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ToonSquid

ToonSquid

Create beautiful animations

1.3K ratings
1105 reviews
📊 Productivity
🎨 Graphics & Design
$9.99

Details

  • Released
  • Updated
  • August 1, 2022
  • August 27, 2026

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Developer

Keiwan Donyagard
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About

This app is a powerful 2D art and animation studio for iPad. It combines traditional frame-by-frame animation with keyframing for layer properties. Features include customizable brushes, vector shapes, animatable effects, and a flexible layer system for bringing creative visions to life.

✓Traditional frame-by-frame animation
✓Keyframe animation for layer properties
✓Flexible layer system with groups and masks
✓Customizable brush engine with Apple Pencil support
✓Vector shapes with SVG import
✓Animatable effects and bone rigging with IK
✓Symbol workflow for reusable animation clips
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What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of ToonSquid. Based on 1.3K reviews and a 4.6/5 average, it highlights the 20 positives and 8 negatives reviewers mention most about this Graphics & Design app.

Positive things

  • 🚀AMAZING APP!!!
  • 🚀This is an absolute LIFESAVER
  • 👍Super solid animation App!
  • 👍Great app just one suggestion
  • 👍Absolutely Amazing App
  • 👍Best app on iPad for animation
  • 👍Blown away. End all animation app! Finally!
  • 👍Exactly what I have been looking for
  • 👍Hands down the most fully featured app yet
  • 👍Outstanding app but one question
  • 👍Does exactly what I need it to do 🌟
  • 👍Unbeatable by comparison
  • 👍Essentially Adobe Animate for iPads
  • 👍Vector animation and much more
  • 👍Amazing Animation program
  • 👍Outstanding!
  • 👍Finally a good animation app! A few notes.
  • 👍Really good animation app!
  • 👍Best iPad animation app so far
  • 👍Really Impressive

Negative things

  • 🐛AMAZING APP!!! One recommendation tho.
  • 🐛Snapping
  • 🐛Crashes
  • 🐛Keyframing doesn't work
  • 🐛Randomly ill get a warning that i have low memory
  • 🐛The lasso tool thing isnt working for me
  • 🐛Bug
  • 🐛Whenever I use the fill bucket tool my app will randomly crash sometimes
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What's New in ToonSquid

2.0.26

August 27, 2026

- You can now use the new "Turbulent Displace" effect to create a variety of visual effects such as line boiling, water ripples, fire and more. - Various bug fixes and stability improvements

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User reviews

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OH MY GOD

genuinely top 2 animation apps
geraldiskuelgeraldiskuel

one of the best animation apps i’ve used

i’ve been drawing/animating for years and i’ll say that toonsquid is one of the best animation apps ive invested in, every update is worth looking forward too and it’s astounding that it’s one guy working on all this
human janhuman jan

Mostly good

I use this for animation, and everything is good except for how confusing the tweeting is.
BFDIfanyessotrueBFDIfanyessotrue

Good animating app for it price.

If you wanna animate like bfdi or tpot then this is the app for you! One question i have is; how do you remove the background in images?
CideVRCideVR

Ehh...

Personaly i don't like it, i tried it and it made no sense to me and everything was so confusing and hard to do :/
Nickname :_PNickname :_P
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User experience

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Reported Bugs

7 issues

Keyframing doesn't work

Bug

Randomly ill get a warning that i have low memory

Bug

The lasso tool thing isnt working for me

Bug

Bug

Bug

Whenever I use the fill bucket tool my app will randomly crash sometimes

Bug

When I upload my animatic as a video file and play it, it works for a couple of seconds, but then the screen goes white

Bug

The app keeps crashing on me in certain projects

Bug
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Requested Features

31 requests

Custom graphs

Feature

Bevel Shading

Feature

Drawing to drawing transform

Feature

Record Audio

Feature

Extract audio from video

Feature

Symmetry tool

Feature

Skew / Shear feature for keyframes & symbols

Feature

Blending modes and filters

Feature

Ability to select & edit/copy multiple frames at once

Feature

Ability to rotate selected lines with the selection tool

Feature

Ability to draw rasterised brushes outside of the box perimeters

Feature

Audio feature where you can turn videos into audios

Feature

Pen tip icon like Procreate and FlipaClip

Feature

Ability to adjust an entire layer's opacity

Feature

When playing an animation from a specific point on the timeline, returning to that point on the timeline when you pause

Feature

Easier time selecting and moving and then unselecting specific areas

Feature

Being able to copy and paste selected areas

Feature

Ability to turn on brush outline

Feature

Ability to adjust the size of the workspace

Feature

Liquify brush

Feature

Rigging/bone system

Feature

Ability to reuse assets in other projects

Feature

Rigged deformations

Feature

Ability to flip the entire canvas for drawing

Feature

Folders for projects or "stacks" like Procreate for sorting projects

Feature

Ability to import .svg files

Feature

Ability to merge all the animation layers into one

Feature

Ability to customize the shape of deformation tool

Feature

Ability to make vector/flash animations

Feature

Ability to merge layers

Feature

Ability to change opacity for frame-layers

Feature

FAQ

What kind of animation can I create with ToonSquid?

ToonSquid supports both traditional frame-by-frame animation, allowing you to draw each frame by hand, and keyframe animation. Keyframing enables you to automatically animate layer properties and effects over time, creating smooth and dynamic motion.

What are the brush capabilities in ToonSquid?

The app features a state-of-the-art digital brush engine with over 60 customizable settings. You can use vector brushes for sharp strokes at any zoom level, take advantage of Apple Pencil pressure and tilt sensitivity, and even import Adobe Photoshop brushes.

How does the layer system work in ToonSquid?

ToonSquid offers a flexible layer system that allows you to define the order and length of animation elements. You can organize layers into groups, use a camera layer to control the visible portion, mask layers, and apply 27 industry-standard blend modes for compositing.

Can I create character rigs and complex animations?

Yes, ToonSquid allows you to create character rigs using bones with inverse kinematics constraints. You can also create custom meshes to deform pixel layers within these rigs and animate perspective and warp effects for more complex animations.

Is ToonSquid compatible with other software?

ToonSquid is designed for iPad and leverages Apple Pencil and the iPad Pro display. It also supports importing SVG files for vector shapes and can import Adobe Photoshop brushes, allowing for some integration with other creative workflows.