ToonSquid is the powerful 2D art and animation studio for your iPad. Its flexible layer system allows you to combine the charm of hand-drawn traditional animation with keyframes that automatically animate layer properties over time. With a library full of beautiful, blazing-fast and fully customizable pixel and vector brushes, animatable effects, a smudge tool, animated text and vector shapes, bones with inverse kinematics, video and audio layers, camera movements, symbols and many more features, ToonSquid makes it easy to bring your vision to life.
Traditional Animation
- Create hand-drawn frame-by-frame animations
- Control how long you want to show each drawing in the timeline
- Draw in resolutions of up to 4k
Keyframe Animation
- Add keyframes to automatically animate layer and effects properties over time
- Choose from an extensive list of customizable easing curve presets to create organic motion between keyframes
- Easily loop your keyframe animation
Powerful Layer System
- Define the order and length of each element in your animation using layers and drawings and a flexible timeline
- Organize your layers into groups for a clean workflow or to animate multiple layers at once
- Use the camera layer to quickly define the visible portion of your animation in the export
- Mask layers to other layers, even when their contents are animated
- Choose from 27 industry-standard layer blend modes for beautiful compositing effects
Fully-customizable Brushes
- Draw gorgeous brush strokes with ToonSquid's state-of-the-art digital brush engine
- Take full advantage of Apple Pencil's pressure and tilt sensitivity and the iPad Pro's 120Hz display for lag-free drawing
- Use vector brushes to create brush strokes that are sharp at every zoom level
- Edit the 60+ brush settings and import custom textures to create a brush library that is perfectly tailored to your art style
- Blend your strokes together using the smudge tool
- Draw in a variety of styles such as sketching, inking, wet mixing, pixel art, and more
- Export and share your custom brushes with others
- Import your existing library of Adobe® Photoshop® brushes
Vector Shapes
- Create custom shapes using the path tool by placing and editing each curve control point
- Quickly add common vector shapes from the shape library
- Import SVG files
- Fill and stroke your shapes with beautiful gradients and edit them directly on the canvas
- Animate the visible length of a path using its trim properties
Animatable Effects
- Create character rigs using bones and add inverse kinematics constraints
- Create custom meshes to deform pixel layers when they are part of a bone rig
- Animate perspective and warp effects
- Apply adjustments, blur, pixelation, drop shadow, chroma key, halftone, parallax and more effects
Efficient symbol workflow
- Split your animation into separate clips that you can then reuse multiple times using symbols
- Make edits to an animation clip and immediately see the changes in all of its symbol instances
- Use frame markers to speed up your lip-syncing workflow
Text
- Add text layers and animate their appearance
- Import your favorite fonts
Color
- Use ToonSquid's powerful color picker with plenty of different interfaces to choose the exact colors you need
- Create custom color palettes and share them outside the application
- Pick colors straight from the canvas using the pipette tool
- Fill connected regions quickly with the fill tool
Audio and Video
- Add audio clips to your timeline and perform lip-syncing animations
- Import videos, GIFs and images into your project and work with them through symbols
Transform
- Animate a layer's position, rotation and scale properties using keyframes
- Build transform hierarchies to achieve more advanced movements
- Edit your layer's motion path directly on the canvas
Numerous Export Formats
- Export your work in one of many common file formats such as MP4, MOV, GIF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, and more.
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ToonSquid FAQ
Is ToonSquid free?
Yes, ToonSquid is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is ToonSquid legit?
🤔 The ToonSquid app's quality is mixed. Some users are satisfied, while others report issues. Consider reading individual reviews for more context.
I’ve never written a review for any app but I really had to with ToonSquid. I’ve been using it for a few months and I cannot get enough. I highly recommend watching the YouTube tutorials before starting and then again once you’ve tried solving some problems yourself. I LOVE this app so much, it’s definitely the main reason I switch on my iPad everyday. Thank you ToonSquid team for creating something so great and so fun!
10/10 app, would marry
I LOVE toonsquid, since they fixed the audio bug i have no problems with it other than some weird quirks of the app.
Hidden gem
It’s sad that this app isn’t talked enough about by artists, it’s so good and much better for beginners than procreate dreams ever was, it has everything you need in order to make your learning experience as smooth as possible and is so affordable it’s amazing thank you for creating this app
Pretty good, just a pain to use.
First of all, I like the option to keyframe, it’s really helpful when I don’t feel like doing it frame by frame. Additionally, the transformation hierarchy is very useful. What I’m more concerned about is how unintuitive certain features are. There’s no obvious way to switch between viewing in frames and seconds. Additionally, the fill bucket only works properly half the time (and as someone who primarily uses it to colour… I kinda hate that.
This is the next adobe animate!
ToonSquid is a very good and powerful app! The vector brushes are absolutely beautiful! The fact how you can create your own brushes, whether they are vector or not, is just mind blowing! One more feature you should have is the option to skew your drawings, then ToonSquid would be an absolute powerhouse of an animation app!
I love ToonSquid. It’s lacking tho
I adore this app. I use it all the time, there are just features missing,
Firstly, tweenable skewing, and not counting the thing wear you use a vector rectangle on a hierarchy.
Secondly, a bone tool. To create more advanced skeletons on one layer rather than using hierarchy all the time. This could preferably work on raster and vector, so I could animate an image of a character
And I’d also love better brushes. Cause for me the brushes sometimes don’t scale on vector or create fields where I can’t draw on raster,
But overall great app, pls take my features into at least consideration tho. Otherwise 5/5
Very impressive
I have been singing the praises of Roughanimator for years, and still love that app, but after trying ToonSquid, I have to say this beats it for features and brushes, although I still slightly prefer RoughAnimator for control of the timeline frames. ToonSquid is very well thought out and deeper, and I know the next version is coming soon with loads of amazing features that will place it definitively at no1. My only gripe is having the time bar at the bottom rather than the top, where your hand doesn’t obscure it, but I’m getting used to that.
Best animation app
For a long time I’ve been using FlipaClip but they lack a lot of features that Toonsquid does not such as keyframing, good paintbrushes and much more! ToonSquid is worth it 100%.
Really good, just one suggestion
I absolutely love this app. Was animating on flipaclip for 3 to 4 years and as soon as I bought this my animation was upgraded. It’s smoother, easier and has a lot more features than other apps. There is one feature that I see a lot, though, and this is being able to use keyframes on SYMBOLS!! This is a feature that I don’t imagine would be hard to implement, and over all would just be useful. An example would be, a talking mouth symbol, that would just talk over and over, that I would be able to keyframe to move WHILE it is talking. (If you know what I mean?) another cool thing with this would be being able to keyframe multiple layers at the same time (a still image layer and a symbol animation at the same time?) this would help with stuff like faces if I want movement and I don’t want it to be static. If this is added, I will 100% be changing my review to 5 stars! This is literally the last feature I need and then I’ll be able to do everything I want on this app. Thanks!
Always wanted to animate, this app is amazing!
This app is awesome, defo the best 2d animation software on here! Just get it, ‘tis wicked!
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