Comparison

Avatar Maker vs Drawing Animation

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

Head to head
About

Avatar Maker

Design unique characters and avatars with extensive customization options. Choose from various styles, outfits, and accessories to bring your creative ideas to life. Save and share your creations easily.

Highlights
  • Personal avatar maker
  • Customize face, hair, outfits, accessories
  • Multiple styles (cute, cool, fantasy)
  • Discover and get inspired by characters
  • Save and share creations
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Want to create a unique and one-of-a-kind character? Quickly turn your ideas into reality with Avatar Maker: OC Creator - YOUR PERSONAL AVATAR MAKER Create unique avatars and OCs in your own style in just a few steps. Customize everything from face and hairstyle to outfits and accessories to build a character with a strong personality. Easily change details like eyes, eyebrows, expressions, and overall style. Combine various outfits, accessories, and effects to create avatars ranging from cute and cool to unique fantasy. - EXPLORE CHARACTERS Discover creative characters. Get inspired to create your own OC or share your avatar with others. WHY YOU'LL LOVE AVATAR MAKER - Flexibly customize face, hair, outfit & accessories - Multiple styles: cute, cool, fantasy - Discover characters - Easily save and share photos Download Avatar Maker: OC Creator now to start creating your own avatar and explore a world of creative characters! Privacy Policy: https://vnios.pro.vn/privacy-policy-ios-tvn.html?app=Avatar%20Maker:%20OC%20Creator&store=%20TRAN%20VAN%20NAM Term of use: https://vnios.pro.vn/termsofuse-ios-tvn.html?app=Avatar%20Maker:%20OC%20Creator&store=%20TRAN%20VAN%20NAM

About

Drawing Animation

Features
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Drawing Animation turns your sketches into moving cartoons. Draw frame by frame, play it back instantly, and export with no watermark and no ads, even for free. A sketch, art and GIF maker app in one place: a canvas that feels like paper, a flipbook timeline made for animators, and a drawing app that works just as well with Apple Pencil as with your finger. Sketch, paint, doodle a stickman, or animate a whole cartoon or anime short on iPhone and iPad. NO WATERMARK, NO ADS Every animation you export is clean. No logo burned into the corner, no banners, no interruptions while you work. This is true on the free tier as well, not just after you pay. NEW: SHAPES, LASSO AND SYMMETRY Draw straight lines, rectangles and ellipses with any brush, so a charcoal circle looks like charcoal and a pencil box looks like pencil. Circle part of a drawing with the lasso to lift it off the page, then move it, scale it, rotate it, flip it, copy it or delete it, then drop it in place. One undo takes it all back. Turn on symmetry and draw one half of a face, a butterfly or a pattern while the other half appears mirrored as you go, vertically, horizontally or in four quarters. DRAW OVER VIDEO Import a clip and it becomes a reference layer, frame by frame. Trace the motion, then hide the video and keep only your own drawing. Rotoscoping is open to everyone here, not locked behind a purchase. SEE THE MOTION WHILE YOU DRAW Onion skin shows the frames before and after in different colors, so you always know where the movement is heading. Hold any frame in the timeline to preview it over your canvas. Play back slower or faster, loop it, and fix the timing before you commit. A TIMELINE THAT KEEPS UP Add, duplicate, delete, and reorder frames by dragging. Select many at once and move them together. Work across layers, lock transparency, color with the bucket tool, add titles and captions with the text tool, and change brush thickness without leaving the canvas. Grid overlay and zoom help you keep proportions steady, and the grid never shows up in your export. YOUR WORK IS SAFE Everything saves by itself while you draw, and a crash brings your draft back. Deleting a frame or a layer can be undone. Deleted projects wait in the trash before they go for good. iCloud backup is on for free accounts too. SOUND AND MUSIC Record your own voice straight onto the animation, or pick a track from the built in music library. Trim it, mute it, and set the level for each track separately. EXPORT AND SHARE Save to Photos or share anywhere as video or GIF. An export keeps running when you leave the app, so you do not have to sit and watch the progress bar. MADE TO FEEL RIGHT Left handed mode, dark theme, keyboard shortcuts on iPad, and a streak counter to keep you drawing. Sample projects are there when you want to take something apart and see how it was built. PREMIUM For the creator who outgrows the free tier: unlimited projects and frames, and up to 20 layers. More brushes, including ink, charcoal, watercolor, chalk, pixel, spray, glow, and your own custom brush. Symmetry drawing in three modes. 2160p canvas and export, higher frame rates, transparent GIF, and PNG sequence. Blend modes, a reference photo layer, eyedropper, and custom palettes. Longer video import with Magic Cut, which lifts a person or object off the background onto its own layer. Longer voice recording, a second audio track, your own music files, and the full music library. Ping pong loop. Premium is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or as a one time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless turned off at least a day before the current period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your Account Settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://rsndijital.com/link/drawing/privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

Avatar Maker4 screens
Drawing Animation4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Drawing Animation at none against Avatar Maker's shown. Avatar Maker's advantage is chart position (#122 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. Avatar Maker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Drawing Animation sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Avatar Maker ships an update every 3 weeks, Drawing Animation every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Avatar Maker versus Drawing Animation: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAvatar MakerDrawing Animation
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (535 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews26.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings535 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
Best chart rank#122 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size221 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNam Tran VanAdem Uresin

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Avatar Maker

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Subscription$0.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime - Avatar Maker$9.99
3 purchases

Drawing Animation

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$6.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$49.99

Questions

Is Avatar Maker free?
Avatar Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Drawing Animation free?
Drawing Animation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Avatar Maker or Drawing Animation have ads?
Avatar Maker shows ads; Drawing Animation does not.
Which is updated more often, Avatar Maker or Drawing Animation?
Avatar Maker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Drawing Animation every 5 weeks. Most recently, Avatar Maker was updated on November 9, 2026 and Drawing Animation on November 10, 2026.

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