Comparison

Sculpt It 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

Sculpt It

Shape and mold a virtual sphere with intuitive touch gestures or a mouse. Experiment with various tools and visual options to bring your 3D creations to life. Save, organize, and share your sculpted masterpieces in a personal gallery.

Highlights
  • Intuitive touch and mouse sculpting
  • Adjustable brush size and strength
  • Sculpting and viewing modes
  • Color, wireframe, and shading options
  • Save and manage sculptures in a gallery
  • Dark mode and sound effects
Features
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Sculpt It is an intuitive and creative 3D sculpting playground designed for all ages. Shape, mold, and transform a virtual sphere using natural touch gestures or your mouse. Switch between sculpting and viewing modes, experiment with brush size and strength, and bring your creations to life with color, wireframe, and shading options. Save your favorite sculptures, explore your personal gallery, and share your masterpieces. With interactive controls, real-time lighting, and a playful interface, Sculpt It makes 3D modeling accessible and fun—anytime, anywhere. Features: Touch and drag to sculpt a 3D sphere in real time Adjustable brush radius and strength for precise control Switch between sculpting and view modes Color picker, wireframe, and flat shading options Save, name, and rate your sculptures in a personal gallery Generate random shapes for inspiration Dark mode and sound effects for an immersive experience Optimized for both mobile and desktop devices Unleash your creativity and start sculpting in 3D today!

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

Sculpt It4 screens
Simple Motion3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sculpt It at Free against Simple Motion's $2.99. Sculpt It also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 8 days) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). Simple Motion's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Sculpt It is free to download; Simple Motion costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Simple Motion holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sculpt It ships an update every 3 days, Simple Motion every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Sculpt It versus Simple Motion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSculpt ItSimple Motion
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating3.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 8 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPaul ThorntonDuncan Pollock

Customer experience

Sculpt It

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

Simple Motion

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

In-app purchases

None

Sculpt It

No in-app purchases

None

Simple Motion

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sculpt It free?
Sculpt It is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simple Motion free?
Simple Motion costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sculpt It or Simple Motion?
Simple Motion is rated higher. Sculpt It averages 3.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Simple Motion averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Sculpt It or Simple Motion have ads?
Sculpt It shows ads; Simple Motion does not.
Which is updated more often, Sculpt It or Simple Motion?
Sculpt It ships an update every 3 days, and Simple Motion every 8 days. Most recently, Sculpt It was updated on October 6, 2026 and Simple Motion on October 15, 2026.

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