ToonSquid

Name: ToonSquid
Price: 9.99 USD
Rating: 4.6 (1336 reviews)
Author: Keiwan Donyagard

Create beautiful animations

$9.99

1.3K Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Graphics & Design
Developer

Keiwan Donyagard
Language

EN
+ 2 More
Size

50.2
MB

iPad

Release your creativity and craft beautiful and engaging animations and artworks on your iPad with ToonSquid, no matter if you are a beginner or a professional artist. ToonSquid is the powerful 2D art and animation studio for your iPad. Its flexible layer system allows you to combine the charm of hand-drawn traditional animation with keyframes that automatically animate layer properties over time. With a library full of beautiful, blazing-fast and fully customizable pixel and vector brushes, animatable effects, a smudge tool, animated text and vector shapes, bones with inverse kinematics, video and audio layers, camera movements, symbols and many more features, ToonSquid makes it easy to bring your vision to life. Traditional Animation - Create hand-drawn frame-by-frame animations - Control how long you want to show each drawing in the timeline - Draw in resolutions of up to 4k Keyframe Animation - Add keyframes to automatically animate layer and effects properties over time - Choose from an extensive list of customizable easing curve presets to create organic motion between keyframes - Easily loop your keyframe animation Powerful Layer System - Define the order and length of each element in your animation using layers and drawings and a flexible timeline - Organize your layers into groups for a clean workflow or to animate multiple layers at once - Use the camera layer to quickly define the visible portion of your animation in the export - Mask layers to other layers, even when their contents are animated - Choose from 27 industry-standard layer blend modes for beautiful compositing effects Fully-customizable Brushes - Draw gorgeous brush strokes with ToonSquid's state-of-the-art digital brush engine - Take full advantage of Apple Pencil's pressure and tilt sensitivity and the iPad Pro's 120Hz display for lag-free drawing - Use vector brushes to create brush strokes that are sharp at every zoom level - Edit the 60+ brush settings and import custom textures to create a brush library that is perfectly tailored to your art style - Blend your strokes together using the smudge tool - Draw in a variety of styles such as sketching, inking, wet mixing, pixel art, and more - Export and share your custom brushes with others - Import your existing library of Adobe® Photoshop® brushes Vector Shapes - Create custom shapes using the path tool by placing and editing each curve control point - Quickly add common vector shapes from the shape library - Import SVG files - Fill and stroke your shapes with beautiful gradients and edit them directly on the canvas - Animate the visible length of a path using its trim properties Animatable Effects - Create character rigs using bones and add inverse kinematics constraints - Create custom meshes to deform pixel layers when they are part of a bone rig - Animate perspective and warp effects - Apply adjustments, blur, pixelation, drop shadow, chroma key, halftone, parallax and more effects Efficient symbol workflow - Split your animation into separate clips that you can then reuse multiple times using symbols - Make edits to an animation clip and immediately see the changes in all of its symbol instances - Use frame markers to speed up your lip-syncing workflow Text - Add text layers and animate their appearance - Import your favorite fonts Color - Use ToonSquid's powerful color picker with plenty of different interfaces to choose the exact colors you need - Create custom color palettes and share them outside the application - Pick colors straight from the canvas using the pipette tool - Fill connected regions quickly with the fill tool Audio and Video - Add audio clips to your timeline and perform lip-syncing animations - Import videos, GIFs and images into your project and work with them through symbols Transform - Animate a layer's position, rotation and scale properties using keyframes - Build transform hierarchies to achieve more advanced movements - Edit your layer's motion path directly on the canvas Numerous Export Formats - Export your work in one of many common file formats such as MP4, MOV, GIF, PNG, JPEG, PSD, and more.

Ratings & Reviews

4.6

out of 5

1.3K Ratings

Love it, Live it, Use it!! Just a small recommendation!
09/07/2023
Zayroblox
Hello ToonSquid team! I am so flabbergasted on how much this has helped me in animation! You guys have been putting in a lot of effort and I just love everything about it! With the key frames, symbols and easy animations for beginners, this app is just one of the best animation apps out there! But I’d also like to give out some recommendations! (I completely understand if it’s not compatible or supposed to be a function in the app). But I’d maybe think that when editing, there should be an option called “Skewer” it is basically like using the “Rasterize” tool but it can be in keyframes instead of frame-by-frame Animation. It can be used just like a distortion tool but the only change about it can be from a Rasterize tool to an actual Keyframe to allow it to skew / shear the animation with the symbols without being blurry, because in most cases for apps such as FlipaClip, it turns out super blurry each time animators skew / shear the frame every time, and I think it would be such a great improvement to ToonsSquid if they added that feature like Adobe Animate!Again, I completely understand if it’s not compatible or doesn’t fit in to what the app is intended to do or have.So that is why I’d think there should be a “Skew / Shear” feature for keyframes & symbols so that it can be way easier for people now! Reach out to this account if you can! Thank you so much! Keep up the amazing work, ToonSquid Team!

Developer Response
Thank you so much for the kind words and for leaving a review - that means a lot to me!And also thanks for the suggestion. Making it possible to animate perspective and warp edits using keyframes is definitely one of the big features that I would like to add to ToonSquid at some point in the future.
Love it, Live it, Use it!! Just a small recommendation!
09/07/2023
Zayroblox

Hello ToonSquid team! I am so flabbergasted on how much this has helped me in animation! You guys have been putting in a lot of effort and I just love everything about it! With the key frames, symbols and easy animations for beginners, this app is just one of the best animation apps out there! But I’d also like to give out some recommendations! (I completely understand if it’s not compatible or supposed to be a function in the app). But I’d maybe think that when editing, there should be an option called “Skewer” it is basically like using the “Rasterize” tool but it can be in keyframes instead of frame-by-frame Animation. It can be used just like a distortion tool but the only change about it can be from a Rasterize tool to an actual Keyframe to allow it to skew / shear the animation with the symbols without being blurry, because in most cases for apps such as FlipaClip, it turns out super blurry each time animators skew / shear the frame every time, and I think it would be such a great improvement to ToonsSquid if they added that feature like Adobe Animate!Again, I completely understand if it’s not compatible or doesn’t fit in to what the app is intended to do or have.So that is why I’d think there should be a “Skew / Shear” feature for keyframes & symbols so that it can be way easier for people now! Reach out to this account if you can! Thank you so much! Keep up the amazing work, ToonSquid Team!
Developer Response 09/09/2023
Thank you so much for the kind words and for leaving a review - that means a lot to me!And also thanks for the suggestion. Making it possible to animate perspective and warp edits using keyframes is definitely one of the big features that I would like to add to ToonSquid at some point in the future.
Great
11/05/2024
Ljround
Pretty nice love the tween, unlike procreate which is a app for art that just so happens to have animation, this focuses on animation, if your a beginner or looking to try animation, I recommend FlipaClip, super simple and easy to learn, if your looking for stunning illustrations that can have a bit of animation, or to make beautiful animation that focuses on looks, go for procreate, there’s a sort of scale that comes to most software, the more advanced it is, the harder to do simple things but easier to do harder things, in this case toon squid isn’t for beginners in animation or for people who want to try it, but it makes animation a ton more efficient and easier for people who know what there doing, if you were using procreate or flipa clip to produce fast and relatively simple stuff, although it seems like FlipaClip will be the best for making lots of simple animations, it isn’t instead toon squid is the best, it makes animating simple lip sync SUPER EASY with its library and the fact you can save and reload stuff like mouths, and also making animations with simple movements very easy with its easy to use and learn tween, toon squid has the perfect middle ground between simple and advanced, and because its built for the ground up for animation by animators, it is super efficient, and offers extra

Developer Response
Hi! Am I understanding it correctly that you would prefer it if you could just move the first keyframe of a layer to another frame and have its value automatically apply to the previous frames of that layer instead of having to duplicate the first keyframe? That way if you later want to edit the starting value, you only have to edit one keyframe and not two. Is that correct? If that is not what you meant, please send an e-mail to contact@toonsquid.com with more details and I will be happy to note this feature request down for future consideration.Also in general, if you really only have a feature request and other than that are mostly happy with the app, I would kindly ask you to reconsider the severity of the rating you have chosen, since such ratings have a big negative impact on the app and its future development. Thank you for understanding!- Keiwan
Great
11/05/2024
Ljround

Pretty nice love the tween, unlike procreate which is a app for art that just so happens to have animation, this focuses on animation, if your a beginner or looking to try animation, I recommend FlipaClip, super simple and easy to learn, if your looking for stunning illustrations that can have a bit of animation, or to make beautiful animation that focuses on looks, go for procreate, there’s a sort of scale that comes to most software, the more advanced it is, the harder to do simple things but easier to do harder things, in this case toon squid isn’t for beginners in animation or for people who want to try it, but it makes animation a ton more efficient and easier for people who know what there doing, if you were using procreate or flipa clip to produce fast and relatively simple stuff, although it seems like FlipaClip will be the best for making lots of simple animations, it isn’t instead toon squid is the best, it makes animating simple lip sync SUPER EASY with its library and the fact you can save and reload stuff like mouths, and also making animations with simple movements very easy with its easy to use and learn tween, toon squid has the perfect middle ground between simple and advanced, and because its built for the ground up for animation by animators, it is super efficient, and offers extra
Developer Response 08/12/2023
Hi! Am I understanding it correctly that you would prefer it if you could just move the first keyframe of a layer to another frame and have its value automatically apply to the previous frames of that layer instead of having to duplicate the first keyframe? That way if you later want to edit the starting value, you only have to edit one keyframe and not two. Is that correct? If that is not what you meant, please send an e-mail to contact@toonsquid.com with more details and I will be happy to note this feature request down for future consideration.Also in general, if you really only have a feature request and other than that are mostly happy with the app, I would kindly ask you to reconsider the severity of the rating you have chosen, since such ratings have a big negative impact on the app and its future development. Thank you for understanding!- Keiwan
Great, but awfully confusing.
11/03/2024
It deletes all your progess
I think so far as I’ve used it it’s great! Very versatile tools, many things to choose from, and a variety of brushes! One thing I can’t figure out is how to group layers, sometimes I do it on accident, and when I actually want to group a layer it doesn’t even when I put the layer right under. Also, if there was more of an indicate it was in that group that’d be great! Like an arrow, or indentation on the side? Another problem I have is whenever I make a new layer, or switch to the vector tool the color automatically turns white, which often makes me confused as I would wonder if my apple pencil is broken! I’m really mixed on your app, I personally find it harder to grasp than alight motion (strange isn’t it?) even if it seems light years easier! I think it’s a great app no doubt, much better than alight motion (since toonsquid is only a one time purchase with tons of stuff!!) but it doesn’t seem to be made for beginners. Yes, the more I use it the more I’ll probably get used to it but it’ll be very frustrating and confusing for beginners at the start! Also a suggestion, please make it so that you can also import stuff straight from your camera roll and not just your files!! For some reason I can’t add any audio clips from my files, it just won’t let me. So I’m forced to just add a video and lower the opacity TT… I still think it’s better than procreate dreams, flipaclip, and alight motion though! (In the animating aspect) great app, definitely deserves some more attention!
Great, but awfully confusing.
11/03/2024
It deletes all your progess

I think so far as I’ve used it it’s great! Very versatile tools, many things to choose from, and a variety of brushes! One thing I can’t figure out is how to group layers, sometimes I do it on accident, and when I actually want to group a layer it doesn’t even when I put the layer right under. Also, if there was more of an indicate it was in that group that’d be great! Like an arrow, or indentation on the side? Another problem I have is whenever I make a new layer, or switch to the vector tool the color automatically turns white, which often makes me confused as I would wonder if my apple pencil is broken! I’m really mixed on your app, I personally find it harder to grasp than alight motion (strange isn’t it?) even if it seems light years easier! I think it’s a great app no doubt, much better than alight motion (since toonsquid is only a one time purchase with tons of stuff!!) but it doesn’t seem to be made for beginners. Yes, the more I use it the more I’ll probably get used to it but it’ll be very frustrating and confusing for beginners at the start! Also a suggestion, please make it so that you can also import stuff straight from your camera roll and not just your files!! For some reason I can’t add any audio clips from my files, it just won’t let me. So I’m forced to just add a video and lower the opacity TT… I still think it’s better than procreate dreams, flipaclip, and alight motion though! (In the animating aspect) great app, definitely deserves some more attention!
Simply the best, most accessible animation app across all platforms or hardware in decades
09/20/2025
Crome328
I use this app day in and day out for personal and professional animation related work. Every time I open it up, I’m stunned it can do so much while costing so little, while being so accessible, feature-rich and artist-friendly. The sheer polish, flexibility of media export, intuitiveness in how it handles its layering system, canvas and camera… I really can’t say enough about how much this app gets right. I’d realized that I’d been so preoccupied working/learning the ins-and-outs of this app for the past 6 months that I never made time to write a review, and had to immediately correct that. In fact, if I could only leave one last 5-star review for any type of program, media, game or experience, it would be for ToonSquid. For the accessibility, the sheer empowerment this provides for hobbyists, students and professionals, it deserves all the success in the world and more. I feel greedy even wishing for a desktop version but it would be something I would absolutely re-buy in a heartbeat. If you have even the faintest interest in animation, storyboarding, or even a decently powerful drawing/editing app, run don’t walk to get ToonSquid.
Simply the best, most accessible animation app across all platforms or hardware in decades
09/20/2025
Crome328

I use this app day in and day out for personal and professional animation related work. Every time I open it up, I’m stunned it can do so much while costing so little, while being so accessible, feature-rich and artist-friendly. The sheer polish, flexibility of media export, intuitiveness in how it handles its layering system, canvas and camera… I really can’t say enough about how much this app gets right. I’d realized that I’d been so preoccupied working/learning the ins-and-outs of this app for the past 6 months that I never made time to write a review, and had to immediately correct that. In fact, if I could only leave one last 5-star review for any type of program, media, game or experience, it would be for ToonSquid. For the accessibility, the sheer empowerment this provides for hobbyists, students and professionals, it deserves all the success in the world and more. I feel greedy even wishing for a desktop version but it would be something I would absolutely re-buy in a heartbeat. If you have even the faintest interest in animation, storyboarding, or even a decently powerful drawing/editing app, run don’t walk to get ToonSquid.

- Smudge Mesh Tool: Use the new "Smudge Mesh" tool to shift multiple mesh control points at once. - Instead of tapping to place individual mesh control points with the "Add Mesh" tool, you can now drag to place multiple control points. Tap on the "Add Mesh" tool button again to customize the point spacing. - Generate Mesh: Tap on the "Add Mesh" tool button again to use the option to automatically generate a mesh over your layer contents. - Library List View: You can now switch the projects library and the project asset library into a list view for easier viewing of long names and for easier editing of deep folder hierarchies. - Japanese localization: The ToonSquid UI is now fully available in Japanese. If Japanese is set as the primary language on your iPad, but you prefer to continue to use the English ToonSquid UI, go to the iPad Settings app > Apps > ToonSquid and change the Language to English. - The following actions can now be assigned custom keyboard shortcuts: adding layers, locking / unlocking layers, changing layer visibilities, toggling effects, onion skins and looped playback. - Added reset buttons to the "General", "Tools", "Import", "Gestures" and "Backup" settings tabs. - Removed the layer visibility check for various timeline edits so that retiming, drag and drop etc. can now be performed on hidden animation layers. - The "Single Frame", "Frame Timeline" and "PSD Sequence" PSD export modes now support the loop setting of group layers in the timeline. - Fixed the contents of hidden pixel layers in the PSD export with a camera layer not to be empty. - Fixed hidden empty animation layers not to appear in exported PSDs as group layers unless the "Always Export Animation Layers As Groups" export setting is enabled. - Fixed the missing localizations of the "Lock", "Duplicate" and "Delete" options when swiping a layer to the left in the layer list. - Added localizations for the default color palettes. - Fixed number inputs when the decimal format preference on the device does not use . as the decimal separator. - Fixed mesh and warp effects on group layers to always prevent child layers from being directly controlled by bones of the bones effect at the same time. - Fixed a mesh effect rendering issue that sometimes caused unwanted jittering. - Added a workaround for an iPadOS bug to prevent microphone input gain changes in other apps potentially affecting audio recording in ToonSquid. - Fixed the merging of drawing layers onto a pixel layer not to cut off any of the lower layer contents when the layers are inside of a group or transform hierarchy with a scale other than 1. - Fixed a bug in the behaviour of copying and pasting keyframes of multiple layers at once. - Fixed a bug when editing easing curves of effects placed on animation layers when the selected drawing does not start on frame 1. - Fixed unwanted frame changes when trying to tap on playhead to bring up the keyframe actions on empty frames. - Fixed empty frames of animation layers not to be exported as PSD layer when the animation layer has an effect to be rasterized. - Various other stability improvements.

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Seller: Keiwan Donyagard
Size: 50.2 MB
Category: Graphics & Design
Compatibility: Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.

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Languages: English and 2 more

English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese
Age Rating: 4+

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