Comparison

Animation Creator HD 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 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.

Highlights
  • Intuitive drawing tools
  • Frame management and onion skinning
  • Layer support
  • Export to video and GIF
  • Audio manager
  • Import backgrounds and layers
Features
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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.

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

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Stick Nodes at Free against Animation Creator HD's $3.99. Stick Nodes also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.9) and review sentiment (85% vs 58%). Animation Creator HD's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 14.0). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Stick Nodes is free to download; Animation Creator HD costs $3.99 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 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stick Nodes has 15K ratings behind it against 1.8K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Animation Creator HD's written reviews are positive against 85% of Stick Nodes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Animation Creator HD ships an update every 3 months, Stick Nodes every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Animation Creator HD versus Stick Nodes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnimation Creator HDStick Nodes
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating3.9 (1.8K ratings)4.6 (15K ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.2% of reviews84.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.8K15K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, 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 HD

All ratings1,784 ratings
Positive70.6%
Neutral12.6%
Negative16.8%
Written reviews294 reviews
Positive58.2%
Neutral20.1%
Negative21.8%

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 HD

From 1.8K App Store ratings

What 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

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 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

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 HD

No in-app purchases

None

Stick Nodes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Animation Creator HD free?
Animation Creator HD costs $3.99, 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 HD or Stick Nodes?
Stick Nodes is rated higher. Animation Creator HD averages 3.9 out of 5 from 1.8K ratings, while Stick Nodes averages 4.6 from 15K ratings.
Do Animation Creator HD or Stick Nodes have ads?
Neither Animation Creator HD nor Stick Nodes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Animation Creator HD or Stick Nodes?
Animation Creator HD ships an update every 3 months, and Stick Nodes every 2 weeks. Most recently, Animation Creator HD was updated on October 23, 2026 and Stick Nodes on October 27, 2026.

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