ToonSquid vs Paint.Ms
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Paint.Ms
A straightforward raster graphics editor for basic image editing. It supports common file formats like BMP, JPEG, GIF, and PNG. Ideal for simple image manipulation and digital art creation.
- Raster graphics editing
- Supports BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF
- Color and black-and-white modes
- Simple image manipulation
- Digital art creation
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Paint is a simple, fun drawing app for quick everyday image editing — from a few doodles to detailed artwork. Easy for beginners, handy for everyone. CREATE & EDIT • Draw freely with many brushes: pencil, brush, calligraphy pen & brush, crayon, watercolour, neon, glow, splatter, airbrush, and more • Adjust brush size and opacity for the perfect stroke • Shapes made easy: line, curve, rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, polygon • Fill tool, eraser, eyedropper (pick any color), and zoom & pan • Add text with a huge collection of stylish fonts • Select, move, and edit parts of your image • Unlimited undo & redo COLORS & THEMES • Rich color palette plus a full HSV color picker • Create and save your own custom color palettes • Switch app themes — colors and icon styles — to make it yours • Download extra theme packs WORK WITH YOUR IMAGES • Draw in full color or classic black-and-white • Transparent background support • Import photos to edit or draw over • Save and open as PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, or TIFF • Save to Photos or share anywhere GO VIP • Unlock every premium theme • Enjoy an ad-free experience Start painting today — no fuss, just fun.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ToonSquid at 89% against Paint.Ms's 30%. ToonSquid also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Paint.Ms's advantage is price (Free vs $9.99) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 weeks). On ads, 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
Paint.Ms is free to download; ToonSquid costs $9.99 up front. Paint.Ms sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ToonSquid asks for nothing beyond the download.
ToonSquid holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ToonSquid has 1.3K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of ToonSquid's written reviews are positive against 30% of Paint.Ms's.
ToonSquid ships an update every 2 weeks, Paint.Ms every 8 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | ToonSquid | Paint.Ms |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.3K ratings) — better | 3.3 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.6% of reviews — better | 30.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Keiwan Donyagard | Du Nguyen Viet |
Customer experience
ToonSquid
Paint.Ms
Bugs and 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
Paint.Ms
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ToonSquid
No in-app purchases
Paint.Ms
- Vip No Ads and Icon$3.99









