RoughAnimator - animation app App Reviews

Definitely one of the best iPad animation apps, but the lag when drawing is atrocious and makes it borderline unusable. No amount of setting alterations helped or came close to fixing the problem—would love to see this remedied.

I love this but I don’t really get it. Ima animator and this is top knotch idk bye

Looking great so far, definitely worth the $8. Could you maybe add a mirroring option, good for front facing perspectives, or symmetrical work.

Oh can’t make more than 10 frames

Otherwise it’s good. Not for beginners.

Great and simple animation software to get the rough and/or concept part of your animation before throwing your idea into TVPaint, Clip Studio Paint or Moho (or whatever you use). Highly recommend if your a beginner, veteran or professional animator.

I love this app! It works great! But just one thing. I’m working on an animation and the app won’t let me draw, use the fill tool, lasso tool, or erase anything. Could you please provide a solution

The best I am making a movie, and I really love this app!

Rough animator is a great alternative to FlipaClip that offers a more professional approach to animating. I love the app and one purchase allows you to do whatever you want! However I don’t like how the app crashes and sometimes even deletes all of your progress causing. Luckily that only happened once but it’s still frustrating and worrisome to have to think about when creating a new project.

I’ve recommended this app to so many people! This is my go-to animation software- the interface is simple but the tools are robust. A great program for beginners and professionals alike. I bought the pro version years ago and it was worth every penny 12/10!!!

If your on iPhone it's very difficult to animate on here unlike on iPad but it feels more professional then FlipaClip and has a feature that I like A LOT and that's the drag frame feature. But I'm on iPhone so this is very hard so if your on iPad use this but if your on iPhone you can use this app but it's just gonna be very hard.

W software one time purchase better than most subscription apps easy to learn w software

This Needs keyframe, Sound FX, and Soundtracks

This app is worth the dough no second thought just do it

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love the app! It’s much more streamlined than any other animation app I’ve ever used and at an affordable price no less. Unfortunately though I don’t see this app supporting 1,000+ frame projects. The current project that I’m doing has 2,000 and the app crashes pretty much every time I play the animation back. While thankfully I haven’t lost any progress yet, it does interrupt the workflow very frequently. Aside from that, I always recommend this app for any

As a newbie to animating, I have felt completely out of my depth trying to learn how to animate on literally every other software/app EXCEPT this one. This app is a miracle and I love it, more than worth the price.

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I’ve been using this app for a loooong time. It’s my all time favorite animation app to use. I refer it over any other. It’s easy to use, very simple and very very useful for my animations on YouTube! Look, Flipaclip could never be this good! I appreciate the developers and all they do for this amazing gift of an app!!! Keep up the great work!!!!

I’ve used RoughAnimator for alot of my animations and i’ve got to say, it’s like a better FlipaClip! There’s no problems i have with it so far, you just need to get the hang of it and then you’ll be a natural! Definitely buy this app if you’re looking for a better FlipaClip!

Dreams works like a video editor while rough animator can edit and draw effortlessly the struggle for the most basic tasks like adding image sequences or extending the timeline is non-existent in dreams. You CAN do these tasks in dreams but the work around is so unintuitive its quite frustrating, well done Jacob. The UI looks nicer in dreams but the functionality is terrible.

I love the app I LOVE IT and the new movie but i cant draw anymore. When i try to draw it dose not. I nont know how it just happend.

So much prefer to use software from individual developers and this app from Jacob is superb.

It’s literally the only one that actually works

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

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

I love this app, and I’ve used it for animations for a long time. The only issue is that it occasionally freezes, causing some of your progress to be lost (although usually not much). If possible, a feature to edit the opacity of a selected area with the lasso tool would be incredibly helpful.

its only 6$ and you get alot of tools and stuff u dont usally get only issue is wish they put more updates :)

For the most part I love this app. But I think you could add some stuff like a blur tool, more brushes etc. but for real if you are begining animation or a pro, this app is awesome.

Great app, but theres this glitch that crashes the app i ever undo something too quick?? its horrible i keep losing progress please fix this

This app is really nice especially for the price! I use this all the time but there is one problem. It’s really hard to zoom in and out! So if y’all could fix that it would be a perfect 5 star!

Thanks to this app, I became a YouTuber because of it. I wanted to do stuff like this since I was a kid (9.) Now, I’m really happy for it. Good job, RoughAnimator! Keep up!

Works great, having some trouble with Audio, don’t know who to reach out to? Am everything else is 10/10

1. Add more brushes other than the main 3 and online brushes from websites 2. The zoom + needs to be closer because I can’t even draw a face on my character

I’ve been using this for about 2 years and am a beginner animator but have noticed, when I export my animations the colors are distorted is the best word I can use. Royal blues become a light navy etc

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.

This is a very well done app. Simple to use, yet fairly powerful. Recommended for any animator wanting a good scratchpad, or just to learn in. Affordable. Two things I’d like to see, though. A straight line tool that will snap to horizontal, vertical, 30°, 60° and 45° A better crop/resize capability. The one provided is awkward and doesn’t really work. I usually export to Procreate if I need to resize or crop to get around it.

I love it a lot , that I buy it for my window too , thank you so much ❤️

BEST ANIMATING APP I CAN FIND! I absolutely love it! Just wish their was a way to transfer my files to another device to continue working on them

I love animating on this app! I like to make Calvin and Hobbes animations and others cool stuff. I’ve tried a lot of animation apps and they all weren’t exactly what I was looking for. But when I got rough animator, it had all of the features I wanted! Thanks Jacob!💖

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.

My apple pencil makes drawing slow and laggy. But with my fingers It’s normal.

I just sent email to another animation app, and saw this one to replace it for now. Opened app, menu, import video. Freezes… restart app. Menu, import video. Freezes. Useless ;D

I usually love this app, but I just spent 5 hours animating, exited out, and then rejoined the app just for almost ALL my progress to be lost. I tested it and it looks like there’s an auto save function, so WHY did this happen??

I love this app but I come back after a year of not using and now I can’t draw anything. The app is updated, buttons work, the layer says there is data on it.. but there is visibly nothing on screen.. Ultimately forcing me to give this feedback and use another app. Please look into a fix, I would love to continue using.

Rough animator has been my program of choice for years, however the recent updates have been corrupting a lot of my recent files losing weeks of work.