Comparison

Animation Creator HD vs Stick Nodes Pro

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 Pro

Create and export your own stickman animations as GIFs or MP4 videos. This app offers tools for drawing, animating, adding sound effects, and importing images. Join a large community of animators and share your creations.

Highlights
  • Create stickman animations
  • Export as GIF or MP4
  • Add sound effects
  • Import images for animation
  • Customizable frame-tweening
  • Movieclips for reusable objects
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 export them as animated videos (GIF or MP4)! It is one of the most popular animation apps among young animators! ■ This is the PRO VERSION of Stick Nodes. Extra Pro features include ■ ◆ No startup ad ◆ No watermark on exports ◆ Add sound effects to frames ◆ Export to MP4 video (not just GIF) ◆ More stickfigure filters (blur, glow, and more) ■ 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

Stick Nodes Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Stick Nodes Pro at 4.8 against Animation Creator HD's 3.9. Stick Nodes Pro also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 58%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). Animation Creator HD's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 14.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Animation Creator HD costs $3.99 and Stick Nodes Pro $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 Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.8K and 6.6K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Animation Creator HD's written reviews are positive against 91% of Stick Nodes Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Animation Creator HD ships an update every 3 months, Stick Nodes Pro every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Animation Creator HD versus Stick Nodes Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnimation Creator HDStick Nodes Pro
Price$3.99$3.99
Rating3.9 (1.8K ratings)4.8 (6.6K ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.2% of reviews91.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.8K6.6K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#9 — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS10.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size140 MB129 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 Pro

All ratings6,584 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral1.8%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews1,065 reviews
Positive91.4%
Neutral3.7%
Negative5.0%

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 Pro

From 6.6K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Top two animation software
  • 🚀 Very fun and highly recommended
  • 👍 Highly recommend for beginners and pros
  • 👍 Recommended for animating without drawing
  • 👍 Worth the money

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes when saving
  • 🐛 Sounds not working
  • 🐛 Glitch with importing custom files
  • 🐛 App crashes when opening project
  • 🐛 Glitch with movie clips and tweening

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 Pro

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Stick figure demon jumpscare
  • Glitch where downloaded stickfigures don't show up
  • Crashing when trying to select background images

Requested features

16 requests
  • Auto save feature
  • Ability to tint stickfigure without affecting outline
  • Option to import custom sounds
  • Layering for individual segments
  • More onion skin frames
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  • Ability to record own voice and sounds
  • 3D/360 mode
  • Speed up mode
  • Ability to copy/paste stickfigure effects
  • Folders to organize imported files
  • Ability to view animation layers
  • Option to make custom tweened frames
  • Ability to change frames per second
  • Ability to import background videos for reference
  • Multiplayer collaboration
  • Ability to draw custom shapes and props

In-app purchases

None

Animation Creator HD

No in-app purchases

None

Stick Nodes Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Animation Creator HD free?
Animation Creator HD costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stick Nodes Pro free?
Stick Nodes Pro costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Animation Creator HD or Stick Nodes Pro?
Stick Nodes Pro is rated higher. Animation Creator HD averages 3.9 out of 5 from 1.8K ratings, while Stick Nodes Pro averages 4.8 from 6.6K ratings.
Do Animation Creator HD or Stick Nodes Pro have ads?
Neither Animation Creator HD nor Stick Nodes Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Animation Creator HD or Stick Nodes Pro?
Animation Creator HD ships an update every 3 months, and Stick Nodes Pro every 2 weeks. Most recently, Animation Creator HD was updated on October 17, 2026 and Stick Nodes Pro on October 20, 2026.

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