Minima Animator vs ToonSquid
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Minima Animator
Create professional 3D animations with an intuitive interface, avoiding expensive software or subscriptions. This tool offers extensive animation control, powerful export options, and character rigging capabilities, all accessible on iPad and Mac.
- Limitless 3D animation creation
- Innovative keyframing system
- Character rigging with skeletons
- Extensive asset library (150+ free)
- 4K resolution export
- Cross-platform compatibility (iPad/Mac)
- Import/export asset directories
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* Do you want to make 3D animations without having to spend hundreds of dollars or subscribe to a service? * Do you want to make 3D animations without having to learn a new, complicated piece of software? Fortunately, Minima Animator is just the simple, powerful 3D animation tool you're looking for. FEATURES: - Rich, limitless 3D animation - Create animations as long as you want - Innovative keyframing system - Complex lighting support - Change the duration of your project at any time - Powerful exporting options - Export to .MOV, .MP4, .GIF, or .PNG sequence - Capable of exporting at 4K resolution - Character rigging - Add skeletons to 3D models to rig characters - Automatically rig character models - Animate rigged characters with quick, clean joint drawer interface - Large library of assets available out-of-the-box - Over 150 completely free assets included - Includes asset management system - Export and import directories of assets - Cross-platform compatibility - Universal purchase (purchase Minima Animator for iPad and receive a free copy for Mac) - Open projects on either iPad or Mac - Sync projects over iCloud Drive - Powerful importing options - Import Minima animations, Minima models, and images anytime - Create your own 3D assets with Minima Sculptor and import them effortlessly - Detailed Help Center - Comprehensive articles about technical concepts and animation practices included in Help Center - Tutorials and example projects available online at MagMHJ.com
ToonSquid
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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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.
Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ToonSquid at 89% against Minima Animator's 52%. ToonSquid also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 45). Minima Animator's advantage is price ($3.99 vs $9.99) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Minima Animator costs $3.99 and ToonSquid $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ToonSquid holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ToonSquid has 1.3K ratings behind it against 45, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Minima Animator's written reviews are positive against 89% of ToonSquid's.
Minima Animator ships an update every 5 days, ToonSquid every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minima Animator | ToonSquid |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (45 ratings) | 4.6 (1.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.0% of reviews | 88.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 45 | 1.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad, Mac — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 155 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MagMHJ | Keiwan Donyagard |
Customer experience
Minima Animator
ToonSquid
Bugs and requests
Minima Animator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
ToonSquid
Reported bugs
7 issues- 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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- 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
Requested features
31 requests- Custom graphs
- Bevel Shading
- Drawing to drawing transform
- Record Audio
- Extract audio from video
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- 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
In-app purchases
Minima Animator
No in-app purchases
ToonSquid
No in-app purchases
Questions
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