Stop Motion Studio 27, a ground-up rewrite, nears its first beta on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with Android to follow

Cateater, the developer of the consumer and classroom stop-motion app Stop Motion Studio, said on 21 September 2026 that it was finishing the first beta of Stop Motion Studio 27 for iPhone, iPad and macOS. The company first announced version 27 on 16 July as a complete rewrite from the ground up, describing it as the biggest overhaul in the app's history, and in July also switched to model-year version numbers, so the first release built for 2027 will be 27.1. The September post promises faster performance, a smoother experience and new features, but no feature list or beta sign-up details had been published.

Update, 3 October 2026: Cateater said development of version 27 for Android had started, built on the same rewrite as the Apple version, with early tests running on phones and tablets. The Windows app, rebuilt separately as Stop Motion Studio 2 in May, continued with maintenance releases (26.09.79 on 29 September and 26.10.80 on 9 October).

Why it matters: Stop Motion Studio is the all-in-one capture, edit and export app most schools and first-time animators start with, so a shared rewritten core across platforms affects how many people first learn the frame-by-frame method. The Wiki page on the app, Stop Motion Studio (Cateater), compares it with Dragonframe.