Comparison

Animation Desk® Ultimate vs Meme Creater

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Animation Desk® Ultimate

Create frame-by-frame animations from scratch or over existing media. This app offers a robust set of drawing tools, layer support, and various export options for your animated projects. It's designed for both beginners and experienced animators.

Highlights
  • Frame-by-frame animation creation
  • Import Photoshop layers (PSD)
  • Animate over videos and images
  • Advanced drawing tools and brushes
  • Onion skinning with color-coding
  • Multiple export formats (video, GIF, PDF, PSD)
  • Add music to animations
Features
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Dream big with Animation Desk. Draw frame-to-frame animation from scratch, or create animations upon videos, images, Photoshop layers. Animation Desk supports multiple export formats. Create animation on your iPad and iPhone with Animation Desk. AWARDS - Featured in Top100 iPad Entertainment apps in 86 App Stores - Featured by Apple on iTunes Home Page - Featured by Yahoo Tech - Featured by TechCrunch - Recommended by EdTech Impact, Edshelf, EducationalAppStore.com, All about apps in YOUR classroom, iPad Educators CREATE ANIMATION • Import Photoshop layers (PSD) • Make animation over videos and pictures • Create animations with a different aspect ratio, FPS, and duration DRAWING TOOLS • Brushes and Erasers • Custom Brush • Onion skin • Color-coded onion skinning • Selection tools • Layers • Color palettes for developing and managing color schemes • Caption* • Perfect with Apple Pencil 1,2, Wacom and Adonit styli HELPFUL TOOLS • Frame tags • Ruler tools • Frame viewer and timeline • Zoom-in and zoom-out • Canvas rotation EXPORT • Export individual frame into image • Export videos • Export PSD layers, PDF, and GIF (up to 640x480 px), PDF* • Export video with different aspect of ratio • Add music to the animations • Combine multiple animation sequences into an animatic storyboard CAN WE GIVE A HAND? Got a question? Contact us at helpdesk@kdanmobile.com or check out http://support.kdanmobile.com Term of Use: https://www.kdanmobile.com/en/terms_of_service Privacy Policies: https://www.kdanmobile.com/en/privacy_policy

About

Meme Creater

Easily create custom memes and posters with a powerful editor. Utilize popular meme templates, your own images, or combine content from the web. Save, share, or print your creations across various platforms.

Highlights
  • Generate custom memes and posters
  • Advanced meme editor with tools and settings
  • Font gallery and color picker
  • Use own images or combine from web
  • Work on multiple memes simultaneously
  • Save, share, and print creations
  • iMessage and Keyboard integration
Features
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Generate your own custom memes and posters! Meme Creator is the most powerfull app to generate memes on your iOS device. _______________________________________________ Features: • Includes all of the most popular memes • One of the most advanced Meme Editor / Creator available • Tools, settings, font gallery & color picker for creating new memes and editing already made memes. • Premade meme wallpapers, memes, • Use your own images from your photo library or camera! • Edit and combine memes from web • Project editor - work on multiple memes at time and save them for later use • Save, share or print your created memes. Send them out via e-mail, WhatsApp, Facebook, iMessages and more • iMessages and Keyboard integration. Fast use of all of your creations

Screenshots

Animation Desk® Ultimate4 screens
Meme Creater4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Meme Creater at $0.99 against Animation Desk® Ultimate's $9.99. Meme Creater also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). Animation Desk® Ultimate's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 12 months) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 14.0). On ratings volume, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Animation Desk® Ultimate costs $9.99 and Meme Creater $0.99 up front. Animation Desk® Ultimate sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Meme Creater asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Meme Creater holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 299 and 139 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Animation Desk® Ultimate's written reviews are positive against 50% of Meme Creater's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Animation Desk® Ultimate ships an update monthly, Meme Creater every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Animation Desk® Ultimate versus Meme Creater: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnimation Desk® UltimateMeme Creater
Price$9.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.0 (299 ratings)4.5 (139 ratings) — better
Positive reviews39.4% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings299 — better139
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 12 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size374 MB120 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKdan Mobile Software LTDMULTI MOBILE Ltd

Customer experience

Animation Desk® Ultimate

All ratings299 ratings
Positive74.2%
Neutral9.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews160 reviews
Positive39.4%
Neutral16.9%
Negative43.8%

Meme Creater

All ratings139 ratings
Positive87.8%
Neutral2.2%
Negative10.1%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative37.5%

Bugs and requests

Animation Desk® Ultimate

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Frames randomly disappearing or getting corrupted
  • Layers merging unexpectedly or not behaving as expected
  • Crashes when trying to import certain media files
  • Onion skin and playback issues causing problems

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more brush customization options
  • Improve the timeline and layer management tools
  • Implement a better undo/redo system
  • Allow importing and syncing of audio for lip-syncing
  • Provide more export options beyond just video

Meme Creater

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Animation Desk® Ultimate

Subscriptions5
  • Kdan Cloud$2.991 Month
  • All Access Pack-1 Month3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Kdan Cloud$9.991 Year
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  • All Access Pack-3 Months3 Days trial$19.993 Months
  • All Access Pack - 1 Year7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time5
  • 10 Kdan Credits$0.99
  • 100 Kdan Credits$7.99
  • 200 Kdan Credits$15.99
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  • 500 Kdan Credits$37.99
  • 1000 Kdan Credits$59.99
None

Meme Creater

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Animation Desk® Ultimate free?
Animation Desk® Ultimate costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Meme Creater free?
Meme Creater costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Animation Desk® Ultimate or Meme Creater?
Meme Creater is rated higher. Animation Desk® Ultimate averages 4.0 out of 5 from 299 ratings, while Meme Creater averages 4.5 from 139 ratings.
Do Animation Desk® Ultimate or Meme Creater have ads?
Neither Animation Desk® Ultimate nor Meme Creater shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Animation Desk® Ultimate or Meme Creater?
Animation Desk® Ultimate ships an update monthly, and Meme Creater every 12 months. Most recently, Animation Desk® Ultimate was updated on September 24, 2026 and Meme Creater on September 23, 2026.

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