Comparison

Animation Creator vs Stick Nodes

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Infinite frames and animations
  • Export to video and GIF
  • Multi-layer support
  • Advanced drawing tools
  • Frame management and scrubbing
  • Onion skinning
  • Audio manager
Features
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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.

About

Stick Nodes

Create custom stickfigure animations with a user-friendly interface. Import images, add sound effects, and export your creations as GIFs or MP4 videos. Join a vibrant community for inspiration and shared resources.

Highlights
  • Stickfigure animation creation
  • Image import for animation
  • Automatic frame-tweening
  • Camera pan, zoom, and rotate
  • Movieclips for reusable objects
  • Sound effects and filters
  • GIF and MP4 export
Features
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Stick Nodes is a powerful stickman animator app created with mobile devices in mind! Inspired from the popular Pivot stickfigure animator, Stick Nodes allows users to create their own stickfigure-based movies and even export them as animated GIFs and MP4 videos! It is one of the most popular animation apps among young animators! ■ Features ■ ◆ Import and animate images as well! ◆ Automatic customizeable frame-tweening, make your animations smoother! ◆ A simple camera to pan/zoom/rotate around the scene, similar to the "v-cam" in Flash. ◆ Movieclips allow you to create and reuse/loop animation objects within your projects. ◆ A variety of shapes, color/scale on a per-segment basis, gradients - create any "stickfigure" you can imagine! ◆ Textfields allow for easy text and speech in your animations. ◆ Add all kinds of sounds effects to make your animations epic. ◆ Apply different filters to your stickfigures - transparency, blur, glow, and more. ◆ Join stickfigures together to easily simulate holding/wearing objects. ◆ A large community full of all kinds of interesting people and other animators. ◆ Over 30,000+ stickfigures (and counting) to download from the website. ◆ Export to GIF (or MP4 for Pro) to share your animation online. ◆ Compatibility with pre-3.0 Pivot stickfigure files. ◆ Save/open/share your projects, stickfigures, and movieclips. ◆ And all the other typical animation stuff - undo/redo, onion-skin, background images, and more! * Please note, sounds, filters, and MP4-export are Pro-only features ■ Lanuages ■ ◆ English ◆ Español ◆ Français ◆ Japanese ◆ Filipino ◆ Português ◆ Russian ◆ Türkçe Stick Nodes has a thriving community where animators have a good time, help each other out, show off their work, and even create stickfigures for others to use! There are thousands of stickfigures (and more added daily!) over at the main website https://sticknodes.com/stickfigures/ As of one of the latest updates, Stick Nodes is also a Minecraft™ animator as it allows you to easily import Minecraft™ skins and animate them instantly! Search for "stick nodes" on YouTube to see just a few of the thousands of animations users have made with this stickfigure animation app! If you're looking for an animation creator or an animation maker app, this is it! ■ Stay Updated ■ New updates have been never-ending for Stick Nodes since it's original 2014 release. Keep up-to-date with the latest news and updates about your favorite stick figure animation app and join in with the community! ◆ Website: https://sticknodes.com ◆ Facebook: http://facebook.com/sticknodes ◆ Reddit: http://reddit.com/r/sticknodes ◆ Twitter: http://twitter.com/FTLRalph ◆ Youtube: http://youtube.com/FTLRalph Stick Nodes is *the best* simple animation app available on the iOS market! It's a great tool for learning animation, even in a school setting for students or newbies. At the same time, Stick Nodes is robust enough and powerful enough for even the most skilled animator to really showcase their skills! Thank you for trying out Stick Nodes! Leave any questions/comments below or on the main Stick Nodes website! Common questions are already answered on the FAQ page here https://sticknodes.com/faqs/

Screenshots

Animation Creator4 screens
Stick Nodes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Stick Nodes at Free against Animation Creator's $1.99. Stick Nodes also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). Animation Creator's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 14.0). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases 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

Stick Nodes is free to download; Animation Creator costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stick Nodes holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stick Nodes has 15K ratings behind it against 546, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Animation Creator's written reviews are positive against 85% of Stick Nodes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Animation Creator ships an update every 3 months, Stick Nodes every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Animation Creator versus Stick Nodes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnimation CreatorStick Nodes
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (546 ratings)4.6 (15K ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.6% of reviews84.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings54615K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS10.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size140 MB123 MB
Age rating12+4+
DevelopermiSoftForTheLoss Games, Inc

Customer experience

Animation Creator

All ratings546 ratings
Positive85.3%
Neutral7.7%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews370 reviews
Positive81.6%
Neutral10.0%
Negative8.4%

Stick Nodes

All ratings14,519 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral3.0%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews1,406 reviews
Positive84.6%
Neutral5.1%
Negative10.3%

User reviews

Animation Creator

From 546 App Store ratings

What 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

Stick Nodes

From 15K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 User-friendly interface
  • 🎨 Great for beginners
  • 💡 Customizable stick figures
  • 🎥 Smooth animations

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes
  • 🐛 Lag issues
  • 🐛 Bugs with importing/downloading
  • 🐛 Glitches with certain features
  • 💰 Pro version paywall

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

Stick Nodes

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes when downloading stickfigure packs
  • Saving/loading issues with animations
  • Nodes/limbs getting stuck or glitching
  • Unexpected behavior with certain actions

Requested features

7 requests
  • Add tutorial/instructions
  • Improve save/export options
  • Implement account system
  • Expand free version features
  • Add drawing/shading tools
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  • Improve performance on older devices
  • Implement background music support

In-app purchases

None

Animation Creator

No in-app purchases

None

Stick Nodes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Animation Creator free?
Animation Creator costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stick Nodes free?
Stick Nodes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Animation Creator or Stick Nodes?
Stick Nodes is rated higher. Animation Creator averages 4.3 out of 5 from 546 ratings, while Stick Nodes averages 4.6 from 15K ratings.
Do Animation Creator or Stick Nodes have ads?
Neither Animation Creator nor Stick Nodes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Animation Creator or Stick Nodes?
Animation Creator ships an update every 3 months, and Stick Nodes every 2 weeks. Most recently, Animation Creator was updated on October 27, 2026 and Stick Nodes on October 28, 2026.

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