Comparison

Flip Animation vs PuppetPad

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

Head to head
About

Flip Animation

Create frame-by-frame 2D animations with professional drawing and animation tools. Features include multiple layers, audio syncing, and various export options like GIF and MP4. Learn animation techniques with built-in tutorials.

Highlights
  • Frame-by-frame animation
  • Multiple drawing brushes
  • Onion skinning
  • Audio track import and sync
  • GIF and MP4 export
  • Built-in animation tutorials
  • Symmetry drawing mode
Features
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Turn your ideas, and even your own videos, into 2D animation! FlipAnimation is a complete frame by frame animation studio on your phone and tablet: draw cartoons like a flipbook, trace over video with Rotoscope, put background images behind your frames, learn from 115+ step by step lessons and export as GIF or HD video. ROTOSCOPE: DRAW OVER YOUR VIDEOS • Import any video from your gallery and trace it frame by frame • The easiest way to learn real motion: walk cycles, dance moves, sports, pets, faces • Trim the clip, place it on your canvas exactly how you want, adjust guide opacity • Everything is processed privately on your device, and you decide if the video appears in your export FRAME BACKGROUNDS • Put a background picture behind any frame, or behind all frames at once • Move, resize and rotate the image freely, then lock it in place • Draw your characters over photo scenes, storyboards and comic panels LEARN ANIMATION: 115+ GUIDED LESSONS • Step by step tutorials from bouncing ball to full mini scenes • The 12 principles of animation, walk cycles, effects, characters and more • Trace the guide strokes and watch your drawing come alive • Your lesson progress is saved so you can continue or reset anytime PROFESSIONAL DRAWING TOOLS • Pencil, ink pen, marker, crayon, fill and a precise eraser • Pressure sensitive strokes with smooth curves • Shapes, symmetry drawing, grid overlay and color eyedropper • Text tool, custom brush presets and a full color palette ANIMATE FRAME BY FRAME • Unlimited frames with per frame timing control • Onion skinning shows previous frames as ghost overlays • Auto In-Betweens generate the frames between your keyframes for you • Copy, duplicate and reorder frames; loop, ping-pong and one-shot playback LAYERS, TRANSFORM & AUDIO • Multiple layers per frame with lock and visibility controls • Free transform: scale, rotate, flip and move your selection • Import music or voice over, see the waveform on the timeline, export video with sound EXPORT & SHARE • GIF for social media, HD MP4 video with audio • Printable sheets to cut your own physical flipbook, ZIP with all frames as PNG • Share straight to Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and WhatsApp MADE FOR CREATORS OF EVERY LEVEL • Beginners: guided lessons and a friendly, clean interface • Artists and animators: pro tools, layers, rotoscoping and precise timing • Kids and families: draw, doodle and bring silly characters to life • Optimized layouts for both phone and tablet, dark theme for long sessions WHAT WILL YOU MAKE? • Animated memes, stickers and reaction GIFs for your chats • Rotoscope studies of dancers, athletes and animals from your own clips • Storyboards and animatics for films, games and school projects • Game sprites, walk cycles and pixel style motion tests • Birthday cards, logo animations, doodles on photos and mini music videos WHY ANIMATORS LOVE FLIPANIMATION • A real animation studio, not a toy: onion skin, timing, layers, audio sync • Auto In-Betweens save hours of drawing on every scene • Works fully offline: animate anywhere, no account needed • Fast and lightweight, with autosave protecting every stroke • Available in 20 languages PREMIUM (OPTIONAL) Unlock unlimited projects, every lesson, Auto In-Betweens, all brushes and watermark free HD export with a weekly plan or a single lifetime purchase. A generous free version lets you draw, animate and export from day one. Whether you are making your first flipbook doodle, teaching yourself the 12 principles, or rotoscoping reference footage like a pro animator, FlipAnimation turns every idea into motion. Sketch it. Animate it. Share it. Download FlipAnimation and make your first animation in minutes! Privacy Policy: https://flipanimation.app/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

PuppetPad

Easily animate any image by adding pins to create movement and keyframes. Turn doodles, photos, or drawings into animated GIFs without needing professional animation skills. Ideal for creating unique memes, bringing kids' art to life, or making profile pictures move.

Highlights
  • Import any image (PNG)
  • Automatic mesh generation
  • Pin-based animation system
  • Keyframe creation
  • GIF export
  • Offline functionality
  • Apple Pencil support
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Flip Animation4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PuppetPad at 5.0 against Flip Animation's 4.7. PuppetPad also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%). Flip Animation's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 2) and monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Flip Animation sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and PuppetPad sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PuppetPad holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flip Animation has 23 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Flip Animation's written reviews are positive against 100% of PuppetPad's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flip Animation ships an update weekly, PuppetPad every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Flip Animation versus PuppetPad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlip AnimationPuppetPad
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (23 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings23 — better2
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZENBYTE DIJITAL TEKNOLOJILER LIMITED SIRKETILeonardo Amora

Customer experience

Flip Animation

All ratings23 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive86.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.6%

PuppetPad

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Flip Animation

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Weekly$2.997 Days
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$9.99
4 purchases

PuppetPad

One-time4
  • 3 Export Tokens$0.99
  • 10 Export Tokens$1.99
  • 25 Export Tokens$2.99
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  • unlimited Exports$9.99

Questions

Is Flip Animation free?
Flip Animation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PuppetPad free?
PuppetPad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Flip Animation or PuppetPad?
PuppetPad is rated higher. Flip Animation averages 4.7 out of 5 from 23 ratings, while PuppetPad averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Flip Animation or PuppetPad have ads?
Neither Flip Animation nor PuppetPad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flip Animation or PuppetPad?
Flip Animation ships an update weekly, and PuppetPad every 2 weeks. Most recently, Flip Animation was updated on October 11, 2026 and PuppetPad on October 1, 2026.

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