Computer generated animations are awesome, but how would great would it be to create high quality animations right from your iPhone or iPad. Now you can thanks to this list of apps. We've rounded up the best apps for creating animations no matter where you are.
Highest scored apps in the category
For those who want an animation app with great drawing and composition features.
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*** Editor's Choice Award – Children's Technology Review ***
"Probably the best animation iPad app we have had the pleasure of using. Like all the best iPad apps, its simplicity is a key strength. Regardless of your skill level DoInk, with its...
Animation Desk Ultimate is the stand-alone version of Kdan’s Animation Desk series
Animation Desk Ultimate is the stand-alone version of Kdan’s Animation Desk series. Search “Animation Desk Cloud” in the App Store and try out the app & cloud services for free!
Unlimited creativity now lies in one purchase. Animation Desk Ultimate is the perfect animation app packed with all the advanced features you will need when creating animations or simply sketching out...
Quickly animate with your Apple Pencil
Animatic is the best way to create hand-drawn animations. Simple enough for a beginner, powerful enough for a professional, Animatic was designed to offer creators an elegant experience in bringing their ideas to life through moving image.
• Easy to use frame editor
• Export animations to animated GIFs and video
• Flexible onion-skinning
• Repeat frames (requires Animatic Pro subscription)
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For those who want a full-featured animation app with clones, figures, and audio.
Supported Devices: iPad Mini 2 (or newer), iPad 3 (or newer), iPad Pro, Apple Pencil
Animation Pro brings desktop-class frame-by-frame animation to iPad. Specifically designed for intermediate to expert level animators, Animation Pro includes a long list of professional tools, such as automatic lip-synching, cloning (for automated shadows and reflections) and camera depth-of-field to produce stunning studio quality animations.
ANIMATING
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For those interested in creating flipbook animations.
FlipaClip makes you relive your childhood and express your creativeness or professional skills in a much cooler way!
Draw your cartoon using frame-by-frame animation. It works just like the old school flipbook but with a modern twist!
Whether you are sketching, storyboarding, animating, or simply playing around FlipaClip offers intuitive tools and is the perfect platform for your creative ideas.
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Apps with average score
Stick Nodes is a powerful stickman animator app created with mobile devices in mind! Inspired from the popular Pivot stickfigure animator, Stick Nodes allows users to create their own stickfigure-based movies and even export them as animated GIFs and MP4 videos!
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◆ Automatic frame-tweening, make your animations smoother instantly!
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With Stick Nodes Pro, you can use the virtual camera for a great effect, enable the automatic frame-tweening feature, and color or scale on a per-segment basis. The app offers additional features compared to the free version such as the abilities to add sounds and export to MP4 format. The...
With Animation Desk Cloud, you can pull in your video clips and transform them into awesome animations. If you prefer to draw new figures, the app offers more than 20 brushes, rotoscoping, and onion-skinning tools. Set up any FPS, play animations backward, and create loops with this easy-to-use app.
For stick figures, cut-out style, and stop-motion animations, take a look at StickMotion Animation for iPad. The app offers a figure builder and editor, import options for props and audio effects, and export to image or video file formats. With instant previews, a virtual camera, and advanced image blending, StickMotion...
Create amazing animations without any expertise!
Animator is a tool for making animated cartoon videos and exporting them to Gif or Video formats. Make funny videos - no advanced drawing skills required! Just doodle, have fun and amaze your friends. You can create amazing animations without any expertise! Animation is made...
Animation Creator HD packs in a ton of features. These include YouTube HD uploading, Twitter sharing, layers, frame management, scrub tool, full screen editing, paint brush, pencil, spray can, eraser, line tool, rectangle, image import, and much more. The app has tons of fantastic features. It is missing a few...
What do you get when you combine the most popular drawing apps and the #1 hottest animation app? - Animation Creator!
The only Animation app to reach the Top 10 Apps in the App Store and #1 in Entertainment! You can easily Create Awesome Animations any time on your iPhone...
Featured - "App Store Essentials: Painting & Drawing"
Once you've mastered Animation Creator HD Express, check out the full version, Animation Creator HD for unlimited Animations, Free Cineverse access, no ads, no limits, and much much more!
Take your animations to the next level - High Definition!
Animation Creator HD Express allows your...
What do you get when you combine the most popular drawing apps and the #1 hottest animation app? - Animation Creator!
The only Animation app to reach the Top 10 Apps in the App Store and #1 in Entertainment! Create Awesome Animations any time on your iPhone or iPod touch!
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Animation Studio is the essential app. It will run on your iPhone as well as your iPad. The app integrates with YouTube to share your content. The app is unique in its sound capabilities. The app lets you do a voiceover and add a music track to your animations. The...
Anim8 lets beginners and hobbyists create 3D Character Animation in a fun and intuitive manner.
Animate 3D characters by posing 5 existing characters in 3D space with a simple interface and easy workflow,unlike complex and high-end softwares such as Maya or 3DS Max.
Designed by professional character animators to give absolute beginners...
User Reviews:
"BEST ANIMATION TOOL I HAVE FOUND ON THE APP STORE!!!!"
"Excelent! - Perfect! It's a perfect app for 3D animation, no doubt more features that will make this a powerful tool for those who we like to animate in 3D, whether amateur or professional."
Tutorial Videos: http://www.iyan3dapp.com/
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Plastic Animation Studio lets you easily animate photos or drawings and share your animation with your friends.
No drawing experience is necessary: load an image, build a skeleton structure and animate this structure deforming the image.
Plastic uses an innovative and powerful technology that allows you to create a complete animation...
FrameFervor – Animation App is a simple and free tool for iPad. The app has ghosting, layering, looping, and rotoscoping. You can scale, translate, and rotate drawings, export to GIF or movie files, and use a handy stylus.
Whether you use your finger or a pressure sensitive stylus, FlipPad is the animation app for you. It has excellent line quality, just like drawing with a pencil. And its Lightbox is way more helpful than the basic onion skin you get in other animation apps.
FAST, EASY PAINTING lets...
It's a great app for creating animation, simply by finger touch, easy and fast, anywhere you want to use it.
App will record your animations just by moving it.
With our App you can easily create your own great cartoons even if you don't know how cartoons are created.
You...
It's a great app for creating animation, simply by finger touch, easy and fast, anywhere you want to use it.
App will record your animations just by moving it.
With our App you can easily create your own great cartoons even if you don't know how cartoons are created.
You...
It's a great app for creating animation, simply by finger touch, easy and fast, anywhere you want to use it.
App will record your animations just by moving it.
With our App you can easily create your own great cartoons even if you don't know how cartoons are created.
You...
Animation Maker is a great app for creating animation, simply by finger touch, easy and fast, anywhere you want to use it.
Animation Maker App will record your animations just by moving it.
With Animation Maker you can easily create your own great cartoons even if you don't know how...
It's a great app for creating animation, simply by finger touch, easy and fast, anywhere you want to use it.
App will record your animations just by moving it.
With our App you can easily create your own great cartoons even if you don't know how cartoons are created.
You...
Kid Animation is a free version of the essential app Animation Studio. The app lets you create animations through painting and drawing. The app includes the ability to incorporate sound, just like the essential app. The app is more barebones, but is a great option for those wanting to start...
You can animate!
Do character animation on your tablet or smartphone at any free minute.
Now you have the handy tool for this.
Simplified figure of man has the necessary minimum for quick posing.
For convenience simplified controls also: by touch on free area you twist camera, by touch and drag you move body...
