Table Game Toolbox vs Simple Motion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Table Game Toolbox
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Table Game Toolbox is a collection of small multi-use tools to aid with your tabletop, charades, home quiz and many other games! It uses a minimalist design and is completely free. Current Tools (as of v1); Timer - a configurable countdown timer with speedkey times Buzzer Button - a 'gameshow' style buzzer with configurable sounds Dice - a configurable multi-die roller with multiple banks. Set up your bank of dice from D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, D20 and D100, then roll just one or the whole bank. Shake to roll! We don't have a tool that could help with your games? Get in touch and we'll see if we can add it - or maybe you've found an odd use for one of our tools? We'd love to hear!
Simple Motion
Create hand-drawn animations with a focus on traditional animation techniques. Features include a drawing canvas, timeline, onion skinning, and multiple layer types for various animation styles. Ideal for learning and creating animations on mobile devices.
- Hand-drawn animation tools
- Onion skinning for frame-by-frame animation
- Timeline with frame manipulation
- Multiple layer types (drawing, stop motion, video, audio)
- Apple Pencil support with pressure and tilt
- Shape recognition and paint fill
- Reference image/video pinning
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Draw a frame. Draw the next one. Press play. Simple Motion is a hand-drawn animation studio for iPad and iPhone, built around the way animation is actually taught — a stack of drawings, a timeline, and an onion skin to keep it all moving. Everything a student needs is one tap away, and everything they don't need stays out of the way. **Draw with Apple Pencil, the way it should feel** Ink is pure PencilKit, so it's as fast and as natural as writing on paper, pressure, tilt, double-tap, the lot. Pinch to zoom, twist to rotate the canvas to a comfortable angle, and tap four fingers to hide every tool and see only your drawing. Shape recognition turns a wobbly circle into a clean one when you hold still at the end of a stroke, and the paint fill tool floods an outline in a single tap. **See your animation move while you draw it** Onion skin ghosts the frames either side in red and blue, with independent counts for before and after. Flip and roll through neighbouring frames to check your motion — the fundamental animator's flick, now a button. Playback runs at your project's frame rate with a scrubbable playhead, custom in and out points, and looped ranges. **A timeline that works like a real dope sheet** Pinch the timeline to zoom through five sizes; past the middle rung every cell shows a thumbnail of the drawing on it. Hold a drawing across frames, build cycles and ping-pongs from a range, drag frames to reorder them, copy and paste between layers and projects, and use select mode to act on a batch at once. Named, coloured markers keep track of beats and dialogue. **Layers for every kind of animation** Eight layer types: Drawing, Stop Motion, Image, Video, Audio, Guide, Adjustment and Annotation. Shoot claymation with the built-in stop-motion camera and its ghost alignment overlay. Rotoscope over an imported video, sampled on ones, twos or threes. Add a soundtrack and trim, cut and slide it against the picture. Drop in a Guide layer for motion arcs and timing charts that appear over everything and never export. Reorder, hide, lock, merge, duplicate, and set opacity or blend modes per layer. **Colour, assets and references, always to hand** A floating colour palette you can drop anywhere on screen, with a proper picker, an eyedropper with a magnifier, and your five most recent colours one tap away. Build a library of reusable drawings — mouth shapes for lip-sync, a set of hands, a logo — stored with the project and stamped onto the canvas as real, editable ink. Move a whole library between projects as a single file. Pin a reference photo or video in a floating panel, zoom into a detail, and pick colours straight off it. **Made for a classroom** Organise the gallery into folders by class or assignment, search across all of them at once, and sort by name or by what was opened last. Save any project as a template, hand it out, and every student who taps it starts a fresh copy with the canvas size, frame rate and guide layers already set — the original is never drawn on. Back up a project to a single file to collect, archive or move between iPads. **Share it however you need** Export an animated GIF, an MP4 with its soundtrack, a sprite sheet, a single PNG frame, or a numbered image sequence with your choice of naming convention. Stills and sequences can keep a transparent background for use elsewhere. Every export renders at full resolution, whatever quality you preview at. **Nothing is ever lost** Every action that changes a drawing can be undone, several steps back, from the toolbar or the snackbar that appears the moment something is deleted. Two fingers to undo, three to redo, straight on the canvas. Twelve drawings and an idea is all it takes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Table Game Toolbox at Free against Simple Motion's $2.99. Table Game Toolbox also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). Simple Motion's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 5 weeks). On 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
Table Game Toolbox is free to download; Simple Motion costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Table Game Toolbox ships an update every 5 weeks, Simple Motion every 8 days. Both last shipped on October 15, 2026.
| Parameter | Table Game Toolbox | Simple Motion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AW Games | Duncan Pollock |
In-app purchases
Table Game Toolbox
No in-app purchases
Simple Motion
No in-app purchases
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