Stop Motion Studio

Frame-by-frame animation on Android

Stop Motion Studio by Cateater turns an Android phone or tablet into a stop-motion camera and editor. It suits beginners making short clips with toys, LEGO, clay, or paper, as well as more experienced creators who want manual control over a small animation project. The app is listed in Photography and has more than 10,000,000 installs, with a rating of 4.05 from over 125,000 reviews.

Capture with more control

The app is built around taking one frame at a time, then arranging those images into a moving sequence. An onion-skin overlay shows a faint view of the previous frame, helping you move objects by consistent amounts and reduce jumps between shots. Manual camera settings can also be used to manage exposure, focus, white balance, ISO, and shutter speed when automatic adjustments would cause visible flicker.

Edit the sequence in one workspace

Stop Motion Studio includes a frame timeline for reviewing and organising a project. You can copy, paste, and reorder frames while building the final clip. Green-screen tools allow a background to be replaced, while rotoscoping tools support drawing over video for hand-drawn effects. A second mobile device can be used as a remote camera, which may help when the main phone needs to stay fixed beside a detailed set.

Export and project use

Finished work can be exported as video or animated GIFs, with options that include 1080p and 4K output where supported by the device and project. This makes the app useful for school assignments, personal animation tests, social clips, and small productions that do not need a separate desktop editor. Its combination of guided frame capture and deeper camera controls gives users room to start simply and add precision as their projects become more ambitious.