RoughAnimator - animation app App Reviews

VERSION
3.19
SCORE
4.6
TOTAL RATINGS
2,233
PRICE
$6.99

RoughAnimator - animation app App Description & Overview

What is roughanimator - animation app app? A fully featured hand drawn animation application for iPad. Made by an animator, for animators. Powerful enough for professionals, simple enough for beginners. Everything you need to create traditional hand drawn frame-by-frame animation, anywhere you go!

Features:
- Timeline with unlimited layers and easily adjustable exposure length of individual drawings, for pose-to-pose or straight-ahead animating
- Onion skinning
- Preview playback
- Scrub along timeline
- Import audio for lip syncing
- Import video for rotoscoping animation
- Custom brushes
- Supports Apple Pencil, Logitech Crayon, Adonit & Wacom Bluetooth styluses
- Control framerate and resolution
- Export animation to Quicktime video, GIF, or image sequence
- RoughAnimator projects can be imported to Adobe Flash/Animate, After Effects, and Toon Boom Harmony
- Also available on desktop

See a short film animated with RoughAnimator:
https://youtu.be/vaHuJNNPoMM

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App Name RoughAnimator - animation app
Category Graphics & Design
Published
Updated 15 January 2024, Monday
File Size 21.93 MB

RoughAnimator - animation app Comments & Reviews 2024

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Pretty decent. Good for $4, I’m having some issues though, my brush imports won’t import how I want them and I cannot import music. Two things that I really hoped would work but other than that the app has been good. The timeline isn’t confusing, the controls are pretty easy for a beginner, and you can import photos AND videos (I think that’s a pretty neat thing to do) should you buy this? If you’re a beginner, absolutely! If you’re more experienced then I’d stick to computer animation software, but if you want to animate almost professional looking animations on the go then this would be your best bet. Maybe the problems I’m having are just because my iPad is being fussy, so don’t let those negatives stop you from getting this.

Please add “cut” function. This is my favorite drawn-animation app, and I probably have all of them! It’s simple and to the point. If I wanted to use a light board, I’d break out my dusty old light table! but I digress. Thank you for adding the new “scrub” feature. One thing it is missing though is a “cut” option. It has “copy” and “delete” but when I’m trying to do that on 50 drawings. I might accidentally just “delete”, then accidentally paste the previous copy that looks similar but not the same. I’m sure other people have the same problem. Please add on next update! Thank you.

Good for animation, but there’s an issue.. The app overall is good, however, the audio system is very inconvenient and bad. Especially if you’re having errors with importing audio files into apps. I end up having to do really inconvenient swaps between stuff like iMovie, if the audio made more sense I’d actually bump this review 1 or 2 stars up. Please fix this. Also, the frame duplication here is so slow. You literally have to go frame by frame on each layer just to make a 4 second animation. Actually, never mind, I’ve found ways to work around all of these problems. For the audio, just download another animation app that allows you to record sound directly in there, then see what timestamps audio comes at in whatever FPS you’d be using. I’m a pretty okay animator. I’d say, now I’ve improved even more. Thank you for this app. Also, for the frame by frame issue, just make the animation more sophisticated so that you can make use of it more rather than having it be a hinderance. Or, just simply be patient.

My go-to for storyboarding!. I love this app so much! It is especially useful for storyboarding and quick animatics due to how easy it is to drag and. extend frames and overall playaround with the timeline until you get the timing you want. If it's possible, I'd love if there was an option to make the select tool a marquee or rectangle. I think when it comes to animating, this would make it so much easier to select objects and make the flip select horizontal/vertical features a lot more useful than they are now. In particular, I would use it to make quick character turnarounds, instead of having to import the frames from procreate. Otherwise, I am really happy with RoughAnimator. I have been using it since back when it first came out and to this day, I have no regrets!

Great little app that speaks to animators with potential.... So much potential here! It has a bit of a desktop flavor with traditional landscapes sprinkled in here and there. PROS: The price point is fair, the user interface is professional and friendly. The app does it what it does smoothly and does not lag behind. It’s light on system resources and responsive. It comes with an array of tools to help ease the day to day processes of hand drawn animation... CONS/suggestions: Not enough in the realm of brush choices, the brush mechanics and control are on a basic level. Would love to see a more dynamic and more brush options such as spacing, flow, taper, texture, blend modes etc. Would also love to control opacity based on pressure sensitivity instead of only size. Wish it had gesture controls. Like finger swiping for next and previous key frames. Would be amazing for flipping through drawings while animating... On smaller devices it is clunky trying to tap on certain parts of the UI. Overall great efforts on the app. It is practical and gets the job done nonetheless and isn’t a pain to get animation out of it. A quick suggestion would be peg registration....oh that would be awesome!

Best animation app!. I’ve been animating for 3 years, at first I couldn’t find one that I really liked, or worked well. But then I decided to try Rough Animator, I was not disappointed, it works wonderfully! It has all the tools you need, and it’s simple and easy to use. However, it does not run large projects well (but that’s tolerable) I think it would be nice if there is a transparent background option - without having to save each individual frame as transparent. But none the less, it is great for animation and it’s very user friendly!

Amazing, but a a bug has emerged. This app is perfect in every way i need it to be to animate. This app will not let you down if you know how to use it. My only issue showed up today, when i use the paint bucket now, if i press the undo button, it doesnt delete it 50% of the time but goes back a frame instead. This only started happening today, ive been using everyday for about two months now after taking a break and this has never happened before. Please fix this issue

Pretty good but there’s still some things to fix. I believe that this is the best frame by frame animation software for the iPad right now that is affordable. But there are still some nitpick that I have with it. Like how there is no stabilizer like it says that there’s a stabilizer but it’s very lag he doesn’t like work out like a normal art program like MediBang or clip studio paint works. Another thing that I have a small nitpick about are the transformation tools and how limited they are. If there was like a mess transformation I believe that will be more better so the artist won’t have to redraw the whole entire frame as it is but that’s what I have to say nonetheless this is a great program it has all the things that I need and is like a far more improved version of the paid version of FlipaClip I highly recommend it even though with the small complaints that I gave.

Very intuitive and has the animator in mind. Rough Animator is very well put together with a simple enough interface that gets out of your way when you need it gone. The responsiveness of the Apple Pencil in the app is impressive and with a little tweak here and there can easily match your drawing style. The fact that you can adjust each layer for timing is great. Makes for easier planning and tie downs. As an amateur animator this has been my go to app to rough out ideas. My only problem is not the app itself, but completing the projects I start in it lol. Keep up the great work!

Awesome interface and features. Perfect tool for animators!. This app is everything I want in an animation app. Wonderful interface, excellent feature set. But the bugs make it practically unusable. The Apple Pencil support is poor, making uneven lines and accidental pressure blots at the start of the stroke. It also crashes when attempting to import a file from the windows version. Interoperability with other platforms was a major selling point for me, but not one of them work well together. If the developer would fix the bugs then this would be my favorite app on the App Store. If the developer is listening, please let me know where I can file bug reports. I’ve sent you emails but they appear to have been sent into the void... Update: Just tried 1.5.7. Apple Pencil support is still very bad. Every stroke starts with a blot at the beginning. Pressure is erratic. Update 2: Just tried the latest version. Apple Pencil support appears to be fixed!! Thanks for continuing to improve this! I’m having a blast with it now! Update 3: I’ve been using the app for a while now since pencil support was fixed and it continues to be my favorite app on the App Store! A feature request that could really improve the experience: Mirroring support. Being able to see and sketch from a reverse angle really helps get proportions correct. It’s the most major thing I miss when roughing out an Anim. Thanks so much for this app!

Best Animation App on iPad. Really love what you’ve done with this app. It’s a great way to practice traditional animation and develop skills. I also really like that there’s a desktop version so that you can start something on the iPad and then tune it on a cintiq. I have a couple of feature requests. Not sure how hard they are to do: - 2 finger tap to undo, and 3 finger tap to redo. Very useful in apps like Procreate. - select multiple cels at once so you can adjust position or rotation to everything. This might be a stretch to implement but it would be a super useful feature. - timeline zoom for iPad so that you can shrink the key frames to really small sizes. This is a great feature on the desktop and it would be great to have here too so that I could see all my frames in the horizontal view. I have more ideas but don’t want to get too far into it. Seriously great work making this app so far. I use it almost daily. Keep it going :)

For iOS somethings wrong. Ok I love the app I really do but....there’s something wrong with the export with my iOS device. It’s doing fine when I make short animations with audio but when I try doing a long one and export it. It takes sooooo looonnng to even get to the upload and then once I even try to put it in Dropbox or maybe in a different app. IT LITERALLY SAID “ERROR” in my fricking device sooo what I’m asking is can you please, please fix this it might be getting annoying for everyone who likes this app. Unless there is another way to export it please let me and others know even the ones that are new.

Awesome app | A few suggestions. I’ve been using this app for a while now and I want first say that I love this app so much. The interface is very simple and easy to understand yet with the app you can make still make animations with many layers and long lengths without the app crashing. All that said there are a few things that I think can make this app even better. First I think it would be helpful if the app had a text tool. This would be helpful for many reasons. It might also be cool if you can download fonts onto the app to use with the text tool. Next it would be very helpful if there were a ruler tool that can help with drawing straight lines and/or perfect circles. Furthermore I think a blur tool would be helpful for many things including creating depth within a scene, more realistic and many more things. Lastly I think something that would improve the app is a way where the user can save a drawing so that they can access it again. This would be helpful for lip syncing as the user can access their mouth shapes without having to go back and copying and pasting an old frame. These are three of the things that I think would be helpful but if these things are not possible then I also think that a tweening tool would be even more greatly helpful than all of the aforementioned things. Although copying and pasting things is not very hard it is time consuming and I believe that a tweening tool would solve this problem. Thanks!

Perfect. Missing negligible features. Does the job.. This got the job done pretty seamlessly. I’ll probably stick to this app for my animations on mobile. The only things I would suggest is a dark mode and two finger undo three finger redo. I do my sound in other apps, so I don’t have anything to complain about. The interface is neat enough for me to know I’m dealing with an iPad app. This is much better than flipaclip. I could actually get something of substance done. I also noticed you could create your own brushes by importing png files, which will be very useful in the future I think. Plus I love how affordable this is. Thanks!

Easily the best animation app I’ve ever used. I’ve been using RoughAnimator for a couple of years now, I first got it when it was free but I didn’t know how to use it yet. Fast forward a few months after I got comfortable with the setup and layout, it became my favorite app for animation :) It does crash every once and a while if I get too ambitious and start a big project, but I don’t mind all that much because it gives me a chance to rethink about how I’m approaching an animation/sketch. All my animator friends have come to me asking for advice because I know how to use it and keep advertising how great I think it is, and it’s been an absolute pleasure to be able to teach them the neat tips and tricks I’ve come up with! Love this app, thank you developers for fixing the bugs!

Best mobile animation app but wish there were more features. I love using this app so much!!! Since my laptop can’t run my animation programs I had to resort to using my iPad and I don’t regret it. To be honest, I just wish that RoughAnimator was a bit more... Advance? I mean, I just wish there was a way to do effects like motion blur, fade in/out, luminance, and other cool stuff you can find in softwares like Open Toonz and After Effects. If adding a bunch of cool effects aren’t possible, I’d still be very grateful for a few common effects (like motion blur and fade in/out). I look forward to the day RoughAnimator gets really superb effects you’d find in really expensive software :)

Changed my entire workflow - can’t recommend highly enough. I am a huge Rough Animator fan and have been using the software for years. Despite the title, I use RA as my primary animation tool for anything hand drawn and not just for rough animations. It’s incredibly consistent and reliable (especially compared to other animation software for the iPad). I even had a suggestion once and emailed the creator. He responded quickly and implemented the change along with some helpful tips. I’ve created many professional projects using this software and wish more people knew about it and used it.

So far, it seems like what I’ve been looking for!. I’ve only been playing with it for a few hours, but I think I actually found a decent animation app for iPad. The layout of the tools is perfect. Everything I need is where I can tap it easily. This has been a frustration for me with a lot of the apps that hide things in pop up menus. And oh my gosh, an actual traditional timeline that you can edit on the spot! It also feels nice to draw in and responds well to the Apple Pencil. A lot of apps don’t have a lasso tool, and I never understood why, because it’s one of the most useful tools in drawing and animation apps. This one has it and it works perfectly! Finally, it isn’t blurry, even when zoomed in, which is also a problem I’ve noticed with a lot of the apps I’ve tried. I’ve had a project in mind to work on for a long time, and I think I’ll test it out in this app. Keep up the good work, animation apps are one of the things severely lacking on the iPad. This fills an enormous gap for me!

Incredible mobile animation app. This app is honestly TVPaint’s mobile cousin if not an equal competitor. I wasn’t expecting it to be able to do so much on an iPad. As soon as I figured out how to change the color of the following and previous onion skin frames I came to write this review it works so well. My only issue is how clunky the timeline is, I have trouble extending the frames to where I want them at the end of the timeline, but importing a storyboard as a video takes care of that. Seriously a great mobile alternative to the bigger animation programs, highly recommended for beginner animators and students

Great app, have a suggestion. I love RoughAnimator. I’ve always wanted to animate, so as soon as Procreate released their animation update, I was ecstatic. But soon I realized that a drawing app was not the best for animation. I looked for animation apps, but they weren’t very good. I saw this app and downloaded it, and so far it’s been amazing! I have a suggestion, though. In Procreate and almost every other drawing/animation app, you can tap with two fingers to undo. Adding that in RoughAnimator would make everything easier for me and many other people. Please add that, and keep up the good work. I loved your film, Divided by One, too. Sincerely, A RoughAnimator user.

Mmm. I don’t know what’s the issue. I deleted the app and installed it again before writing this and still when I’m at 0 frames I import my audio and it still doesn’t increase the frames or play when I have plenty of them before importing. But when I open my tap try to add it again it says remove audio like it already exists. But since this isn’t a common problem I’ll still rate a 5. Please help. Nevermind I literally tried everything and as soon as I go back in the app it just works like magic. Your app is perfect and very inspiring👍 Thank you for working to make this app

Nothing else comes close. If you’re serious about hand drawn character animation there’s no other choice that comes remotely close to this app. I’ve been animating professionally since 1974 and using this app since it’s debut a few years ago. Simply the best app for professionals wanting the convenience of a mobile device to free them from their desks. It’s accessible enough to use it for my beginner students and yet powerful enough for commercial production. Jacob hit it out of the park with this app, and it keeps getting better. The rest of the apps available are just toys, this is the real deal with a path to adobe after effects and Toonboom harmony for studios. Simply the best.

Wonderful!. Works just like an animation program should! My only complaints are with the GUI. There are a couple of niceties I'd like to see. The ability to touch-hold or double-tap a frame and get a copy/cut/paste menu. The ability to slide or touch-hold to change values more quickly. A small popup or temporarily change the example in the brush button to show the size, style, etc. of the brush while changing the size or opacity. Those would greatly speed up my workflow! Update: Unfortunately, after beginning my project, a four-minute music video, I must amend my review and rating. The audio wave view just shows a vague representation of the sound. It does not show transients, masking it very difficult to find beats and to set cues. Also, the wave display cuts out at three minutes, despite still playing audio. Finally, the audio begins playing for no reason all the time, especially on opening the project. There's no way to stop it except to tap play and then stop. Except on doing that, the active layer disappears from view... I really enjoy animating with this program, but the only way I can get my cues is to write them down from another program and keep a list. 😭 <- Yes, that's me crying, hoping you have an update waiting in the wings!

Support this app!. As a developer myself, I appreciate that this app is so well done by an independent. When I read the creators description of ark the Animator I thought it would be really rough… it is SO much better than I expected! I just wanted a tool to try my hand at 2d after years of 3d cgi work. It doesn’t have tweening or advanced features like motion blur, it is about as old school as you can get while still using the power of iPhone. If you want to throw off the safety nets to evoke a better animator this one is for you.

Like animating on paper, but better. I was trained in animation on paper, and RoughAnimator was very intuitive and easy for me to pick up. It honestly feels just like animating on paper, but more convenient. This isn’t a motion graphics or rig animation program, but its the best app I’ve found for doing purely hand-drawn animation. The brush engine, while simple, even feels more responsive and natural than in other iPad drawing apps I’ve used. I just have ONE gripe! The play/preview button is right above the frame forward/back buttons, so when I’m drawing with one hand while flipping the drawings with the other, I accidentally press the play button ALL the time. PLEASE consider giving users the ability to customize the button layout, or at least choose between more than one prefab layout. I don’t think the play button needs to be right under your thumb, it’s not the kind of thing you need to be able to hit frequently without looking, like the frame flip buttons are. Otherwise, fantastic job on this essential animation app!

I really love this app!. I think this app is actually pretty awesome honestly, and it is simple yet efficient enough to make pretty detailed animations and work on them whenever possible! I think it is awesome it includes so much, and so far it does amazing with things I want to create! A small suggestion that I would honestly love in this app is to add a blur tool if possible? Either way, it isn't a dealbreaker and I enjoy the app regardless. I just think a blur took could really add effect to some animations I want to do :)

Fantastic app!. This has been the first intuitive animation app that I have found for doing traditional 2D animation, not only as a mobile app, but even compared to professional desktop animation software in terms of ease-of-use. I have to disagree with those who request more features such as effects, scene transitions, etc. There are plenty of apps out there for accomplishing those tasks that can be imported from Rough Animator. I’ve worked in apps such as TV Paint, and although it’s a great piece of software, it’s just too bogged down with so many features that it practically obscures the animation features and hinders a good workflow. Can we please just keep Rough Animator as a simple app for accomplishing hand-drawn animation without all the bells and whistles to bog down an already great software? Thanks!

Is it just me?. This app is incredible! It’s easy and very fun to use. I use this app on a lot of my school projects, but I do have a problem that is VERY frustrating. I don’t know if it is because there is a frame limit, but at a certain point I can no longer play my animation inside the app. It’s is not that big of deal, but still annoying and not the only problem. I am currently doing an animation project for school. Of course I was not able to watch my animation in the app, but I could still work on it. That was until earlier today when I went back. I clicked on my animation project and... my screen blacked out and I was kicked out of the app. I have figured out a way to pice the animation together with an editing app, but this is still VERY inconvenient. I’m new to animation. Is this normal?

Makes animation accessible and fun!. RoughAnimator is delightful to work with, even for beginners. Anyone with modest drawing skill can make a quick GIF in minutes, or 10 seconds of full-motion video in a few hours. Powerful features like layers and draw over/under help keep your images neat, while onion-skinning helps animation newbies like me to gauge motion. You need instant tool access when drawing frame-by-frame animation, so thankfully none are buried in menus. All this with four-platform support and a very reasonable price. My only complaint is that I wish the help were more comprehensive with examples and such.

Help!. I’ve been using RoughAnimator for about a year now, and I love it. It’s easy to use, lets me change the length of frames for individual layers (which I couldn’t find on any other app) and overall makes animating simple and fun. But recently I haven’t been able to import audio files? I can import songs, but if I choose the “browse” option and click the mp3 file it doesn’t do anything. This goes for audio files that I’ve used in the past, which have always worked up until now. I don’t know what’s causing this or if anyone else has the same problem, but this has been going on for a few months at this point and I don’t know how to fix it. Most of my animations are audio based and use lip syncing, so this problem has really crippled my ability to use the app. Please help

I love it but it needs work. This is the only animation app on the App Store that has a timeline, You can rotoscope, you can add audio and images and that’s amazing, but for whatever reason where this app falls short is the brush selection. I don’t not see any option or anywhere online to download brushes or have any real knowledge to make brushes myself. This is a big problem because I noticed that my line art in this app looks kind of ugly. The standard brush looks like a bunch of tiny dots it should be a straight line, like a vector line even. And there is a severe lack brushes on this app and it needs to be fixed. I could easily give this five stars if there were brushes that make the art look sharper , it’s such a fantastic app for animators on a budget , Please fix this, I would even buy brushes if it were offered in this app. There needs to be more choices for brushes, I cannot stress that enough.

Incredible!. I’ve been looking for a good animation program for mobile for a long time, and I’ve finally found it! This app is amazing. You can extend how long each drawing lasts (as long as they are on different layers) without having to copy paste them! Also, the layer length doesn’t move together with each layer, which is really helpful for putting something like a watermark. The interface is a little confusing (I think it’s more spread out of iPad though, I don’t know I’m on mobile), but once you figure it out it’s pretty easy to use. It’s definitely worth the money!

Fantabularific!. This is genuinely my favorite program to animate in, hands DOWN. For traditional animation, this is arguably one of the GOATs~! I'm a character animator who's worked in a number of different softwares, but this has consistently been my go-to when I have the freedom to use it! I've used this app for almost 5 years now and it's only gotten better and better with time! If anyone's looking for a fun, straight-forward animation app that's built for animators BY an animator, this is well worth it!! For those of you who are looking for tweens etc though, mayhaps look elsewhere. There's some basic camera controls, but that's the closest you get here. It's very primarily for drawing!!

It’s fine, but has quite a few problems. Okay, I’m not gonna try to go on an all-out rant, but I really need to talk about some problems this app has- Okay, so firstly, the cycle option?? What the heck does it even do?? I haven’t found one single person on the entire internet that knows how to work it. If you’re going to have an option, tell people how to work it, or check if it’s even functional. Secondly, you can’t copy and paste multiply frames onto the layer they’re already on. That may be a nit-pick, but it’s extremely frustrating to have to click the copy and paste button SO. MANY. TIMES. Not to mention making animations that are loops, and having to go through the trouble of seeing which frame is which, only to find you messed up an hour ago and can’t fix it without starting over completely. Okay, I’m done. Please, fix these. It would make so many other people’s experience with this app better, including mine.

Very good. Couple of tools I would like to be added.. I love the app and is easily my favorite mobile animation software I’ve used. I love using it and is very easy to learn. I’ve haven’t had any issues or glitches so far, but I have one minor suggestion that is personally just something I would like. If at all possible, I would like a glow tool. I’m a huge effects animator and I love to animate lighting and electricity. If this is not possible, I hope you can add a bloom feature. Bloom is a powerful tool in animation and would help me and others a lot. Thank you for hearing my suggestions.

Good!. I’ve been wanting to really get into animation for a while and get a nice animation app. This seemed like a good option and I can’t say I was wrong. The interface is nice and I like being able to actually adjust frame rate properly. I do have a couple gripes though. First of all I keep having issues with lag. I haven't had any problem with this in any other app, so I do know it’s the app itself. (I do have a pro iPad by the way) Basically when I have a file size larger than like a hundred or so pixels it just.. lags.. really bad. My lines drag really far behind my Apple Pencil and it’s really unfortunate considering I do really like this app. My other issue is with brushes. I do wish that there was more methods of editing them. Maybe that’s a bit too needy though considering this is just an animation app. Anyways, for just general animation I may have to stick with something more barebones that lags less, but this is a solid app!

The best in animation program available for IOS. Amazingly there are more than one option for animation apps here, HOWEVER this is the only one that has a friendly UI, not going to burn a hole in your wallet, it’s fast, all substance, no BS, and great for roughing something out absolutely ANYWHERE (Heck I’ve been animating in bed and it’s hella comfy) and if you feel up for it, you can make a fully fleshed out animation in this program, colors, clean lines, everything! Granted, this kind of a basic traditional 2D animation program, no peg system or anything stupidly fancy so don’t expect the ability to make parallax backgrounds, 2D rigs or importing brushes from other programs like Procreate or Clip Studio Paint but that’s not the point of this, because it’s in the name “Rough” and I absolutely love it for that. It’s very easy to pick up, saves instantaneously right as you close out of the project, and I can’t recommend this enough.👌👌👌 I do have a suggestion to give it 5 stars from me, and that’s a dark mode. I personally don’t like melting my eyes out, that’s just me, a bit of an odd opinion I know, but it’d make working so much better and possibly more visually pleasing. Just throwing it out there, but it’d be nice as an option in a future update, thanks! 😘

Fantastic app with one distracting problem. First of all, I absolutely love this app to death- it's extremely user friendly and to my knowledge it's the only one that actually allows audio scrubbing on the ipad. That being said, there's a bit of a problem with the audio settings, which can be intrusive at best and downright startling/painful at worst, if you have very sensitive hearing (as I do). For some reason, if you select a frame or chunk of frames in your animation while you have audio enabled, it will play a preview of the audio wherever you are on the timeline. While I understand that this feature is there to remind the user where in the audio they are, as someone with audio processing issues I find it very startling and distracting to work with, and this feature cannot be turned off without muting the audio entirely. It really discourages me from using the app more than i already do, and I don't... entirely understand its purpose when simply scrubbing can provide the user with the same ability to remember what part of the audio they are working with. Overall I recommend the app, but I would be incredibly grateful if the creator would consider a way to disable this feature so I and others with hearing issues can work more efficiently.

good app, but you should add one feature in the app. so i've been enjoying this app for a long time now, and i like animations ever since i was like 6 or something, but i've also been enjoying game development for a a very long time now, and also been programming for a while now, and i was thinking, why not this add a programming system, i mean, flash used to be a game engine, but now that flash is gonna be dead in december, thought this app should also be for making game. And it could be any programming language, python, java, c#, any. But this might be a lot of work, but if you could make it a feature, i'll be so happy. bye for now

Add frames automatically with audio. When you insert an Audio you have to manually add frames to go with it. This is worse the longer an audio is just 13 seconds of audio is already nearly 300 frames. The problem is without the frames there we can’t scrub through the audio, if we could go through the audio without needing a matching number of frames the issue would be solved. Another option is automatically adding the needed amount of frames to match the audio.

A serious drawing problem with my iPad 7. I use the Apple Pencil (1st generation) to draw and animate. I used it on my iPad 7 and it’s slow and laggy. I connected the Apple Pencil to an older iPad from my family (which is the iPad 6) and it works perfect! 60 fps, no lags, no slowness. 🫤 My theory: The Apple Pencil is not the problem, I always charge it 100% and I have also cleaned it and it has not broken. I don’t think the iPad 7 needs a new Apple Pencil. MAYBE the reason it doesn’t work perfectly is because of the a little bit enlarged display which is 10.2 I guess, but it’s not big difference than the iPad 6 which is a little bit smaller. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I Don’t Know It’s not the storage because I store from 15 GB to 32, which is the limit. 🤔 I believe the smart and magic keyboard compatibility of the iPad 7 can make laggy things but I’m not sure. I want to get in contact with Apple and explain my problem with footage so they can have some ideas. But I think the iPad 7 is not that compatible to draw in your app, except my fingers but it’s uncomfortable. Thank you for reading, hope this can identify other people’s problem

Crashing in older versions. I will admit that I have a very old device on which I use this, one that stopped receiving updates a long time ago, in fact. However, the most recent update states that it fixes crashing in older versions. This is not true, at least not for me, because it won't let me download the new version at all. I believe that the new update can only be downloaded onto newer versions, which is counterintuitive, as it is stated that it should fix crashes in older versions. I love using this app, and I really don't want to lose it, even if only temporarily while I look for another device to use. Please, fix this. Generally speaking, the app itself is great, and relatively easy for me to use. I just want to be able to use it again.

Fantastic thank you so much. Been looking for an app that was powerful, portable and easy to use and this hits every mark so far, super impressed with the pen feel and stabilization, the bucket tool works great when adjusted correctly, comes with a lot of basic animation program features you would find on a desktop program and I’m just so happy this app exists at all because I probably wouldn’t be animating as much as I am now (or at all at this point in my life) if it didn’t, big thanks to the developer 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Needs more mechanics. First of all, the drawing is horrible, when i have my pen on the screen and draw, it looks like its drawing in 5 frames! And You need Bluetooth. I have a 10-70 dollar pen that has bluetooth connection and it doesn't connect! I'd also like filters please, and it needs more layers! I really don't like the pencils and pen presets. There are like 3 in this app. Can't you have more? This app should be like ibisPaint but with animation. Also, a bug i found is that when you import audio, the app crashes. But everything else is fine and you need text.

Loved it until it stopped working. I don’t know what happened, the onion skin stopped working all of a sudden so it’s become useless as an animation app, plus anytime I add an extra layer (no matter how big or small my canvas is) the previous layer drops dramatically in quality. I tried exporting the animations to see if maybe the quality lowered only in the app to make sure everything runs smoothly while animating but that was not the case, even once exported the quality is horrible. The zoom in zoom out function has also been glitching out lately but as you can tell that’s the least of my problems with this app. Not sure what caused this cause just 2 weeks ago the app was running fine and I loved it. It’s sad that I spent money on an app that won’t work, especially since this is the best animating app I’ve found so far. Hopefully I can either get this fixed by the staff or a new animation app comes out.

Really awesome app!!!. Hey! I’m an avid animator and have been using this app as my main software for animation when not on my laptop! Despite it being a “rough animation” program (pun intended! 😋) it’s been a huge help for making quick simple test animatics, or even more complex videos, albeit more time consuming! I noticed in an un-sent review I mentioned something about the video import messing with the drawing function, but considering I don’t recall getting irritated with anything in the past months or year, I think it’s most likely fixed now! So thanks so much!!! I really love that you’re occasionally adding new features to help with production, and I absolutely love the keyframe camera! If I could make a suggestion, would it be possible to maybe add keyframes to the other layers, like if you move a layer, or something on the layer, you can choose to use the keyframes to auto-tween the movement of the drawing, or the layer that drawing is on? It doesn’t have to be fancy, it can be just like the camera keyframes, but for the rest of the layers! That’s the only thing I can think of right now. Thanks so much for making this app! I’m sure I’ll be using it for as long as I have an iPad or iPhone! Thanks again!!!❤️💖👍

Worth the money. I mean ya sure, this app costs money. But believe me when I say it’s worth it. If you want an animation app then get this one. I mean it goes beyond the basic requirements of being an animation app and has a lot of features that are useful like cycles and keyframes. The timeline has to be my favorite, unlike the other apps, rough animator has a timeline that can have multiple layers etc. You can also import audio and stuff. Although in my opinion I would use this app for more “rough” animations as there aren’t a whole lot of features to make your animations pretty with things such as overlays and blending modes. You can certainly still make finish animations but you won’t get the same illustration feel as other drawing apps.

Impressive Application! (+questions). Hi! I’d like to say that this application is definitely worth the price that it has been given (in fact, it’s quite a steal for mobile Animators! 😁). I used Procreate for animation but it lacked audio functionality and it’d always clip the edges of my drawing when exiting the scene. After that, I tried FlipaClip Premium (includes audio and more), but it didn’t have high functionality for line art. Rough animator is a completely different story because it holds an audio function and provides quality line consistency with its stabilization tool. The layering system works perfect and made me quite happy! The app has great balance overall! That being said, there’s a few questions I have regarding future updates: -Will there be a vector brush so quality loss no longer becomes a problem when zooming into a scene? -Will there be an option to make the background of the canvas transparent? -Finally, Will there be a “multiply color” and “add color” brush type for shading and adding light sources?

Amazing, but could fix a few things. I think Rough Animator is the best animating app on iPads. It’s easy, smooth, and it doesn’t crash. Some thing I wish were easier is placing an image in. I wish this was easier because when I’m adding in backgrounds, I draw from the same dimensions as the animation. Unfortunately rough animator doesn’t have a “center” option, so you always have to do it yourself. I’ll end up with bits of my background cut off of the color of the orginial background showing because I didn’t stretch it down enough. Another thing I find troublesome is adding audio. I’ve found a way to add audio, but it’s much harder than the way I’m about to explain. Adding in music from your iTunes is super frustrating because it doesn’t work. I click on the option to add music from my library, and the app crashes. Please fix this. One last thing is TRANSPARENCY. PLEASE... fix this. I’m having trouble editing my animations because I cannot export an animation with transparency. It’s SUPER frustrating because it’s such an easy thing to fix. PLEASE fix the transparency exports before anything else. Thanks

Rough animator pretty lit 💯. So you got all the layers and all that-you can make some pretty cool stuff in the app- my only problem is the fact you can only add 1 bit of audio- I recommend you add some audio layers so you don’t gotta add all the sounds together first- and maybe adding a text feature?-as well as a marker brush and the ability, in the settings, to be able to fill on different layers but overall it’s pretty great- the option to fill in the back- and the front or inside is a pretty cool feature- keep up the good work my dude, one more thing as well that would make this program perfect! Maybe add a magic wand tool? So you can tap on the inside of something and it would select the inside of whatever you pressed, and it would be the only thing effected, and a gradient tool as well, and maybe a maker kind of setting for fading out? Thanks dude 👌 I’d say rough animator is worth the money

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Best app for animation on iPad ever!. This app is just what I needed! It has all the tools I need and more. There are just a few things that could be added to make it better. Overall, this app is amazing

Incredibly useful app. I’ve enjoyed using this app it is one of the best on the AppStore, BUT Some improvements could be if a camera feature was implemented, I know it’s hard, but please try. I also wish we had the ability to move drawings outside the white box to allow for things to come into frame with use of the cycle tool, or this can be done by simply making the box larger but the camera being a small portion of the box.

Great for 2d animation. This is a great app. I hope it will further develop with more features in the future.

😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬. It’s terrible. The brush quality is TERRIBLE! Insanely overpriced. I want- no DEMAND a refund. I’ve been ripped off. Fish queen, out. 😡🐠👸🏼

The best!!!. This is the best app ever! You may have to pay for it and take a little while to figure it out but it is totally worth it!

Easily the best animation app. Even the digicel app doesn't even come close to the usefulness of this app. It pretty much has everything you need and the interface is really easy to use. Thanks for all your hard work.

Could be Five. Incredible software. 4/5 Stars. Though if there was a confirmation check when you hit the “Delete Drawing” bubble, that would save from many mistakes, and would warrant a 5/5 Star review.

Please add more brushes. This animation app is pretty limited on brushes, I’d also dislike the fact that when you rotate a picture it adds a pixelated texture. But it’s a good app in total

Definitely not worth the money. There are far better ones for free

great app, but there's one thing which would be good to add. Hello, firstly you guys did a great job on this app, its very good! And I can tell you put a lot of work into it. This is an update on my old review where I said that when I colour its pixelated, I figured out how to fix that. But still for iOS users (as far as I know) you can only import songs for audio, but if you could put a part where you can record audio in the app then that would be great and I would give you 5 starts. Thank you for you time. Have a good day.

pretty good! just one thing. this app is probably the most professional animation app I’ve found so far, but I’m bummed you cannot use your mic to record audios, or import audio from your camera roll. that would make this app an instant five stars for me.

Okey.... This is the best animation app on the App Store but, can ya fix the bucket tool? It leaves white lines that are as clear as day.

It’s the most helpful animation tool on the App Store. Being able to use infinite layers with separate timings help a lot! The tools it gives are all great! The only thing that would make this better would be to add a select tool like photoshops wand!

Amazing!! Great for iPad. just started using this app yesterday. it has all the needs, onion skin, layers, camera, and audio scrubbing. So far its a very great animation app!! One thing i really like is the transformation tool and how precise it is. if you accidentally animated a bit off centre, you can still move all your frames back to the middle precisely, and moving it doesnt lower the resolution of the drawing like other apps. The only issues i have is that it lacks overlay layers that are great for shading (such as multiply or add, but i guess i can workaround that by porting the finished animation into CPS and adding shading from there).... and that theres no dark mode 😂 other than that, this is a very good app!! and thank you dear friend corey for gifting me this app DAWG

Excellent. Best animation app so far. Layers are easy to see and manipulate. Easy to go back and forward frames. Nice onion skin. I'd like a color swatch, but easy to make my own and use the eye-dropper.

Massive potential. I love this app. It’s the best animation app out there for mobile devices, hands down. The developer is constantly making it better without making it more complex and it seems they are listening to feedback and implementing. I would like to be able to insert drawings BEFORE the selected frame. At the moment I can’t figure out an easy way to add drawings at the head of the x sheet. Keep working on this app, it’s amazing. No issues with paying upfront, it was worth it.

Very good and easy. Cant seem to draw pixel art, brush blurs. App is very good like the easy of use on iPad. Wanted to zoom in and do like pixel art but it blurs the brush. Not sure how to unblur or if it’s even an option. Otherwise great app will keep using!

Audio. Quite unhappy with the audio, it's not that there are any bugs or anything, it's just that I can't record anything and add it into my animation. The only way to really do that is using iMovie, and I don't know how to import audio files using iCloud Drive either, and the music in my music library isn't the music I want. Please add an option that will allow you to record audio.

Great app for animation. Updating my review, after using this app for over a year for professional & personal use. It's been great seeing some really good improvements in the app. I haven't experienced any crashing and it's quick and user friendly. Love the new features that have been added that help make the animation process quicker. My only wish would be the ability to export transparent GIFs <3

Really good app!. I really enjoy using RoughAnimator. As someone who cannot access desktop programs, I really appreciate the effort that has been put into this app. A few little issues but overall really good. Thanks!

Best animation app on the store. This app just keeps getting better and better. I love it for the ability to practice animation skills on the iPad away from my computer. Well done, keep it up.

Great app, but the audio import doesn't work.. I absolutely love this app. It's got lots of features, and it works like a dream. However, whenever I go to import audio it never works. I tap the MP3 file and it just crashes. I'm on a iOS iPad. Please fix

Everything you need!. I’ve come back to hand-drawn animation after a long absence and this app really brings the joy. I used to work with pencil on a paper. If you’ve worked in that medium or with 2D software on the desktop, you’ll feel right at home with this app. Unlike other iPad animation apps I’ve used, this one enables you to plan your shot by easily allowing you to choose the duration of the drawing on the timeline. You can also change the order of the drawings as you like. The branding could perhaps use some polish, but apart from that this is the app to go for.

Annoyed. Tried to import a song and it crashed

Fantastic. The only missing feature is some simple camera functions ,other then that ,what can you want more for this price point. Good for student and professional alike it changed the way I work more than I can express with this short review. In this universe of giant software companies this is how software should be Way to go!!!

Awesome app for beginners. I love this app, it's so easy to use.

Quite buggy. Everything is good apart from the bugs it has where it says some squared are set as white even if you colour than in but overall I love this app

Left hand side. Review for the developer Can I request to have an option for the tools bar to be placed on the right side of the screen as I am left handed . Thanks.

Great... But Audio. Big oofs

good app, but missing some features. Probably the best app for rough animation on ipad so far. It’s missing a few things that could really make it pop though. -Ability to skew selection with transform tool, or a perspective tool like in toonboom harmony -Show more than 3 previous/next frames with onion skin -Press and drag to move frames in timeline -Scrub through entire timeline even when the selected layer isn’t the full length of the animation -Zoom 100% and reset rotation buttons -Onion skin multiple layers -This might be a bit too advanced but basic pan/camera move functionality? -Pen pressure feels a little janky but this is just a nitpick -Straight line tool -Opacity doesn’t actually change opacity, it changes brush flow which is a very different thing. Being able to actually change opacity would be great. Anyways it’s still a good app, though I had one crash when i pressed the “Drawing Label” field at the top of the screen and pressed “Go” without entering anything in the field. Didn’t lose any work however.

Nearly There. Ok app, promising much. Good for basic drawing your animation and has good interface. Video importing for backgrounds seems to crash every time. Would wait for a new version.

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I need help!. Ok, this app is kind of good but I just can’t understand any of it. First I don’t know how to get different layers, Second how do you get different brushes/tools? Please help

Amazing app only one issue.. So the app is overall amazing. It is super easy to navigate and learn. It’s one of the best animation apps I have found and heard only great reviews about it. I have tried many others but none compare to this, so spending a few dollars on an app that works great is worth it. But here’s the thing, on my iPad it works perfectly when I connect my Wacom pen to it but when I try to connect my pen to the app on my phone, it immediately crashes. If you could fix this, that would be great! If not it’s all good since it’s still usable on my iPad.

Issue when exported as gif. Really enjoyed this app, will be nice if developers can fix the lack of colour problem when export as Gif, thanks!

Parfait. Simple,intuitif,j’adore

Cannot Import Audio/Video with crashing. The program itself is alright but importing things never works. It will attempt to download then immediately crash. Please fix.

ze best. Best iPad animation app E.V.E.R.

It won’t work. I made a few animation that turned out pretty well but all of a sudden it stopped working and I couldn’t draw or colour. Pleas reply soon and help me.

Good but. I love the app but I really wish that you could import multiple audio clips because you can only add one. It would definitely make lip syncing and adding sound effects much easier. Also being able to move the audio clips around on the top bar! Thank you

Well worth it. A no none-sense kind of app, if you’re an animator and know what you’re doing, and are totally fed up with all the other minimalist garbage apps with childish interfaces. Thank you for making this!!!

Suggestion(?). I love this app, it’s my favourite and I use it for everything! I sometimes need things to be transparent though. Are you guys going to add a transparent feature for the background one day? If not that’s fine!

Closest thing to toon boom on mobile. This thing is amazing the bad reviews are probably old. some things to make this app better is: Tweening. That would be awesome. It would make life way easier Symbols. Or a storage place to keep things like faces or shapes so we don’t have to draw them over and over again. If you cannot do this that is fine, A great, no, OUTSTANDING app nonetheless.

Don’t buy. This app has absolutely no support or user manual. Once you buy your money is gone. Doesn’t do what it is advertised. Any good reviews are fakes. I wish I could get a refund.

This sucks. It isn’t good cuz it doesn’t give A tutorial on how to use this

Great!. Its OK, but when you draw, its really laggy, can you please make it more smooth, I can't make another review so I'm editing this one.

Nice app!. I’ve just started animating and really like this app! The only thing is, I agree with other users who suggest being able to copy and paste previous frames to make it easier to animate. PLEASE add this to your next update. Thanks for a great app!

Good app for beginners...???. It’s a pretty good app if you’re just starting animation and it has the basic features you need. I use this app a lot and it’s very easy to use. But there are a few things I wish could be added, like the ability to add masks to layers. And maybe some short cuts? Like for duplicating a drawing you have to tap a few buttons and it would be easier if a short cut could be created as well? I know I already said a lot but it would be nice to have an effect that makes the lines smoother when you draw, kind of like the streamline feature in Procreate, if you sort of know what I mean. Otherwise, this is a great app and I’m pretty happy with it! Thanks!

Best one I’ve used.. To the creator, thank you so much for creating this app. I’ve always liked the idea of animating, but the other apps weren’t as helpful, and this one has helped me to animate better. You have no idea how thankful I am!

My review. Rough Animator is a great app but at first it was a bit hard to use but after 2 tutorials on how to use it, it became really easy to use! But there is some problems with the apps if you are trying to do long animations (over 1 minute), but overall this app is a 9 out of 10.

Best app ever.👍. RoughAnimator is the best animation app ever! it doesn’t cost too much and when you buy it you get everything on the app you don’t need to buy anything else!

Better than flipaclip. Ive been going around trying various animation apps and computer programs, trying to find something thats cheap and i can use on the go. But as a Toonboom user im very picky. I was recommended this app by a friend and i almost didn’t use it because of the unattractive UI, but the functionality of the app is so far unmatched on the Ipad. Procreate has nice brushes but a very short frame cap and terrible animation layering and no audio, Flipaclip is very good, supports audio and audio editing in-app, but lags terribly when doing lineart at 720p and has no camera movement features. This is the only app i can find that does camera movement and runs very well even with a large file length with multiple timeline layers. There is no dedicated pen tool, only pencil. But if you go into your brush settings, then app settings and crank up your opacity snd flow you can create a nice opaque line that works for lineart. I would live to see a built-in bug report feature implemented on the app in the future for those niche problems that only come up once in a while. For example i just tried splitting my audio twice but in the process one of my splices stopped making any sound even though the waveform was intact. Overall still the best animation app and i hope the kids on flipaclip discover it soon

It’s great and all but... I love this animating app i love the features and all but I wanna do a clean animation, if this app was more like flash animation I would love it more. I don’t have a computer or laptop but I’d like this app be more like flash

Was doing good... But now whenever I try to open a project it kicks me back to home screen, nothing’s fixing it.

Only good app. If you like hand drawn animation this is only good iPad app. If you do cut out you’ll have to use something else. Hope the author is able to continue working on this and refining it.

Amazing but I’ve run into an issue. I’m absolutely loving the app! But for some reason I can’t see the onion skin of the previous layer? Only the one after...which makes things very hard to work with 😅

Incredible animation app. One of the best animation apps on the store. Great price and surprisingly deep. If you are someone you likes to rough out animation as well as doing exercises and simple traditional-style shorts, this one is the one. Hopefully in the future, there will be symbols and tweening implemented. But as of now, this app deserves the highest praise of its kind. Highly recommended for all animation students and enthusiasts!

Most professional low budget iOS app. It has the wonderful camera and cycle tools that most iOS animating apps lack. What would make it perfect was if you could add more then one audio file, and actually move and edit that file

This is the best animation app on the appstore. The feature where you can make a keyfrane last longer alone makes this incredible

I love it. I’m a beginner at animating and I love this app. Even though it costs, it’s worth it. Easy to use, easy to learn. The one thing about it is that there is no manual. So yes, as I said, it’s easy to learn. But, you have a lot to learn. Also, when I try to import a video, my iPad dies wich is sad. So I don’t import videos. But, it would be nice if I could (So I’m asking to be able to adjust quality of videos that you import before hand so your device doesn’t die).

So impressed by this program. This is the best animation program I’ve ever used. I cannot believe how good this is for a one person development team, I use it constantly. It’s very basic functionality, so you can’t do vector level cleanliness, but I use it for everything before compositing. I prefer it over flash, harmony, clip studio, procreate. It has audio functionality, and camera functionality. I love this program so much.

Meh. Make it so you can duplicate frames because it gets really repetitive re-drawing things, because I’m a YouTubed doing story time and it’s really annoying. Also make more pen options, like pencil, pen, marker, etc. It is a little bit better than Flipaclip though, and a lot of options, but would tweak a few things.

Crashes. The app keeps crashing since I got it. Please help with this problem.

yeah!. unlike p* you can actually find the files in the device! magical!

App crash!. Hi Jacob. This is the second time I lost all my files for no reason. Can you please respond to my email I sent you Thursday Feb 27, 2020? Thanks.

great app. i have no issue so far. really easy to use. one question though. how come the windows desktop version has less features? i cannot find the app preferences and the line smoothing tool that the ipad version has.

Perfect but. I want a import gif feature we already have export as gif All we need is import gif

Satisfying application. This is a very satisfying app to use on the go. I wonder if we will have the option for a dark theme, the would be great especially when working in dim lighting.

The best animation app so far. No need for subscription, the buttons are easily accessible, contains pretty much everything I need to create a hand drawn animation. Not a big fan of the brush tool and would love an alpha lock function tho.

Excellent but needs a little more!. It’s an excellent app with a lot of potential! I’m used to using Toonboom on my computer and Roughanimators interface was easy to adapt to. Some things are still missing though. Canvas flipping would be really nice and maybe some circle/line/square tools. The brush settings could also be expanded a bit more and an alpha lock layer feature might be easier instead of changing the brush settings to colour inside lines.

Best anim app. Simple but powerful.

Good. Good app but really need more fluidity in drawing and more tools/brush

So far pretty good!. Best animation program I've tried so far! BUT it has an issue most other programs don't have. I like to import audio that isn't on iTunes. An MP3 file. But I haven been able to find the way to do it? Please help! I'm trying to lip sync but I can't unless the audio is imported! Thanks!

I This App Alot BUT. I Like This Program This Is Better Than Any Other Program On Mobile. BUT There Is One Thing I Want U To Add To The Program. A Movable Camera. I Want To Make Long Camera Shots That Don't Just Take Place In One Area I Want A Continuous Camera Shot And It’s Hard To Do When I Move A Background It Cuts Out What I Moved So Please Add A Movable Camera To The Program

Why?. I can't import pictures. The app shut down the moment I do.

Really good but.... This is a very good app for animating. It has everything we need to animate like professionals but the only problem is that it lags a lot so i have to leave the app and then come back for it to stop lagging. I also recommend fixing the audio because thats the part that lags the most. Other than that, I'd give this app a 5 stars!

Can u make it optional. I want light mode back cause it’s easier for me to draw could you make it optional dark or light/original mode? Thank you! MsMeppy

Simple, efficient. everything I needed. Import vids for reference, sound, pressure sensitivity etc... A few options but exactly what you need for. The only clunky part is, when you work on a layer, you can't see other layer onion skins. Also, you can't create an empty frame everywhere on the layer, it's a bit frustrating, but for the price, honestly...

pls add back the light ui as an option. really good app packed with features but please bring back the old theme as an option that one was so much better

Works!. Great simple design that does what you need to animate. Only thing I wish worked was the scrubbing of audio in the file?

Crazy unstable. Could be good but the program is Incapable of rendering a 15 second project of 7 layers. 😫☹️😫☹️😫☹️

Still the best. A year later and still the best. Thanks to the developer for making my iPad Pro a “portable animation studio” with this app. Forget the rest. I've tried all the "popular" ones and this one is the best. Easy to use with lots of advanced options. Works the best of the bunch with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil with no "subscriptions" or additional "credit" purchases required to get "features" or actually do something. If you want to get animation work done this is the app. If you want to keep paying for lesser features and functionality try one of the others.

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It’s mostly good but their are a few things.. This app is great but their are a few things I wish would change, the first thing is that I wish importing pictures and videos were easier, I don’t know about anyone else but when it renders the app crashes. Also how do I even import audio? I save the videos to my files and it still won’t let me use the audio I want. Lastly I think their should be a help center, so if your confused or stuck on anything you can search it up and find an answer. Those are the things I want to change in this app, otherwise it’s great.

More painting features. It’s by far the best animation app in the App Store, and I have Been looking for something like this for years! but it could really be something great. For me it’s been very buggy, sometimes when I put a line down it is automatically deleted, and I have to do the line several times to get it to stay, and the zooming is strange. And it would be so much better if it had a more refined painting system! With more brushes and art tools to make beautiful animations more possible!

Your Breaking my Heart. Why did you change the opacity to percentage? So so time consuming and very annoying while drawing to TYPE the opacity levels….the dial was way better. This is why certain apps are ahead of you guys. Doing too much sometimes messes a good thing up. Focus on brushes not the opacity tool. The opacity tool is perfect. Or was perfect.

Text feature. I love this app and it’s great features. The compatibility of this app with beginner animators and advanced animators is great for those types of people. I would give this app 5 stars but there is one feature that would be great if you guys added! Can you add a text feature so other animators and myself can type text in the project? I know this might take time but please consider. Thankyou!

RoughAnimator Is Amazing + Audio Has Gotten Better. WeirdHat did an amazing job on RoughAnimator! There’s customizing brushes, audio has gotten better, and actual pressure in the app! You gotta try this app it’s worth the $5.00 if you’re an artist looking for something plus the best of all is that there’s no trial! Great job WeirdHat you’re an amazing lifesaver!!!

Great App, but the Export can be rough.. I love this app with all my heart, it’s fairly straight forward and easy to use. My only issue is that I export as gifs due to my animations being so short in length, and when I use more than two or three colors, the whole gif is desaturated so orange looks green, etc. I sent a gif with the right coloration to a friend, and when I went to export it a second time after adding my watermark, the colors desaturated and even when I removed the watermark and tried again the colors wouldn’t go back to normal.

Amazing, just a few suggestions. I have been using this app for about a year now and the experience has been astounding. Finally an app on iPad that is more like software on pc. Here are a few suggestions that would just put a cherry on top of everything: Adding symbols (like in Adobe animate) for faster lip syncing and a whole lot more uses. Symbols are one of my main tools I use on pc in Adobe animate and I would love to see some kind of variation of this feature in this app. Tweening. I would love a feature like the basic classic tween in Adobe animate. This would go great hand in hand with the addition of symbols and would overall be really useful. Anyways awesome app and I can’t wait for it to get better and better each update.

Awesome app... A few problems. This app is AMAZING 😍 I absolutely love it. Although there are a few problems. 1: The UI is not that great, I could sit down with adobe XD for 10 minutes and have a better UI 2: Exporting is horrible, when you export a project and save it and you go and look at it, its frame rate from the editor is cut in half (pls fix) 3: When you are making a new frame it’s kinda a waste of time to select copy make new frame paste and move, if they had a feature where you could turn on continuous framing (When you move to a new frame and everything is automatically copied to the next frame) would be so appreciated. Overall though, this is the best animating app I have used so far. Hope this was helpful!

Great animation app however.... This app is great for animation and I am very happy with it, however there are some very frustrating bugs that need to be fixed. Whenever I try to animate something and close the project and exit the app it will be erased. This is very infuriating because many of the projects I have worked hard on have been erased. Also, when I import audio it will not even show up and there is nothing even though it say ‘Remove audio’. I hope these bugs are fixed and until they are, I am sad to say that I will have to find a substitute.

AMAZING! Just a few things.... This is probably the best animation app I’ve ever tried out, and my animations have improved so much just by using this app! However, there are a few bumps when it comes to importing audio. Most of the time, it rejects audio files. So I’d have to animate without the audio. This isn’t good when you’re doing things like lip syncing. Please add a recording tool so i could just record audio from the app without any glitches!

Good, one major problem. This is a great app for animating on the iPad. Simple yet complicated enough to make good animations. Perfect for beginners. However, one major problem. When I set a custom resolution, one, the brush becomes EXTREMELY large and blurry and I can’t fix it. And two. I can’t bring it back to original settings. So this app has been rendered useless for me because every project I start is custom and the brushes are way too large and blurry. Someone help. ;-;

The best animation app for IOS.. This app has by far the most features and customization in terms of audio layering, importing files, onion skinning, and many other animation essentials. My only critique is not having a dark mode. Sometimes I animate late at night and the bright white interface can sometimes give me a headache. Other than that, I recommend this app over any other animation app on the app store.

ALMOST perfect. The lack of a two finger tap to undo is what kills this app for me. (As well as the 3 finger tap to redo, of course). Most other professional or decent drawing apps use this and it speeds up the workflow perfectly for an iPad and it is very jarring to have that removed here. If this was added as a feature I would legitimately donate additional money to the developer as a thank you, and it would be one of my most used applications. If you see this, please consider adding this as it would catapult the popularity and usability of this app and i would heartily reccomend it to everyone.

Great for roughs, falls short on final. It’s obvious that this app’s name reflects the quality you are able to achieve in the final product. However, it’d be great to see more brush options in additions to smoothing/vector to export something a lot cleaner. In addition, I love the lasso tool but I wish there was a way to zoom in while selection is held for finer control. It’d be also great to export in different file formats as well. Really wish for further developed app from this as I can see a big potential for having it be the main animation app for iPad Pro artists/animators.

Overall good but mobile has problems. I really like this app. I think it has many pro features that free animation apps don’t have. I hear it works good for iPad, but sadly I don’t have one so I use my phone. This app has one major bug on iOS and I just wanted to address it: The issue is that I can’t import an image nor can I import audio. Every time I try to import an image or audio, it says on the screen “Internal Error, the requested app extension could not be found." Could you guys fix this issue? I'm currently making an animated web series, and I want to be able to import a background and audio using this app instead of having to resort to other apps. This app would be 1000x better if I could do this.

i love it :). It’s the best animation app ive used so far. Once you figure it out it’s very easy to use (i think there is a bit of a learning curve but only for ppl who dont have experience with other frame by fram digital animation tools, and you can figure out how to use it if you fiddle around enough) It’s ui isnt near as minimalist as procreate but it isn’t by any means too cluttered. Also im liking the new color scheme for the ui its very easy on the eyes, though it would be nice if you could have options for the theme.

Add dark mode pretty please. Hi There umm can u guys add dark mode on this app because I like it better if it’s dark and one more thing can u guys add more settings to the brushes please And that’s all so I’ve been using this app for a really long time now and it’s really good for me to tell story times on there and I’m so happy that this existed and thank u for reading this ⭐️⭐️🌟🌟✨✨⚡️💗💗💗

Awesome app!. Amazing app! It all works really well for me, I just have one tiny think that could be changed. as a beginner, I downloaded this app to try to animate for the first time. With my limited knowledge, I was very very confused. There were no instructions to help me out. It took several hours to learn it all, and I am still learning new features! Other than that, it works great and I can make really cool (or weird) animations!

Looks Great!. I was looking for a straightforward 2D animation program for my son to use on an iPad and was very glad to find this one. I took a chance and purchased it and was able to make a quick animation right of the bat. I am sure he will love it and be able to grow with it. Also, thank you so much for making it a simple, reasonable price and avoiding the subscription model. I can’t tell you how much I despise the push towards subscriptions.

nice and simple and everything I need. The onion skin settings are simple and accessible. Adjusting frame length and placement is easy. There’s a button for cycling a set of drawings in the middle of a timeline. You can add layers within a timeline.. it’s everything I want in a simple animation app. Had a lot of fun figuring this out last night while playing Dungeons & Dragons and animating things the players were doing.

This is great but.... I love making animation with this app but I do really want this app has many features that Procreate app has. For example drawing straight line or smooth curve line. Ability to draw perfect circles and other shapes. I also need dynamic pressure pen. I don't mind if you increase the price as long as this app has many features like Procreate. My complain with this app is latency. I don't see any noticeable latency with Procreate app but this app has really high latency when using Apple Pencil. I'm using iPad 6. Please fix that.

Good start. Needs a few things to be a game changer: 1. Pressing play should start from the current frame (the play head), NOT the beginning of the clip. We’re probably previewing this one area we’re working on, probably a lot, not the entire sequence. Perhaps you need two play buttons, one for current frame and one from the start? [EDIT] Found the buried play range values. That works, but letting us visually set the in and out frames with a button on the timeline would be more intuitive. 2. Let audio sections be movable in the timeline. If I have a 2 second clip, let me place it where I want in the timeline. Audio appears to only snap to frame 1. 3. If I import an audio file that is 600 frames long, insert 600 frames please!! It displayed like 56 frames and the rest of the audio was missing until I added enough frames to get to the area I wanted to start on. In an industry full of non-linear editors, this is very linear. Too linear.

Pretty Dang Good. I searched for this app after seeing that Toniko Pantoja uses it on his instagram, and I’m so glad I did! I have some experience in 2D hand drawn, I’m not a pro. But gosh this is the best animation app for the iPad. It’s not perfect. I’m sure it could use more features like other reviews mention. But for my purposes, it’s excellent. I’ve been super impressed. I’m looking forward to seeing how this app continues to grow.

Onion skin error?. Hello! This is a wonderful app that I absolutely LOVE to bits! Although I’ve encountered a bit of an obstacle lately. The onion skins won’t appear, even though I’ve set ‘ONION SKIN OPACITY’ to 100%. Plus, I’ve selected colours for both previous-drawings and following-drawings, yet it still won’t appear I’m still figuring out stuff for the iOS audio importing too, but I won’t need to use that for a while yet.

Exactly what I’ve been looking for!. I’ve been looking for a straight forward "traditional" animation app for some time. This one is the best! The drawing tools are great and the interface is very user friendly. It has the ability to import video into the project, which is huge if your interested in doing any rotoscoping or combing animation with live action.

Input Lag. The app is good, however so far I’ve noticed there is input lag when drawing with iPad pencil. Other apps I’ve used don’t do this with the pencil. I find this to be very distracting. Even though your just drawing on one frame you will notice there is a delay when you draw. Also the brushes don’t look smooth they look jagged. Difficult to draw a straight since the input lag is rather bad. Also the app crashes on some occasions. I’m using iPad Gen 6, even when you draw real slow there is still lag present which is not caused by the hardware, it appears this software is not yet fully optimized. In the case with other apps they run smoothly. If the developer can address the stability and input lag then it will be great. I’m not trying to troll anyone. This is just the truth and I’m not going to overlook this flaw. As I said the app is actually good.

Good app but. It app is good but has a phew glitches, like when I was listening to audio I put down, and zoomed into the frame thing, I couldn’t hear the track anymore. I made sure my audio. It was. I imported the track again. Still couldn’t hear it. Reopened the app. Still didn’t hear it! The next glitch isn’t as big. But when I had Sync Layers on and duplicated the drawing. The layer above/below wouldn’t spilt like it was supposed to. But I do recommend this app! It is very good.

Really enjoying the easy to learn interface. One small issue i have, and maybe im doing something wrong but im using the select tool to move certain elements of a piece around frame by frame instead of redrawing them however it seems like the original drawing becomes increasingly blurred with each movement from when frame to the next and doesnt look as crisp as it did in the original frame. Is this supposed to happen?

Great app, but... Roughanimator is a great animation app for the price, especially if you want to animate with a program like flash. I’ve spent plenty of time using it, but it has one annoying issue that I can’t seem to fix. When trying to use my Wacom Bamboo Sketch on this, it doesn’t let me connect. Because pressure sensitivity is such a vital thing to me, it annoys me quite a bit that the app says I can use it, but won’t let me connect. PLEASE FIX!

awesome! but feedback. I genuinely love this app so much, I've been using it for about 4 years now which is crazy to think about. I'd say it tops Adobe and other programs in user friendliness, everything is easy to find and use, heavily recommended! Some things would be awesome to add though, like: -layer folders! sometimes I have so many and can't organize them enough -layer settings (like multiply, add, color, etc) -layer clipping or something similar (if any of these already exist I'd be thrilled lol) Very useful tools are the draw/fill inside/front/behind, the camera movements, duplicate to blank frames, and project folders, they're all so incredibly helpful I don't think you understand!!!!! Thank you so much for creating this app, especially on your own and in your free time. 👏

Good good. I’m a professional animator and from what I’ve seen on the App Store this is the most usable animation app available on iPad. It’s still limited compared to what you would get on a desktop but this is the only animation app on iPad that i have wanted to open more than once. Feature requests: 1 I wish it had two finger tap to undo/ 3 finger tap redo

Best animation app to use!. Rough Animator is a great app for professionals and for beginners of animation, it has smooth animations and helps beginners get the feel of animation, I improved for this app so much, I love that it has frame-by-frame animations and it’s a wonderful app I would recommend you try out. Thank you to the amazing creators of Rough animator your app really helped me out! Please get this animation app and Support the creators for all their hard work! Thank you for reading, and have a wonderful day!

Awesome, however. I really love this app, its beginner friendly, yet advanced at the same time! Many features are offered and i really enjoyed that.. however i do suggest you add keyframes to cycles, just like how keyframes are added to the camera? It should make tweening layers a lot more easier and smoother instead of only having a linear movement. If you want more people to flock to your app, things like keyframes, clipping layers, etc. would be an amazing addition!

Love this app. I use this app to make fully colored and lined map parts!! It’s honestly a really great app to animate on but maybe not so beginner friendly.... there are quite a few aspects of the app I still don’t understand and I’ve been animating for several years. I’m leaving this review so the app makers may consider opening a Q&A/tutorial page. I think it would be very helpful for those starting out on the app. -Lily Edit: unfortunately the onion skin on my app has stopped working altogether. My resolution is set to full and the onion skin opacity is up high enough to wear I can see it in not sure what to do.

Best animation app available for mobile. A no frills animation app that doesn’t get in your way and just lets you work. Every other animation app on the store has a terrible user interface or feels clunky to use. The UI is customizable, including the size and how many layers to display before scrolling is required. You can change tint color of onion skin for both previous and prior frames. My only gripe is there is no copy and paste from what I can see, but you can duplicate drawings. Keep up the great work.

I really love this app!. I think this app is actually pretty awesome honestly, and it is simple yet efficient enough to make pretty detailed animations and work on them whenever possible! I think it is awesome it includes so much, and so far it does amazing with things I want to create! A small suggestion that I would honestly love in this app is to add a blur tool if possible? Either way, it isn't a dealbreaker and I enjoy the app regardless. I just think a blur took could really add effect to some animations I want to do :)

Great for animatics. I have downloaded every 2D animating app in the Apple Store and this is the one that stuck with me. I’ve been using it for a few months now. It helped rekindle my love of animation. I’m using it to make the animatic for an animation I will ultimately do in Clip Studio EX. Rough Animator is simple enough that I can speed through drawing the scenes and syncing them to audio before moving over to the much, much more complicated Clip Studio.

Best Animator app on iOS. I’ve migrated through multiple animation app and softwares for years and I’ve never found an affordable software here that has impressed me as much as this one has! I even use this app more then I use TvPaint (an animation software over 400$) not only is RoughAnimator process just as smooth but it has a smaller learning curve as well for beginners! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND FOR ANIMATORS OF ALL SKILL LEVELS

Well pleased.... I love this app, both for mobile and desktop. I have done wonderful projects with it. I wish the desktop version would allow canvas rotation like the mobile version though. And I recently did a project in 4K Ultra HD and planned to have animated elements from RoughAnimator in the same resolution, and was disappointed that this app limits us to 1080p. Fingers crossed that the future updates have 4K resolution in mind.

A few issues , but other than that the best animation program on the App Store. Has everything you need to start learning animation. Proper timeline, onion skins, importing assets, its all there. However it is a touch sluggish and while it says you can import multiple images at once, you cant. You cant save pallets and theres only about 10 colors you can save at a time. No idea how you can import different brushes. If there’s solutions to these problems, it’d be an easy 5 star. But its dragged down a little by the issues i brought up here

The best animation app for tablet. It is a one time purchase but it doesn’t mean that it is lazy. There are so many features on here that I appreciate coming from apps like FlipaClip and procreate. My only complaint would be the lack of diversity in how the pen can be customized but it is a small issue compared to all it can do!

Loving it. This app allows me to do so many cool things. It also allows me to make so much content and animations. But there are some things I think you should do. Starting with, give people more brushes, make shading with a brush easier, make it so you can take down the opacity of each layer, and allow people to make shapes like perfect circles triangles squares and so on. Make it so you can zoom in all the way, no matter how big you’ve made the canvas. These are pretty much the only things I have to say. Thank you for making an app easy for everyone to use.

Love it so much... If this was the only app on my tablet I’d be happy, there’s so much potential. Tools like this were absolutely unavailable to regular people even just a few years ago, much less when I was a kid. An animation setup could cost $20,000 or more, and now anyone can get those same tools and more for $5. It’s amazing. It still takes tons of thought, work, and time to make appealing animations, but the tools are there if you want to do it. Thanks to the developer, and if I could second the request for a “dark mode” I would.

Just what I wanted. This is perfect for hand drawn animation. Super easy to use. Untethered me from my desk. Allows me to block out my ideas and refine the movement and timing and then export them to Harmony or use as reference in Blender. I can do skill drills like walk cycles and the flour sack in this friendly environment. I am not looking for a puppet rigging tool on my iPad...that should be left to Harmony or MOHO or Adobe. But for the creative work of getting the acting flushed out, arcs, anticipation, etc...that is best done in a tool like this.

Needs more mechanics. First of all, the drawing is horrible, when i have my pen on the screen and draw, it looks like its drawing in 5 frames! And You need Bluetooth. I have a 10-70 dollar pen that has bluetooth connection and it doesn't connect! I'd also like filters please, and it needs more layers! I really don't like the pencils and pen presets. There are like 3 in this app. Can't you have more? This app should be like ibisPaint but with animation. Also, a bug i found is that when you import audio, the app crashes. But everything else is fine and you need text.

Problems. I really like this app, really I do my only problem is that there is no undo button MABEY there is Idk but Either way I was working on an animation an accidentally added a new layer. I kept on tapping on it so I can delete it but it wouldn’t work. Then I deleted the layer that had all my work. So I really think there should be an undo button like on the top right hand corner

Love this app but it could use some work. Great app, but some things could be better. Possibly being able to play the animation without opening it fully. Or fixing the audio figure.. (when I focus on a tile it gives me a small cut of the song that needs to be shown. But it is usually a couple seconds too fast or too slow). But other than that I really like this app for making my animations!

Now THIS is what I call the top animation app!. Hey there! When I got this app, I was completely confused the first time I entered the app. But then, I found out what I was doing! I have some problems though. I was animating something, but the smoothing got my lines all squiggled up. But, I found the smoothing, turned it down to 5, and there! Problem solved. So, I will end this review with a big thank you!

Highly recommended for beginners. I’ve made quite a few animations with this app and I can say I’ve learned quite a few tricks n tips while animating. Only gripe I have is that it seems a bit limited but it’s enough to get a feel for learning keyframes and cycles amongst other things.

Recommendation To Developer(s). I love this app to death! I feel like an professional animator when I use this app. It’s what made delete FlipaClip from my iPad. But I feel like there should be an app or a built in feature that allows us to storyboard similar to Storyboard Pro. Let’s face it, a lot of the storyboard apps available for iOS are kinda subpar so the competition to make such a feature would be almost nonexistent.

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Language English
Price $6.99
Adult Rating 4+ years and older
Current Version 3.19
Play Store com.weirdhat.roughanimator
Compatibility iOS 11.0 or later

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The application RoughAnimator - animation app was published in the category Graphics & Design on 21 January 2015, Wednesday and was developed by Jacob KAFKA [Developer ID: 954718243]. This program file size is 21.93 MB. This app has been rated by 2,233 users and has a rating of 4.6 out of 5. RoughAnimator - animation app - Graphics & Design app posted on 15 January 2024, Monday current version is 3.19 and works well on iOS 11.0 and higher versions. Google Play ID: com.weirdhat.roughanimator. Languages supported by the app:

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- Bug fix (hopefully): occasional random loss of work when hiding the app. Not sure if I actually fixed it, please report if it happens again - Bug fix: redo deleting a selection didn't work

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