Comparison

NiN10 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

NiN10

Experience classic gaming from NES, SNES, Game Boy, and more on your iOS device. This emulator offers intuitive controls, save states, and advanced features like gesture and voice recognition for an enhanced retro experience.

Highlights
  • Supports NES, SNES, GBA, GB, GBC, FDS
  • Intuitive user-friendly interface
  • Bluetooth controller compatibility
  • Save and load game states
  • Customizable button layouts
  • Gesture and voice recognition controls
  • OCR for on-screen text
Features
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Relive the nostalgia of classic NES, Famicom Disk System, SuperNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64/64DD, Nintendo DS, Virtual Boy gaming on your iOS device (iPhone/iPad/Apple Watch) with NiN10, our NES/Famicom Disk System/SuperNES/Game Boy/Game Boy Color/Game Boy Advance/Nintendo 64/Nintendo DS/Virtual Boy Emulator. Key Features: · High Compatibility: Enjoy a vast library of NES, Famicom Disk System, SuperNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64/64DD, Nintendo DS and Virtual Boy titles using .nes, .fds, .smc, .sfc, .gb, .gbc, .gba, .n64, .z64, .v64, .nds, .n64dd, .ndd, .d64, .vb and .zip file formats. Users are responsible for ensuring that any ROMs they use are legally obtained. · Intuitive Design: Enjoy a user-friendly interface designed for easy navigation and seamless gameplay for both portrait and landscape orientations. · Simplified Experience: Immerse yourself in retro gaming without the clutter of internet connections. · Bluetooth Compatibility: Dive into timeless favorites with seamless compatibility for Bluetooth controllers. · Save States: Save and load game states easily. · Auto-fire: Added switches to enable auto-fire for the A and B buttons. · Customizable button layouts: Edit the button positions for each orientation and enjoy full compatibility with shells like GAMEBABY and PlayCase. · Compact Size: With minimal storage requirements, NiN10 won't weigh down your device. · Privacy Assurance: Rest easy knowing your information remains secure, as NiN10 doesn't save any user data. · Gesture Recognition: Allow users to use facial expressions as buttons to enhance accessibility for those with disabilities. Current gestures include head rotation, eye tracking, left and right eye winking, eyebrow raising, and mouth opening. For better gesture recognition, make sure to be in a well-lit area, have the camera properly framed to your face, and try to keep it steady for accurate detection. · Voice Recognition: Control gameplay actions and button presses using your voice. · OCR: Reads on-screen game text aloud, with optional voice translation. · Screen filters: Enjoy a more authentic and customizable retro experience with CRT and scanline filters. · Fast forward: Speed through gameplay with the new fast forward mode. Relive the magic of NES, Famicom Disk System, SuperNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64/64DD, Nintendo DS, Virtual Boy classics anywhere, anytime, with NiN10 for iOS. * NiN10 is not affiliated with Nintendo in any way. The name "Nintendo" and all associated game console names are registered trademarks of Nintendo Co., Ltd.

About

Simple Motion

Create hand-drawn animations with a digital toolkit designed for ease of use. Features include a timeline, onion skinning, and multiple layer types for diverse animation styles. Ideal for students and hobbyists learning the craft.

Highlights
  • Hand-drawn animation tools
  • Onion skinning for frame reference
  • Scrubbable timeline with frame manipulation
  • Multiple layer types (Drawing, Stop Motion, Video, Audio)
  • Apple Pencil integration with pressure and tilt
  • Shape recognition and paint fill
  • Floating color palette and asset library
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

NiN104 screens
Simple Motion3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: NiN10 at Free against Simple Motion's $2.99. NiN10 also leads on ratings volume (21 vs 2) and device support (4 vs 2). Simple Motion's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 7). On update cadence and ads 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

NiN10 is free to download; Simple Motion costs $2.99 up front. NiN10 sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. 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 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NiN10 has 21 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NiN10 ships an update fortnightly, Simple Motion every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
NiN10 versus Simple Motion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNiN10Simple Motion
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.1 (21 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings21 — better2
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEnrique EnguixDuncan Pollock

Customer experience

NiN10

All ratings21 ratings
Positive76.2%
Neutral14.3%
Negative9.5%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive74.2%
Neutral12.9%
Negative12.9%

Simple Motion

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

In-app purchases

7 purchases

NiN10

One-time7
  • Nintendo DS$0.99
  • Nintendo 64$0.99
  • Virtual Boy$0.99
Show 4 more
  • Game Boy & Game Boy Color$0.99
  • Game Boy Advance$0.99
  • Super Nintendo$0.99
  • NiN10$2.99
None

Simple Motion

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NiN10 free?
NiN10 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, NiN10 or Simple Motion?
Simple Motion is rated higher. NiN10 averages 4.1 out of 5 from 21 ratings, while Simple Motion averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do NiN10 or Simple Motion have ads?
Neither NiN10 nor Simple Motion shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NiN10 or Simple Motion?
NiN10 ships an update fortnightly, and Simple Motion every 9 days. Most recently, NiN10 was updated on November 4, 2026 and Simple Motion on November 9, 2026.

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