Comparison

AnimCreate vs Lineova

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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)
Features
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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!

About

Lineova

Features
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Lineova is a professional drawing and painting studio for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Sketch with natural brushes, ink crisp line art with a true vector pen, paint textures directly onto 3D models and bring your characters to life with frame-by-frame animation — all in one app that feels at home on every screen. BRUSH STUDIO — 40+ HAND-TUNED BRUSHES • Sketching: Sketch Pencil, HB Technical, Charcoal, Pastel, Chalk • Inking: Ink, Dry Ink, Technical Pen, Ballpoint, Chisel Tip, Contour • Drawing: Felt Pen, Highlighter, Tile Brush, Comb • Painting: Watercolor, Oil Paint, Acrylic, Gouache, Flat Brush, Dry Brush, Palette Knife, Soft Blender • Airbrushing: Soft Airbrush, Hard Airbrush, Spray Can, Splatter • Texture & abstract: Rough Canvas, Concrete, Noise, Sparkle, Rainbow • Retouching: Smudge, Soften, soft and hard erasers • Build your own: pressure, tilt, speed, scatter, grain, jitter and wet color mixing; organize favorites in My Brushes DRAW & PAINT • Stroke stabilization and quick shape snapping • Fill, gradient, liquify, smudge and precise selection tools • Color wheel, harmonies and palettes generated from any photo VECTOR PEN • Editable nodes and handles for clean, scalable line art • Ready-made shapes: rectangle, ellipse, triangle, star, arrow • Boolean operations: unite, subtract, intersect, exclude • Dashed and dotted strokes, round or flat caps • Export editable SVG 3D TEXTURE PAINTING • Open OBJ and USDZ models, or start from a sphere, cube, cylinder, cone, torus or capsule • Paint color, roughness, metallic and height channels • Project any image onto the model, paint on the surface or on the UV map • Export USDZ or GLB (glTF) with embedded textures LAYERS & COLOR • Layers, groups, masks, clipping and 25+ blend modes • 16-bit color in linear light with Display P3 • Print gamut warning and color profile proofing COMICS, MANGA & ANIMATION • Comic and manga page templates with panel layouts • Frame-by-frame animation with onion skin • Export animated PNG and a time-lapse of your process BUILT FOR EVERY SCREEN • iPad: Apple Pencil pressure, tilt and hover, docking panels • Mac: full menu bar, keyboard shortcuts, ⌘K command search, right-click menus • iPhone: a one-handed tool dock within thumb reach • Documents sync across your devices with iCloud Drive EXPORT & COMPATIBILITY • PNG, JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, WebP, PDF, APNG and SVG • Layered PSD and OpenRaster — open your work in other pro tools • Import PSD files with their layers Whether you draw anime characters, comics, concept art, fantasy illustrations or print-ready posters, Lineova gives you a studio that grows with your ideas. LINEOVA PREMIUM Unlock every pro brush, unlimited layers, PSD/SVG/PDF/TIFF and animation export, the vector pen, 3D painting, effects, filters and AI upscaling with a weekly or yearly auto-renewable subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://maliksari.github.io/lineova-privacy/privacy.html

Screenshots

AnimCreate4 screens
Lineova4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lineova at none against AnimCreate's 1. AnimCreate's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. AnimCreate sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. Lineova asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
AnimCreate versus Lineova: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnimCreateLineova
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer佳 罗Malık SARI

In-app purchases

1 purchases

AnimCreate

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Member$19.991 Year
None

Lineova

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AnimCreate free?
AnimCreate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lineova free?
Lineova is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do AnimCreate or Lineova have ads?
Neither AnimCreate nor Lineova shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AnimCreate or Lineova?
AnimCreate ships an update fortnightly, and Lineova fortnightly. Most recently, AnimCreate was updated on October 8, 2026 and Lineova on October 19, 2026.

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