Comparison

Imagine AI vs Simple Motion

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

Head to head
About

Imagine AI

Unleash your inner artist with an AI-powered drawing experience. Explore dynamic universes, collaborate with intelligent suggestions, and receive instant feedback to create and share your digital masterpieces.

Highlights
  • AI-powered drawing collaboration
  • Explore dynamic pre-designed universes
  • Limitless canvas for endless exploration
  • Instant AI feedback and tips
  • Save and share artwork
  • Join a community of artists
Features
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Welcome to Imagine AI!  Ignite your creativity with the fusion of your imagination and the power of AI. Experience a new era of digital artistry today. Our app, Imagine, introduces an extraordinary drawing adventure beyond traditional limits. Explore Dynamic Universes: Dive into various pre-designed worlds, from magical realms to advanced futuristic settings. Each universe is intricately designed to inspire your art. AI-Powered Drawing: Watch as our advanced AI collaborates with your artistic touch. The app suggests elements, shapes, and colors from your chosen universe, blending your creativity with AI innovation. Endless Exploration: Overcome creative blocks with our limitless canvas. Draw, experiment, and perfect your art, no matter your skill level. The possibilities are endless. Get Instant Feedback: Our AI provides immediate tips and advice as you draw, helping you improve your skills and refine your work. It's like having an AI art mentor by your side. Save and Share Your Art: Easily save and share your masterpieces. Display them on social media or join forces with other artists in our community. Imagine isn't just an app; it's a digital art revolution. Join us now and take your creativity to new heights. Download Imagine and start shaping the future of digital art! https://www.quiet.fun/privacy-policy https://www.quiet.fun/legal-notices/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Imagine AI4 screens
Simple Motion3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Imagine AI at Free against Simple Motion's $2.99. Imagine AI also leads on ratings volume (96 vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 days). Simple Motion's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On 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

Imagine AI is free to download; Simple Motion costs $2.99 up front. Imagine AI sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Simple Motion asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Simple Motion holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Imagine AI has 96 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Imagine AI ships an update every 2 days, Simple Motion every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Imagine AI versus Simple Motion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImagine AISimple Motion
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.2 (96 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings96 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 8 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size208 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShlagDuncan Pollock

Customer experience

Imagine AI

All ratings95 ratings
Positive82.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative17.9%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%

Simple Motion

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Imagine AI

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Full Access!3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Limited Time Offer!$14.991 Year
  • Annual Full Access!$29.991 Year
None

Simple Motion

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Imagine AI free?
Imagine AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simple Motion free?
Simple Motion costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Imagine AI or Simple Motion?
Simple Motion is rated higher. Imagine AI averages 4.2 out of 5 from 96 ratings, while Simple Motion averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Imagine AI or Simple Motion have ads?
Imagine AI shows ads; Simple Motion does not.
Which is updated more often, Imagine AI or Simple Motion?
Imagine AI ships an update every 2 days, and Simple Motion every 8 days. Most recently, Imagine AI was updated on October 21, 2026 and Simple Motion on October 15, 2026.

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