StikBot and StikBot Studio Pro
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This is one of the app/toy combos, where the app is free, and the toy costs money. The good news is the free stop motion app is well designed, runs on iOS or Android, and can work with anything you can take a picture of. There's absolutely no reason for you to buy the Stikbots. However, you might want to, because StikBots are easy-to-pose figurines with suction cups for feet and hands. They're fun to stick to almost any flat surface and pose. You use the app to snap hundreds of low res individual photos, and the app stitches them together into a movie. You can easily add sound effects or narration, and it is easy to save projects to your photo library. Stikbots animate best at 10 frames per second, so that is what the StikBot Studio is set for. This allows you to know how long your animations will be, for example, 60 frames equals 6 seconds, while 150 frames equals 15 seconds. Prices are $5 for the StikBot Single Pack and $10 for the StikBot Studio Pack which includes two StikBots and a tripod for your mobile device. Other configurations are available in different retail outlets. In addition StikBot Studio Pro (2016) $20 contains a special stage in the box that lets you incorporate green screen (and blue screen) features in your videos.
$4.99, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch (iOS 7.0 or later) Android
Teaches: stopmotion
CTR Rating: 90%