Stop Motion Studio Reviews

by @kapexx_pics

StopMotionStudio seemed like the greatest app ever. I understand that they want to make money for there premium services which is so fare and many company’s do this.... but not being able to import photos is the craziest “premium” feature I have ever heard of! I had to make a huge project for school and we all needed to find a app to edit. I suggested StopMotionStudio and everyone thought it was amazing until we couldn’t import our pictures. By the school I mean 1000 users USING YOUR APP!! But sadly because of your “premium” feature nobody used StopMotionStudio and we all used iMovie... I know you want to make money but this is like saying hey here’s a free iPhone but wait! To open it you have to pay $500! You give us StopMotionStudio but we can’t import pictures???!!!! Why would you ever make this a PREMIUM feature!!! Please.. if you want your company to make more money let us import our photos! WHY did you do this?? JUST MAKE IT A NORMAL FEATURE PLEASE! MANY more people will use your app if you make importing a free FEATURE!

by HailUmbridge

I want to start off by saying that StopMotionStudio is amazing and I use it as an alternative to many of the other stop motion editing softwares as it is much easier. I have used StopMotionStudio for about 8 months and have spent countless hours animating. I have bought all of the add ons to get the full experience and make my stop motions as best as I can. That said recently I have encountered a problem that is not only irritating but unnecessarily difficult. Recently the merge option has been greyed out, although his might not seem like such a big problem it is really irritating. I am currently working on an ant man and the wasp LEGO trailer stop motion, and a character known as the ghost has powers that require a merge of different slides, the shrinking and growing effects also require the same method but I can’t for the life of me figure out how to fix this. I have attempted to contact the developers through the website, but I got an error display and couldn’t move further. If this is only a simple bug that can be fixed or a patch that has been ridiculously over complicated than I need to know. I have spent about an hour researching if others have encountered the same problem or are having trouble but I can’t find anything, if anyone has any solutions or the developers themselves see this then please help. This is something that I know has worked in the past so there is no reason it shouldn’t now.

by (●ﾟωﾟ●)𝙷𝙸

First of all, StopMotionStudio is pretty good. loved StopMotionStudio at first, but it’s very hard to work with. You have to pay to use most of the good things that I saw in the video. I love making stop motion things, but please before you make the trailer please show that not all things are free. There were a couple of glitches too.
Another thing I suggest you fix is the things that aren’t free. On other apps, you can just take screenshots and download a video editor and then you can add all the effects. But for some reason it’s not free. In the trailer I was so pumped because I could do whatever I wanted with the stuff. I would give it five stars if you could change some of that. But hey! StopMotionStudio isn’t bad. But I don’t use it. It’s pretty confusing too. Please change some of these! By the way, this isn’t a bad review. It’s some suggestions. If you want to download StopMotionStudio go ahead! It may be easier for you than me.

by Kelli Mayonor

I would definitely recommend StopMotionStudio when your felling creative or bored. It’s really fun to do but also it kinda takes a lot of time to just make a 1 min stop motion , but that is how life is and that’s how movie makers do it .lets get to the point why can’t the titles and movies be free to use? I mean I get the idea of making people pay for green screens / backgrounds but why just can’t at least the title and the sound effects be free? This would have been a 4-5 star but easily changed my mind. I live StopMotionStudio but just needs some improving . Also why would they make you get a separate app to watch other people’s things they made , I mean just put it on there with the stop motion and all there’s no pint for another app. Even thought they give you a few stop motions from other people to watch I mean I need more , more that I don’t have to download another app (waste my storage) and I need StopMotionStudio to have so much that I’ll get me through a hole road trip or air plane ride. Thank you if you’d make it this far! Just please fix it then I’ll give a 100 star!

by L.B The App Master

Now I am 8 years old and I love StopMotionStudio but it does have some flaws here are 3.
#1. Most movies have like over 2,000 frames right so how come as I was making a movie it like ignored a few vital frames I needed or it wouldn’t make sense.
#2. I drew a great frame and I accidentally undid the pencil marks on the frame, and went out to see if it all was undone then I remembered I could just undo what I undid but because I went out now I can’t undo what I all ready did and when it was an accident and like why do that?
#3. I really like the settings in there like you can make the movie look symmetrical or even upside down but it’s for the entire movie so it’s not understandable because your asking like do you want a totally upside down movie um... no! I wish you could select the frames you wanted to look like that and it would be so cool. But besides that it’s a great animator’s app.
To Stopmotion engineer : please try to fix these flaws if you can. ❤️❤️❤️😀😀😀👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

by ANDREWVAKA Amazing Guy

OK first off StopMotionStudio is amazing it has really good potential and this is how I made my first ever animation which is stop motion it is a really nice app for beginners and I think you’ll like it if you want to start doing stop motion especially if you have a Lego but there are a few problems such as sometimes when you try to get to the beginning of your animation and you play at midway the animation goes back and it makes the start motion lag for a little bit, sometimes StopMotionStudio for some reason auto makes the speed sometimes after you already said the speed it’s a little glitch, and finally it doesn’t have the best start motion camera quality not saying that it’s bad it’s actually really good but it’s not the best it can be but still I think StopMotionStudio is amazing for beginners and sure I might have a few problems here and there but who cares as long as you have a fun time making stop motion with Legos or Play-Doh who cares do you have fun this is gonna be a good app for you

by Ok This Name Couldnt Be Taken

I had a lot of fun making my stop motion movie and StopMotionStudio is a lot of fun, but it does have some glitches.
The first issue I have with StopMotionStudio is that one of my slides is blurry. I know it is not because of the focus because the very next slide is the same picture. This problem is not nearly as irritating as the next, however.
My second issue is this: I was fiddling with the settings on StopMotionStudio once and now, when I play my movie, a lot of slides are skipped. This really bothers me because it makes my movie blocky and it looks like I spent only one hour on it. I know I don’t have too many slides and it is not just me. The same thing happened to a friend of mine.
Other than the two issues I have addressed, I really enjoy using StopMotionStudio. It is a great way to use some of the extra time I have on my hands during COVID-19 and quarantine. I would greatly appreciate it if Stop Motion Studios would look into fixing these problems. Stay healthy everyone!

by Angels_twin2008

I absolutely love StopMotionStudio! It works great! I use it for school projects and it always gets me good grades. Something seems off about it though… when I open StopMotionStudio , it makes a little click, almost like a camera shutter. I didn’t think anything of it at first but it has progressively gotten weirder. When I open another app and have this one on in the background and then open it back up, the sound goes off again. Today, I had to shut off my iPad because I had to do something, and later turned the iPad back on, I noticed that while I was busy, the camera had stayed on. The little figure in the corner that tells you if your camera is being used had been lit up the entire time I was gone. When I went to close StopMotionStudio , the camera shutter went off again. Please tell me if anyone else is noticing these things because i am getting really worried and I want to know if my iPad has been hacked and my personal info has been shared.

by Max Stop Motion

Ok so I have finally found an app that lets me create animations without too much trouble. It’s very intuitive and has many great features. But as every other app it has it’s problems. One of the ones I’ve had the most issues with is that when I have it set to manual it will still auto correct brightness whenever I put my hand in front of the camera, not sure if it’s my phone’s fault or StopMotionStudio ’s but it is a problem because it creates a lot of light flicker. Another is that whenever I have it zoomed in and I go to look at the pictures I have already taken it resets the zoom. This makes it very difficult to animate dialogue.

I have a few more nitpickey complaints. Mostly just that I can’t set the ISO to anything below 100 (I know that expensive cameras don’t go below it either.) I often find that my sets are way to bright. And one final complaint, there isn’t a slider for white balance. I just feel restricted because it has a set of presets. I also have a suggestion: a feather option for erasing/painting would be awesome. It would create smoother transitions from the previous frame to the next. And also if there is a way please allow us to change the aperture as well.

Overall this is by far my favorite stop motion app and I only want to see it improve. Hope you found this useful.

by Mia Kitty Cat

I have so many videos I cannot count it is amazing I give it five stars!!! StopMotionStudio is super Duper awesome and even though I am seven I can still work this out because it is so easy and fun I even have a tripod and I love waddle he gives me so many tips I even built a green screen I now know Half of all The instructions I love it so much that I want to keep it forever!! I think I have 35 videos . . . ? I don’t know but are you sure do have a lot I might have 35 I don’t know I might even have 65 that’s big B I G ! Yep it sure is big big big! Bigger than big big biggest sing ever even more than infinity wait no yeah that’s right I don’t have infinity that would be pretty weird. I like this so much that I am doing Lego dinosaur movies and I am going to do claymation I might not even get to but I think I’m going to my favorite dinosaur from Lego are used in the Stop Motion is that T Rex!

by Rage Time Girl

So first things first I just have to say that StopMotionStudio is amazing. I mean it's a little annoying when you're doing a movie and you do the sound and it doesn't let you do sound for one slide at a time. It's very annoying. Now on to the good stuff. Whoever is reading this please note that this is a good and bad review. I'm listing things about this that is both good and bad. I love when you finally finish a movie and you see it and you love it. The only problem is... you need sound. So you go to record and you start recording then you're like why is it making me talk fast. ( what I mean by that is you have to talk fast in order to make the movie sound good ) please fix this it's very annoying. But please keep doing what your doing and make apps that are even better than this. Thanks a good bye

by CapColl

i love StopMotionStudio bc it has everything i need i import photos in to it to make it and even if i took the pictures on StopMotionStudio unlike imotion or whatever its called you have to pay to use onion skin wich is super helpful and on sss its free and if u pay like 3$ u can get green screen wich is RLLY COOL i use StopMotionStudio to make vids for my yt channel (collinthegrape) and i think the vids turn out fine and i edit it on an iphone 7 so it works out fine so i dont need to edit anything on a computer with photo shop or something and if u pay the 3or4$ u can make it look like the characters are flying so u could pay for a imotion membership plus a photoshop membership or just pay 3$ and get the same thing but one thing is sometimes i want to turn off onion skin and it wont let me but other than that everythings fine

by Greg74hamburger

.add more sound variants that have there own place to be like a horror section that can enclude ghost sounds zombies sounds or clown laughs and spooky theme songs like Halloween theme song. Add a editing page that could have things like picture editors or pictures to paste on to your stop motion videos like a dinosaur or ghost just to add for more effect to the movie. Add voice changers to the speaker. Add special movie effects like rain or snow or even Leives blowing around mabey even floating ghosts or bats to paste to the picture in your stop motion videos. These are all just ideas but I think you should add a custom studio designer like you could look at diffrent studios from diffrent people and have names for them I did ares is spook studios. These are all just ideas but I think it would make it even cooler hope you get more 5 star reviews :3

by Beediddles

StopMotionStudio has been absolutely great with satisfying my stop motion passion! I have been making many films with StopMotionStudio on my iPhone without a problem (i have an iPhone 8 and StopMotionStudio worked super smoothly on it so StopMotionStudio is good with older devices too) but when I downloaded StopMotionStudio on my iPad (which is the 7th generation iPad) I went to do a voice recording, but when it’s done none of the audio is playing! This happened as of writing this by the way. I checked that my microphone was allowed on StopMotionStudio , which it was, and my volume was all the way up. I had never faced this problem before, and it’s really a bummer because i was so excited to add audio to my film! Other than that, StopMotionStudio is amazing and I’ve never had a problem with it before this! But i do highly recommend!

by Beyond The Max

So, long story short, StopMotionStudio is great for beginners to professionals, but I have a slight problem.
It has great features (some you have to pay for) to enhance your animations even further. The price to unlock everything (sound effects, title and credit text, recordings, erase feature, green/blue screen, etc.) is $4.99, which is not bad at all considering it is optional for those who want to take it a step further. The problem I have is a little weird. When I play the video in StopMotionStudio , it can skip a few frames, although all the frames show at the bottom. But when I export it elsewhere every frame is there and it is perfectly fine. Although this problem does have a simple solution, it is annoying to see the frame you worked the hardest on get skipped over when you are watching your final product.

by Ghfrdfyt6tg&t@42Etfft

Look, it’s a great app I wish I could be here writing a 5 star review, but I can’t. I would be lying if I said I would rate this as a five star app. Let’s start with the good stuff the photos are super good quality, and they’re not blurry at all. Now let’s get onto the negatives, if I want to make a Stop Motion with my stuffed animals, and my hand’s in the photo well it’s impossible to erase my hand out of the photo. That’s what I really don’t like about app. Someone fix the erasing problem because I’m nine and let’s face it, I love making movies I’ve made 9 iMovie movies and it’s super easy to make them. Also the grid is bugging me like crazy. PLEASE take that grid out. PLEEEEASE? So if you’re a developer and you’re reading this review PLEASE fix the problems.
Whoever is reading this review, I hope you have a good rest of your day. Stay safe.

by #animallover#1

StopMotionStudio is do great! I had gotten it a while ago so I could do stop motion LEGO and I love it so much! Me and my sister try to do some sometimes and we get like halfway through it and stop and leave it so I have like eight unfinished projects (that I may or may not have deleted because of the problem see below ⬇️)but we still have so much fun🤪! But the only problem is that the pictures take up A LOT of storage space and for those of us who can’t just buy more (like kids and me) that’s a problem. I wish there was a way to store the pictures just on StopMotionStudio and not have all of them in your photos. Please add something like this it would be so helpful!!! Other than that one little suggestion StopMotionStudio is great me and my sister have a lot of fun with it! Thank you for creating StopMotionStudio!😊

Love the sound effects and music they make it so funny!

by StikbotLover

StopMotionStudio is so cool! And I like how you can add drawings to the frames to make it look like the characters are using powers! But even though I rate it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (five stars ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ),I do have some things I wish were in StopMotionStudio . StopMotionStudio StopMotionTv, I can't find it on my app store on my Iphone. So if you can make a StopMotionTv section on StopMotionStudio , that would be awesome. Next, in the audio section of when you're editing StopMotionStudio , there is where it shows all your music on Apple music. But it won't let me add it into my movie. Please fix this. And when you're editing the sound effects or voiceovers, if you can make it to where you can make it sound like the sound is on the phone, that would also be great. Over all, it's great! I like to use StopMotionStudio for my stikbot animations. Stikbot studio doesn't have alot of the features that StopMotionStudio does. Thanks for making StopMotionStudio. And once again please take my request and add the stuff into StopMotionStudio .

by D-savagecabage

stop motion studio is a free stop motion that I have been using for 2 months. I have been making stop motions for three months. In the first month(before I found stop motion studio) I tried several stop motion apps that had several problems that stop motion studio does not have. For starters, most of the apps I tried had very few features that were free to use, making very hard to make a stop motion. One of the stop motions apps I tried made it so you could only use 1-3 FPS and you had a maximum of 100 frames, stop motion studio lets you choose from 1-30 FPS, with unlimited frames, for free. Now stop motion studio does ofer several benefits that you have to pay for, but I have not tried them, and it works just fine without them. Although I am sure if you wanted to make more professional stop motions, the version you have to pay for is the better option.

by PhonicsCanDo

I have been yelling for ages that my little Phonics program needed to be made into moving cartoons; my son told me about this Application, he told me his children are having s great time making Stop Motion movies. So I made little characters from my Phonics stories and using Stop Motion created my own Cartoons, as it were. So far I have had great feedback from those who have seen my Phonics “stories” come to life. Thank you very much. If my Phonics Cartoons Help any little ones to read, I will have the creator of this Application to thank.
I have only one “complaint “. The program, has at times, died on me; that is goes totally black-no picture, nothing-when I try to send a Stop Motion Movie. So far I wait, for several hours and it comes back. This last time it seems lost for good. I don’t want to lose the Stop Motion Mini Movies I have recorded. I’m flummoxed.
PS: If you want to see your handiwork applied go to “ I Can Do Phonics” on Facebook. Click On videos. (I am trying to put the Cartoons on UTube as well).

by JayWalker Studioz

I own Stop Motion studio pro and the non-pro version. I DON’T LIKE THIS UPDATE AT ALL. The only thing I liked about this update is you can add text to whatever frame you want, but I hate all the buttons you have to press to zoom in, instead of just zooming in on the screen with your fingers. And every time I try to focus it, the brightness changes and gets lighter or darker. I can’t even MERGE FRAMES ANYMORE!! That’s how I used to do all my special effects. It feels like you guys are trying to make this harder on people. Now my stop motions are going to look like trash!! If you keep this update no one is going to pay $5 for a few other things when their stop motions will be so much harder!!! Overall I pretty much, hate the update for StopMotionStudio and the pro version, can you guys just get rid of the update and change it back to normal, but can you guys please keep the text on any frame you want please.

by Dadddy40

So I am in high school, taking an animation class. Currently we are using this to make a claymation. I have notice a couple problems with it. The camera does not focus well, which is a big problem. It also has a glitch where sometimes if you hit the undo frame, it will delete all your other projects. When that happend to me, I was not happy. Now, this last part may just be nitpicking, but when I saw the official company’s animation, I saw their fingers in it, and the animation was not smooth. Even with all these problems, I do recommend for a beginner to use. Just fix these problems and I will raise my review. Thank you.
Edit: I saw some reviews about it not having working music, but that’s not true, in my animation class(where I first heard about StopMotionStudio) we are using sticker mouths and having them say stuff, with uses audio. Now, they may have purchased this feature(the school) but it still works. Sorry for the long review

by BangKittie🎮🐈💣

No, It’s not free. First off, StopMotionStudio looks very fun and cool. And truthfully it is! 👍 But, I thought it might be a little bit different . I was super excited to use StopMotionStudio! I got everything else on my schedule done, and quickly began taking photos. I took all the photos! And opened StopMotionStudio . I took a few minutes finding how to use everything. Then, I found the “ Import photos” button. I clicked it because I knew I needed to import all my photos for the movie. My heart totally sank when I saw you had to BUY import photos and other important things. I saw the price and wasn’t the least bit worried. It is only $0.99 But some people won’t be able or won’t want to pay for that. I am just warning other people that think it is completely free.

StopMotionStudio is amazing! I love it and it is easy for beginners! Thank you for creating this. No hate.

Thanks for reading! ❤️❤️😛

by QuinsterMinster

I just want to go ahead and say that StopMotionStudio is AMAZING. I have used StopMotionStudio for many animations and it works perfectly. Except for one thing. I can’t make any good animations because there is some weird glitch with the camera which causes it to shake back and forth even though nothing is shaking it. It’s really annoying me and I can’t do anything without it looking really crappy. I do not know if this has something to do with my phone or some other reason that has nothing to do with StopMotionStudio. I have an iPhone XR so I’m not sure if that has anything to do with it, i don’t know. My iPhone is up to date on software updates however so it may not be the problem. I really would like this fixed if it is something you guys can do.

by Blahwhat12345

Hello, person looking at reviews! I’m hear to tell you that no matter want anyone says, this is the best stop motion app ever. You could never get anything better. Over time, I slowly bought everything you can buy, so you might want to just buy everything from the get-go. (That’s just my advice. You might not need every feature.)
StopMotionStudio has great features, like:
Green screen
Color effect. (The ability to draw on the screen.)
Slow/speed up ability
Cool titles
Cool sound effects
Great music
And, slightly new, the ability to give a face to a LEGO guy. It’s kind of hard, but the idea is still awesome.
TIP: I am a “grizzled” stop motion movie maker. To those of you who want the best movie making experience, download iMovie as well. That way, once you finish in stop motion, you can send the video to photos, then from photos to IMovie. (iMovie has some editing ability’s that are very helpful if you want to make a top quality movie.
To StopMotionStudio makers: from a movie making person like my self, (one who constantly uses LEGO for movies) please make the face feature easier to use. (The feature that allows you to put a face on a LEGO guy frame by frame.
Good by and good work.

by Zach And Woooj Productions

This is the best stop motion program for iOS and better than most computer ones, I got the feature pack which was very useful especially for the remote camera and editing features, this update was so useful I would highly recommend StopMotionStudio. One thing I would recommend for a future update is for the erasing tool put a line around the eraser so you de where it is, also put a filter so you could see what you erased( a button at the top so when you click it the erased sections show up a shade of blue or something like that), the last thing I would add is the ability to change frame rate for different sections of the film(ie first half 10 frames second 20 something like that). Good job on StopMotionStudio .

by Whatever Works 234

This is by far the greatest app for stop motion in my opinion, BUT the new update now won't let me upload my pics. All I get is a question mark and this is on my iPad but on my iPhone it works. Also it has an issue when recording sound to sometimes save it somewhere else on your project which can be a bit annoying. They also took away being able to put past recording within your project and place them elsewhere, this helped when it moves your recording somewhere else on the project. These are some minor to major issues as it's hard to move forward on projects but still the best stop motion app out there!