PuppetMaster

🇺🇸 United States
Shmonster LLC  | 
51
ASO score
Text
53/100
Reviews
50/100
Graphic
60/100
Other
0/100
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App Rating
3.4
rating
Votes
102
rating
App Age
8y 9m
rating
Last Update
Aug 08, 2025
rating
iAP
$2.99 - 24.99

Compare with Category Top Apps

Metrics
Current App
Category Top Average
Difference
Rating
3.44
4.65
-26%
Number of Ratings (Voted)
100
8.2M
-100%
App Age
8y 9m
9y 8m
-10%
Price
$3
$0
In-app Purchases Price
$14
$37
-63 %
Update Frequency
76d
21d
+266%
Title Length
12
26
-54%
Subtitle Length
29
27
+7%
Description Length
2 545
2 969
-14%
Number of Screenshots
1404
1501
-6 %
Size
413MB
321MB
+29 %

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Title (
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PuppetMaster
Subtitle (
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Animate. Literally. Anything.
Description (
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PuppetMaster: Animate. Literally. Anything. This animation app lets you instantly bring to life anything you want, just by acting things out in front of the camera or touching the screen. Your voice is recorded as well. The result is your own animated video you can save and share! The app even has fun guided activities that kids can follow along and do, making arts and crafts and then animating them. Features include: * Real-time animation - you animate in the moment, while you talk, and your puppet comes to life in front of your eyes. * Motion capture - intuitively animate characters just by moving your body in front of the device camera. Use front or back camera. (Best results are usually with back camera of newer devices.) * Multi-touch - animate by touching and dragging the puppet and its body parts on the screen, even using both hands or working together with a friend. * Animate one or two puppets - you can have one puppet on its own, or two puppets where both can move and you can control which one is talking at any time. * Create your own puppets - bring to life your physical artwork, your favorite toys, a person or animal, random stuff like your snacks arranged as a character, really anything you like! * Create your own backgrounds - use a painting you made, a diorama, some interesting place, or anything else you want as your background. * Choose from our designs - the app comes with a bunch of cool puppets and backgrounds already in it, in a cute hand drawn style that you can mix and match with your own creations. * Export and share videos with audio - save a video of your puppet show, complete with the audio of your performance, locally and also to social media, cloud storage, or any other typical sharing method. * In-app streaming tutorials and activities - guiding kids through using the app for visual storytelling, and teaching them how to create various physical art pieces and animate them. On our website and social media you'll find more project ideas, educational support, and lesson plans for teachers and homeschooling parents. PuppetMaster was named one of the Best Apps for Teaching and Learning by the American Association of School Librarians. It's a great open ended creative activity for children, supports ISTE standards, and is a great way to integrate the arts into any academic subject for a more engaging class. (Teachers say they prefer it to stop motion animation because it's so much easier and faster.) See our privacy and terms here: https://www.shmonster.com/privacyterms/}
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Rating
3.4
102 voters

Some Latest Reviews

godD4ddy
20 Oct, 2025
1
It has been a while since I used this to entertain the kids. I decided to do some recording for the little ones and to find out that it’s changed. I hate that they made this into a subscription now. I rarely use it and when in do, it’s to see the smiles on the little ones. Will delete.
notbyhalf
24 May, 2025
1
I thought I’d found a simple animation app to introduce to my four year old who keeps asking me about doing animation. Being able to draw on paper first meant this wasn’t going to be a 100% screen time activity which was a big plus. The price sounded great. Several days later sat down with my son and we went through the puppet building process. Bitterly disappointed to discover that the animation feature is a subscription feature. It is literally the core functionality of this app. I’ve never pursued an App Store refund before but this will be the first. Soon as I’ve explained to my son why we won’t be doing any animation this afternoon.
No way did this to me
07 Dec, 2024
5
The first time I played, it wouldn’t let me click anything. I don’t know why but don’t play this. It will probably just stop letting you depress anything. Nothing works for me. I just like I tried to take a picture for one of the flower thing that’s above, but instead of taking a picture, I got stuck on a single screen and couldn’t get off
clara Elizabeth Addison
28 Sep, 2024
5
So when I got this game, I was so excited I was six years old I heard about it because at school we were in little groups so like I went to the iPads and my group did and we started playing but then I got glitch I learned how to fix it then continue playing . I am.12 now and I still play it
Lufraha
05 Jul, 2024
1
Die Figuren werden vollkommen zersplittert angezeigt und sind daher nicht nutzbar. Schade ums Geld.
App-Critic2
12 Apr, 2021
2
I got this app for my child, and she was extremely excited. But when she inserted her drawing the app made her draw the body parts. In the end it became rough and missed some parts. When she started animating, the movements were really glitchy. It made her quite sad. I do not recommend paying 3 dollars for this app.
fyjvxdgh
10 Mar, 2021
3
I really enjoy this app but currently using this app with students. The app crashes every time we try to save and share our creations. Using iPads iOS 10.3.3. When I tried to contact app support I get a web filter because of pornography. I’m sure this is a glitch in our system but meanwhile I need assistance with this app
Rodrigo.bo
20 Oct, 2020
1
The interface where the puppet is chosen and the background has problems, and characters and backgrounds are cut off
Doing this for the freebie
13 Aug, 2020
5
This is a stellar, user friendly app. And if there were any way to operate two puppets per scene, it would be that much better for it! Ifffff possible!

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Additional Information
Rating:
3.41
Voted: 102
App Store Link:
Price: 2.99 $
Website:
Email: -
Privacy Policy:
Categories: Photo & Video, Education
Size: 413MB
iAP: 2.99 - 24.99 $
App Age: 8 years 9 months
Release Date: Mar 07, 2017
Last Update: Aug 08, 2025
Version: 5.2.2
Version history
5.2.2
Aug 08, 2025
Fixes related to subscription and free trial
5.2.1
Aug 02, 2025
Fixes including fix related to subscription screen
Version history