# RoughAnimator - animation app — user reviews > 844 indexed App Store user reviews of RoughAnimator by Jacob KAFKA, rated 4.60/5 from 2,936 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/roughanimator-animation-app/id954718244/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/roughanimator-animation-app/id954718244.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,291 · 4★ 425 · 3★ 98 · 2★ 37 · 1★ 85 ## What do users think of RoughAnimator? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 🚀 Smooth animation - 💡 Useful features like camera and audio - 👍 Intuitive interface - 👍 Great for beginners - 👍 Affordable one-time purchase **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes when importing video/audio - 🐛 Laggy performance with larger projects - 🐛 Pixelated/blurry drawings when playing animation - 🐛 Onion skin not working - 🐛 Brush issues like splotchy lines - 🐛 Inability to delete frames **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes when importing audio - Onion skin not working - Pixelated drawings when playing animation - Laggy performance with larger projects **Most requested features** - Add transparency support for exports - Implement a text tool - Provide more brush options and customization - Add a ruler/shape tool - Improve audio handling (record, import, sync) - Implement a tween/animation feature - Add layer grouping and organization tools - Provide a dark mode option ## Newest reviews (18 of 844) ### 4/5 — Great for basic animation. *2026-09-02, version 4.25* This app has a lot of great features, more specifically with how you can use the frames. With FlipaClip you have to create a new frame every time, which is annoying if you need an extended frame; but with Rough Animator, you can drag any frame to be as long as you want. It’s also a lot easier to delete frames on Rough Animator vs FlipaClip. Very easy to create lots of layers, the only limiting factor being your device’s ability to handle the load; which if you have the same devices I do, it doesn’t take very much to crash the app. I do wish there was more to play around with the selection feature, since it is very basic, but it’s able to get the job done. It’s worth mentioning that for animation, while not having as many brushes, Rough Animator works better for me than FlipaClip. Overall, very solid. I will be continuing to use Rough Animator for a while. ### 4/5 — UI *2026-08-20, version 4.23* Great app theres one problem though, the UI. Please, PLEASE add a UI editor option. And if there IS one please tell me. This would be an easy 5 stars if it had UI management ### 3/5 — Plz help *2026-08-16, version 4.23* Omg it’s really good but whenever I try to tilt something I moved with this tool (idk what it’s called) it disappears and it’s SUPER ANNOYING. ROUGHANIMATOR PLEASE FIX THIS ### 5/5 — Life changing (for an animator) *2026-07-04, version 4.23* Its cheap, its efficient, it feels great and it works great! Been using it for nearly a year now and safe to say, ill be sticking with this for probably the rest of my life (probably) ### 5/5 — Amazing app *2026-07-03, version 4.23* Amazing and fun to work with super amazing ### 5/5 — Easy and Intuitive *2026-07-02, version 4.23* This is my favorite animation app. Truly shows the power of simplicity. ### 4/5 — EdmationsYT *2026-06-21, version 4.23* This is great!! It has a lot of features and is very cool! I’ve been using it for a week and it’s very easy to learn:) 4stars:) ### 5/5 — Easy & fun to use *2026-06-20, version 4.23* Rough Animator is the only app I’ve been able to figure out for making short videos and GIFs. I like Procreate for drawing my silly dino “art” but can only manage their animation app in my dreams (sorry), ### 5/5 — It’s great *2026-06-19, version 4.23* I’ve only had 1 problem and that’s when I edit the layer settings the app starts to freak out, which I realize might be a storage issue on my end but it was worth noting just in case. Other than that all the tools are very helpful and some learning of the format is required (as usual with animation apps). Great use of my money. ### 5/5 — Lorena *2026-06-16* Gostei bastante do aplicativo! Só pediria para acrescentar uma função de “Blur” de desfocar. Ficaria ainda mais interessante! ### 5/5 — BEST FOR BEGINNERS AND ADVANCE! *2026-06-13, version 4.23* this is the best app I ever seen! No layer limit make some animators won’t suffer very much! And it won’t lag our device as much as we added more frames in 5k frame rate! ### 2/5 — I hate it *2026-06-12, version 4.23* This app forced me to use a brush that I did not want to ### 5/5 — Great tool *2026-05-28, version 4.23* I’m not an animator by training but wanted some animated scenes for a video or two I was making and with RoughAnimator was able to get some really great bits with practice. ### 4/5 — Mid *2026-05-22, version 4.23* A really good app i use it all the time recommend but is kinda hard to use ### 5/5 — Empowering and deceptively simple *2026-05-19, version 4.23* This program totally changed my storytelling after 30 years of professional filmmaking. If you can make a flip book as a kid scribbling in the back of class at grade school, you can use rough animator. Just how far you take the storytelling, and how complex the animation is up to you, but the app can take you everywhere. Thank you, Jacob. ### 4/5 — 💫 *2026-05-11, version 4.23* It was super good but some things just didn’t click ### 5/5 — I love RoughAnimator *2026-04-29, version 4.23* I got this app when I got my iPad Pro gen 1 so many years ago. I understood animation through this app, and I’ve made so much money out of animating full on projects on the App. Like full music videos for real bands and educational material for companies. I really love this app. ### 3/5 — It’s okay. *2026-04-27, version 4.23* I got this app about 2 months ago, and recently it has been… weird. Whenever I try to animate it won’t let me.. Animate! It only lets me animate if I put down a white base then I move on to a new frame, I put down a white base and I can’t see the onion skin. And I think it should work on my iOS iPad, it’s the iPad 11. If I’m doing anything wrong please tell me I am a new animator. -PJ ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — This is even worse than Flipaclip! *2026-08-26, version 4.25* First off, the app crashes whenever I try to import an image, causing me to lose hours of progress, I run a YouTube channel and that’s not really efficient if I want to upload consistently, second when I make an animation it looks choppy no matter the frame rate I run it on, please fix these issues! ### 1/5 — Used to run great! *2026-06-09, version 4.23* As the title says, used to run great! I have an iPad Pro 2nd gen. I know it has the ram and the power to run this app, I’ve done complicated animations with this before and only then did I have to run it at 50% resolution. Now I’m doing a mere 12 second animation and it can’t even play it back at 100% quality with only 3 layers, one music and the other one a rough draft, and background . Hope it gets fixed! ### 1/5 — Playback causing app to crash *2026-04-01, version 4.23* I’m working on something and when I play back to watch it crashes ### 1/5 — Good but needs fixes *2026-02-22, version 4.22* This is a great app I love it, it’s easy to use and super fast to make an animation. But the app crashes when you try to make something longer than 100 frames and if you try to animate a character with 6 limbs ### 1/5 — Thanks pal *2026-01-22, version 4.22* Kind of the most easy animation apps i ever seen🤞🥹 ### 1/5 — S *2025-11-01, version 4.20* My pen don’t know why become very lag and now cannot draw anything thing, I paid the money already now cannot use damn it! Reset, delete all cannot work ### 1/5 — Why *2025-09-08, version 4.19* Cant animate in 9:16 aspect ratio ### 1/5 — Pressure not working *2025-08-31, version 4.15* Installing this app and trying to use it randomly got rid of my brush pressure on my Apple Pencil. It was working fine on procreate earlier that day, the nib isn’t worn down, it’s fully charged etc. tried everything to restore it, nothing. I’d really appreciate a refund as I can’t really use this app properly now :( ### 1/5 — FRUSTRATED *2025-08-27, version 4.15* ¡¿I can’t draw with my finger it doesn’t let me make rounded curves without the smooth option but that thing is so uncomfortable to use when I already adapted to draw fast with the finger!? so I hope this get fixed soon because for a finger artist this doesn’t work right now ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work as expected *2025-08-06, version 4.14* They don’t allow refunds in case app doesn’t work as expected. Don’t buy it ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-08-28, version 4.25* 4 years I like it ### 5/5 — 🤯 *2026-08-28, version 4.25* I bought this app after quitting FlipaClip bc they wanted me to pay a monthly subscription just to see a frame ahead with onion skin, and WOW! First of all, the amount of things u can do with this app with just 8 dollars is crazy! You can draw perfect straight lines, circles, squares, it has a smoothing setting for your lines, you can import videos, audio, pictures, png images, unlimited layers, a ton of layer settings (that I don’t understand a lot of yet lol), and a ton more! Second, I saw a ton of reviews saying, “it can’t do this” or, “it can’t do that” when the app literally can they just haven’t watched a YouTube tutorial lol. Also there are reviews that say, “the app keeps crashing” which the app does crash sometimes but that’s only if u have like 8 different layers and a 300 frame video on full resolution😂. This app is a goldmine for people who want to animate professionally! You just have to know how to use it! ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-08-24, version 4.23* Awesome sauce ### 5/5 — This is goated *2026-08-19, version 4.23* This is definitely one of if not THE best animation and drawing apps I’ve used in my life, it’s nice and smooth, really easy to get down, and much better than flip-a-clip, definitely a monumental discovery in my life ### 5/5 — add a tweening feature *2026-08-15, version 4.23* this app is great I love using it but it would honestly better if you added tweening ### 5/5 — One problem *2026-08-05, version 4.23* When I was using it, everything was fine but now it’s not letting me draw every single time I try to draw right now nothing appears it’s just a blank canvas ( paper,screen? Oh well) can you please fix this? Thank you. ### 5/5 — Simple and effective *2026-07-22, version 4.23* Simple, no ads, has layers soooo goooood purely because I hate flip-a-clip. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-07-15, version 4.23* I love this program. It makes it super easy for a beginner like me to pick up and start animating. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of other programs, but it’s great for practicing the fundamentals. ### 5/5 — Helped me alot! *2026-07-06, version 4.23* Super good, highly recommended may be tricky at first (especially if you came from flipaclip), but after a few animations you're get the hang of it. 5 stars ### 5/5 — The downfall of flipaclip *2026-07-06* I LOVE ROUGH ANIMATOR PRAY FOR THE DOWNFALL OF FLIPACLIP --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-08.*