RoughAnimator - animation app4.25 - App Store

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
- 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

Version History - Bug fix: crash after using the lasso fill tool repeatedly 4.25 Aug 25 - Optional linear interpolation for camera movement 4.23 Mar 14 - Bug fixes 4.22 Jan 19 - Bug fixes 4.21 12/03/2025 - iPadOS 26 compatibility fixes 4.20 09/15/2025 - Bug fixes 4.19 09/03/2025 - Customize keyboard shortcuts
- Bug fixes 4.15 08/17/2025 - Bug fixes 4.14 08/04/2025 - Color palette is scrollable to allow more saved colors
- Bug fix: camera moves would start a frame late in exported video
- Bug fix: black outline around a layer with a clipping mask applied
- Bug fix: shift + down arrow keyboard shortcut didn't work
- Bug fix: lag when moving camera 4.10 07/21/2025 - Bug fix: degraded image quality on some devices 4.09 06/17/2025 - Lasso fill tool
- Option to show brush cursor when hovering, if supported by your Apple Pencil
- Apple Pencil Pro squeeze gesture support
- Bug fixes 4.08 06/13/2025 - Bug fixes 4.07 05/19/2025 - Option for "desktop mode" adds tools to zoom/rotate/move the canvas with keyboard & stylus rather than with fingers
- Bug fixes: some lag and crashing on older devices 4.06 05/13/2025 - Bug fixes 4.05 04/29/2025 4.04
- Bug fixes

4.0
- Layer blending modes & clipping masks
- Lock layers
- Option to turn off antialiasing, for pixel art
- Option to flip canvas horizontally
- More accurate preview of final line when using shape tools or smoothing
- Uses Apple Pencil's built in stroke prediction to reduce appearance of drawing lag. You can turn it off if it looks weird to you
- Removed support for Adonit and Wacom bluetooth styluses
- Big rewrite under the hood, but hopefully you won't notice the difference (other than improved performance) 4.04 04/17/2025 4.03
- Bug fixes

4.0
- Layer blending modes & clipping masks
- Lock layers
- Option to turn off antialiasing, for pixel art
- Option to flip canvas horizontally
- More accurate preview of final line when using shape tools or smoothing
- Uses Apple Pencil's built in stroke prediction to reduce appearance of drawing lag. You can turn it off if it looks weird to you
- Removed support for Adonit and Wacom bluetooth styluses
- Big rewrite under the hood, but hopefully you won't notice the difference (other than improved performance) 4.03 04/13/2025 4.02
- Bug fixes

4.0
- Layer blending modes & clipping masks
- Lock layers
- Option to turn off antialiasing, for pixel art
- Option to flip canvas horizontally
- More accurate preview of final line when using shape tools or smoothing
- Uses Apple Pencil's built in stroke prediction to reduce appearance of drawing lag. You can turn it off if it looks weird to you
- Removed support for Adonit and Wacom bluetooth styluses
- Big rewrite under the hood, but hopefully you won't notice the difference (other than improved performance) 4.02 04/10/2025 - Layer blending modes & clipping masks
- Lock layers
- Option to turn off antialiasing, for pixel art
- Option to flip canvas horizontally
- More accurate preview of final line when using shape tools or smoothing
- Uses Apple Pencil's built in stroke prediction to reduce appearance of drawing lag. You can turn it off if it looks weird to you
- Removed support for Adonit and Wacom bluetooth styluses
- Big rewrite under the hood, but hopefully you won't notice the difference (other than improved performance) 4.0 04/05/2025 - Bug fixes 3.25 07/03/2024 - Color picker is now a panel that can stay open on the side instead of a popup window
- Can undo changing background color
- Bug fix: crashed on deleting a layer while the layer name textbox was focused 3.23 06/16/2024 - Bug fixes 3.21 03/24/2024 - Bug fixes 3.20 03/19/2024 - 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 3.19 01/15/2024 - Bug fix: couldn't delete a selection in "edit multiple" mode
- Bug fix: dragging multiple selected drawings glitchy sometimes 3.17 01/01/2024 - Can move multiple selected drawings across the timeline together
- Option to feather lasso selection
- Dropdowns with choices for standard framerates & resolutions when creating a project
- Prevents screen turning off while playing video 3.16 11/30/2023