Comparison

ToonSquid vs PoseDoll

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

PoseDoll

Features
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Turn photos into the 3D poses you want to draw. PoseDoll is an illustration reference app that lets you transfer a person’s pose from a photo or camera shot onto a 3D drawing mannequin. Rotate the 3D mannequin to check angles that may be difficult to understand from a photo alone. PoseDoll helps reduce the time and effort needed to create poses from scratch, making it easier to prepare references for rough sketches, drafts, and composition planning. [What You Can Do with PoseDoll] • Create 3D poses from photos Import a photo from your device and transfer the person’s pose onto a 3D drawing mannequin. • Capture a pose with your camera Take a photo on the spot and use it to create a 3D pose reference. • View poses from any angle Rotate and zoom the 3D mannequin to find the angle you want to draw. • Adjust poses manually Fine-tune automatically generated poses by moving and rotating body parts. • Save your poses Save created poses to your library and return to them later. • Export as transparent PNG Save the 3D mannequin as a transparent PNG and import it into your illustration software for use as a drawing or sketch reference. [Privacy] Pose estimation runs directly on your device. Your photos are not uploaded to external servers for pose estimation. [Ideal For] • Checking a pose from a slightly different angle than the original photo • Avoiding the hassle of posing a 3D mannequin from scratch • Preparing a 3D reference before starting a rough sketch • Checking the balance and angles of a character pose • Turning your own photos into 3D drawing references [Core Features Unlock] Core features can be unlocked with a one-time purchase. There is no monthly subscription. The unlock includes features such as camera capture, photo import, and the pose library. [Please Note] PoseDoll estimates a person’s pose from a photo and applies it to a 3D mannequin. Depending on the image and shooting conditions, the pose may not always be reproduced accurately. Results may be less stable when: • Parts of the body are hidden • The person appears too small in the image • The photo is taken in a dark environment • Multiple people appear in the image • The pose has significant depth toward or away from the camera You can manually adjust the generated pose in the app as needed.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: PoseDoll at Free against ToonSquid's $9.99. PoseDoll also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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

PoseDoll is free to download; ToonSquid costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ToonSquid ships an update every 2 weeks, PoseDoll every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ToonSquid versus PoseDoll: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterToonSquidPoseDoll
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (1.3K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.3K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB201 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKeiwan DonyagardDonguri App

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

PoseDoll

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

ToonSquid

No in-app purchases

None

PoseDoll

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ToonSquid free?
ToonSquid costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is PoseDoll free?
PoseDoll is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ToonSquid or PoseDoll have ads?
Neither ToonSquid nor PoseDoll shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ToonSquid or PoseDoll?
ToonSquid ships an update every 2 weeks, and PoseDoll every 9 days. Most recently, ToonSquid was updated on October 15, 2026 and PoseDoll on October 2, 2026.

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