studio downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone | 1k+ | 10M+ |
| Google Play | 5k+ | 10M+ Measured |
| Total | 5k+ Confidence | 10M+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
iPhone: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.
Where Stop Motion Studio's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Stop Motion Studio makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
In-app purchases
One-off purchases
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | All Features Forever |
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.6 ★ | 16k |
| Google Play | 3.9 ★ | 127k 10k written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.0 ★ weighted by ratings | 142k |
What users say about Stop Motion Studio
From the 139 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users appreciate the app's ease of use and creative potential for stop motion animation, particularly for children and beginners. However, significant frustration exists regarding aggressive paywalls for essential features like sound effects and vertical shooting, alongside technical issues such as data loss and camera blurriness.
Mixed but leaning positive (71% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and good value. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and privacy and spam.
What people like
- Fun: “It was very fun and creative”
- Price & subscription: “This is cool.Too bad i can't go premium”
- Ease of use: “Really simple but effective”
- Useful: “Very helpful😃 (I'm not a bot)”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “made me pay for to use my voice”
- Privacy & data: “Not Recommend Premium (its kind of a scam)”
- Crashes & bugs: “Full HD is having rendering problems not rendering animation right and the animations keep glitching out for no reason at all, get this fixed please asap”
- Features & content: “way more features than android”
About Stop Motion Studio
Join 25 million creators making stop motion animation with ease.
Stop Motion Studio is the Apple-featured app for creating stunning stop motion films.
Enjoy powerful creative tools with no ads, no tracking, and no subscriptions.
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
No ads. No tracking. No subscriptions.
Your data stays private and your creativity stays yours.
Download Stop Motion Studio today.
Join millions of creators and bring your imagination to life — one frame at a time.
* Some features require in-app purchases. All features are already included in the Pro version.
Stop Motion Studio is the Apple-featured app for creating stunning stop motion films.
Enjoy powerful creative tools with no ads, no tracking, and no subscriptions.
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
No ads. No tracking. No subscriptions.
Your data stays private and your creativity stays yours.
Download Stop Motion Studio today.
Join millions of creators and bring your imagination to life — one frame at a time.
* Some features require in-app purchases. All features are already included in the Pro version.
Stop Motion Studio iPhone
Stop Motion Studio gets 5k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Stop Motion Studio is #94 in Photo & Video Free in United Kingdom and charting in 7 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperCATEATER, LLC
CategoryPhoto & Video
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.6 (16k)
Version25.12
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)10M+ worldwide
Rating
4.6 ★
16k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#94
Photo & Video FreeMeasured
Stop Motion Studio on the App Store
App details
App ID
441651297
Publisher
CATEATER, LLC
Publisher country
United States
On the store since
Sep 2011
15 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 16.6+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
17
CS DA NL EN FR DE IT JA KO PL PT RU …
Size
188 MB
Also listed in
Utilities
Stop Motion Studio downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. iPhone downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Stop Motion Studio's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Stop Motion Studio before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not in an overall Top Grossing chart, only in category charts: each category position is converted to the overall position it corresponds to, then priced on the same rank-to-revenue curve, inside the part of each market the charted apps leave over.
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Stop Motion Studio makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
In-app purchases
One-off purchases
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | All Features Forever |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | Photo & VideoFree | #94 |
| South Korea | Photo & VideoFree | #152 |
 Sweden | Photo & VideoFree | #60 |
 Netherlands | Photo & VideoFree | #83 |
 Spain | Photo & VideoFree | #151 |
 Poland | Photo & VideoFree | #123 |
 Argentina | Photo & VideoFree | #95 |
Apps near Stop Motion Studio on the chart
Photo & Video Free, around #94.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.6 ★
16k ratings
Measured
Ratings
16k
Measured
About Stop Motion Studio
Join 25 million creators making stop motion animation with ease.
Stop Motion Studio is the Apple-featured app for creating stunning stop motion films.
Enjoy powerful creative tools with no ads, no tracking, and no subscriptions.
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
No ads. No tracking. No subscriptions.
Your data stays private and your creativity stays yours.
Download Stop Motion Studio today.
Join millions of creators and bring your imagination to life — one frame at a time.
* Some features require in-app purchases. All features are already included in the Pro version.
Stop Motion Studio is the Apple-featured app for creating stunning stop motion films.
Enjoy powerful creative tools with no ads, no tracking, and no subscriptions.
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
No ads. No tracking. No subscriptions.
Your data stays private and your creativity stays yours.
Download Stop Motion Studio today.
Join millions of creators and bring your imagination to life — one frame at a time.
* Some features require in-app purchases. All features are already included in the Pro version.
Latest updates
25.12
Thank you for using Stop Motion Studio! We’re constantly working to make the app even better, so keep creating and enjoy the next version.
More from CATEATER, LLC
Stop Motion Studio Android
Stop Motion Studio gets 5k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Stop Motion Studio is #8 in Family Free on Google Play in South Korea and charting in 23 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperCateater
CategoryPhotography
PriceFree
Released
Installs10M+
Rating★ 3.9 (127k)
Updated
Content ratingEveryone
Rating
3.9 ★
127k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#8
Family FreeMeasured
Stop Motion Studio on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.cateater.stopmotionstudio
Publisher
Cateater, LLC
Publisher country
United States
Content rating
Everyone
Stop Motion Studio downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Stop Motion Studio's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Stop Motion Studio before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not in an overall Top Grossing chart, only in category charts: each category position is converted to the overall position it corresponds to, then priced on the same rank-to-revenue curve, inside the part of each market the charted apps leave over.
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Stop Motion Studio makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
In-app purchases
One-off purchases
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | All Features Forever |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
United States
Japan
Canada
Australia
France
India
Mexico
Russia
Indonesia
Saudi Arabia
Brazil
Taiwan
Italy
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
Thailand
VietnamApps near Stop Motion Studio on the chart
Family Free, around #8.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
3.9 ★
127k ratings
Measured
Ratings
127k
Measured
Written reviews
10k
Measured
What users say about Stop Motion Studio
From the 139 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users appreciate the app's ease of use and creative potential for stop motion animation, particularly for children and beginners. However, significant frustration exists regarding aggressive paywalls for essential features like sound effects and vertical shooting, alongside technical issues such as data loss and camera blurriness.
Mixed but leaning positive (71% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and good value. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and privacy and spam.
What people like
- Fun: “It was very fun and creative”
- Price & subscription: “This is cool.Too bad i can't go premium”
- Ease of use: “Really simple but effective”
- Useful: “Very helpful😃 (I'm not a bot)”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “made me pay for to use my voice”
- Privacy & data: “Not Recommend Premium (its kind of a scam)”
- Crashes & bugs: “Full HD is having rendering problems not rendering animation right and the animations keep glitching out for no reason at all, get this fixed please asap”
- Features & content: “way more features than android”
About Stop Motion Studio
Get Stop Motion Studio, the world’s easiest app to get you into stop motion moviemaking today!
With its easy-to-use interface, Stop Motion Studio lets you create beautiful movies like Wallace and Gromit or those groovy Lego shorts on YouTube. It's simple to use, deceptively powerful, and insanely fun to play with.
Stop Motion Studio is a powerful, full-featured movie editor with a whole host of features:
• A simplistic, easy-to-use interface
• Overlay mode showing the differences between frames
• Animation guides to position animated objects more easily
• Copy, paste, cut, and insert frames at any position
• Interactive timeline so you never get lost, even if you have hundreds of frames
Create beautiful movies:
• Choose from a whole lot of unique titles, credits, and text cards, or create your very own with the built-in editor
• Give your movie the perfect look with different video filters
• Enhance your movie with different foregrounds, backgrounds, aspect ratios, and fade effects
• Create a soundtrack using built-in music, sound effects, songs from your music library, or your narration
• Rotoscoping: Import video clips and create stunning animations by drawing over them.
• Green Screen: Change the background of your scene to make the figures you capture fly or appear anywhere you can imagine.
• Animation Guides: Use the animation guides editor to add gridlines, draw a marker or set up a movement path.
• Import Media: Import photos from your photo library into your movie.
• Connect a keyboard and use simple shortcuts to edit movies quickly
Capture like a pro:
• Capture with an adjustable time interval feature
• Full camera control with automatic or manual white balance, focus and exposure, ISO, and shutter speed
• Use a second device as a remote camera
Powerful, built-in layer-based image editor:
• Add text and speech bubbles or create titles
• Add facial expressions to figures
• Touch up and enhance images, sketch, and paint
• Wipe away unwanted objects with the eraser tool
• Merge frames to simulate fast movement
Share with friends and family:
• Save to your photo library or share to YouTube in 4K or 1080p
• Save as animated GIF
• Save all images for further processing
• Easily transfer projects between devices using Dropbox or Google Drive
• Start creating on your mobile device and continue right where you left off on your desktop computer
Learn to animate:
• Watch the included tutorial videos
• Read the comprehensive manual
• Use the animation tips and tricks provided
* Some features require in-app purchases. All features are included in the Pro version.
With its easy-to-use interface, Stop Motion Studio lets you create beautiful movies like Wallace and Gromit or those groovy Lego shorts on YouTube. It's simple to use, deceptively powerful, and insanely fun to play with.
Stop Motion Studio is a powerful, full-featured movie editor with a whole host of features:
• A simplistic, easy-to-use interface
• Overlay mode showing the differences between frames
• Animation guides to position animated objects more easily
• Copy, paste, cut, and insert frames at any position
• Interactive timeline so you never get lost, even if you have hundreds of frames
Create beautiful movies:
• Choose from a whole lot of unique titles, credits, and text cards, or create your very own with the built-in editor
• Give your movie the perfect look with different video filters
• Enhance your movie with different foregrounds, backgrounds, aspect ratios, and fade effects
• Create a soundtrack using built-in music, sound effects, songs from your music library, or your narration
• Rotoscoping: Import video clips and create stunning animations by drawing over them.
• Green Screen: Change the background of your scene to make the figures you capture fly or appear anywhere you can imagine.
• Animation Guides: Use the animation guides editor to add gridlines, draw a marker or set up a movement path.
• Import Media: Import photos from your photo library into your movie.
• Connect a keyboard and use simple shortcuts to edit movies quickly
Capture like a pro:
• Capture with an adjustable time interval feature
• Full camera control with automatic or manual white balance, focus and exposure, ISO, and shutter speed
• Use a second device as a remote camera
Powerful, built-in layer-based image editor:
• Add text and speech bubbles or create titles
• Add facial expressions to figures
• Touch up and enhance images, sketch, and paint
• Wipe away unwanted objects with the eraser tool
• Merge frames to simulate fast movement
Share with friends and family:
• Save to your photo library or share to YouTube in 4K or 1080p
• Save as animated GIF
• Save all images for further processing
• Easily transfer projects between devices using Dropbox or Google Drive
• Start creating on your mobile device and continue right where you left off on your desktop computer
Learn to animate:
• Watch the included tutorial videos
• Read the comprehensive manual
• Use the animation tips and tricks provided
* Some features require in-app purchases. All features are included in the Pro version.
What's new in 26.10.8583
This update improves overall stability of the app.