PuppetPad 1.8 is here, and your puppets walk out into the world. COMMUNITY Show your animated puppets to everyone using PuppetPad. In Export, tap Post and your animation goes up as a GIF, up to its first 6 seconds, ready to play in the gallery. The Community button on the projects screen opens it: rate every piece from 1 to 5 stars and see which country it came from. Your vote stays private, the average is public. One post every 24 hours, so pick your best one. The Community is for ages 13 and up. SAME ON MAC AND IPAD Touch and hold a project and pick Mirror to the cloud: the same project lives on your Mac and your iPad. Rig the puppet on one, animate it on the other. A cloud on the card shows when it is in sync, nothing is lost if both devices save, and deleting it on one never deletes it on the others. EXPORT TO GAME ENGINES Your puppet can now leave the app as a real animated mesh, not as a pile of images. In Export, pick Engine. Spine gets a skeleton JSON with its atlas and a PNG per layer, ready for Import Data and any spine runtime. Unity gets a JSON, the PNGs and a C# component that rebuilds the mesh and plays the animation at runtime, with no plugin and no package to install. ALSO IN THIS VERSION Project cards have their own menu: Rename, Duplicate and Mirror to the cloud. A bell lights up when new art lands in the Community. The app's windows now slide in without the screen jumping behind them, and on the Mac the close button of a full screen artwork answers the first click. Maximum effort!

What's new in 1.7, "All Feedback Matters" ANIMATION CLIPS Drag an animation from the library onto the timeline and it lands as one bar with a filmstrip of its frames, not a trail of loose swaps. Drag the bar to move it. Its menu sets speed, loops, fade in and fade out. Outside the bar the layer draws nothing, so the clip is the layer's in and out. STRETCH, SLANT AND CROP ON THE CAGE Four new dots in the middle of the cage sides. Pull one outward to stretch that axis, slide it along the edge to slant the figure, double-tap to crop that side. Pins, bones and poses survive it all. CLEAN BACKGROUND The wand is now a panel that shows in red what will go away before anything changes. Keep only the subjects you want, drop a flat background by its color, and paint parts back in or out with a brush. Every step can be undone. ART FITS THE STAGE Art bigger than the stage comes in scaled to fit instead of spilling off the edges. Every pixel is kept, so you can enlarge it again later. Pasted art keeps its full resolution. ONE LAYER PER LIBRARY TAB Sequence, Animation and Lipsync layers, each with its own icon. A track only takes what belongs to it. Drop something else and a layer of the right kind is created right above. Every folder, mouth chart and animation has an "Add to project" button, and the library marks what the open project is using. BAKE TO THE LIBRARY Export can now bake the animation into the sprite library instead of a file: every frame rendered with a transparent background, cropped to one box and saved as a ready-to-use animation. The fast path for a heavy scene. AND MORE Animation thumbnails play in the library. Lipsync has a timing shift. Sprite sheets are sliced on the right grid. Drop a layer onto another to make a folder. Shortcuts for grouping and visibility. Right-click menus on the Mac. Plus a new sample project, "Sequence", and a long list of fixes. Maximum effort!

Sequences from your PSD • When importing a layered file, mark each layer as Puppet, Sequence or Background. The Sequence layers become one swap layer, already placed exactly where they were in the file and attached to your character's mesh, so a hand or any swappable part follows the puppet's distortion. • Backgrounds are detected automatically (a full-canvas opaque bottom layer) and imported as static art. • The Images tab in the library is now Sequences: a folder is the set of images a Sequence layer swaps between over time. Fixes • Pasting a PSD from the clipboard now keeps its layers instead of flattening them, both when creating a project and in the sprite library. • The layer picker of the import opens at a fixed size and scrolls all the way down. Maximum effort!

• Bug fix for old devices iOS 17. • Minor fix in galery organizer. • save your project, device or iCloud! First of all, thank you. Every message, every review and every animation you shared with us kept this app moving forward. PuppetPad is what it is because of you. The app has grown a lot, and we are walking straight toward being the best 2D animation app on the market. So expect features you will not believe are running on an iPad and Mac. Lipsync is only the beginning. LIPSYNC IS AUTOMATIC. You never place a single mouth by hand. That simply doesn't exist. Here is the whole flow: 1. Draw your mouths. The app lays out the mouth chart for you, one slot per sound, with a reference mouth behind every empty slot so you always know what to draw. English and Portuguese charts are both included. 2. Import your audio. Drop the voice into the timeline. 3. Tap Apply lipsync. The app listens to the voice and places every mouth for you, on its own layer, right on the beat of each syllable. It runs on your iPad, so your voice is never sent anywhere. 4. Changed the voice? Import the new audio, apply again, and the mouths change with it like magic. Every mouth stays yours after that. Drag any of them on the track to fine tune the fit against the waveform. Maximum effort!

First of all, thank you. Every message, every review and every animation you shared with us kept this app moving forward. PuppetPad is what it is because of you. The app has grown a lot, and we are walking straight toward being the best 2D animation app on the market. So expect features you will not believe are running on an iPad and Mac. Lipsync is only the beginning. LIPSYNC IS AUTOMATIC. You never place a single mouth by hand. That simply doesn't exist. Here is the whole flow: 1. Draw your mouths. The app lays out the mouth chart for you, one slot per sound, with a reference mouth behind every empty slot so you always know what to draw. English and Portuguese charts are both included. 2. Import your audio. Drop the voice into the timeline. 3. Tap Apply lipsync. The app listens to the voice and places every mouth for you, on its own layer, right on the beat of each syllable. It runs on your iPad, so your voice is never sent anywhere. 4. Changed the voice? Import the new audio, apply again, and the mouths change with it like magic. Every mouth stays yours after that. Drag any of them on the track to fine tune the fit against the waveform. Maximum effort!

Version codename: Prismalogic - ITA ;) No background at all. GIF and video now have a Transparent background switch in the export sheet, next to the PNG sequence and sticker that always carried alpha. Transparent video comes out as a .mov with a real alpha channel, ready to drop straight into any editor. Puppetize settings. A new button in the timeline header lets you pick the mesh density and how small a piece of art has to be before it counts as noise. Eyes, mouths and other tiny parts stop disappearing when you import. Repuppetize rebuilds the mesh of a layer you already made, keeping its pins and poses. Moving layers, fixed. Hold anywhere on a layer row and it lifts with an orange highlight, ready to go. Drag to see exactly where it will land, and when you reach the edge of the list it scrolls on its own, the way Photoshop does. The pivot stays put. Drop the crosshair on a shoulder or a hip and it holds there while you pose. Pulling a pin no longer drags it along, and the mesh now turns around the pivot instead of sliding underneath it. Real arcs, every time. Controls always on top. Cage, pivot, pins and bones are drawn above the artwork, so a layer sitting on top of the selected one can't hide them anymore. The pivot crosshair stays visible in every tool, not just its own. Touch a control, get the tool. Tap or drag a pin and the app switches to select and moves it in the same gesture. Tap the crosshair and the pivot tool is ready. No trip back to the toolbar. Loop your video export. Video has no native loop, so now you choose how many times the animation is recorded into the file. A 2 second loop becomes 4 seconds at 2x, 6 seconds at 3x, up to 20 times. Keyboard and mouse. V/P/B/Y for the tools, space to play, arrows for frames and keyframes, K to key, R to reset the pose, plus the usual Cmd shortcuts. The wheel scrolls the canvas and the timeline, Cmd+wheel zooms and Option+drag pans. Works on iPad with a mouse or Universal Control. Fixes. The first frame of an export is no longer mangled. Tap a layer name to rename it on the spot. The layer list scrolls again. With stacked layers, a new pin lands on the layer you selected instead of the top one. The number pad opens with the value selected, so the first digit replaces it, and closing it without confirming keeps the old value. Maximum effort!

PuppetPad 1.5 is here, and it brings what you've been asking for. Rotation pivot. Grab the pivot tool and drop the crosshair on a shoulder, a hip, a joint, and the figure finally turns from where it should. The pivot is welded to the artwork, so it follows the pins, the deformation and the whole animation. Real arcs, real weight. Blend modes and opacity. Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Darken, Lighten and Add, plus an opacity slider on every layer. Layered PSDs now bring their blend modes in with them instead of dropping them at the door. Multi layer select. Swipe right across the layer list to gather layers as your finger crosses them, then apply a blend mode or delete them all at once. The three lines button on each row opens rename, duplicate and delete. Pencil hints. Hover the Apple Pencil over any button in the toolbar or the timeline and a bubble tells you what it does. Off by default, turn it on in Settings. Faster, lighter, sharper. PSD import runs a single redraw pass now: quicker, half the memory, sharper artwork, and the app stays responsive while it works. Onion skin stopped costing frames. Maximum effort!

PuppetPad 1.4. Bring your whole character to life, faster. Import anything, instantly. Start a project straight from the Projects screen with a PSD, a PNG, or whatever's on your clipboard. The canvas is sized to your art automatically. Layered PSDs come in with every layer as its own puppet, right where you drew it. You can also drop a layered PSD into any open project. Animate smarter. • Onion skin. See your neighboring keyframes as translucent ghosts (red for previous, green for next) and nail every in-between. • Repeat a section. Loop a range of keyframes as a Cycle or a Ping-Pong, dial in the count with a slider or keypad, and let PuppetPad extend the timeline for you when you need more room. Perfect for walk cycles and idles. • Move pin groups. Select multiple pins and drag inside their cage to move them all at once, with a keyframe captured automatically. A cleaner, sharper workspace. Your canvas now opens perfectly framed every time, the stage size is always in view, and pins stay crisp and tappable at any resolution, even on huge artwork. Undo that has your back. Background removal, pin selections, and stage changes are all fully undoable now. Rock solid and easy on your battery. Smoother, steadier deformation, a pile of fixes across selection, editing, and the timeline, and a canvas that quietly rests when you step away, so your iPad stays cool and lasts longer.

PuppetPad 1.3 is here — and it brings what you've been asking for. 1 - Real alpha export. Export your animations as PNG or ProRes 4444 with a fully transparent background, ready to drop into any video editor. No workarounds, no white fringe bleeding through. 2 - Depth per pin. Every pin now has a Z value — giving you full control over which part of your puppet renders on top. Arm over body, hand over arm. Exactly how it should've always worked. 3 - Copy & paste on the timeline. Found a frame you love? Paste it anywhere in your animation. That simple. 4 - And Pro Mode! Now you can generate keyframe for each pin. Like a pro! And of course a lot of fix and improvements! Creating an animation has never been easier!

PuppetPad is free now — and nobody loses. What's new in 1.2: • Free to download with 3 export tokens to get you started • Token packs from $0.99, or unlock Unlimited Exports for $9.99 (one-time, forever) • Bought the paid version? Unlimited Exports is automatically yours. Thank you for the trust. • Cleaner overlays panel: wireframe, pins and IK now toggle independently behind a single eye button • Smoother polish across the editor Animate. Export. Share.

This update came to take some weight off your hands. Remove background - one tap and your character peels off the backdrop. No more cropping in Photoshop before importing. Transparent export - export your animation with alpha so it drops straight into another project, no white box tagging along. Pencil-tip hints - turn it on in the gestures panel (?) and discover what each tool does just by hovering. No need to tap. Pins just got a third dimension! Pin depth (Z) - each pin now has a depth value. When parts of the mesh overlap during animation, pins with higher Z render on top. Drop a pin on the front arm with Z = +1 and watch it pass over the chest naturally - no more splitting your character into layers just to fake an overlap. Depth stepper - select a pin and use the ▲/▼ control in the toolbar to bump it forward or back. The number tells you exactly where each pin sits in the stack. Bug fixes - many corners got sanded down. The app stands a bit steadier now. And don't forget! If you think about a feature, just get in touch with me!