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Animation Desk® Draw & Animate App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
Animation Desk® Draw & Animate app received 102 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Animation Desk® Draw & Animate? Can you share your negative thoughts about animation desk® draw & animate?
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✓ Needs some adjustmentsThis app is very useful, when I first purchased it (for free) I was excited, then the app tried to show me how to use it which wasn’t exactly very helpful. It is very hard (at least for me) to use it because when I try to draw something I forget how to use it at times and I think..what do I do? It’s not like I have any problems remembering! I wish it was less complicated, but once I got the hang of things (kinda) it was a little easier to use (kinda) nowadays I don’t use it often I think I will delete this app. This app is useful and I would recommend it if you love to draw and it’s something your good at. You can make it a movie ish.. and that’s where it gets fun! I love to draw and it’s so fun also challenging, but I am a horrible drawer..so for me it’s stressful to use this app! Please just try and see how you like this app you never know! It could be a hoppy someday or even more! And I only rate it three star cause I wish it was easier to use and I’m horrible at drawing which makes using it boring and gives me a heart attack not that it will give you one I’m just saying....Version: 7.8
✓ UnusableIt lags so much its impossible to do anything..Version: 9.4.1
✓ Potentially one of the most frustrating apps everThe app literally froze multiple times when I was drawing. I waited a couple of minutes before turning my brand new iPad back on to see if it loaded but no. Still frozen. So I had to refresh the app itself and lost majority of my progress. I’m really frustrated at how many times this app freezes and does not save my work. Even if there is a manual save button, it freezes before I can even save..Version: 9.1.5
✓ Would have potential if it wasn’t so buggyHonestly, I like this app but unfortunately it’s way too buggy to actually work stress free on. The ‘Export’ function is broken, as it exports empty frames, removes layers randomly, and shows hidden layers. This is extremely upsetting considering the time I spent animating my work, only for it to be exported haphazardly. There is also a problem with brushes sometimes skipping and/or lagging when drawing. I genuinely think this app would be great if it was fixed. Also, a copy/paste function through frames would be nice. And a function to merge layers. Overall, the app is fun to try but not for anyone who takes their animation seriously/does animation professionally or for school/university/a job. xo.Version: 8.2
✓ Why can’t I put my video in to animate it!?I tried putting a video of me acting to animate off of and it’s not showing up on the recent animations so I can’t delete it to make more animations please fix this (also this might just be a problem because I don’t have the “pro” version).Version: 9.0.8
✓ Almost greatI was hoping for great things, especially after the endorsement from Motion Design School. But there are a couple of annoying things stopping buy the subscription. 1. Im getting a lot of lag using the Apple Pencil on my iPad Pro, i start to draw a line, it seems fine, then it slows right down lagging behind the stylus, then quickly catches up again creating a straight line from where it started slowing down to the current position of my stylus. 2. I keep getting erroneous duplicated frames appearing every now and then, in places i didn’t duplicate anything. And they can appear anywhere in the sequence, so frame 10 might duplicate itself and appear at frame 5 for example..Version: 9.0.5
✓ Too expensiveWhen I first started, I though everything was good, and it still is. I really like this since it’s not like other animation apps, my only concern is that it is too expensive. The thing I was most shocked by was needing pro to use a ruler. I might as well delete this. Mostly, people who draw in an anime kind of style use these kind of apps, including me, and having to not be able to use a ruler is a lot of trouble. I would recommend to decrease the amount of things that can only be accessed by pro. Thank you for your time..Version: 9.0.3
✓ Wonderful app! +advice on the UIThis app is probably the best animation app I’ve ever used! It’s super easy to figure out the controls, and the few pens it has are precisely what I need for what I’m doing. The difference between frames and layers is genius! When I use firealpaca, I often confuse my final layers for my sketch layers, but Animation Desk is like totally different art pieces overplayed instead of just sheets of paper. My only critique is on the user interface. The buttons and tools are really easy to find, but it’s a bit difficult to draw. Another app I have, IbisPaint, lets you zoom in to pixel by pixel levels and lets you rotate the canvas just by touching it. Overall, the zoom precision and rotating canvas are what keeps me drawing on IbisPaint. Another bit of advice is to add a way to undo/redo using your fingers instead of finding the undo button and then the place you were drawing again. IbisPaint used two finger and three finger taps to undo and redo, respectively. I don’t mean to say that you should make your animation app like a different drawing app, but the UI for IbisPaint is so smooth and clean, it’s hard not to take notes. Even the greatest artists reference other art to make theirs better. I hope my review was helpful!! Ari.Version: 8.3
✓ This idea would make it 10x better (PLEASE READ)Good app...well kinda but what would make it 5 star is that you don’t have to set how many frames you want to make before you create the animation because you may not know how many frames your going to need so I would rate 5 star if you could add that I would rate it 5 ⭐️Thanks for reading this 👋 bye!.Version: 8.9.7
✓ Umm...I am thinking of deleting this app because it is not working and I definitely think you can do better. Plus I don’t know how to make an animation anyway. But it was good that I finally found a free animation app. I am not trying to be mean I am just saying that I cannot understand this app. Please try to make this app less difficult. thank you. P.S there needs more advice, hints and tips as it’s difficult to navigate without them..Version: 7.5.1
✓ Great until...I love animating and this was the program where all of that started. It was easy to use and fun! Until this new update... I wanted to animate my dogs eyes and talking with that import video option, but apparently I’m only allowed 3 sequences? What? That is not at all okay! What happened to the fun, easy, FREE app I used to use!? Now I have a different app for animating that is actually free! I did give you 5 stars last time, now it’s gonna be 2..Version: 9.0
✓ Great app, but can be frustrating due to a certain bug.Watch out! There’s a serious bug in which when you duplicate frames, theres the possibility of those frames duplicating over other frames, deleting them from existence. There is also one where sometimes if you cut a drawing and try to paste it, it will say its saving and to not exit, when you go in to paste it will then show it as if you never copied it,essentially erasing your drawing. these two bugs are detrimental to the overall experience of this app. I’ve deleted this app many times throughout the months out of frustration over these two bugs. This is a great app, the communication from the developers are very communicative, which shows their genuine care for the community, and never once have they been overly intrusive on their users. I really hope they read this review and fix it in later times. This is a great app for people trying to learn to animate, but it can be improved. I think the best way to start is fixing this main bug..Version: 9.3.2
✓ Not my kind of AppThe App isn’t as easy to use as it looks, for somethings anyway. While it might have Okay-Level brushes and an Alright layout, it makes animations feel rough to some degree. You have to pay to animate on an app that’s calling itself Free. You get some features without payment, but a lot of the problematic ones are locked — such as the ruler. For animation, it’s an okay start in animation and goes fine as an animation app, many flaws, but fine at best. I know you probably won’t improve on it, or have time to. There’s reviews similar to mine from years ago and some even present, yet I feel nothing has been improved or changed. I’ll continue my search for animating apps, but I just wanted to get my opinion out on this one. Download the app and try it yourself, maybe it’ll work for you, but I know for sure, it’s not what I’m personally looking for in an animation app. Thank you for reading. Goodbye..Version: 9.1.5
✓ Drawing pen is too smallGreat app the only thing is that the drawing tools are mostly too thin to draw for me and the other ones are premium only if you could add an option to make the drawing tools thicker than just 22 thickness cuz it’s too small for me anyways thanks for reading this but it is a good app 4 out of 5.Version: 9.0.5
✓ Good but...Ok so when I went into the app for the first time, it was great! I made a few animations that were.. decent. Anywho, problem is that you can only have one of each type of brush. 2. You can only make three animations at a time until you have to delete one to make another. 3. You have to change the brush(or pen or what ever) to a specific colour if you want the fill tool to have a color. And4. Way to many items needed the subscription or whatever it is to work..Version: 9.0.1
✓ Could be a lot betterAlright, first of all, the video in the App Store is misleading. It doesn’t show what the app actually looks like. Also, it is hard to find everything. I have yet to see the option to insert text. I apologize if it IS in there and I just can’t find it, but if it isn’t that needs to be fixed. It’s annoying having to write in my terrible handwriting in my animations. Another thing I dislike is the fact that you can only have three layers. Three! I can’t get anything done with only three layers, and I’m not about to pay money for them, even if there are other things included in the subscription. Maybe a limit of at least five would be better? If the developer(s) are reading this, I apologize for complaining. But I would really enjoy the things I talked about to be added/fixed. Thank you!.Version: 9.0.6
✓ Awful.I’ve used simple and very complicated animation apps and programs and wanted something good for my iPad Pro. I can’t figure out how to stop paying monthly and trying to animate in the app was highly frustrating. As a professional animator I was irritated by this app so I do not recommend this app to any beginners either until this app makes some major changes. Now looking for a new animation app on the iPad and try to sort out how to stop paying for this one. 😡.Version: 7.3
✓ Can’t zoom inThis program is splendid other than the fact that you can’t zoom in and make anything refined ://.Version: 7.8
✓ I hope you guys can see thisSo first I made a animation and put the color on it but when I check there is a lot of pink on the background I try to delete it and draw it again but it still happening sometimes pink sometimes purple ,can you guys fix it please? I try lot of times already I use the rubber too but it just keep coming back!.Version: 9.3.4
✓ Meh. Needs improvement.This glitch ALLWAYS HAPPENS! If u use the snipping tool one to many times the program crashes and deletes the frame, since I spend a lot of time on animation this is not very easy to work around, also it sometimes just deletes things that snipping tool has been used on. Plz fix it is very annoying!!!.Version: 8.9.7
✓ Good, but still glitchesOk, so message to the company can you PLEASE fix this glitch of the whole app closing on me, and that the layers keep re ordering themselves. Also, why are non subscribers only allowed 3 layers to work on? That favouritism may encourage to subscribe, but as beginners that don’t have credit cards and parents don’t like that stuff, it’s not really that fair. Thank you for listening to my point if view.Version: 8.2
✓ Love the app, but a pretty major glitchAbsolutely wonderful animation app, I can create great pieces with it, but I can’t help but notice a pretty serious bug that would duplicate the previous frame onto the frame I was on in a different layer. For example while I was drawing an animation, the frame before the one I was working on, duplicate itself onto layer 2. It’s a shame that an amazing app like this has a pretty bad bug..Version: 8.5
✓ Hint: updates should make stuff betterYeahhh, I convinced myself the app was worth paying for the pro (a hefty £25 for the year), that would probably still be the case if it was or the old version. This new version even paying pro is nowhere near as good, doesn’t have the same features, it’s more of a pain to change colour which slows the workflow, background for some reason isn’t delete-able, and the actual bit you do the animation on is tiny. Sure the UI looks pretty but it causes so much more hassle and isn’t a user friendly. Disappointing really.Version: 9.0
✓ Broken appThis app has ruined both of my animations I’ve tried working on, first one it duplicated every frame on top of each other and upside down or it’s failed to save frames leaving my animations short by 5-6 frames wasting an hour of work.Version: 9.4.1
✓ :]It’s one of those apps where you think it free then OH HO HO the magical fairy of disappointment and realism comes flying down and asks you to buy their premium use VIP special pro thing that gives you access to the eraser, but I mean, it’s only like 30$ so why not. I mean I could have gotten McDonalds for one with that money but hey, it’s not like there’s other animation programs for my device. OH WELL..Version: 9.0.5
✓ Good butI can’t zoom in most of the time and it likes to reset a lot of the things I do, it makes it hard to use.Version: 9.3.4
✓ App is okay, but the bugs aren’tI’ve been using animation deck for a hot minute now and it’s… okay, I guess. It’s nothing revolutionary, but it does get the job done. It also doesn’t so blatantly heckle you about getting premium like flipaclip or other popular animation studios do, so that’s definitely something it has over its competitors. However, the reviews aren’t lying. This app has a HUGE issue with deleting frames and it’s horrible for learning. It normally deletes the newer frames near the end, so it’s typically not the really important frames you need to worry about, but it’s not viable for making small animations (because the majority of the frames will go bye) and it’s not good for large animation projects like thesis films or feature length films, because the time lost working on the missing frames will make it completely unworth it. It’s hard to tell what target audience they’re trying to market to, when it’s both beginners and intermediate level animators that get held at the sword. They need to fix the app before I can feel comfortable coming back and animating, because I’m tired of losing the progress I made the night before..Version: 9.2.2
✓ Not bad if you don’t need to copy pasteRight so the most common loop animation is a walk cycle, right? Requires a lot of near identical frames. Well the requirements for that aren’t well programmed on this app, honestly. I like it for animatics, it’s quite smooth and relatively comfortable to work with albeit limited by brushes. Get a good drawing software and you can solve the brush limit issue, but if you want your frames to use copy/paste in any capacity, I’d highly recommend doing it on a separate drawing software with more accommodation for that. Otherwise no complaints from me, a decent app overall..Version: 9.0.5
✓ Change it backI really liked this app a lot until the most recent update as of writing this, they moved all the buttons around in a way that I think is inferior the the previous layout and added s scroll thing that shows you all the frames on the bottom that takes up way to much of the screen. You used to be able to draw on the whole screen and could make the toolbars disappear if you needed to draw something there, but now you can only draw on a small section of the screen in the middle which really bothers me, this is somewhat remedied by being able to zoom in. Furthermore the interface is almost unrecognizable and I am having trouble finding all the tools again and instead things that I don’t need in my face while animating are taking front and center, for example the share button is now always in the upper right corner. You used to have to upload from the home screen which I thought was fine as you would be done by the time you did that, I am sure I will feel better as I get more used to it but if anyone knows if there are some settings I could change to make it go back to the way it was please tell me..Version: 9.0
✓ App no workBought the creativity 365 but animation desk is not working parts of the app are greyed out or asking me to buy subscriptions I already bought the app what’s the deal big rip off energy here.Version: 9.4.1
✓ What’s the point 😐I used to use this app a lot to animate over videos, but when I actually feel motivated to do something with this app now, I can’t. Why? Because I actually have to PAY to animate on an animation app. It makes ZERO sense. I get that you need money, but to limit basically the whole app? It’s stupid. I can’t find any other apps that I can use to animate over videos..Version: 9.0.3
✓ Frustrating with Apple PencilI like the flow of this app, however I’m finding my Apple Pencil keeps dropping out. Is this app known to be working seemlessly with Pencil & iPad Pro 12.9”? One minute I have full control, sketching with no issue, the new next minute I can’t sketch, then it randomly kicks in again. It seems that the pencil is losing connection and I can’t sketch. The pencil is working flawlessly in Procreate and my other apps, so I know it’s not that. So far this is the only thing stopping me from parting with money to subscribe. Any ideas what’s wrong here? Perhaps I’m doing something wrong 🤷♂️.Version: 8.9.7
✓ Can you pls send me some help?Sorry, but I do not know how to get the page where you animate it and i am really looking forward to using the app! 😊 hopefully you under stand! So pls send me some help! Thanks!.Version: 9.1.5
✓ FrustratingEvery decision in this app is designed to get you to spend money and frustrate the user so they look at tutorials. Developers have to make money. And users want to make sure they aren’t wasting their money. Professional apps that deserve to cost a lot should have reasonably impressive trial periods so that users can decide if the app is worth it. Limitations can be set up so the user can discover the cool things that paying for the app would bring. This app does a terrible job of conveying every little thing and doesn’t focus on the core experience but rather shows you all the tertiary things that don’t make for a compelling app. I was happy with something I animated and was looking to export it but when I went to my projects it was blank. I lost 3 seconds of animation I was proud of and I still have no idea what went wrong. There was no save button I missed or warning when I went back to the home screen. The basics of this app aren’t here..Version: 8.2
✓ Very BuggyI like this app a lot, but I am very deterred from purchasing any upgrades because the base app loses frames, layers, and is very inconsistent in exporting sequences. I use the iPad Pro 2018, so I know my hardware is capable of far more complex operations than exporting 100 frames of lineart into a video. If the weird bugs were to be gone completely, I would probably give this app 4 or even 5 stars (the learning curve is high but it’s a very capable free app), but with the time I’ve lost redrawing simple frames and losing layers/toolbars (the left toolbar started disappearing and I can’t bring it back, even closing the app. It might come back on a hard restart but it shouldn’t be an issue in the first place), the effort to make even a simple animation warns me that trying anything more detailed will cost me far more time. I will update my review if the stability issues are resolved, but as it stands I cannot recommend this app for anyone besides those learning the fundamentals..Version: 8.7
✓ Great but...Amazing app! But one thing, I noticed with the new update, the select frame tool in frame viewer isn’t working like it used to... Before, when I pressed the button all the frames went a dimmer colour and when touched it would go a lighter one showing which ones had been selected. Now all frames are the same whether they’re tapped or not. It still functions fine but it’s difficult to tell which ones I had selected....Version: 8.7
✓ Stopped workingThis started out great (for a beginner), but once I hit a point in my animation it stopped working. I have 7 layers and on the 67th frame I can’t edit any of them. I open the app, open the sequence and then I can view the layers, select my tool and colour, but as soon as I try to edit any layer (draw or erase) it stops working, and nothing responds. I have to close and kill the app, the try again, but it’s a repeatable issue. I just paid for an annual subscription, having liked the demo version, but this is annoying me now. I can’t access my work! This needs to be fixed or I’ll be asking for my money back..Version: 8.1
✓ A little difficult toManage not enough instructions in the tutorial..Version: 9.1.3
✓ MehThe app seems good but when I downloaded it but when i used it I was kind of frustrated when the work space was really small if you could update the game to fix the game and also can you make it so you can have as many layers as you want but other than that the app is decent.Version: 9.1.3
✓ Good but...It is a really good, intuitive app with a simple interface. I would definitely recommend this to beginner animators. However, in the most recent update, the feature of colour palettes was locked behind a paywall. Even more provokingly, it was listed as a "new feature." This was a feature I used a lot. When I found this out I felt as if the developers were money hungry. This was really annoying and sad..Version: 9.0
✓ Please make the app like before the updateCan you please try to make it like before the stupid update from what I'm hearing it was so much better and if you can't can you please try and make animation smoother and there's another problem after some time the app just stops working please fix it I don't think improvement can fix this if you try improving on this you'll end up possibly making it worse and if it isn't broken don't fix it you shouldn't have updated it because it was much better and if i could update my iPad any further you would have lost a customer today so please can you try just making another free animation app because you can't fix this app enough for me to keep using it.Version: 9.0.1
✓ It’s not great, but it’s not horrible.I’m not a fan of this app, it is very difficult to use, and it’s not very good quality. I’m not very happy that most features (circle tool, layers, ect) are hidden behind a paywall. I believe that this is a fairly decent animation app for someone who is just getting into animation, but it can be very frustrating to use at times. It’s not particularly good quality, but I do appreciate that it does have the necessities to create something great. My other issues are how laggy the app is, it is ungodly laggy and I have also been having issues with the laso tool, I'm not sure if that’s a glitch or not. It’s not horrible, but it’s not that good either. I honestly do hope that it improves with time and ages like a fine wine, This is still a fairly new app and there is likely only a small team working on this. I hope that this helps you improve the app..Version: 9.2.4
✓ Not very goodOnly 4 layers? Are you serious?? The tools are pretty good but how are artists supposed to create an animation with limited layers? I was halfway finished with the drawing when I went to add another layer and it says I have to pay $40..Version: 9.1.2
✓ Hah! This is a disgrace!Developer(s), Hello. Your game has completely ripped me off. This is my first time animating anything, and I’m so disappointed it had to be this app. I’m just learning the ropes, of course, so my animations are not perfect, but your game is definitely not satisfactory. I can only make three scenes, unless I PAY. I cannot add subtitles or sound unless I PAY. This is what I’ve feared. Another ‘pay-to-play’ app. And even worse, it’s an animating app; one of my dream jobs. I think you have possibly crushed my dreams with this app. My first animation was a dump. Thanks. Maybe I should just become an author when I grow up, instead, so I don’t have to deal with crappy animation games. I’m so very sorry if you took this personally, but PLEASE don’t make pay-to-play games. My mother won’t allow me to get Procreate because it costs money, and I’m sure that app is much, much better than this rip-off. Please do not take this personally, just please try to make an animating game that DOESN’T crush the dreams of an aspiring animator by making her pay for every little thing. Thank you, Catelyn the Warrior Cats Fan.Version: 9.0.8
✓ App was better before updateI used to love this app and I used to use it all of the time. Since this new update, the app has been downgraded. The new layout is not as good the drawing screen is too small, the rotating screen is often annoying (give us an option to stabilise it) and many of the brushes are locked forcing you you to create a KDAN ID. The problem with a KDAN ID is if you switch devices, your KDAN ID may be locked in the future and you won’t be able to access it on your new device. Before, you were able to export animations without a watermark without having to sign up. Not anymore! In the old version, the colour palette was FREE. Now you have to pay for it! The selection tool and colour picker are unpredictable and sometimes they don’t work at all. Exporting images into a frame is more difficult now. It will only go full screen on the background layer, not on any of the others. Please go back to the old layout, or at least make big improvements to your current version, the old version was much friendlier and easier to use. The greed is hurting your app. You went from by far the best animation app on the App Store to something that is just marginally better than the other bad animation apps..Version: 9.0
✓ It was way better before the stupid updateI’m so unhappy with this . It’s made me really annoyed at how you literally cannot do a freaking thing . EVERYTHING IS TO PAY FOR! I was so happy with this app before the update, it was my only favourite animating app. Me and my friend have now been looking for a new one since the update has destroyed most of our memories on animation desk. - before you could’ve accessed the palette and put MORE than 1 colour but now! All you can put is one colour , or you can get that stupid subscription - even worse / i can’t make more than 3 ANIMATIONs!!!! Before the update I made as many as I wanted but Now all I can make is THREE!!!!! - when I save them , there’s a freaking watermark!!!! Why!? Before the update you could’ve just saved it without the bloody watermark. - I’m so angry with this app when I saw the update . I’m about to delete it, but if you bring back the old set up and everything then this is what I’ll do animations on , or just make improvements like before! I’m so angry with this app at the moment you’ve lost 2 customers . 😕.Version: 9.0
✓ Could be betterOk so it has potential however it does not cover the basics. 1st: The canvas!! I can’t stress this enough but how you have it set up does not work. I find it too small and the when you zoom in it is nearly impossible to move, and it is clearly not meant for details. You also can’t rotate the canvas which I personally like to do when I draw. 2nd: You don’t have a nice fine liner. This is a basic thing. You have a pencil like thing with texture, you have a brush which has an uneven flow to it, you have the calligraphy pen looking tool which can be used as a fine liner however you can not make it very big, and then you have the chisel thing which can be funky, none of these are very good for outline and other things. You need a flat and versatile marker which can be big and small. 3rd: This is the last problem I have found with it. On smaller screens some do the controls are too small to press easily. It is more of an inconvenience then anything however. Hope this helps..Version: 8.0
✓ Good, but..I think this app is a great app for beginners, and is easy and very simple. Though, there are a few things that would really help. . For example, selection areas. Perhaps a separate layer to select the part, and then you can move to a different layer to do whatever. Second, I have seen a few videos about it, but I can’t seem to import music. If we were to import audio anyway, could it perhaps not be from ITunes if it were music, too. I know it might be because of some technical issues, but, if it helps, I can’t do it on an IPad (IOS). Thanks for reading, but i really appreciate the app!.Version: 8.5
✓ CrashingCrashing when trying to open and edit video.Version: 8.9.5
✓ Procreate instead!!If you’r looking and app just for fun and practice the basic principles of animation, this may be the app for you. On the other hand, if you are serious about learning drawing and enhance your animation skills, this is definitely not the app for you. After two years using this app, came across serious frustration. The poor brushes offered with bold tick doesn’t allow you to create a smooth sketches. Palm rejection need to be enhanced, every time you touch the screen either skip the frame or increase the tick of your pen. The limited interface waste your valuable time and steal your creativity. It’s also buggy, randomly mixed the frames of your animation. You can go from frame 1, 2 and 3 to 3, 1 and 2 and so on. It force you to maintain a track of each and every frame and frame specific order. I have reported this issues severely times and supporting team bring no corrections. Here’s one good advise, try procreate instead. You won’t regret it!!!.Version: 9.3.4
✓ Too many bugs!So laggy please fix it.Version: 9.4.0
✓ REALLY Annoying to useWhen I first downloaded this app as someone who just wanted to make simple flip a clip animations for free time, I thought this game was okay. It had most if not all of the basics of what I need to draw, and the options and buttons to select stuff weren't all over the place. But as I played with this app a little further, it began to crash way too much and would make me lose a lot of my work. Sometimes, many of the frames would replace eachother for no reason and would overwrite a lot of the animation. After exiting an animation, the drawings get a little blurred out, which is irritating to work with with I'm trying to make accurate stuff. And this app doesn't let you use shapes for free; they only give you pens and markers. If the crashing were fixed and they added shapes, maybe I would rate this for more then two stars. Edit: The computer version is a lot better, but you can send mobile animations to computer but not vice versa?.Version: 8.9.7
✓ You only care about the money.I didn’t use this app for a few days, until a couple of days after the update came out, I wanted to draw something, so I clicked the ‘new sequence’ button and it said, ‘Unlock Unlimited Sequences’. Now that’s just bad, because now you don’t want to see people’s creativity, you just want the money. Also the way it looks is just really bad. Worst update ever. Just ruined our creativity..Version: 9.0
✓ AnnoyingThis is really annoying, everytime I move to the next slide the slide I was working on becomes a faded background. Fix it.Version: 8.9.7
✓ It not draw and he probably going to doing drawIt not draw and he probably going to doing draw.Version: 9.0.5
✓ It was so much better before the update, like wayyyy betterI’m not going to go through all the reasons why it’s way crappier now than before the update but this app went from one of the best animating apps to one of the worst. (To developer) If you want more people using your app if I were you I would consider changing it back to how it used to be or giving the current version major updates. I would have given 5 stars if you hadn’t of updated (or downgraded should I say) this animating app..Version: 9.0
✓ Not very goodFor a while I’ve been looking for a nice 2D animation software for iOS and this isn’t the one for me. A big problem I have is the fact that turning is kind of weird, often one of my fingers is outside of the box and I create lines instead. Also whenever I push undo theres a 50/50 chance it will or will not work and is very frustrating. The lack some basic features is pretty irritating for me also, like the fact that there isn't a stabilizer tool as far as I know. There are also tons of small things in the app that annoy me like when you play your current project and end the playback, it brings you to the last frame you watched during playback and when I turn most of the time a line appears for example. Overall I dislike this app due to what I’ve listed, it’s too finicky and doesn’t certain basic art features, maybe given some time and maybe my opinion may improve but for now, not very good..Version: 9.1.5
✓ Not good for actual projectsI need to be able to merge layers and change settings on brushes to get things done really. I spent 30 minutes on a frame that could’ve been done in 5 because the bucket is a million worlds of broken and had to very carefully fill in a detailed area. I don’t have enough layers and can’t merge them to get more so I have to do 5-10 layers of work on 4 without the ability to make more room. I also can’t zoom in far enough to work on small detailing and things of the sort. It would take the help of multiple other apps to get anything done on here. It’s got some really good potential I think if some of the smaller details were added or changed up a bit it would be really useful for me and my colleagues. It’s really easy to navigate and would be good for beginners and all that. But it needs some work. I feel like after a few bug fixes and updates, it will probably be one of the best animation apps I can use on mobile..Version: 9.0.5
✓ CrashesGreat app, very easy to work with. Pleasant. But it crashes by freezing every 15-20 minutes!.Version: 9.0.6
✓ Why do I have to pay for everything?The most pages I can have for free is two. And I have to PAY for a marker? This sucks..Version: 9.4.0
✓ Too many glitches!!!When I start it just shows me the tutorial board but when I click something it doesn’t do anything.Version: 9.1.1
✓ MehMeh.Version: 9.0.5
✓ NOT ONVery good app prior to the update, would’ve been 4.5 stars but no this is not the case is it. I like the new interface very nice and whatnot but whoever updated this has essentially given me the middle finger to my animation process of rotoscoping. When starting a new project and selecting the open file option, I select video and nothing opens, nothing happens, thus stopping my projects continuing. I’m not mad, I understand app developing is a difficult and tedious process, and the simplest mistakes are the most difficult to fix sometimes. But I am disappointed, disappointed that I cannot continue my work because of this ridiculous mistake. I just want to upload a video again! Thank you for your time reading this and I look forward to resolving and moving on with this issue so I can continue using this app..Version: 8.5
✓ BuggyAnimation Desk is a good software to start off with, but not something I would recommend. This is because animation Desk is randomly switching off and I lose the work I made in that day ,even if it took me hours to make. The new update is also very slow any takes ages to get onto sequences so I can export my work. I constantly find parts of my animations missing. Can you fix this please?.Version: 8.5
✓ WhyI have multiple items I would like to address. On the positive this apps “paint like” brush is nice and I like using it because it has realistic textures. But 90 percent of this apps features are locked behind a paywall. I also hate how the layer are linked. I did a simple animation and each frame used layer 1. At the end I drew something more complicated and used layer 1 as a sketch and drew the picture on layer 2. When I went to lower the opacity of the sketch it lowered all the other frames layer 1s as well so I decided to delete the layer and it deleted all the layer 1s losing my entire animation. The undo button does not kick in for anything but drawing so I couldn’t fix this..Version: 9.0.8
✓ Frame overwrite bugNot impressed at all that the app has a serious bug with frames being overwritten or lost. It would appear that this issue has been around for some time, but the developer still hasn't fixed it. It's mentioned in the FAQ (which we only saw after encountering the bug), but Kdan completely absolve themselves of any responsibility with some vague mention of being unable to test will all systems. If a developer is going to charge for an app, don't they have an obligation to support it? We've lost hours of work because of this bug..Version: 9.3.8
✓ NoI am really srry but i do not approve of this this is exactly like flipaclip sry but i feel like your still in.Version: 9.0.7
✓ Disappointingly awful.After reading all the comments I decided this would be a great way for me to get into animation. Once I actually got started I got the hang of it pretty fast but it was very clunky and slow. Which isn’t really surprising and wasn’t a huge deal to me just as long as it got the job done. Well after spending three hours working on a short animation towards the end something randomly glitched and corrupted every single frame erasing a large portion of it. This ruined the whole Animation and I just immediately gave up. I’m pretty sure this doesn’t have anything to do with an actual function in the app itself that I accidentally miss used and I know it’s not my iPad considering it’s a new iPad Pro and procreate runs just fine. I’m letting future users know that if you’re looking for reliability this is not the place to go. Honestly there aren’t really any good animation apps available right now so your best bet is pc. I hope this is a good warning to those looking to download this app..Version: 9.0.3
✓ Why???Two years ago I downloaded this app and it didn’t work at all. Then I downloaded it a week ago this year to see if it would work because I want to become a animator and it worked! I made two sequences The I tried making a third but I forgot to save so I tried making another but all it said was; “you have already made three sequences get this to make more” now let me admit I had been using the “new sequence” for all of them because the tutorial never showed anything about Camera roll and all the other stuff I usually drew then randomly got another little page to do another drawing mostly because the tutorial also never mentioned how to do it without a iPad Air or iPad pen and was just showing off their work and I got really confused, I was really proud of my work and now it’s wasting space on my iPad just for some animation and I don’t want to pay money for something I can get from another animation app but other then this I’m happy you made this because it’s helping me on my dream..Version: 9.0.6
✓ BuggyI never leave a review but after spending hours working on an animation only to have it be undone by the app I felt like I needed to comment. The interface is great and its quite intuitive. In theory this app offers what you need to make hand drawn animation, but there are too many bugs to make this workable for me. Amending frames and/or layers can result in the new work being lost, drawings on different layers swap round and disappear and the app often crashes. I find it to be unusable because of this unpredictability..Version: 9.0
✓ Great fun until it deleted hours if workInitially I was very happy with this app until after spending multiple days and dozens of hours on one animation, the app froze and when I reopened it, hundreds of frames were just missing without explanation. As you know, if you’ve spent any time animating, it is a very slow and tedious process so to have this happen after hours of work is totally unacceptable. Why would I ever commit to another project again knowing that at any moment all my hard work could just vanish? There are multiple other bugs too, that make this app annoying to deal with and obvious that it never should have been released yet, but the fact that hundreds of frames can just vanish from a project should be reason enough for any serious animator to want to steer clear of this app. I reached out to the company about this issue and wanted to give them a chance to explain before I wrote a review but their response, which came a week later was very dismissive and for some reason assumed I was using an old outdated version of the app, when I was in fact using this, their most updated version which I har only downloaded a couple of weeks ago. I very much regret downloading the app and especially laying for the annual subscription. Totally useless..Version: 8.3
✓ Not BadIt isn’t bad. I like that the Apple Pencil 2 is integrated. It sometimes doesn’t register the pencil input when I make a stroke. So I have to make multiple strokes. I don’t know if that’s app or pen related. Also the onion skinning is still rather dark. I wish there was a way to lighten it a little more—I can barely see the drawings I’m making on the overlay. I’m drawing using the paint brush cus the line quality is nicer. However I am limited to size 12 as the smallest. I’d like to go even thinner if I could. The video is also exporting in low quality. The lines I drew look twice as blurry on the video output. Not sharp at all. The only way around this is to use my phone to record the video playing back on my iPad. Pretty ghetto though. Anyway, it’s an okay app. I’d rather buy the app and have these robust features included than have to subscribe and pay monthly since I’m a casual user..Version: 8.2
✓ I really liked using it, such a great app, then you decided to make us payI really loved using this app, me and my friends would make lots of animations together, but now you have to pay for it. It’s very unfair (and super expensive for a kid) that you have to pay for it, and there’s no other good apps for animation so you have really let me down. Even if u make the sequences free but you have to pay for the storyboards and stuff, that would be much better. Overall great app, just disappointing that you have to pay for it..Version: 9.0.3
✓ Unhappy NO CANCELLATION contact clearly provided.There seems NO WAY to terminate this app AND its monthly billing! Had trial time and am stuck with it for over a 2 years, possibly more by now. Too expensive for what it offers. iD “in Design” is far better for the money and Photo Shop V2 can be obtained free to learn on then upgrade. ****** I can find No simple way to cancel / discontinue !!! Nor contact to do so!.Version: 9.4.1
✓ F youI tried to use it. But one of my drawings. Stayed in the freaking backround I’ll update it when *you* make it work 😞.Version: 9.3.1
✓ Maybe for a kidThe app has basic features such as onion skin, grid, changing frame rate, layers, etc, but I can’t see myself using this app in the long run. I really like the fact that you can remove the watermark without having to pay a monthly subscription (I mean I would even pay a 1 time fee, just not a monthly subscription just because the only thing I want is to remove a watermark 😩😩). I haven’t used this app for long so correct me if I’m wrong. But there are limitations also. I want to animate in 1080p x 1980p, but the only way to do that is to manually animate sideways with the 16:9 aspect ratio settings. There are only 3 canvas sizes. Also, you can’t import audio. The treasure chest thing where you get access to some “special features” for a limited time is cute. It would probably be engaging to children, but for someone trying to get into animation, it’s not that appealing. The border around the canvas is also entertaining, but gets distracting very quickly. I would prefer just a blank canvas. I’m not sure what that lightbulb feature is for (where it turns the side of the canvas yellow?) Again, these features would most likely be engaging for children. So in conclusion, I’ve only used this app for a short while. If there was an audio importation feature, I might’ve used it for longer. I can see it working for children experimenting with animation, but this app isn’t for me..Version: 9.3.5
✓ Good idea but some unfortunate glitchesThis app is really nice to use. UFORNTUNATLY, this app will sometimes alter your animation after saving it and put frames in different places and delete random frames. Of course this is extrmely frustrating and destroys the very reason you use the app. Though I feel the company behind this app will be smart enough to fix this glitch, I will have to find another alternative for now..Version: 8.6
✓ Hey ummmI used to like this app but then the app kept crashing so i don’t like it anymore.Version: 9.1.5
✓ ?How do I make it work I can’t animate it’s stupid idk how.Version: 7.3
✓ I liked it until...I was loving this app and getting back into animating for the first time in ages but then the whole UI changed and I just can’t stand it. Why are the frames now small and on a peg board with the app’s name on it? I don’t want to have to enlarge it every time. It worked so beautifully before but now it’s so fussy and the tools feel all over the place. Please can it go back to before :(..Version: 9.0
✓ Please creators hear me outMoney is everything. Just forget about income. Just let the app be free and then you can add like a support feature that gives you money. Developers, stop giving people useless advice. You just beg people for money. I read most comments that people have and all of the responses were “Please give us money.” HONESTLY. Don’t get. Asides from that, I like the idea but hate the build up..Version: 9.0.5
✓ Pls fix thisThe glitches in this app when I was selecting my drawing to move it it kept deleting my selection and I got so mad and irritated like I’m tryna make an animation and when I don’t need the selections any more I can’t find a way how to uniquip the selection I try so many like clicking on the brushes so I can select another one instead of that one but no matter how hard I tried IT KEPT DELETING EVERYTHING this is staying a 2 star until you FIX it edit: it is me again and by this what I mean is that one of your tools ya know the selection tool that you guys have and I understood that you didn’t understand me because I was bad at explaining but so anyways when I was using your guys selection tool it wouldn’t let me move my drawing and I tried so many way to make my drawing move but it just end up deleting my drawing when I use your guy’s selection tool let me now if you need more information just let me know with another developer response but I think this is enough information just let me know if you are going to fix your selection because meanwhile I will continue working on flip a clip until you fix this.Version: 9.3.7
✓ Really good, but there’s a glitchThis app is really good, but recently it’s been acting really buggy. There’s a specific glitch where it won’t let you draw and will constantly tick back to a space between the 2nd and 3rd frames. The only way to stop it is to exit the animation and go back in again, but after a few minutes the same glitch will happen again. I tried turning my iPad off and on again but that didn’t help. My iPad is an iPad Pro with iPadOS 14.7.1. Please fix this bug so I can go back to keeping my sanity while using this app. Also can you add the option to add sound please?.Version: 9.0.8
✓ Good, but could be betterI agree with all the top reviews, I just have to complain about the glitches. When you do even a simple pen stroke it automatically saves. Even if you exit the app randomly, the drawing or animation saves. Sometimes for no reason at all, it decides your hours of work should get randomly deleted. It’s some weird bug. I’ll be drawing and it randomly crashes and the animation is gone, not even a frame saved. Other times, it won’t let me zoom out, and I have to pray it saves and am forced to exit the app and go back in. These are detrimental bugs/glitches that make or break it being an amazing beginners animating software, basically my only complaint. Other than that, extremely easy and simple to use, with amazing animations that can come from it..Version: 9.1.5
✓ The app is stupidYou can not zoom in, and it does not show you how to use it. It is very hard to learn..Version: 8.2
✓ Major issues, please fixI’ve been using Animation Desk for about three years now and I’m considering switching softwares for the following reasons. The app keeps deleting random frames, which is really annoying as I’ve lost dozens of hours from this in total. Sometimes the layer displays a colour-reveresed, upside-down image over the layer for an image. This can be reversed by switching frames unless you draw on it, then it’s stuck like that. I’ve had to duplicate an absurd amount of frames to be able to back-up my work to counter this. All this stuff seems like it would be easy to fix but these have been consistently occurring for over six months now, it’s really annoying, please fix it..Version: 9.3.8
✓ A little laggy but so far I love itHonestly I Love it’s really fun and cute I love how it’s really calming to look at the only problem I have is that it is pretty laggy, I recently just saw that 3 days ago you guys had fixed the problem but in my case after literally after a minute the app would stop and freeze and I try to push random buttons but it would still be frozen. Other then that I do have a few suggestions I would definitely give this app 5 stars because I love how the canvas is small and cute it honestly makes me want to animate with big canvases it’s really stressful for me because it makes me feel like I have to add more to the Animation. But On This App I feel very comfortable and very chill when it comes to this app but the suggestions that I have is * stabilization* It would be grate to have a stabilization pen or tool so we can have more of clean lines as I do have shaky hands it would definitely be very helpful to have. *Vector* and last is vector it helps whenever I want to scale my drawing big or small without loosing any Resolution (won’t get blurry) every time I change the size of my drawing. Other then that I really love this app if these things get fixed and if my suggestions actually go into planning this will be total Five star!!!.Version: 9.0.8
✓ OkayI do not like the layers that much though..Version: 9.4.1
✓ More style than senseI bought this app expecting it to be good, but it’s actually terrible. Without the paid version you can only make THREE animations, which is stupid. The developers are just blatantly trying to make money by pretending this piece of garbage is free. There are also adds. To make it extra dumb, the brushes are limited and hard to use, you can barely draw a straight line and sketching is almost impossible. Even with the paid version being able to make more than three freaking sequences is extremely limited. This app is so bad that even apps that are not specifically tailored to animation such as Procreate are a mile better. At least in my opinion, there are much better options available. The only thing good about this is that the interface looks good, which is just proof that you shouldn’t judge a book, or an app, by its cover..Version: 9.1.5
✓ DisappointingThe app seemed very promising at first but it really is just a let down. Note that I've only tested it on the iPhone and was surprised to see how well it is rated given how bad it was. The number of frames is only adjustable upon the creation of a project which makes it annoying since you probably won't know in advance how many you'll need. All of the import functions (expect for video) are broken which ruins it for me since I won't be able to import my art. Using it pulls up an empty menu which doesn't nothing at all. The stylus support is also glitchy and will crash the app. The button assignments will not apply your changes either although there's only 2 options. There are annoying ads in the home view. Overall, it feels that this is a poor port of the iPad version which could be convenient for those who use both device but just isn't usable at all. I won't be buying the $20 version to see if it is any different. I cannot trust this product based on my experience with it..Version: 8.3
✓ Scammed meI bought the extra thing and it didnt give me anything it just scammed me please fix this its so annoying i bought the one close to $50 and nothing happend.Version: 9.1.3
✓ Liked it until it deleted 150 frames.I was recently trying to do an experiment with animating on this app. For a while, things were going pretty well. My animation wasn’t more that a bunch of pink dots on a white background so progress went fast. I’m sure this isn’t the main purpose of the app but it actually came out quite cool. Over the course of about two hours, it made it to almost 185 frames. I was just about to stop when suddenly I noticed a bug. One of the frames got switched out with a frame further down. I thought that I would just delete that frame and recreate the old one. Then, the app crashed and nearly the entire thing vanished. I’m glad that I’m not like one of those guys who’ve been working on this for days but I wasn’t necessarily pleased with this to say the least. I’m not sure what caused that to happen but I believe that either it’s a problem with the app, like many of the other glitches I’ve discovered or if it’s something else. If you can, can you please try to fix this. I’m not the only one who’s run into this problem and it the app would be much better if you put some effort into fixing it..Version: 9.2.4
✓ It's goodA alert keeps popping up about my storage while I'm animating, It's really Annoying and it happens every two second's It is quite good though!.Version: 9.2.1
✓ Blank canvasEventually the project will show up blank this goes as far when playing said animation the animation will be rendered blank with only a small bit of panels showing the character animating. I don’t mind the crashes but this issue really is irritating especially since I’m a subscriber..Version: 9.3.0
✓ Really struggled to use this an a none animator.I really struggled to use this app, but I’m not an animator, I would definitely recommend you try the app out for yourself and make your own decision. I picked it up and down over a series of days and could just not get to grips with it. I didn’t find it intuitive and rotating through the menu was just frustrating. I tried other apps and kept coming back to try it again and ultimately gave up. As someone who isn’t an animator and just wanted to draw some simple animations moving triangles around to show field tactics I failed miserably at it. Whether this is a reflection on my skill or the apps usability is debatable..Version: 8.5
✓ Deletes my work after every single updateAs fun as this is, there is a Huge flaw in the updating system because every time this app updates all of my work is erased into a single frame which is very heart breaking because I was making something because it’s the end of the school year here and I wanted to do something to so the memories of that class will still be there and so when I went to download it onto my iPad and the app updated by the way and every frame was gone and all that was left was a single blank frame and I was very heartbroken and it took me a long time to create that and I got the audio for that animation and I was planning on surprising my class too with some of those people in my class going onto high school Until the company that created this fixes this major flaw everyone’s work will be erased after every update..Version: 9.1.6
✓ Close but no cigarI was trying to use this app for a final project, but encountered bugs like my layers turning blue, flipping upside down, staying on the background, copying itself even when I was selecting a small item. I’ve tried to make it work but I had to delete several important frames because it would just stay on there even after I undid everything! I really like this app because it has more features that you don’t have to pay for and it’s really cool, but the fact there are still these bugs now makes me feel like you’re not going to change it, and you aren’t really working on improving this app as much as you say you are..Version: 9.3.7
✓ Good for learning the ropes, BUT way too glitchyI’ve encountered multiple issues while working on an animation. I’ve spent over a month working on an animation, and given that it’s my very first one, I’m extremely frustrated. I will only be talking about the most recent major problems I’ve had. Earlier today I was working on my animation and it was perfectly fine. These problems occurred after a couple of hours. First of all, while I was working on adding to each of my frames, the background for one of my frames became the background for all of my frames. I was nearly finished with the line art for all of my frames when this happened. This is incredibly frustrating because I was using the background as references for the character movements, and originally each of the backgrounds were the person in different positions. Secondly, soon after, I saw that the line art for all of my frames became a previous version. What I mean by this is that I spent the last week or so darkening all of my line art, but the current version is how the line art looked before it was darkened and before I added heads to the person I was animating. The last week or two of my work are now gone. I have also filed a ticket through the app and hope to receive a response soon. I have been working on this animation since December 22nd. It is now February 2nd. I have put countless hours into this and have gotten too far to see it go to waste..Version: 9.0.5
✓ OkIt decent but FlipaClip clip is better and this app is a bit hard to use. The onion skin wasn’t working and this app makes a bit less fluent animation.Version: 9.1.1
✓ Horrible. Not recommended if you want to make actual animations.My first complaint about the app is that you have to pay for everything. More than one storyboard, over 3/4 of brushes, ect. There are little packs you can try out for 3 days at a time, but I don’t want to have to change my brush set if i’m trying to create an animation for days or weeks at a time. The only thing close to a blend brush is a watercolor kit, which i’m not patient enough for.. the kid is called the patient artist kit. Literally just give me a blend brush and i’d be more happy. Also, you can’t upload audio. It’s so hard to line up dialogue by eyeballing it and adding it with an editor afterwards. Other than the fact you need to pay to even have a pleasurable experience, there aren’t any bugs that i could complain about. Other than the zoom in function being wonky (you needing to put both your hands on the frame in a very specific way and needing to try multiple times to get it right), there aren’t any bugs and the app runs smoothly. I just wish this app wasn’t just a method for quick cash and actually worked as a flexible option for beginning animators and experienced animators alike. If you want something better go look up Flipaclip, it’s way better overall..Version: 9.3.8
✓ It’s not bad....I’ve been using this app for a while now, and overall, I think it’s pretty good. It’s not an app for professionals, (which I am not,) but still gives you a wide variety of tools to work with. The screen isn’t always responsive though, which makes it difficult to draw a single frame. When I draw, I have my pencil, (or whatever drawing utensil I’m using,) in a sideways position, to where the side of the graphite is pressing down against the paper instead of the tip. However, when I use this app, the screen doesn’t always react to the side of the pen when it is pressed down against it, and it just makes digital drawing quite frustrating. I know you get a lot of 1-star reviews from little kids who rage on you because they’re just mad that they can’t draw, but I’m not trying to be one of those people. Actually, everything negative said in this review isn’t really even your fault. I just wanted to let you know the problems I was having. If there is any way you might be able to fix this please do. Thanks! :).Version: 8.3
✓ Good but FastHello, This is a great animating app its just when you watch the animation it goes at 100 miles per hour so if you could slow it down that would be great. I’m still learning and love the app and its really great, it’s just annoying how fast it goes when you play it. I do recommend this but make sure to copy your scenes like 5 or so times so you can actually see whats happening!.Version: 8.9
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