Animation Sketch Pro vs Animteam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Animation Sketch Pro
Create hand-drawn 2D animations with precise control using Apple Pencil and iPad. This app offers an intuitive workflow for both beginners and experienced animators, with features like layer management, color fill, and frame manipulation.
- Hand-drawn animation
- Apple Pencil support
- Layer workflow
- Automatic color fill
- Frame manipulation
- Import/export MP4, GIF, JPG
- Audio import
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Animate your dreams and bring them to life! An extremely fast hand-drawn animation software using Apple Pencil and iPad for precise brush control and intuitive workflow. Animators will love the simplicity and ease of use which lets them quickly sketch out animations and beginners can focus on improving their drawing and timing. Animation Sketch works seamlessly on all models of iPad. Color your line animations easily with colors automatically going below black lines. Layer workflow means you can seamlessly switch between rough and finished layers. Static layers for layout and background makes scene planning easy. Adding, inserting and duplicating frames is very easy with intuitive UI and drag-drop functionality. Videos and scene files teaching the 12 basic principles of animation included for free. Compatible with Apple Pencil 1st and 2nd Generation. Visit www.animationsketch.net for tutorials, sample works and technical manual. * Color fill automatically goes under black lines for fast coloring * Rough, Layout and background layers for scene planning * Change FPS speed * MP4 ,GIF and JPG import/export for easy rotoscopy and timing * Audio Import .MP3 and .WAV, Scrub in timeline and export out with MP4 * Onion skinning, auto-save and animated previews * Bundled demo scenes and videos for learning * Export and import animation scene files locally * Non-linear background color adjustment * Expert mode and scrub button for fast and interactive timing Animation Sketch is developed by Appy Monkeys, an award winning app developer with over 10 million downloads globally across all platforms and with an extensive suite of user friendly and power creativity apps.
Animteam
Create and manage animated projects with a team. This platform offers digital painting, frame-by-frame animation, and cloud-based storage for seamless collaboration across devices. Organize shots, manage team roles, and utilize advanced layer and timeline features for professional animation workflows.
- Real-time team collaboration
- Digital painting with layers
- Frame-by-frame 2D animation
- Timeline scrubbing and playback
- Cloud-based project storage
- Team role management
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Overview: The Animteam mobile app platform provides tools to help animation studios scale with realtime collaboration and team building. The app provides tools for digital painting, animating on a timeline and managing teams. All animated projects are saved in the cloud and available across devices. Animteam supports frame-by-frame hand drawn 2D animation at 24 frames per second and 720p HD video resolution. Organization: Each Animteam film is organized into an ordered list of shots that can be created, deleted, duplicated, renamed or rearranged. Shots are opened and edited independently one at a time. Team management: Each film has a list of team members. Team members are invited to collaborate via email. Team members can either have the role of an admin or artist. Newly added team members are assigned to the role of artist by default. Canvas: The canvas is for drawing artwork. A finger or stylus may be used to draw. A slider on the right changes the current brush width. Widths from 1px to 1024px are supported. The following finger gestures are supported: 1-finger painting 2-finger freeform canvas transform 3-finger pinch to zoom 2-finger tap to undo 3-finger tap to redo 3-finger hold to show clipboard menu 3-finger swipe to reset canvas transform Layers: Digital painting is layers based. Each layer has a name, opacity, blend mode and visibility. Layers are stacked and rendered from bottom to top. Layers can be grouped, clipped, masked or merged. An image from the device can be added as its own layer. Sequences: Each sequence is a separate frame-by-frame animation. Sequences are stacked and rendered from bottom to top. Each sequence can be hidden or looped. Each sequence is made up of an ordered list of drawings each of which can be hidden, frame-held and reordered. Each drawing is made up of its own set of layers. Timeline: The timeline shows the current frame and current second of animation. The shot can be played forward or backward and the drawings of the current sequence can be stepped through. The time cursor can be dragged to scrub the animation. The timeline supports the following gestures: 1-finger tap to go to a point on the timeline 2-finger pinch to zoom 1-finger swipe to reset the timeline Color picker: Colors are selected as RGB, HSV and HSL using square and circle color pickers, or sliders. A hex value can be entered and the current opacity is set with a slider. A color palette is used to store colors for later retrieval. The eyedropper tool samples the canvas and automatically sets the current color. Move tool: When the move tool is enabled, the existing set of selected layers are transformed by dragging with one finger to translate or using two fingers to transform in freeform. Shapes: A hold while closing a shape will create circles, ellipses and polygonal shapes. Shapes can be translated and transformed in freeform using one and two fingers respectively. Brush settings: Each brush is made up of a brush tip image that is set to a spacing, rotation and squash value. The brush strokes palette provides a place to store brush settings for later use. A drawable brush preview is used to show how the current brush looks. The eraser tool is used to erase and has its own brush set and settings. Onion skinning: Onion skinning is a way to show faded out versions of the previous and subsequent drawings of the current sequence. Up to 6 drawings before and after can be onion skinned and the opacity and color of each can be changed. Cloud: The cloud icon in the upper right corner indicates if all changes are saved, saving or unable to be saved. The shot can be reloaded from the cloud by clicking on the cloud icon and confirming. Clipboard: The clipboard menu is activated by a 3-finger hold. For copy and cut, all selected layers are merged and saved to the clipboard. The paste option copies the clipboard to the current layer. Terms of Use: animteam.com/termsofuse.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Animteam at 50% against Animation Sketch Pro's 0%. Animteam also leads on price (Free vs $9.99) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 12 months). Animation Sketch Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (4.2 vs 3.8). On ratings volume, ads 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
Animteam is free to download; Animation Sketch Pro costs $9.99 up front. Animteam sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Animation Sketch Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Animation Sketch Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Animation Sketch Pro's written reviews are positive against 50% of Animteam's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Animation Sketch Pro ships an update every 12 months, Animteam every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Animation Sketch Pro | Animteam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better | 3.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #191 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 365 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arjun Gupte | Victor Williamson |
Customer experience
Animation Sketch Pro
Animteam
In-app purchases
Animation Sketch Pro
No in-app purchases
Animteam
- Monthly$9.991 Month
- Yearly$99.991 Year
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