Comparison

RoughAnimator vs Entropy Brush

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

About

Entropy Brush

Features
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entropybrush is a physics-based oil painting studio for iPhone and iPad. Instead of faking brush marks with filters, it simulates the paint itself: loaded bristles lay down real pigment, wet paint flows and levels, and thick strokes build genuine impasto relief that catches the light. Paint on a canvas that's actually three-dimensional. Tilt it to see ridges of thick paint stand up off the surface, move the light to rake across the texture, and watch wet paint ooze, drip, and settle like the real thing. • Real bristle brushes — a stroke carries a load of paint that runs out as you drag • Wet paint flow — paint levels, blends wet-on-wet, and dries over time • Impasto relief — thick paint builds real height you can light and tilt in 3D • Pigment mixing — colors combine subtractively, like real paint (blue + yellow makes green) • Spin art — spin the canvas and fling paint outward into centrifugal spirals • Drips and gravity — tilt the canvas and let loaded paint run • Adjustable lighting — rake a light across the surface to reveal every ridge • Export your work as an image, or as a 3D model of the painted surface Multi-touch on iPhone and iPad: one finger paints, two fingers pan, pinch-zoom and twist to rotate, and the orbit control tilts the canvas in 3D — so you can rotate the painting while you paint. On iPhone the controls slide in from the right edge so the canvas gets the whole screen. No account, no sign-in, no data collection. Just paint.

Screenshots

RoughAnimator1 screens
Entropy Brush4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Entropy Brush at Free against RoughAnimator's $7.99. RoughAnimator's advantage is chart position (#6 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (13 vs 15.0). On ads, 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

Entropy Brush is free to download; RoughAnimator costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
RoughAnimator versus Entropy Brush: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoughAnimatorEntropy Brush
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (3K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings3K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#6 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJacob KAFKADan Newcome

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)
Show 3 more
  • Implement a tween/animation feature
  • Add layer grouping and organization tools
  • Provide a dark mode option

Entropy Brush

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

RoughAnimator

No in-app purchases

None

Entropy Brush

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RoughAnimator free?
RoughAnimator costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Entropy Brush free?
Entropy Brush is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do RoughAnimator or Entropy Brush have ads?
Neither RoughAnimator nor Entropy Brush shows ads.

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