Comparison

ToonSquid vs VirtuCamera 2

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
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

VirtuCamera 2

This tool captures device motion and streams it in real-time to your favorite 3D software. Animate cameras with smooth motion and control playback directly from your device. Ideal for previs, layout, and animation tasks.

Highlights
  • Real-time viewport streaming
  • Device motion capture
  • Remote scene control
  • Up to 60 FPS capture
  • Camera animation smoothing
  • Encrypted Wi-Fi connection
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An essential tool for Previs and Layout Artists, Animators and any 3D Artist that needs to animate a camera. Move your device in any direction, VirtuCamera will capture the motion and instantly send it over Wi-Fi to the camera in your favorite DCC. - Live Viewport Streaming See your scene through the App in real time. VirtuCamera streams the viewport over Wi-Fi so you don’t miss any detail. - Control the scene from the App Control the playback, choose from your scene cameras, animate the focal length or scale camera movements to travel long distances. - Up to 60 FPS Device motion and viewport streaming are captured and sent at up to 60 frames per second. You can configure this parameter at your needs. - Camera Smoothing Remove unwanted hand noise and create smooth camera animations. - Encrypted Connection Ensures modern, industry-standard encryption for maximum protection. Keeps your video streams fully private between the server (DCC plugin), and app. Specially created for Movies, Series, Games and any other IP protected project. Because your privacy is important to us. - New Pro features! - on Screen joysticks, support for bluetooth gamepads, slider presets, custom scripts, custom sliders, dolly zoom mode, extra camera controls and rule of thirds grid overlay. This app requires an external 3D content creation software to work, please take a look at the following minimum system requirements: - A computer powerful enough to play your 3D scenes. - A recent version of Windows®, MacOS® or Linux® operating system. - A stable network connection. - The latest version of the plug-in provided in our webpage. - One of the following DCC softwares: Blender®: 4.5 LTS, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 LTS Autodesk® Maya®: 2026, 2027 SideFX® Houdini®: 20.5(QT6), 21.0, 22.0 Maxon® Cinema4D®: 2026 Autodesk® 3dsMax®: 2026, 2027 Foundry® Nuke®: 16, 17 Here you can find the installation guide for the plugin: https://virtucamera.com/how-tos/ Terms And Conditions: https://virtucamera.com/terms-and-conditions

Screenshots

VirtuCamera 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ToonSquid at $9.99 against VirtuCamera 2's $19.99. ToonSquid also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). VirtuCamera 2's advantage is chart position (#10 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

ToonSquid costs $9.99 and VirtuCamera 2 $19.99 up front. VirtuCamera 2 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 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 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ToonSquid has 1.3K ratings behind it against 13, 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 56% of VirtuCamera 2's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ToonSquid ships an update every 2 weeks, VirtuCamera 2 every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
ToonSquid versus VirtuCamera 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterToonSquidVirtuCamera 2
Price$9.99 — better$19.99
Rating4.6 (1.3K ratings) — better3.3 (13 ratings)
Positive reviews88.6% of reviews — better56.3% of reviews
Number of ratings1.3K — better13
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#10 — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKeiwan DonyagardThe Weird Byte SL

Customer experience

ToonSquid

All ratings1,286 ratings
Positive91.6%
Neutral3.3%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews1,149 reviews
Positive88.6%
Neutral4.7%
Negative6.7%

VirtuCamera 2

All ratings13 ratings
Positive53.8%
Neutral7.7%
Negative38.5%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive56.3%
Neutral12.5%
Negative31.3%

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

VirtuCamera 2

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

ToonSquid

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

VirtuCamera 2

Subscriptions3
  • Pro Indie Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Pro Indie Yearly$99.001 Year
  • Pro Business Yearly$990.001 Year

Questions

Is ToonSquid free?
ToonSquid costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is VirtuCamera 2 free?
VirtuCamera 2 costs $19.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ToonSquid or VirtuCamera 2?
ToonSquid is rated higher. ToonSquid averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while VirtuCamera 2 averages 3.3 from 13 ratings.
Do ToonSquid or VirtuCamera 2 have ads?
Neither ToonSquid nor VirtuCamera 2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ToonSquid or VirtuCamera 2?
ToonSquid ships an update every 2 weeks, and VirtuCamera 2 every 3 weeks. Most recently, ToonSquid was updated on October 25, 2026 and VirtuCamera 2 on October 25, 2026.

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