What is the best photo animation app for iPhone?

Motionleap: 3D Photo Animator, S tier, ranked #1 of 29, rated 4.8 by 117,319 people.

Which photo animation apps are free?

29 of 29 are free to download: Motionleap: 3D Photo Animator (S), Toonapp: AI Video & Toon Photo (S), AI Picture to video : StoryZ (S), AI Generator - Photo Revive (S) and more. 15 of them sell in-app purchases.

Which photo animation app has the best App Store rating?

Pet Animator - Send eCards at 4.9 from 45,268 ratings.

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Best Photo Animation Apps for iPhone (2026)

29 apps ranked S through F · Updated 2026-10-19 · Ranked by AppTierList, computed, never sold · JSON

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Motionleap: 3D Photo Animator is the top-ranked of 29 photo animation apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 117,319 ratings.

1
Motionleap: 3D Photo AnimatorS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 117,319 ratings · score 96
2
Toonapp: AI Video & Toon PhotoS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 142,419 ratings · score 96
3
AI Picture to video : StoryZS
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 11,808 ratings · score 93
4
AI Generator - Photo ReviveS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 13,027 ratings · score 93
5
Revive: AI Face Photo AnimatorS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 25,205 ratings · score 92

What belongs in this list

Turn a still photo into a moving animated picture or video.

Not here: Photo editing alone, with only filters and adjustments; Photo generation alone, which creates new images from prompts; Animation creation alone, such as drawing frame animations from scratch; Photo taking alone; A slideshow of photos alone

How we pick

For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →

Compare every app

1
Motionleap: 3D Photo AnimatorS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 117,319 ratings · score 96 · best in class
2
Toonapp: AI Video & Toon PhotoS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 142,419 ratings · score 96 · best in class
3
AI Picture to video : StoryZS
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 11,808 ratings · score 93 · best in class
4
AI Generator - Photo ReviveS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 13,027 ratings · score 93 · best in class
5
Revive: AI Face Photo AnimatorS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 25,205 ratings · score 92 · best in class
6
Lumyer: Animated Photo EffectsA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 24,176 ratings · score 88 · excellent
7
Avatarify: AI Face AnimatorA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 44,615 ratings · score 88 · excellent
8
Photica・Live Photo AI AnimatorA
Free download · ★ 3.9 · 10,833 ratings · score 85 · excellent
9
AI Catch: AI Video GeneratorA
Free download · ★ 4.2 · 1,440 ratings · score 84 · excellent
10
Movia AI: Photo to Video MakerB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.1 · 4,309 ratings · score 79 · good
11
PixaMotion 3d Photo Video LoopB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 5,090 ratings · score 76 · good
12
Live Photo AI - Animate PhotosB
Free download · ★ 5.0 · 3 ratings · score 73 · good · provisional
13
Viggle AI: Meme MakerB
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 28,184 ratings · score 70 · good · provisional
14
Cinemagraph ProC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 6,349 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional
15
Face Maker: Baby Photo & VideoC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 6,196 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional
16
Werble: Photo & Video AnimatorC
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 2,712 ratings · score 66 · situational · provisional
17
Pika - AI VideoC
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 4,258 ratings · score 66 · situational · provisional
18
VIMAGE 3D Live Photo AnimationC
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 2,471 ratings · score 65 · situational · provisional
19
Photo Dance: AI Baby DanceC
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 2,881 ratings · score 63 · situational · provisional
20
DanceHit: AI Dance GeneratorC
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 3,214 ratings · score 63 · situational · provisional
21
LoopArt - 3D Photo & MorphC
Free download · ★ 4.2 · 3,681 ratings · score 63 · situational · provisional
22
Pet Animator - Send eCardsD
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 45,268 ratings · score 59 · weak
23
PLOTAVERSED
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 4,680 ratings · score 58 · weak · provisional
24
Artimind - AI Video GeneratorD
Free download · ★ 3.0 · 3,708 ratings · score 55 · weak · provisional
25
AI Photo Enhancer-PixelReviveD
Free + IAP · ★ 5.0 · 1 ratings · score 54 · weak · provisional
26
Lumora - AI Photo & VideoD
Free + IAP · ★ 3.9 · 18 ratings · score 54 · weak · provisional
27
Aitubo: AI Video GeneratorF
Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 1,694 ratings · score 50 · avoid · provisional
28
Photo-Restore AI: Fix & ReviveF
Free download · ★ 3.5 · 8 ratings · score 47 · avoid · provisional
29
AI Face DanceF
Free download · ★ 4.1 · 4,982 ratings · score 43 · avoid · provisional

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Questions people ask

What is the best photo animation app for iPhone?: Motionleap: 3D Photo Animator, S tier, ranked #1 of 29, rated 4.8 by 117,319 people.
Which photo animation apps are free?: 29 of 29 are free to download: Motionleap: 3D Photo Animator (S), Toonapp: AI Video & Toon Photo (S), AI Picture to video : StoryZ (S), AI Generator - Photo Revive (S) and more. 15 of them sell in-app purchases.
Which photo animation app has the best App Store rating?: Pet Animator - Send eCards at 4.9 from 45,268 ratings.
How many photo animation apps reach S or A tier?: 9 of 29. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.