# ToonSquid — Create beautiful animations > 2D art and animation studio for iPad with traditional and keyframe animation. (iPhone/iPad app by Keiwan Donyagard.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/toonsquid/id1573778812 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Keiwan Donyagard](https://appshunter.io/developer/1166607047) - Category: Graphics & Design, Productivity - Price: $9.99 - Rating: 4.60/5 from 1,277 App Store ratings · 1,105 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 48 MB - Languages: American English, Chinese (Simplified, China) - Released: 2022-08-01 - Data updated: 2026-08-31 - Monetization: paid - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/toonsquid/id1573778812/reviews.md ## What is ToonSquid? ToonSquid is the powerful 2D art and animation studio for your iPad. Its flexible layer system allows you to combine the charm of hand-drawn traditional animation with keyframes that automatically animate layer properties over time. With a library full of beautiful, blazing-fast and fully customizable pixel and vector brushes, animatable effects, a smudge tool, animated text and vector shapes, bones with inverse kinematics, video and audio layers, camera movements, symbols and many more features, ToonSquid makes it easy to bring your vision to life. Traditional Animation - Create hand-drawn frame-by-frame animations - Control how long you want to show each drawing in the timeline - Draw in resolutions of up to 4k Keyframe Animation - Add keyframes to automatically animate layer and effects properties over time - Choose from an extensive list of customizable easing curve presets to create organic motion between keyframes - Easily loop your keyframe animation Powerful Layer System - Define the order and length of each element in your animation using layers and drawings and a flexible timeline - Organize your layers into groups for a clean workflow or to animate multiple layers at once - Use the camera layer to quickly define the visible portion of your animation in the export - Mask layers to other layers, even when their contents are animated - Choose from 27 industry-standard layer blend modes for beautiful compositing effects Fully-customizable Brushes - Draw gorgeous brush strokes with ToonSquid's state-of-the-art digital brush engine - Take full advantage of Apple Pencil's pressure and tilt sensitivity and the iPad Pro's 120Hz display for lag-free drawing - Use vector brushes to create brush strokes that are sharp at every zoom level - Edit the 60+ brush settings and import custom textures to create a brush library that is perfectly tailored to your art style - Blend your strokes together using the smudge tool - Draw in a variety of styles such as sketching, inking, wet mixing, pixel art, and more - Export and share your custom brushes with others - Import your existing library of Adobe® Photoshop® brushes Vector Shapes - Create custom shapes using the path tool by placing and editing each curve control point - Quickly add common vector shapes from the shape library - Import SVG files - Fill and stroke your shapes with beautiful gradients and edit them directly on the canvas - Animate the visible length of a path using its trim properties Animatable Effects - Create character rigs using bones and add inverse kinematics constraints - Create custom meshes to deform pixel layers when they are part of a bone rig - Animate perspective and warp effects - Apply adjustments, blur, pixelation, drop shadow, chroma key, halftone, parallax and more effects Efficient symbol workflow - Split your animation into separate clips that you can then reuse multiple times using symbols - Make edits to an animation clip and immediately see the changes in all of its symbol instances - Use frame markers to speed up your lip-syncing workflow Text - Add text layers and animate their appearance - Import your favorite fonts Color - Use ToonSquid's powerful color picker with plenty of different interfaces to choose the exact colors you need - Create custom color palettes and share them outside the application - Pick colors straight from the canvas using the pipette tool - Fill connected regions quickly with the fill tool Audio and Video - Add audio clips to your timeline and perform lip-syncing animations - Import videos, GIFs and images into your project and work with them through symbols Transform - Animate a layer's position, rotation and scale properties using keyframes - Build transform hierarchies to achieve more advanced movements - Edit your layer's motion path directly on the canvas Numerous Export Formats - Export your work in one of many common file formats such as MP4, MOV, GIF, PNG, JPEG, PSD, and more. ## Key features - 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 ## What do users think of ToonSquid? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 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 **Cons** - 🐛 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 **Commonly reported bugs** - 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 - 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 - The app keeps crashing on me in certain projects **Most requested features** - Custom graphs - Bevel Shading - Drawing to drawing transform - Record Audio - Extract audio from video - Symmetry tool - Skew / Shear feature for keyframes & symbols - Blending modes and filters - Ability to select & edit/copy multiple frames at once - Ability to rotate selected lines with the selection tool - Ability to draw rasterised brushes outside of the box perimeters - Audio feature where you can turn videos into audios - Pen tip icon like Procreate and FlipaClip - Ability to adjust an entire layer's opacity - When playing an animation from a specific point on the timeline, returning to that point on the timeline when you pause - Easier time selecting and moving and then unselecting specific areas - Being able to copy and paste selected areas - Ability to turn on brush outline - Ability to adjust the size of the workspace - Liquify brush - Rigging/bone system - Ability to reuse assets in other projects - Rigged deformations - Ability to flip the entire canvas for drawing - Folders for projects or "stacks" like Procreate for sorting projects - Ability to import .svg files - Ability to merge all the animation layers into one - Ability to customize the shape of deformation tool - Ability to make vector/flash animations - Ability to merge layers - Ability to change opacity for frame-layers ## Recent user reviews (10 of 1,105) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/toonsquid/id1573778812/reviews.md ### 5/5 — OH MY GOD *2026-08-27, version 2.0.26* genuinely top 2 animation apps ### 5/5 — one of the best animation apps i’ve used *2026-08-27, version 2.0.26* 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 ### 4/5 — Mostly good *2026-08-26, version 2.0.25* I use this for animation, and everything is good except for how confusing the tweeting is. ### 4/5 — Good animating app for it price. *2026-08-25, version 2.0.25* 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? ### 2/5 — Ehh... *2026-08-23, version 2.0.25* 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 :/ ### 4/5 — Add sum stuff *2026-08-23, version 2.0.25* Hey,I LOVE the frame by frame and animation programs but we need more effects.I like the effects the are in the app but I want more >:3 Also I want a reverse effect (to reverse the animation) and a slow effect (to slow the animation) That's all I wanted you to add,cya ### 4/5 — Lack of brush customization *2026-08-23, version 2.0.25* I honestly love this app, it’s useful, and it’s more affordable (to me at least). I don’t really have that many complaints other than the fact that there aren’t a lot of options for brush customization compared to the other drawing apps. Which can be a bit of a dealbreaker sometimes. ### 5/5 — pretty cool *2026-08-22, version 2.0.25* i wish it had a magic wand tool though. please add a way to change the amount of points on the warp feature ### 5/5 — My life *2026-08-20, version 2.0.25* My life’s career is gonna be about animation and this is a really fun app that I can use for animation because it is like a mini animation for computer but on iPad I love this so much is so much good features but it’s a bit buggy, but I love it ### 5/5 — Best Workplace UI In all Animation I’ve tried so far. *2026-08-20, version 2.0.25* Apps UI really comfortable to use, no other animation app has met my standards. Creates a really nice workflow and runs smoothly on an older device. An app I recommend to many and new animators. Excited to try out all new features in update 2.0. A suggestion, would be give option to tweak workplace UI tools’ placement. For examples, have preference for the undo/redo button to be on the left side but want to keep all other tools remain in Right Handed placements. Another thing is to have the undo/redo button move up or be somehow visible when you need to have many animations layers visible but the undo/redo becomes hidden when the animation layer window is pulled up over it to view many layers (sadly not a tap tap gesture fan, I do love pressing buttons). ## Frequently asked questions about ToonSquid ### 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. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.0.26 — 2026-08-27 - 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 ### 2.0.25 — 2026-07-29 - You can now select, move, copy, paste, add and delete keyframes across multiple animation layers at once. - You can now customize how long you need to touch and hold a selection of keyframes before they can be moved under "Settings > Gestures > Keyframes > Drag and Drop Hold Delay". The default duration has also been reduced from 0.5s to 0.3s. - Added the option to automatically hide layer properties without keyframes in the timeline. ("Settings > General > Keyframes > Only Show Properties with Keyframes"). - Added a "Step" value setting to the easing curves (where applicable) which allows you to reduce the interpolation rate of the keyframe animation. - You can now proportionally stretch a selection of keyframes in the timeline. - You can now reverse a selection of keyframes in the timeline. - You can now copy, paste and delete keyframes from multiple selected properties at once without the other properties getting deselected when bringing up the actions menu. - Added a setting for always showing the keyframe umbrella row in the timeline for quick selection and copy and paste of all properties of a layer. ("Settings > General > Keyframes > Umbrella Row Visibility"). - The keyframe selection now remains intact after dragging and dropping keyframes to a different frame. - Improved Shape Assist accuracy for ellipses, curves and polylines. - Fixed an issue that could sometimes prevent projects from being duplicated. - Fixed an issue that could sometimes prevent project backups from being imported. - Fixed the liquify tool to respect the "Drawing Assist" setting of the drawing guides. - Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause crackling audio. - Fixed the transform tool's flip behaviour when the parent hierarchy of a layer is also flipped. - Fixed a bug that could cause a brush's dual brush settings to be lost when imported under rare circumstances. ### 2.0.24 — 2026-06-01 - Bug fixes ### 2.0.23 — 2026-05-25 - Bug fixes ### 2.0.22 — 2026-05-16 - You can now enable the new "Liquify" mode of the smudge tool to perform liquify edits on pixel layers. Tap on the smudge tool button to access additional liquify options. - Added support for importing static and animated WebP files. - Added an "Anti-Aliasing Mode" export setting. - Various bug fixes and reliability improvements. ## Apps similar to ToonSquid | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Nomad Sculpt](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nomad-sculpt/id1519508653) | 4.8 (13,348) | $19.99 | Graphics & Design | | [Clip Studio Paint](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/clip-studio-paint/id1262985592) | 4.7 (13,422) | Free | Graphics & Design | | [Resprite: pixel art studio](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/resprite-pixel-art-studio/id1662335989) | 4.7 (1,345) | Free | Graphics & Design | | [Callipeg: 2D Animation App](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/callipeg-2d-animation-app/id1456172656) | 3.6 (850) | $14.99 | Graphics & Design | | [Mental Canvas Draw](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mental-canvas-draw/id1462179740) | 3.7 (667) | Free | Graphics & Design | | [RoughAnimator - animation app](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/roughanimator-animation-app/id954718244) | 4.6 (2,936) | $7.99 | Graphics & Design | ## More apps by Keiwan Donyagard - [Library of Babel](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/library-of-babel/id1180198611) - [Evolution - Learning Creatures](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/evolution-learning-creatures/id1227314223) - [Quicksort!](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/quicksort/id1389840318) All apps by Keiwan Donyagard: https://appshunter.io/developer/1166607047 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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