A picture says a thousand words, but it’s more fun if it’s moving.
Use an animation app to wake yours up: here are five of the best.
RealTimes
Launched this week, RealTimes thinks bigger: it picks through pictures and videos on your smartphone to create moving montages. You can add a soundtrack to ramp up the melodrama.
Free, iOS and Android, uk.real.com
FlipaClip
FlipaClip riffs on the analogue cartoon flipbook — create a frame-by-frame cartoon and then add the movement.
Free, Android, facebook.com/flipaclip
Patatap
An abstract option: mash colourful shapes together with soundtracks and control the images with the stroke of a finger.
64p, iOS; 62p, Android, patatap.com
Stop Motion Studio
Pull in images from your camera roll, stylise your animation with “movie effects”, add soundtracks from the in-app library or your own music library, and paint onto the image with the brush tool.
Free, iOs and Android, cateater.com
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Nutshell
A new app in the animation game, with Nutshell, you select three photos, add captions and graphics, and the software will roll it into a mini movie.
Free, iOS, nutshell.prezi.com
