Boats Animator vs Koma Koma

Boats Animator is a free stop motion animation program for Windows, macOS and Linux. It captures high-resolution webcam images, including 1080p and beyond, and provides live frame capture with immediate frame preview. Onion skinning, gridlines and aspect ratio masks help position and compare animation frames. Finished work can be exported as video files or as conforming image files for video-editing software. The program is open source under the GNU General Public License, and contributions are welcomed. A USB webcam is required. Listed hardware requirements are an Intel Pentium 4 or later with SSE2, 1 GB RAM and 1 GB available storage. Documentation lists Windows 7 or later, macOS 10.10 or later, and Ubuntu 20.04 tested for Linux builds. Version 0.13.0 is identified as the last release supporting Windows 7 and 8.1. User documentation, a Discord community and author contact are linked.

Koma Koma is stop-motion animation software developed to connect animation and education. Its iPad app provides controls for capturing and deleting frames, loop playback, and saving. It supports variable frame rates from 1 fps to 30 fps, 1280×720 images, onion skinning, and automatic capture at intervals from 3 seconds to 10 minutes. A Koma Koma movie can contain up to 999 frames; Koma Koma Lite is limited to 18 frames per work. Movies can be saved to Camera Roll, and work can be emailed as flip-book-format images. The Windows and Mac program includes a reflection function for arranging clips on screen and adding comments, as well as network sharing between multiple terminals, such as in a classroom. That program runs with Adobe AIR, and its maker says distribution is limited to a set number of test users. Listed computer requirements are Windows XP through Windows 7 or Mac OS X 10.6 or 10.7. The iPad app requires iPad 2 or newer and iOS 5 or later. The maker lists Koma Koma as free.