Comparison

ToonSquid vs ShapeSpace3D

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

ShapeSpace3D

Features
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**Design Spaces. Create Models. Make It 3D.** ShapeSpace 3D brings home design, 3D modeling, UV editing, and texture painting together in one creative workspace. Whether you're planning a room, building a 3D object, editing UVs, or creating custom textures, ShapeSpace 3D gives you the tools to turn your ideas into 3D designs. ### HOME DESIGN Create and customize your own 3D spaces. • Create rooms and floor plans • Add and edit walls • Arrange doors and windows • Place furniture and objects • Customize materials and surfaces • Preview your design in 3D ### 3D MODELING Create and customize 3D models directly on your device. • Start with basic 3D shapes • Move, rotate, and scale objects • Adjust model dimensions • Edit and customize models • Import your own 3D assets • Access a growing model library ### UV EDITING Prepare your models for custom textures with integrated UV tools. • UV unwrap models • Create and edit seams • Smart seam tools • Manual seam editing • Edit and arrange UV islands • Preview UV changes on your model ### TEXTURE PAINTING Create textures while previewing the result directly on your 3D model. • Paint directly on model textures • Draw on UV maps • Import images as textures • Use brushes and drawing tools • Work with material channels • Manage texture layers • Adjust colors and materials ### ONE WORKSPACE FOR 3D CREATION Move seamlessly between home design, modeling, UV editing, and texture painting without switching between multiple apps. Create a space, customize its objects, edit a model, unwrap its UVs, and design its textures—all within one integrated 3D workflow. ### PRO MEMBERSHIP Upgrade to Pro to unlock additional tools and content, including: • Full home design tools • Advanced 3D modeling and model editing tools • Premium models and furniture assets • Complete UV editing and seam tools • Advanced texture painting tools • Material channels and layers • Additional project and design capacity • Ad-free experience • Access to new Pro features added during your subscription Some features and content may require a Pro subscription. Available tools and supported capabilities may vary by app version. Premium Features Premium features include: access to all widgets, tools, static wallpapers, and live wallpapers; a 100% ad-free experience; automatic data backup; and access to all future premium features. * 【Monthly Membership Details】1. Subscription Period: 1 month 2. Price: 29.99 USD/month 3. Payment: Charged to your iTunes account upon purchase confirmation 4. Cancellation: To cancel the subscription, manually turn off auto-renewal in your iTunes/Apple ID settings at least 24 hours before the current period expires 5. Renewal: Your iTunes account will be charged within 24 hours prior to expiration; upon successful payment, the subscription period extends by one month. * 【Annual Membership Details】1. Subscription Period: 1 year 2. Price: 200 USD/year 3. Payment: Charged to your iTunes account upon purchase confirmation 4. Cancellation: To cancel the subscription, manually turn off auto-renewal in your iTunes/Apple ID settings at least 24 hours before the current period expires 5. Renewal: Your iTunes account will be charged within 24 hours prior to expiration; upon successful payment, the subscription period extends by one year. Subscription Terms: - Your Apple ID will be charged upon subscription confirmation. - Subscription auto-renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before expiry. - You can manage & cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account Settings. Privacy Policy: http://shapespace3d.maskceo.com:21080/2026/08/18/home3dlprivacypolicy/ Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

ShapeSpace3D4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ShapeSpace3D at Free against ToonSquid's $9.99. ToonSquid's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

ShapeSpace3D is free to download; ToonSquid costs $9.99 up front. ShapeSpace3D sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per month. ToonSquid asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ToonSquid versus ShapeSpace3D: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterToonSquidShapeSpace3D
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (1.3K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.3K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKeiwan Donyagard雪松 尹

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

ShapeSpace3D

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

ToonSquid

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

ShapeSpace3D

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Membership$24.991 Month
  • Yearly Membership$200.001 Year

Questions

Is ToonSquid free?
ToonSquid costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ShapeSpace3D free?
ShapeSpace3D is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ToonSquid or ShapeSpace3D have ads?
Neither ToonSquid nor ShapeSpace3D shows ads.

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