Animation Creator HD vs Stickman
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Animation Creator HD
Create and animate your ideas with powerful drawing tools and frame management. Export your creations to video or GIF, and share them with others. Offers advanced features like layers, onion skinning, and audio integration for professional-quality animations.
- Intuitive drawing tools
- Frame management and onion skinning
- Layer support
- Export to video and GIF
- Audio manager
- Import backgrounds and layers
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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 HD! 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. See for yourself why Animation Creator is one of a kind! Take your animations to the next level with Audio and HD! =================================== *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.
Stickman
Create your own cartoons by drawing frame by frame. This app offers an easy-to-use interface, drawing lessons, and the ability to color your creations and add stickers. Save your animations as GIFs to share with friends.
- Frame-by-frame drawing
- Coloring and stickers
- Save as GIF
- Share animations
- Drawing lessons
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Become a real animator with our application: draw frame by frame and turn your drawings into a cartoon. Application features: - Easy to use interface: anyone can create cartoons - Color your drawing and add colorful stickers - Save the result as GIF and share with your friends - Drawing lessons for beginners
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Stickman at Free against Animation Creator HD's $3.99. Animation Creator HD's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (58% vs 40%). On rating, update cadence, 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
Stickman is free to download; Animation Creator HD costs $3.99 up front. Stickman sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Animation Creator HD asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for Animation Creator HD against 3.9 for Stickman. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Animation Creator HD has 1.8K ratings behind it against 322, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 58% of Animation Creator HD's written reviews are positive against 40% of Stickman's.
Animation Creator HD ships an update every 3 months, Stickman every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Animation Creator HD | Stickman |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.9 (1.8K ratings) | 3.9 (322 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.2% of reviews — better | 39.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.8K — better | 322 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 140 MB | 352 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | miSoft | Appache apps and games ltd |
Customer experience
Animation Creator HD
Stickman
User reviews
Animation Creator HD
From 1.8K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Convenient for beginners
- 🚀 Great for quick animations
- 💡 Affordable price point
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 Buggy fill tool
- 🐛 Inconsistent brush strokes
- 🐛 Inability to export animations
- 💡 Limited brush/tool options
Stickman
From 322 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy controls
- 👍 Smooth performance
- 👍 Customizable FPS
- 👍 Fun to use
- 👍 Great for beginners
Room to improve
- 💸 Excessive ads
- 🐛 Glitches and crashes
- 🔍 Limited drawing tools
- 🔍 Restrictive free version
- 🔍 Laggy on some devices
Bugs and requests
Animation Creator HD
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes when trying to export animations
- Upside down animations after device rotation
- Disappearing/glitched animations after updates
- Unresponsive drawing area with Apple Pencil
Requested features
7 requests- Add text feature
- Implement layer management improvements
- Introduce more brush types and customization
- Implement a stabilizer tool
- Allow importing audio files
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- Add scaling/mirroring tools
- Expand onion skinning capabilities
Stickman
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frames disappearing during animation
- Inability to access saved projects
- Loading issues and white screens
- Unexpected app crashes
Requested features
5 requests- Add sound and audio support
- Improve export quality
- Implement more advanced animation tools
- Increase frame limit for free version
- Add ability to move and edit objects
In-app purchases
Animation Creator HD
No in-app purchases
Stickman
- Premium version$10.99
Questions
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