Animation Creator vs Animation Creator Express
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Animation Creator
Create stunning animations with powerful drawing tools and intuitive frame management. Export your creations as video or GIF, and share them with a global community. Unleash your creativity with infinite frames and layers.
- Infinite frames and animations
- Export to video and GIF
- Multi-layer support
- Advanced drawing tools
- Frame management and scrubbing
- Onion skinning
- Audio manager
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What do you get when you combine the most popular drawing apps and the #1 hottest animation app? - Animation Creator! Easily Create Awesome Animations any time! An "App Store Essential: Painting & Drawing" Plus, Share Animations on Cineverse* for Free! Animation Creator HD allows your creativity to come to life on your iPad or iPad Mini. Be the director! Simple, yet powerful drawing tools, color options, and easy frame management, limited only by your imagination! Create amazing, life-like animations with Retina quality and the high frame rate playback of Animation Creator HD! The only Animation Brand to hit the Top 10! Animation Creator's Amazing Honors: App Store Essentials: Painting & Drawing! #1 Paid Entertainment App! #10 Top Overall Paid Apps! Apple Staff Favorite! Apple Retail Store Featured Display! App Store 'What's Hot' in 50 Countries! • Ultra HD 4K, 1920x1080, 1280x720 & more! • No limits, Infinite frames and animations • Export to Video and share • Export to Animated GIF and share • Email Project and share • Audio Manager tool • Import background/layer from Photo Library and Camera • Layers, highly configurable • Superior frame management • Animation scrub tool • Smooth, high-quality drawing experience • Full screen editing, no annoying tools in the way • Paint brush, with various stroke types • Pencil • Pen, with ink flow effect • Spray can • Eraser • Line • Rectangle • Fill, with adjustable tolerance • Line width selection • Circle • Select/Cut/Copy/Paste/Scale • Undo/Redo - no limit! • Frame positioning and rotation • Color selection palettes, sliders, and wheels • Zooming and panning • On the fly frame rate adjustment • 'Onion Skinning', overlay of previous/next frame * Cineverse is a cloud-based photo & video social site where users freely share and enjoy creative content with others around the world. Right to access Cineverse is offered only to registered iTunes users who are of appropriate age under applicable law in their territory, please contact miSoft or iTunes support with questions. =================================== *Please rate this app!* Your kind Ratings help keep the updates coming! Thanks to everyone for your support! =================================== New features are planned regularly, including more drawing tools, more animation sharing methods, photo importing, and much much more! Thanks to everyone for their feedback, we listen! All Data & Info ©, ™, ® 2008/2020 miSoft, LLC.
Animation Creator Express
Create and animate your own drawings with intuitive tools. This app offers a powerful yet simple drawing experience with frame management and sharing options. Bring your imagination to life with high-quality animations.
- Easy frame management
- Powerful drawing tools
- High-quality animation playback
- Export to video and GIF
- Layer support
- Onion skinning
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What do you get when you combine the most popular iPad drawing apps and the #1 hottest animation app? - Animation Creator! Easily Create Awesome Animations any time! An "App Store Essential: Painting & Drawing" Plus, Share Animations on Cineverse* for Free! Animation Creator HD allows your creativity to come to life on your iPad or iPad Mini. Be the director! Simple, yet powerful drawing tools, color options, and easy frame management, limited only by your imagination! Create amazing, life-like animations with Retina quality and the high frame rate playback of Animation Creator HD! The only Animation Brand to hit the Top 10! Animation Creator's Amazing Honors: App Store Essentials: Painting & Drawing! #1 Paid Entertainment App! #10 Top Overall Paid Apps! Apple Staff Favorite! Apple Retail Store Featured Display! App Store 'What's Hot' in 50 Countries! Express Version Limitations: • Embedded advertisements • 2 animations • 15 frames per animation • Ultra HD 4K, 1920x1080, 1280x720 & more! • No limits, Infinite frames and animations • Export to Video and share • Export to Animated GIF and share • Email Project and share • Audio Manager tool • Import background/layer from Photo Library and Camera • Layers, highly configurable • Superior frame management • Animation scrub tool • Smooth, high-quality drawing experience • Full screen editing, no annoying tools in the way • Paint brush, with various stroke types • Pencil • Pen, with ink flow effect • Spray can • Eraser • Line • Rectangle • Fill, with adjustable tolerance • Line width selection • Circle • Select/Cut/Copy/Paste/Scale • Undo/Redo - no limit! • Frame positioning and rotation • Color selection palettes, sliders, and wheels • Zooming and panning • On the fly frame rate adjustment • 'Onion Skinning', overlay of previous/next frame * Cineverse is a cloud-based photo & video social site where users freely share and enjoy creative content with others around the world. Right to access Cineverse is offered only to registered iTunes users who are of appropriate age under applicable law in their territory, please contact miSoft or iTunes support with questions. =================================== *Please rate this app!* Your kind Ratings help keep the updates coming! Thanks to everyone for your support! =================================== New features are planned regularly, including more drawing tools, more animation sharing methods, photo importing, and much much more! Thanks to everyone for their feedback, we listen! All Data & Info ©, ™, ® 2008/2020 miSoft, LLC.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Animation Creator Express at Free against Animation Creator's $1.99. Animation Creator's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 3.1) and review sentiment (82% vs 45%). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Animation Creator Express is free to download; Animation Creator costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Animation Creator holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 546 and 306 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Animation Creator's written reviews are positive against 45% of Animation Creator Express's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. Both last shipped on September 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Animation Creator | Animation Creator Express |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (546 ratings) — better | 3.1 (306 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.6% of reviews — better | 45.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 546 — better | 306 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #167 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 | 10.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 140 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | miSoft | miSoft |
Customer experience
Animation Creator
Animation Creator Express
User reviews
Animation Creator
From 546 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 👍 Intuitive interface
- 💡 Lots of creative possibilities
- 🚀 Smooth animation
- 👍 Good value for money
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 🔧 Limited tools and features
- 🔧 Difficult to draw precise details
- 🔧 Inconvenient layer and frame management
Animation Creator Express
From 306 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 👍 Good for beginners
- ⭐ Great animation features
- ✨ Fun and creative
Room to improve
- 🔒 Limited features in free version
- 🐛 Crashes and glitches
- 💰 Paywall for full version
- 📤 Difficult to export animations
Bugs and requests
Animation Creator
Reported bugs
4 issues- Layers disappearing during animation
- Unexpected crashes when using certain features
- Blurry or distorted images when importing
- Unresponsive or glitchy zoom and panning
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to import audio files
- Improve zooming and canvas rotation functionality
- Implement more brush options and color palettes
- Add selection and transformation tools
- Enhance frame duplication and rearrangement
Animation Creator Express
Reported bugs
3 issues- Zooming leaves marks on screen
- Exporting to YouTube doesn't work
- Frequent crashes when using certain features
Requested features
4 requests- More frames per animation
- Ability to save animations to camera roll
- Add audio/music support
- Improved drawing tools and brushes
In-app purchases
Animation Creator
No in-app purchases
Animation Creator Express
No in-app purchases
Questions
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