AnimCreate vs Layerz Canvas
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AnimCreate
Create 2D and 3D animations with frame-by-frame drawing, bone animation, and 3D camera tools. Import Photoshop brushes and videos to enhance your projects. Offers advanced features for both beginners and professionals.
- Frame-by-frame hand-drawn animation
- Component & bone animation
- 3D hand-drawn and camera movement
- Import Photoshop brushes
- Video import for drawing
- Unlimited layers and frames (premium)
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AnimCreate is an animation creation app that covers amateur to professional levels. 1) Frame-by-frame hand-drawn animation + component&bone animation tools, covering all audiences from amateur to professional. 2) 3D hand-drawn and 3D camera movements make your animation cooler! 3) Support for importing PS (CS6 and above) Abr format brushes, with high fidelity! 4) Import your video and draw! ######################## Hand-drawn function: Powerful brush system, compatible with and supports importing Photoshop(CS6 and above) abr format brushes Unlimited layers, multiple blending modes, lockable transparency and clipping masks Animation function: Supports both hand-drawn and component&bone animation! Support for lens functions and automatic frame compensation Onionskin of each layer can be turned on and off separately Whether you are a novice or a professional user, you can use AnimCreate to create high-quality animations! 3D function: Powerful 3D hand-drawn and 3D camera functions can be used to create 3D illustrations or 3D-like animations. Professional users can use 3D features to build 3D scenes, combined with 2D painting, greatly improving the efficiency of storyboarding! In order to provide you with more advanced features and quality services, AnimCreate has a subscription membership feature that can unlock the following advanced features: Full resolution support High-grade onion skin Unlimited layers Unlimited frames 3D hand-drawn function Import PS brush (*.abr) Automatic frame (tweening) function Lens function Combination function Video import and re-creation Remove watermark Please provide feedback in the APP if you have any questions!
Layerz Canvas
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Layerz Canvas turns a design into a promo video without leaving the document — on iPhone and iPad, with the same files as the Mac app. DESIGN Rectangles, ellipses, polygons, pen paths and text. Frames that clip, groups, constraints that follow resizes, masks, boolean shapes, gradients you edit on the canvas, shadows, blur, glow and grain. Text that flows along a path. Repeaters that lay copies out in grids, rings and rows, and a stack of shape modifiers. Drag any number in the inspector sideways to scrub it. ANIMATE Turn on the timeline, move the playhead and change anything — keyframes are recorded for you. Select many keyframes and move, stretch or reverse them together; snap to keys and markers; shape every curve in the graph editor or pick a named easing. Springs, kinetic type with range selectors, entrance presets, loops and wiggle, counters, shape morphs, 2.5D rotation, camera moves with depth and lens blur, scene transitions and beat markers. Make a layer follow a path, link one property to another, add oscillation, drive keyframes from the music, or let physics drop, bounce and pile things up. Pinch the tracks to zoom; drag clips to move, trim, split and slip them. READY-MADE MOTION Charts that grow from pasted data, code that types itself, a virtual cursor that glides and clicks, iPhone, iPad, Mac window and browser window frames for your screenshots and recordings — flat, or as 3D models you can turn and light, or any USDZ model of your own — particles — confetti, sparkles, snow, bubbles and bursts — and distortion effects: RGB split, glitch, wave and noise warp. SOUND Generate a soundtrack and sound effects that follow what moves on screen, right inside the app. MEDIA Bring in photos and videos from your library, and images, video, sound, SVG, Lottie animations and fonts from the Files app — or drop them onto the canvas. Trim, split and loop clips on the timeline; shape volume with fades. RECORD (iOS 27) Record your screen through the system picker, with narration from the microphone, and the recording lands on the canvas as a video layer. LANGUAGES One document, every language. Add the languages your app ships in, type each text layer's words per language and switch what the canvas shows — the same design, keyframes and all. Export every language from one source: stills for all of them in one go, video in the language you pick. PRESENT Play your animation full screen, or present your frames like slides — with links from one frame to another, auto-advance and transitions. EXPORT PNG, JPEG, SVG and PDF for stills, at the playhead or of just the selection. MP4, MOV (HEVC, with alpha), ProRes 4444, GIF, APNG, PNG sequence, Lottie JSON, animated SVG — and HTML, a web page that plays your animation without a video file, with hover and click states. Export every frame at once. MAC AND IPAD Documents live in iCloud Drive, so you can start on the iPad and finish on the Mac. On iPad, a keyboard brings the Mac's shortcuts and menu bar; the Files app shows thumbnails and Quick Look previews of your documents. LAYERZ CANVAS PRO Pro removes the "Made with Layerz Canvas" mark from video exports and unlocks HEVC with alpha, ProRes 4444, Lottie and HTML export. Available as a monthly or yearly subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase, with Family Sharing — one purchase covers the Mac, iPhone and iPad. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage them in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.layerz.app/canvas/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Layerz Canvas at weekly against AnimCreate's fortnightly. AnimCreate's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.5). On price, 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
Both are free to download. AnimCreate sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year and Layerz Canvas sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
AnimCreate ships an update fortnightly, Layerz Canvas weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AnimCreate | Layerz Canvas |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 佳 罗 | Layerz Corp. |
In-app purchases
AnimCreate
- Premium Member$19.991 Year
Layerz Canvas
- Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$69.99









