--- title: "Anima: Toy Stop Motion · Stop motion with a toy and a table. · Kid Secure Games" description: "Anima is a stop motion app for kids: move a toy, take a frame, and the last one stays on screen as a ghost. Hold and reorder frames, record a voice, add sound effects and title cards, and export a real video. Unlimited films for free. Works offline, no ads, one payment." canonical: "https://kidsecuregames.com/anima" last_updated: "2026-10-21" --- # Anima. Stop motion with a toy and a table. toy stop motion Move the toy a little, tap, move it again. The last frame stays on screen as a ghost, so your kid can see how far it went. Then play it back, tell the story over it, and export a real video. Devices iPhone and iPad Languages English and Spanish Rated 4+ Network None, works offline On the App Store [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/anima-toy-stop-motion/id6809179608) Move it a finger's width, take a frame. The last one stays behind as a ghost. Scene 1 Set up ## A phone that can't move, a toy, a table. You already have everything a film needs. The first time, How to film walks your kid through it in eight short pages, and it's always one tap away on the home screen. 1. 1 / 8 ### Prop up the phone Lean it against a cup or a book so it cannot move. Point it at a table with good light and put your toy on the table. 2. 2 / 8 ### Wide or tall? A new film asks once. Wide is like a TV, tall is like a phone. The screen stays that way for the whole film, even if the phone tilts. 3. 3 / 8 ### Move a little, take a picture Move the toy about a finger's width. Tap the red button. Move it again, tap again. Eight pictures make one second of film. Scene 2 Capture, with the ghost ## See how far the toy moved. The last frame shows through the live camera as a faint ghost, so your kid can see how far the toy moved before taking the next one. The ghost can be turned up or down. 1. 0001 2. 0002 3. 0003 4. 0004 5. 0005 6. 0006 7. 0007 8. 0008 9. 0009 10. 0010 11. 0011 12. 0012 Move the robot The robot stands a finger's width past its ghost. Take a frame to film it yourself. **Try it.** Take the frames yourself, change how far the robot moves, and turn the ghost all the way down to see how hard it is to guess. Far from the ghost means a fast jump; close to the ghost means slow and smooth. The real capture screen 1. Ghost strength, from 0 to 70%. It starts at 40%. 2. A grid, for lining the toy up. 3. The self timer. 4. The strip, every frame numbered. 5. The shutter: silent and instant. 6. Play what's there so far. On set Why the frames match ## Sixty frames should look like one film. A normal camera app tries to make each photo look its best on its own. A film needs every picture taken the same way as the one before it. **Lock on.** Every frame gets the same focus, light and colour. **Lock off.** The camera re-guesses each picture, and the film flickers. - ### Focus and exposure hold still The camera focuses once, then holds focus, brightness and colour where they are. Without that, the light flickers from frame to frame and the film looks broken. - ### Silent and instant Each frame is grabbed straight from the live camera, so there's no shutter sound, no waiting, and frame nine looks exactly like frame eight. - ### Hands off the screen Press a volume button to take a picture. It shakes the phone less than tapping the screen. And if someone wants to be in the shot, the self timer gives them time to walk in. Scene 3 Play it back, fix it ## Hold a frame to pause. Long press a frame to hold it for two, four or eight frames. Kids use pauses to tell the story, and without this they'd take eight identical photos to get one. Play it back at 2, 4, 8, 12 or 24 frames a second. Eight gives the classic stop motion look. In the strip, you can also drag a frame to a new spot or delete it. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Frames per second Hold 0006.jpg 12 frames at 8 per second: 1.5 seconds. **Try it.** Pick a speed, tap a frame in the strip and hold it, then press Play to see the pause. Scene 4 Sound and voice ## Their voice over their film. Your kid records their voice while the film plays, and taps in up to eight sound effects right when things happen. - Pop - Boing - Whoosh - Ding - Bonk - Zap - Splash - Tada Press record and the film plays while your kid talks, so the story lines up with the pictures. Recording a voice is free. The eight effects come with the unlock. Scene 5 Titles and export ## The End, then a real video. ### Title cards A start card with the film's name and an end card, each in one of six looks. They look the same in the app and in the exported video. - Look 1 - Look 2 - Look 3 - Look 4 - Look 5 - Look 6 ### A real video, with no watermark - Each film becomes a full quality video: 1920 x 1080 when it's wide, 1080 x 1920 when it's tall. - Share it straight away, or save it to Photos. - The first three exports are free and look exactly like an unlocked one. - The unlock makes exports unlimited, adds 24 frames a second, and turns on green screen: film in front of a green or blue sheet and it's swapped for a backdrop. - Backdrop 1 - Backdrop 2 - Backdrop 3 - Backdrop 4 - Backdrop 5 - Backdrop 6 On iPad Every screen, bigger ## The same studio on iPad. Anima runs on iPhone and iPad with a back camera, held any way up. Here are the iPad screens, in the order you'd make a film. 1. **0000** On the table 2. **0001** Home: New film, How to film and your kid's films 3. **0002** How to film, page 4: Follow the ghost 4. **0003** Capture: the rocket over its ghost 5. **0004** The strip: move, hold x2 x4 x8, delete 6. **0005** Playback at 2, 4, 8, 12 or 24 per second 7. **0006** Sound: the voice and eight effects 8. **0007** Titles: a start card and The End 9. **0008** Export: your film is ready Wrap Whose film it is ## The films belong to your kid. Unlimited films with unlimited frames, free for good. Nothing your kid makes is ever locked. Projects/ one film/ frames/ 0001.jpg 0002.jpg 0003.jpg 0004.jpg 0004.jpg 0004.jpg held 0005.jpg 0006.jpg 0007.jpg thumbs/ voice.m4a Every frame is saved as its own picture, numbered in the order it was taken. Holding a frame just shows the same picture again, and moving or deleting frames only changes the order. Your kid can delete their own films, and the app asks first. Privacy What stays in the room ## Pictures and voice stay on this device. Camera It only keeps a picture when your kid presses the shutter or a volume button, or the timer goes off. The pictures stay on this device. Microphone It only records after your kid presses record, to tell the story over the film. The recording stays on this device. Photos The app only asks to add to Photos, never to look through them, and only when a finished film is saved there. Network None. There's no account, no ads and no tracking, and nothing is sent anywhere. A video only leaves when your kid shares it. Delete Deleting a film removes all of it, pictures and voice included. A cancelled export doesn't leave a file behind. Free and unlock One payment, once ## Films are never locked. Free to download. One payment unlocks the rest. It's not a subscription. What Free With the unlock Films and frames Unlimited Unlimited Every capture tool, playback and voice recording Yes Yes Video exports, full quality, no watermark 3 Unlimited Title cards and sound effects No Yes 24 fps export and green screen backdrops No Yes Your kid's films are never locked or watermarked. The three free exports are full quality, and the unlock makes exports unlimited and adds the extras above. Questions Asked on set ## Questions about Anima **Does the exported video have a watermark?** No, and it never will. The three free exports look exactly like an unlocked one. **How many frames can a film have?** As many as your iPhone or iPad has room for. The app only loads the few frames it's about to show, so a long film doesn't slow it down. **Can they use the volume buttons as a shutter?** Yes, and it's the steadier way: pressing a button on the side shakes the phone less than tapping the screen. There's also a self timer. ## Make a film with Anima. Free to download. No account, no ads, nothing to connect to. [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/anima-toy-stop-motion/id6809179608) --- Page: https://kidsecuregames.com/anima The whole studio for agents: https://kidsecuregames.com/llms.txt