FlipaClip: Create 2D Animation Ratings and Reviews

An amazing app, just a few more suggestions that could make it better...

I’ve been using FlipaClip for about a year now and let me just say this is one of the BEST mobile animating softwares. There is a pretty much easy to use UI and and many good features like adding sounds and videos/pictures. What I think that would make FlipaClip much of an easier app to edit animations further, is by adding a blur pen tool, that allows you to blur anything at any opacity. This would definitely save more time from shrinking and blowing up drawn images to blur them😅. Another thing that should be added is a camera pan and zoom. This can make an animation that looks flat, look more realistic! I know that FlipaClip isn’t specifically made for editing animations, more so creating them, but it would be very awesome to have. I also know that this would take lots of time to program, which is why blur tool and specific functions of the camera pan and zoom could be bought in a bundle pack! One last thing that would make our animations look better is a tool that allows our lines to be straighter. Sometimes I will draw a figure and the lines of it would look scraggly so this would also really help! This could also be part of a flipaclip bundle pack. Overall, though, the app is a very great one, and I recommend this to all beginners out there! It’s actually really good for average animators out there as well. I really hope you guys notice this and I want to thank you for this amazing app😍😍😍

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your detailed review of FlipaClip. It is very much appreciated. Feedback like yours is a great help for us to know what our users want in the app. We will review this in detail with our development team for consideration. If you have any other suggestions we would love to hear them! If you haven’t already joined, please come visit our community (https://discord.gg/flipaclip) and share your ideas in our App Suggestions channel!

Best App Ever

This app is so amazing and useful if you want to be good at animating, especially because it has layers, and if you have the premium version like me, it can also give you the option to add an unlimited number of layers instead of just 3, I also like that they have onion skin, which is a ghost version of the previous drawing if you didn't know, and not only that, but it can also be colored red and green depending on how you set the “layers before” and “layers after” thing higher, there is just one more thing that I'd like to mention, I can do other cool things like adding voice, music, or just any old type of audio from my files, and I can copy keyframes very easily, and if you guys have that problem where you end up not copying every single layer, you can always hold a keyframe down and then you'll have the option to add a frame onto the next frame or the previous frame and even add a blank frame on the next frame or previous frame, this is a perfect way to add in -betweens on your animation, so anyway, that's it for my rating. I would like to suggest a few things for an update, for example, when you use the fill bucket tool, you can decide how transparent the color will be. I’d also like to make a suggestion, I was thinking it would be a good idea to add a button that says “ lip-sync”. When you press that button, the app listens to the audio you added to your animation, and then it adds a set of mouths that will match the sound you're making.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your detailed review. Feedback like yours is a great help for us to know what our users want in the app. We will review this in detail with our development team for consideration. Do you have more suggestions? Come visit our community (https://discord.gg/flipaclip) and share your ideas in our App Suggestions channel!

Good free app - Payed Version is $$$ however

Simple and fun. It is easy to get started as a beginner animator and even become a professional animator over time. FlipaClip has good tools such as changing the brush, onion skin, stabilizer, layers, and the ruler. You can also animate with sound so you can sync everything together. You can even animate over videos! It is good for an app that’s free. However, there are some downsides. The paid version is quite expensive compared to other, more high quality apps (such as ToonSquid). You have to pay every month! Some other apps on the other hand only needs a one time payment for so much more features than FlipaClip will ever have. That’s if you will spend money, of course. Other than that, you’ll have to deal with Ads and animate FREEly (get it? No? Okay fine). Also I don’t have to worry bout that stuff because I payed a one time payment BEFORE they switched to monthly subscriptions. I just wanna speak for other people too who don’t have what I have. Also there is an annoying bug (that I can see other people also have along with me in the review section) where the bucket switches to the pen tool but it’s still the bucket tool (sometimes having the bucket tool’s color too)??? It is annoying but mostly harmless. The trigger is when I am colorpicking the frame, but then I decide I don’t need to color pick anything so I click on the bucket tool color square and then it happens. Otherwise a good app.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your detailed review. Feedback like yours is a great help for us to know what our users want in the app. We will review this in detail with our development team for consideration. Do you have more suggestions? Come visit our community (https://discord.gg/flipaclip) and share your ideas in our App Suggestions channel!

An excellent app, but I’m disappointed with some recent changes.

First things first, FlipaClip as an app is truly excellent for anyone wanting to get into animation but wants to do it on a platform that isn’t overly complicated. The app is very intuitive to use, and can yield some impressive products if you put in a little work. Where I have gripes, however, is with the recent implementation of a monthly subscription replacing the previous one-time payment for premium features. When I bought premium a couple years ago, it was about $6 and gave me access to all premium features for life. Even after the switch to subscription, I still get to keep the features without paying, which I appreciate. Where I see a problem is with the fact the the new subscription costs $40 for a single year on premium. That’s almost 7x the price of my one time payment for premium features forever, but you only get it for one year before having to pay all over again. I miss the days when you could just pay for something once and then have it forever, and it’s exhausting to have to pay a subscription for every little thing. I understand that with circumstances like inflation, you will need to increase prices somewhat, but the sheer amount that the price was raised and the fact that it’s been changed to monthly payments is really disappointing to me. There are absolutely better ways to make more money. You’re an incredible app that I have a lot of respect for, but I really expected better from you.

Great but here's the thing

Hello Flipaclip creators, I love this app because it is great for beginners at animation and people who either not draw on paper, or can not find an app to animate or draw on. I have found a few bugs that need to be fixed, the first one I found was that when I was doing a simple animation when it started crashing every time I tried to play it or slide the frames, it really annoyed me so I did not do the animation anymore until it started to affect my phone, so all of my movies and animations had to be deleted because I had to delete the app for it to be able to work I know it is not just me who had gone through the app crashing. The second one I found was that, my Flipaclip did something that didn't like, it made me not being able to slide the frames and if I wanted to play the animation it would go slower or faster then I put the frame speed to be, and like the first I had to delete my Flipaclip again because it was affecting my phone. The last one I found was, the Comeback Contest, it was going slower than the frames should be and the paint bucket wouldn't work, same with the highlighter, and the pencil. The same thing happened to my friend who was also doing the contest. I also would like if the new audio update would work because when it came out I deleted the app and got it again but when I got it again there wasn't the update and again the same thing happened to my friend. I would like if you fixed the bugs and update thank you.

Developer Response ,

Hi Alana, thank you for taking the time in letting us know what you had experienced with FlipaClip. I am very sorry and I'd love to help! Let's start by updating your app to the latest version, once done please use the app to animate and if the issue persists, kindly email us at support@visualblasters.com so we could further look into this.

Suggestions

Hello, I’ve been using flipaclip for three years almost and I’ve grown attached to it, but I am here to complain about its newest update. I find it hard to use because I have a iPhone XR and with the swipe up to view all previous tabs gets in the way of animating because well, it’s like the home button and I keep exiting out from flipaclip it’s a real pain. But with the older version of flipaclip it doesn’t have that issue. I wish there could be a way to switch between the versions. With its new look it feels like it’s brand new and it doesn’t feel right or comfortable I keep looking at my other animations and see that they are much better than the ones I am currently making it’s easier to play back and forth between frames and it’s not only me who is complaining but a few of my other friends who also used flipaclip before it got its update. It makes us beginner animators very upset to start from the beginning all over again it’s like losing motivation and making a bunch of WIPS instead only find yourself going nowhere. So please, I suggest there should be a way for animators who use flipaclip to revert between the old version and the new version not only would it make the people I know happy but it’d be a win for everyone. Some people like the newer version they can have it, others don’t like it they can have their old friend back! So please I hope you think or at least take a moment to consider this. This is all I had to say thank you!

Developer Response ,

Thank you for a detailed review of the FlipaClip - very much appreciated. Feedback like yours is a great help for us to know what our users want in the app. All points are taken well and will be submitted to our dev team for consideration. Again, thank you!

If you have any other questions or concerns feel free to email us at support@visualblasters.com and our support team will be able to help you!

Would recommend! Just a few bugs and annoying things.

Hi, I’ve been using this program for about 2 or more years now! I can say it’s a very reliable program to use for animation and art. I just have some bugs to mention. 1. Sometimes, when I add a new frame, it freezes for 30 seconds, but then it’s fine again. It’s not something that bugs me, (since I’ve experienced this bug for long, it became normal) But I figured it would be useful to remove it anyway. 2. I know FlipaClip has a premium pack. About 1 year ago (or so,) They made the premium about 3 or 6 dollars.. (I think.) Now they’ve made a subscription for it. I purchased the premium before it was made a subscription, but I think it’s a little unfair because I mentioned it being 3 or 6 dollars. I think the premium should be what it was. 3. Another bug is sometimes when I first open an animation file, it switches the frame to a past frame. (Like I Said with the other bug, it doesn’t bother me because it’s been there long.) 4. A suggestion would be a mass delete of all your animations? But it says “Are you sure you wanna delete all your animations? It cannot be undone” and will give you an option to select animations you wanna keep. 5. Maybe a sync button? If you have premium and have sounds, say you put an audio and the lip sync is a bit off. It will have a “Fix Sync” button in the tool bar. It will change the project FPS to the suggested number. That’s all I have! Do install if you’re new to animating!

Great animation app!

Hi, I just want to start off by saying that flipaclip has been my go to mobile animation app for years. It works really nicely and has improved a lot over the years with lots of really nice features. So far, my biggest complaint is the limits with the audio. I like that you can add files as audio instead of being limited to recording audio like we used to be, but the one feature that would bring it home is if we can edit the volume of each clip in detail. This would allow the user to edit the volume of the audio in specific places, like if we wanted it to fade out at the end or get softer at one specific part. I’m aware of the slice tool and editing audio of each lane, which are also great features, but its not very useful for something like fading out (as opposed to cutting off sharply) and it wouldn’t be very smooth. Off screen drawings would also be very nice to have for things like shake effects or smoothly moving a bigger drawing around instead of cutting off sharply at the edge of the screen. But other than that there are lots of really good things about this app and I think the developers are (for once) genuine people and not being money hungry. Suggestions are taken into account and the devs are actively, regularly updating the app with new features and fixes. Really good app, would recommend this app for sure. Keep doing what your doing!

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your loyalty and insights on audio editing and off-screen drawings. Your feedback drives our improvement.

Good App But Needs Some Bug Fixes

It’s a good animation app; easy to learn and you can use a bunch of different layers and change layer opacity once you buy the full version. It’s definitely worth the five dollars but it needs some things fixed. First of all, figuring out how to change layer opacity was a challenge as almost every time I tried it when I was learning how to do it I ended up moving the layer around instead of changing its opacity. That’s because you have to slide your finger over the percentage on a layer and if you hold a second to long you end up dragging the whole layer around. Please fix this, because being able to change layer opacity is quite cool and it was very frustrating trying to figure it out. I feel like it would have been better if there had been some sort of slider once you tap the layer percentage.

That said, I picked up how to use this app in the course of a few days and by week or two had made my first animation, which was great considering so many animation programs require you to spend weeks just learning how to use the interface. I love using this app but it keeps crashing every so often when I have multiple layers. Please fix the crashes, because they get annoying and there is a lot you can do with this app when it’s not crashing on you. The layer opacity interface and the crashing were the only problems I had though, and I would still recommend this to anyone who wants to learn animation.

Developer Response ,

Thank you very much for your extensive review, we really appreciate it!
Crashing is probably related to not enough RAM on your device. If you feel that your device is underpowered be sure to disable "Canvas Rotation" from under the FlipaClip settings, it should make FlipaClip much smoother for you. Also, be sure to exclude FlipaClip from battery optimization.

Also, it can be caused by not enough space on your device. Go to your device settings and check how much free space do you have on your device. If you are low on storage space this will cause the app to not work correctly. Essentially causing drawings to be lost. Please make sure to make some space on your device before you start drawing.

Please reach out to our support staff at support@visualblasters.com if you have any comments or criticisms, we would love to hear your input.

Major problems with the new updates

I have been using this app for many, many years and have always enjoyed for. For a simple app it’s very good at introducing people into animation and I adored it’s simplicity. But I feel the recent updates have been more unhelpful than anything. My first problem is with the new color wheel. I feel it is much more complicated than the old one and I desperately wish for the old to be brought back. I also really am not a fan of the location of the color picker being moved. It’s a small peeve but me and so many other people have been used to it being in the right corner for years and I wish there would be an option of where it could be located.
I am also not a fan of the recent update to the lasso tool. I feel the new update where if you circle the entire canvas it fits to size around whatever drawings are in your canvas rather than the entire canvas. I feel this is very unproductive as me and many others would utilize this feature to select the entire canvas and rotate/flip the symmetrically, along with other uses.
Despite all my years of love for this program, I feel these recent updates have been very counterproductive and are just causing inconveniences to artists using the program and I feel it would be in artist’s best i tres to have these features reverted or at least given the option to have to older version of these features.