Comparison

ManimStudio vs Jankify

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

Head to head
About

ManimStudio

Create mathematical animations on your iPhone or iPad using a powerful, open-source engine. Write code to define scenes and render them into videos entirely on-device, with no internet or signup required. Visualize complex math concepts with ease.

Highlights
  • Author Scene classes with full mobject API
  • Render at multiple video qualities (up to 4K)
  • Compose mathematical formulas with bundled LaTeX
  • Auto-detect Scene classes with built-in picker
  • Preview and share rendered MP4 videos
  • Works entirely offline, no internet required
Features
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ManimStudio renders mathematical animations on iPhone and iPad using manim, the open-source animation engine behind 3Blue1Brown's videos. Type a Scene class, tap Render, and watch the math come to life as a video — entirely on-device, no signup, no cloud. Built for math educators, content creators, and students who want to visualize mathematics without leaving their iPhone or iPad. ManimStudio bundles everything manim needs — there is nothing to install or configure. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Author Scene classes that produce animated videos using manim's full mobject API: Text, MathTex, Circle, Square, Arrow, Graph, NumberPlane, Transform, FadeIn, Write, Create. • Render at multiple qualities (480p, 720p, 1080p, 4K) with hardware video encoding via Apple VideoToolbox. • Compose mathematical formulas with LaTeX-backed Tex and MathTex mobjects — the LaTeX engine is bundled, no internet needed. • Auto-detect every Scene class in your file with the built-in scene picker. • Preview the rendered video the moment manim finishes — saved as MP4 to the Files app or shared to Photos, AirDrop, Mail. WHAT'S BUNDLED manim, numpy, scipy, sympy, matplotlib, plotly, PyAV, Cairo, and a full LaTeX engine. ManimStudio works entirely offline. No account, no telemetry, no internet required.

About

Jankify

Features
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Jankify gives you two ways to make a mess: build pixel-art space oddities from scratch, or feed it a photo, GIF, or video and break it beautifully. CREATE SOMETHING FROM NOTHING Roll a seed and get a new piece of a tiny universe: - Backgrounds and deep starscapes - Rocky planets and strange little worlds - Symmetrical creatures and sprites - Ships in six classes, from scouts to dreadnoughts - Pixel effects and animated explosions Every seed makes a repeatable recipe. Keep the part you like, vary the rest, save a PNG, or copy a recipe link to share it. Effects and explosions are properly unruly: the seed changes their shape, motion, detail, and debris instead of merely repainting the same result. EDIT A PHOTO, GIF, OR VIDEO Choose from eight handmade looks. Pixel goes chunky, with optional retro palettes and quantized color. Lite Brite rebuilds your photo as glowing pegs on a black board. ASCII turns it into text, while Emoji makes a mosaic from thousands of real emoji. Want something sketchier? Hatch adds tonal pen-and-ink cross-hatching, and Rough draws loose outlines. Polygon and Voronoi shatter the picture into triangles or cells. Drag a few sliders, hit a button, and see what happens. Save a crisp PNG or export clean SVG vectors from most modes. Pixel mode can also produce box-shadow CSS, an HTML table, Unicode blocks, JSON, or plain text. MAKE IT MOVE Turn an animated GIF or short video into looping pixel art, glowing pegs, ASCII, emoji, hatching, or a rough sketch. Set the duration and frame rate, then export an animated GIF, a PNG sprite sheet, or processed video. Jankify trims and scales long clips to keep things responsive. It bounds animation timing, respects reduced-motion preferences, and warns before producing rapid animation. BUILT TO RESPECT YOU - Create and Edit both work fully offline. - Photos, GIFs, and videos never leave your device. - No account, sign-up, tracking, or ads. - No data collected, full stop. - Universal app for iPhone and iPad. Make a world. Wreck a photo. Keep what gets weird. Made by Luke Steuber.

Screenshots

ManimStudio4 screens
Jankify4 screens

Verdict

The call

ManimStudio and Jankify are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ManimStudio ships an update every 11 days, Jankify fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
ManimStudio versus Jankify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterManimStudioJankify
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size652 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerchienchung YuLanguageCraft

In-app purchases

None

ManimStudio

No in-app purchases

None

Jankify

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ManimStudio free?
ManimStudio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Jankify free?
Jankify is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ManimStudio or Jankify have ads?
Neither ManimStudio nor Jankify shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ManimStudio or Jankify?
ManimStudio ships an update every 11 days, and Jankify fortnightly. Most recently, ManimStudio was updated on October 31, 2026 and Jankify on October 28, 2026.

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