AnyMotion vs Eagle Animation

AnyMotion is an iOS and macOS tool for creating stop-motion animations, timelapse videos, Hyperlapse projects, and GIFs. Users can capture frames live, select a camera module, use a Bluetooth remote controller, and apply frame optimization. The editor provides a project timeline, effects, aspect-ratio selection, playback direction, speed, and frames-per-second controls, plus photo import from the gallery. Onion skinning helps compare successive frames. Users can choose formats for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Twitter. Export supports 4K video and GIF creation, including infinitely looping GIFs. The app requires iOS 15.0 or later and lists iPad and Mac compatibility, with macOS 12.0 or later for Mac. AnyMotion has a free download with in-app purchases. The Unlimited introductory yearly offer costs $0.99 a year, billed as a first month for $0.99 followed by $39.99 per year. Yearly access costs $39.99 a year. Unlimited plans include limitless frames, creative video tutorials, high-quality export, no watermark, and no ads. The terms grant a temporary license for personal, non-commercial viewing and prohibit commercial use under that license.

Eagle Animation is free, open-source software for creating stop-motion animation frame by frame. It runs as a desktop application on Windows, macOS, and Linux, or in a browser where the same software requires no sign-up or ads. Its timeline supports previewing, duplicating, and rearranging frames by drag-and-drop. Users can capture photos directly from webcams and supported DSLR cameras with live preview. Animation tools include adjustable onion skin, grids and margins, difference mode, and masking without a green screen. Image controls include frame averaging, manual exposure and white balance, high-resolution camera live view, and lossless full-resolution capture. Finished animations can be exported as video files, or frames can be exported for use in video-editing software. The project lists support for more than 20 languages and more than 520 cameras. Desktop downloads are provided for Windows 10/11 64-bit, macOS 11 or later on Intel and Apple Silicon, and 64-bit Linux distributions. On macOS and Linux, DSLR support in browsers uses WebUSB on Chromium-based browsers. The source code is published under GPLv3.