Comparison

Animator Plus vs Spritelife

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

Head to head
About

Animator Plus

Create professional-quality animations with a powerful yet intuitive drawing and animation tool. Offers extensive features for drawing, frame management, and exporting your creations in various formats.

Highlights
  • Keyframe animation
  • Timeline editing
  • Drawing tools
  • Unlimited layers and frames
  • Export to MP4 and PNG
  • Onion skinning
  • Customizable brushes
Features
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Animator Plus is a powerful drawing and frame-by-frame animation studio built natively for iPad and iPhone. Sketch, paint, and bring stories to life on a buttery-smooth Metal-powered canvas — with pro brushes, a full animation timeline, layers, sound sync, and one-tap export to MP4, image sequences, PNG, or JPG. Whether you are a hobbyist doodler, a storyboard artist, a cartoonist, or an animator chasing that classic hand-drawn look, Animator Plus puts everything you need into one focused, beautifully refined workspace. PRO BRUSHES TUNED FOR APPLE PENCIL • Studio Pen — crisp ink lines with subtle pressure response • Pencil — true graphite feel with tilt-based shading • Pressure Pen — thickness scales with how hard you press • Marker — flat, opaque coverage for blocking color • Fountain — calligraphic chisel for elegant strokes • Airbrush — soft sprays that build up gradually • Tapered Line — four variants for classic animation strokes • Eraser, Smart Fill Bucket, Lasso Select Full Apple Pencil pressure, tilt, and azimuth support. Adjust per-brush size, opacity, hardness, flow, and smoothing. • CLASSIC FRAME-BY-FRAME ANIMATION Flip on Animation Mode to unlock a full timeline. Insert, duplicate, copy, paste, and reorder frames in a tap. Set Frame Hold to pause specific frames for any number of ticks. Tune playback from 1 to 60 fps. Onion-skin previous and next frames as ghosts to align inbetweens with confidence. • STROKE-BY-STROKE PLAYBACK Watch your artwork redraw itself, one stroke at a time, at 1x, 2x, or 4x speed. Perfect for time-lapse reels, tutorials, and process videos. Undone strokes are skipped automatically. • POWERFUL LAYERS Stack, rename, hide, lock, blend, and clip layers independently. Every animation frame keeps its own layer stack so foreground action and static backgrounds stay perfectly organized. • SHAPES, TEXT, AND TRANSFORMS Drop perfect lines, rectangles, ellipses, triangles, stars, and hexagons. Add editable text overlays. Use Lasso Select to grab strokes and move, rotate, scale, or recolor entire sections in one gesture. • REFERENCE TOOLS AND ROTOSCOPING Turn on square, dot, or isometric grids for precise layouts. Import a reference image from Photos and dim its opacity to trace or sample. Import a video clip and Animator Plus extracts the frames automatically, letting you rotoscope on top. • SOUND ON THE TIMELINE Import an audio clip, trim the in and out points, and adjust volume. Sound plays back in lockstep with your animation so timing and lip-sync land first try. • EXPORT EVERYWHERE Save your art as transparent PNG, JPG, image sequence, or MP4 video. Push files to the Files app or straight to your camera roll. Projects sync across devices via iCloud Drive. • REFINED FOR EVERY DEVICE Layouts adapt automatically between iPad and iPhone. Customize the accent color, brush smoothing, background color, and grid style from one tidy Settings panel. Whether you are sketching a storyboard, illustrating a children's book, prototyping a cartoon, or producing a finished animated short, Animator Plus gives you the tools to draw, paint, animate, and ship — frame by frame. Thanks for your support. Visit nitrio.com for more apps for your iOS devices.

About

Spritelife

Easily create 2D sprite animations using existing images or AI-generated sprites. Design characters for projects or social media with customizable frames, effects, and multiple export options. Supports Apple Intelligence for sprite creation on compatible devices.

Highlights
  • AI sprite generation
  • Frame-based animation
  • Move, warp, rotate, resize sprites
  • Pixelation effects
  • Multiple export formats (GIF, PNGs, Spritesheet)
  • Undo/Redo functionality
Features
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Animate 2D sprites with ease! Spritelife is an editor which allows you to create animations using existing images and sprites. Animate characters for projects, or create cool designs for social media. The possibilities are endless! Don't have any sprites or images to animate? Spritelife has built in Apple Intelligence support to create any sprite that you can think of in the blink of an eye. Use these sprites in your animations or to inspire your own designs. (For supported devices and languages only, iOS 18.4 and up) How to use: 1. Add sprites/images to editor 2. Add new frames 3. Adjust sprites/images to desired locations per frame 4. Watch as Spritelife animates your work 5. Add effects and fine tune for a final product Features: - Customizable projects for separate animations - Pixelation effects - Animation for moving, warping, rotating, and resizing multiple sprites at once - Undo/Redo buttons for ease of use - Adjustable settings for animations and exports - Multiple export formats (GIF, PNGs, Spritesheet) Upcoming additions: - animation timing options (linear, ease in, etc) - warp fine tuning - UX improvements - more!

Screenshots

Spritelife4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Spritelife at Free against Animator Plus's $8.99. Spritelife also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 23 months). Animator Plus's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Spritelife is free to download; Animator Plus costs $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Animator Plus ships an update every 23 months, Spritelife weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Animator Plus versus Spritelife: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnimator PlusSpritelife
Price$8.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 23 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHeng Jia LiangBrandon Dalla Rosa

Customer experience

Animator Plus

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Spritelife

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Animator Plus

No in-app purchases

None

Spritelife

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Animator Plus free?
Animator Plus costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spritelife free?
Spritelife is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Animator Plus or Spritelife have ads?
Spritelife shows ads; Animator Plus does not.
Which is updated more often, Animator Plus or Spritelife?
Animator Plus ships an update every 23 months, and Spritelife weekly. Most recently, Animator Plus was updated on September 19, 2026 and Spritelife on September 24, 2026.

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