Spritelove vs PuppetPad

Spritelove is a full-featured pixel art and animation studio built for iPad and iPhone. Whether you're creating game sprites, animated characters, or pixel art for fun — everything you need is right here. DRAW WITH PRECISION 13 tools designed for touch: pen, eraser, fill, line, rectangle, circle, move, clone, mirror, eyedropper, rotate, select, and bone rig. Work with 1px or 3x3 brushes. Mirror paint on X, Y, or both axes for instant symmetry. Pinch to zoom up to 30x and two-finger pan across your canvas. PIXEL STAMPS Drop pre-made pixel art stamps directly onto your canvas — characters, emojis, objects, and more. A quick way to prototype scenes or add detail without drawing every pixel from scratch. ANIMATE FRAME BY FRAME Build animations with unlimited layers and frames. Each layer has opacity, visibility, lock, and reorder controls. Use continuous layers that persist across all frames. Clone, clear, copy, paste, and fill-forward frames from the timeline. Set your FPS and watch the live preview update in real time. ADVANCED TIMELINE A full multi-track timeline gives you complete control over your animation. See all layers and frames at a glance, with thumbnails, layer controls, and inline preview. Reorder layers, manage visibility, and scrub through frames — all from one view. BONE RIGGING — ONLY ON MOBILE Spritelove is the only mobile pixel art app with built-in skeletal animation. Place bones, connect them into a hierarchy, and lock the rig. Then pose your character frame by frame — pixels move with the bones. Combine rigs with layers for complex characters and creatures. ONION SKINNING See previous and next frames as translucent overlays while you draw. Toggle color hints to distinguish past from future frames. Enable extended mode to see multiple frames at once. A staple in professional animation, built right in. EXPORT TO ANY ENGINE Export PNG frames, animated GIFs, and spritesheets with JSON metadata in TexturePacker format — compatible with Godot, Unity, Phaser, and most 2D engines. Import and export Aseprite .ase files. Share .spl project files between devices. Export at 1x, 5x, 10x, or 20x resolution. WORKS IN ANY ORIENTATION The entire interface adapts to portrait and landscape on both iPhone and iPad. Rotate for a wider canvas, expanded tools, and maximum drawing space. BLAZING PERFORMANCE Built on Skia - Every stroke, zoom, and frame plays back instantly with no lag. Hardware-accelerated drawing means Spritelove stays smooth even on complex, multi-layer animations. SPRITELOVE PRO The free version includes the full drawing and animation toolset with up to 3 layers, 6 frames, and 32x32 canvas. Upgrade once to unlock everything: • Unlimited layers & frames • Canvas sizes up to 128×128 • All export formats (GIF, spritesheet, Aseprite) • Custom background colors • Unlimited projects • Every future update included No subscriptions. No ads. One purchase, yours forever.

Behind a toy, a powerful animation tool. You stare at one of your drawings and think "I wish this thing would actually move." PuppetPad makes that happen. Plus a few uses you haven't thought of yet. Grab an image. A doodle from Procreate, a photo of your dog, your boss mid yawn, a regrettable selfie. The app opens it, builds an invisible mesh around the figure, and hands you pins. Drag a pin and the figure moves with it. Drag again and it becomes animation. That is the entire workflow. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AN ANIMATOR PuppetPad was made for: . People who want memes more elaborate than Photoshop copy and paste . Parents who want their kid's drawing to actually walk . Graphic designers blocked on what to do with their right hand . Anyone who wants to animate someone's profile picture without their consent . Anyone who wants to animate someone's profile picture WITH their consent . Beginning animators who find Live2D and Spine intimidating (rightfully so) . Pro animators who just want a quick iPad rough . You, who opened the App Store out of boredom HOW IT WORKS 1. Import a PNG. The contour mesh is generated automatically. You won't see it. It just works. 2. Tap anywhere to place a pin. Pins are joints. 3. Drag pins to animate. Every move becomes a keyframe by itself. 4. Hit play. 5. Export as GIF. Send to the family group chat. THINGS PEOPLE END UP MAKING . Characters waving arms like they actually exist . Cat photos performing snake dances . Company logos pulsing like an anxious heart . Kid drawings waving goodbye to grandma over FaceTime . Caricatures of questionable taste . Story vignettes . That one meme that needed that one detail to move . Loading animations for your own app project . Character rough drafts before doing the polished work elsewhere WHAT'S INSIDE THE TOY Underneath the playful surface, PuppetPad runs a real animation engine. Alpha aware mesh generation, an ARAP solver for natural deformation, keyframed timeline, multi pin selection, bone rigs with inverse kinematics, mesh density control, undo and redo via multi finger taps. You don't need to know what any of that means to use the app. But the engineer in you might appreciate that it's there. FEATURES . Apple Pencil supported (works with fingers too, if that's how you live) . iPad landscape, full screen, zero clutter . Works offline . No login, no signup, no newsletter . No ads. Ever. . GIF export . Undo and redo (you will need them) PRICE One time purchase. Pay once, it's yours. No monthly subscription, no "pro version" upsell, no paywall popping up when you try to do something useful. Forever yours, the way software used to be. WORK IN PROGRESS PuppetPad is built by one person in the hours that life leaves over. Every bug report and every suggestion turns into a real improvement in a future version. If you want to request a feature, complain about something, send fan art of the app, or just say you liked it: leonardoamoraleite@gmail.com Human reply, in whatever language you write to me in, from the same person who wrote this text. XD Thanks for considering the app. Now go animate something absurd.