Comparison

ToonSquid vs Prisma3D

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

Head to head
About

ToonSquid

This powerful 2D art and animation studio for iPad combines traditional frame-by-frame animation with keyframe animation for layer properties. It offers a robust layer system, customizable brushes, vector shapes, animatable effects, and symbols to bring your creative visions to life.

Highlights
  • Frame-by-frame traditional animation
  • Keyframe animation for layer properties
  • Flexible layer system with blend modes
  • Customizable brushes with Apple Pencil support
  • Vector shapes and path tools
  • Animatable effects and inverse kinematics
  • Symbol workflow for reusable clips
Features
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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.

About

Prisma3D

Create 3D models and animated scenes with this intuitive tool. It offers a model store for characters and animations, and guides beginners through the process while providing advanced features for experienced users.

Highlights
  • Create 3D models and animated scenes
  • 3D object library and model store
  • Import various 3D file formats
  • Animate with keyframes on a timeline
  • Rigging and skinning capabilities
  • Build motion graphics
  • Fast video rendering
Features
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Prisma 3D is an easy-to-use tool to create 3D models and stunning 3D animated scenes. There are no limits to your creativity. Creating 3D worlds becomes even easier with the help of a modelstore, that includes 3D characters and game animations. No experience in 3D design? Don’t worry! - Prisma 3D helps you learn 3D creation step by step, while at the same time providing the full range of 3D animation and 3D modeling possibilities. FEATURES - Add 3D objects, models, lights & cameras - 3D Object library - Group and manage multiple 3D models - Create custom 3D meshes - Apply textures and colors - Create 3D text for logos and intros - Import files (.gltf, .fbx, .obj) - Animate with keyframes on a timeline - Fast video rendering - Rigging and skinning - Build motion graphics - Precise camera movement and animation - Lighting and shadow setup Any questions? Please contact us at: info@prisma3d.net
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Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Prisma3D at Free against ToonSquid's $9.99. Prisma3D also leads on chart position (#120 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). ToonSquid's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.4) and review sentiment (89% vs 52%). On ratings volume, update cadence 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

Prisma3D is free to download; ToonSquid costs $9.99 up front. Prisma3D sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. ToonSquid asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ToonSquid holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.3K and 902 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of ToonSquid's written reviews are positive against 52% of Prisma3D's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ToonSquid ships an update every 2 weeks, Prisma3D every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
ToonSquid versus Prisma3D: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterToonSquidPrisma3D
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (1.3K ratings) — better3.4 (902 ratings)
Positive reviews88.6% of reviews — better51.7% of reviews
Number of ratings1.3K — better902
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank—#120 — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB169 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKeiwan DonyagardWondaPix Technologies GmbH

Customer experience

ToonSquid

All ratings1,336 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral3.2%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews1,157 reviews
Positive88.6%
Neutral4.7%
Negative6.7%

Prisma3D

All ratings824 ratings
Positive56.1%
Neutral14.7%
Negative29.2%
Written reviews1,036 reviews
Positive51.7%
Neutral17.3%
Negative31.0%

User reviews

ToonSquid

From 1.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 AMAZING APP!!!
  • 🚀 This is an absolute LIFESAVER
  • 👍 Super solid animation App!
  • 👍 Great app just one suggestion
  • 👍 Absolutely Amazing App

Room to improve

  • 🐛 AMAZING APP!!! One recommendation tho.
  • 🐛 Snapping
  • 🐛 Crashes
  • 🐛 Keyframing doesn't work
  • 🐛 Randomly ill get a warning that i have low memory

Prisma3D

From 902 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great for 3D animation on mobile
  • 👍 High-quality animations
  • 👍 Helpful tutorial
  • 👍 Powerful animation tools and timeline editing

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashing and stability issues
  • 🐛 Texture issues
  • 🐛 Audio import problems
  • 💸 Annoying advertisements

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

Prisma3D

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashing on login
  • Lagging issues

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to move keyframes
  • Improved easing curve settings
  • Copy and paste for keyframes

In-app purchases

None

ToonSquid

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Prisma3D

Subscriptions2
  • Prisma3D Monthly Subscription$12.991 Month
  • Prisma3D Yearly Subscription$59.991 Year

Questions

Is ToonSquid free?
ToonSquid costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Prisma3D free?
Prisma3D is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ToonSquid or Prisma3D?
ToonSquid is rated higher. ToonSquid averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while Prisma3D averages 3.4 from 902 ratings.
Do ToonSquid or Prisma3D have ads?
Prisma3D shows ads; ToonSquid does not.
Which is updated more often, ToonSquid or Prisma3D?
ToonSquid ships an update every 2 weeks, and Prisma3D every 3 weeks. Most recently, ToonSquid was updated on November 5, 2026 and Prisma3D on November 6, 2026.

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