RoughAnimator vs Almighty Note
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RoughAnimator
Create traditional hand-drawn, frame-by-frame animations on your iPad. This app offers professional-grade tools like unlimited layers, onion skinning, and audio import, making it suitable for both beginners and experienced animators. Export your work in various formats or import it into professional animation software.
- Timeline with unlimited layers
- Onion skinning
- Audio and video import
- Custom brushes
- Apple Pencil support
- Export to video, GIF, image sequence
- Import to professional software
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A fully featured hand drawn animation application for iPad. Made by an animator, for animators. Powerful enough for professionals, simple enough for beginners. Everything you need to create traditional hand drawn frame-by-frame animation, anywhere you go! Features: - Timeline with unlimited layers and easily adjustable exposure length of individual drawings, for pose-to-pose or straight-ahead animating - Onion skinning - Preview playback - Scrub along timeline - Import audio for lip syncing - Import video for rotoscoping animation - Custom brushes - Supports Apple Pencil, Logitech Crayon - Control framerate and resolution - Export animation to Quicktime video, GIF, or image sequence - RoughAnimator projects can be imported to Adobe Flash/Animate, After Effects, and Toon Boom Harmony - Also available on desktop See a short film animated with RoughAnimator: https://youtu.be/vaHuJNNPoMM
Almighty Note
This versatile app serves as a digital notebook for handwritten notes, storyboards, and sketchbooks. It allows for easy management of creative projects with features like page sorting, PDF export, and text memo saving. The standard version supports up to 20 pages per work.
- 8 preset formats
- Zoom in/out drawing area
- Page sorting and deletion
- Save work as PDF
- Save memo as text
- Max 20 pages per work (standard)
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This app has various formats. It can be used for ordinary handwritten notebooks, and can also be used for creative activities such as storyboards and sketchbooks. Since one work can be created as one note, you can easily manage the work. Features - 8 preset formats - Zoom in / zoom out of drawing area - Page sorting and deletion - The work can be saved as a PDF - You can save the memo of the work as a text - Standard version is max 20 pages per work
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: RoughAnimator at 79% against Almighty Note's 25%. RoughAnimator also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.2) and ads (none vs shown). Almighty Note's advantage is price (Free vs $7.99). On update cadence, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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
Almighty Note is free to download; RoughAnimator costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RoughAnimator holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RoughAnimator has 2.9K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of RoughAnimator's written reviews are positive against 25% of Almighty Note's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RoughAnimator | Almighty Note |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.9K ratings) — better | 3.2 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.7% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.9K — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #14 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 13.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jacob KAFKA | Kazuaki Matsuda |
Customer experience
RoughAnimator
Almighty Note
Bugs and requests
RoughAnimator
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes when importing audio
- Onion skin not working
- Pixelated drawings when playing animation
- Laggy performance with larger projects
Requested features
8 requests- Add transparency support for exports
- Implement a text tool
- Provide more brush options and customization
- Add a ruler/shape tool
- Improve audio handling (record, import, sync)
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- Implement a tween/animation feature
- Add layer grouping and organization tools
- Provide a dark mode option
Almighty Note
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RoughAnimator
No in-app purchases
Almighty Note
No in-app purchases
