Eagle Animation vs Koma Koma

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.

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.