unhandediPhone & iPad · coming soon
A stop motion app for iPhone that takes your hands out.
Animate with both hands. Record one continuous take, move things around as you like, and Unhanded keeps one clean frame per pose. No tapping a shutter between moves.
Our mark builds itself on twos, one dot at a time. We practise what we preach.
What you shoot, and what you get
/media/hero-before.mp4/media/hero-after.mp4Real footage goes here before launch: a raw take with hands everywhere, next to the clean 24 fps result. We won't mock it up.
How it works
Record once. Keep the poses.
Record one take
Put your phone on a stand and press record once. Then animate: nudge the clay, move the toy, slide the product. Your hands can come and go as they please.
We find the poses
Unhanded watches for the moments when the scene sits still with no hands in it. Each one becomes a pose. Frames with hands, arms, shadows and wobble are dropped. All of it happens on your phone.
Export at 24 fps
The poses land on a 24 fps timeline, each held for one or two frames. Save it, share it, post it. See the detail.
- Pro is a one-time purchase
- No account
- Your videos never leave your phone
What's in it
Then make it yours.
Once the hands are gone, the poses are yours to dress up: words, faces, sound and a look.
Shoot steady
Manual exposure, white balance and focus that lock when you hit record. Draw a path guide with eased tick marks that follow your pose count, or lay a reference photo over the camera.
Say something
Captions and titles, plus speech, thought and shout bubbles that follow a moving toy from pose to pose.
Give it a face
Eyes and mouths that sit on a figure's head, follow it, change expression per pose, blink and talk.
Make some noise
Record a voice-over over playback and the mouth moves with your voice. Drop sound effects on any pose.
Pick a look
Film, Warm, Cool, Mono, Vintage and Comic, with brightness, contrast and saturation. Loop a section while you fine-tune.
Share it your way
Video, GIF, a looping sticker, or a printable flipbook PDF with cut marks.
Plan it first Plus
Describe an idea and get a storyboard: shots, pose counts, props, set notes, sounds and bubbles. Shoot from it with cue cards on the camera.
Pricing
Pay once, or not at all.
The free version is the whole workflow. Pro is a one-time purchase that takes off the watermark and adds the finishing tools. Plus is the only subscription, because storyboards are the only thing that costs us every month.
Free
$0
- Unlimited takes
- Automatic hand removal
- 1080p export
- Ones or twos
- Captions and titles
- Manual camera controls
- Film look and loop preview
- Flipbook PDF and stickers
- Small
unhanded.appwatermark in the corner
Pro
$14.99 one time
$9.99 launch price for the first 30 days
Everything in Free, plus:
- No watermark
- 4K export
- Per-pose timing and reordering
- Live onion skin
- Audio
- GIF export
- Green screen
- Speech bubbles that follow
- Faces
- Path guide
- Voice-over with lip-sync
- Sound effects
- Five more looks
Plus
$4.99 a month
or $34.99 a year
Everything in Pro, plus:
- 40 storyboards a month
- Revise any shot
- Cue cards while you shoot
- Suggested bubbles and sounds, placed for you
Questions
Good questions
Is Unhanded on the App Store?
Not yet. Right now there is only a waitlist, and you'll get one email on launch day. We'll link the App Store listing here when it's live.
Which devices does it run on?
iPhone and iPad. There is no Android or desktop version, and none is planned for launch.
How do you remove hands from the video?
You record one continuous take. Unhanded looks for the moments when the scene sits still with no hands in it, keeps the sharpest frame of each one, and drops everything else. The details are on the how it works page.
Does it work with gloves, or with a hand that's half in frame?
That is exactly what we are testing hardest before launch: different hands, gloves and lighting. Hand detection alone misses partial and blurred hands, so Unhanded also watches for motion and shadows. We won't claim it works in every situation until the footage backs it up.
Do I need an account, and where does my footage go?
No account. Your footage never leaves your phone: all the analysis and editing runs on the device. The one exception is storyboards: when you ask for one, your idea text and an optional props photo are sent to write it, and aren't kept. See the privacy page.
What does the free version include?
Unlimited takes, automatic hand removal, 1080p export, ones or twos, captions and titles, manual camera controls, the Film look, loop preview, flipbook PDFs and stickers. Exports carry a small unhanded.app watermark in the corner.
What does Pro cost, and is it a subscription?
Pro is a one-time $14.99 purchase, with a $9.99 launch price for the first 30 days. It isn't a subscription, and it's yours for good. It removes the watermark and adds 4K export, per-pose timing and reordering, live onion skin, audio, GIF export, green screen, speech bubbles that follow, Faces, the path guide, voice-over with lip-sync, sound effects and five more looks.
What is Unhanded Plus?
An optional subscription for storyboards: $4.99 a month or $34.99 a year. Describe an idea, optionally add a photo of your props, and get a shot list with pose counts, props, set notes, sounds and bubbles, which you can revise shot by shot and shoot from with cue cards. It includes 40 storyboards a month and everything in Pro. It's a subscription because each storyboard costs us money to write; nothing else in Unhanded is.
How is it different from Stop Motion Studio?
Stop Motion Studio runs on more platforms, has rotoscoping, DSLR support and a bigger audio library, and costs less. Unhanded does one thing differently: you don't tap a shutter button for every frame. Here is the honest comparison.
Can I use it for product videos?
Yes, it's built for them. Small businesses and creators can shoot a stop motion product video in one take. Browse product video ideas.
Be first in line
Unhanded isn't on the App Store yet. Leave your email and we'll tell you the day it launches.