Comparison

Cat Breed Identifier vs Simple Motion

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

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About

Cat Breed Identifier

Instantly identify cat breeds by snapping a photo. Get detailed profiles covering physical traits, personality, health, and care. Explore a community of feline enthusiasts and build your personal collection of identified breeds.

Highlights
  • AI-powered breed identification
  • Detailed breed profiles
  • Community photo sharing
  • Personal breed collection
  • Works with purebreds and mixed breeds
  • Care and health information
Features
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Ever wondered what breed your furry friend is? Just snap a photo and find out instantly. Point your camera at any feline — whether it's your own companion, a neighborhood stray, or a friend's kitten — and get a detailed breed profile in seconds. Our AI analyzes coat patterns, facial structure, ear shape, and more to deliver accurate identifications. WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER Every identification comes with a comprehensive breed profile covering: - Physical traits, coat colors, and distinguishing features - Personality, temperament, and energy levels - Health considerations and lifespan expectations - Diet, grooming, and care recommendations - Breed history, origin, and fun facts - Compatibility with families, children, and other animals - Tips for capturing the best photos EXPLORE THE COMMUNITY Browse identifications shared by fellow feline enthusiasts around the world. Discover breeds you've never seen before and learn what makes each one unique. BUILD YOUR COLLECTION Keep a personal journal of every breed you've identified. Search, sort, and revisit your discoveries anytime. HOW IT WORKS 1. Take a photo or choose one from your library 2. Our AI identifies the breed in seconds 3. Explore the full profile — from personality to care tips Works with purebreds, mixed breeds, kittens, and everything in between.

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

Cat Breed Identifier3 screens
Simple Motion3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Cat Breed Identifier at Free against Simple Motion's $2.99. Cat Breed Identifier also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17 vs 26.0). Simple Motion's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Cat Breed Identifier 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 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Cat Breed Identifier versus Simple Motion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCat Breed IdentifierSimple Motion
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequency—Every 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKawaiiDuncan Pollock

Customer experience

Cat Breed Identifier

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Simple Motion

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

In-app purchases

None

Cat Breed Identifier

No in-app purchases

None

Simple Motion

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cat Breed Identifier free?
Cat Breed Identifier 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, Cat Breed Identifier or Simple Motion?
Simple Motion is rated higher. Cat Breed Identifier averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Simple Motion averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Cat Breed Identifier or Simple Motion have ads?
Neither Cat Breed Identifier nor Simple Motion shows ads.

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