Keyshape 4+

I've been using Keyshape for a few years now and it has hands-down the easiest way to animate SVGs out there. If you're looking for small, simple animations, this is the app. There are more complicated options out there, but nothing comes close to Keyshape's ease of use.

There are a couple of features I wish were available, the main one being an option to automatically stagger elements on the timeline by a certain amount. It would also be nice if when selecting multiple items on the timeline, the command key would select or deselect items.

Thanks for the great app!

There are clever ways of using Keynote to create an animated GIF and I've tried some Open Source tools but they all ran up against some serious limitations. I don't mind paying for the right app but don't want or need to get into the Adobe ecosystem with its subscription model.

After a great deal of searching I came across Keyshape; the uniformly positive reviews induced me to try it and I am delighted! Once I got used to using keyframes and the timeline, it fell into place rapidly and I've created my first animated website ads for a local nonprofit.

I am especially pleased that vector graphics editing is an integral part of the app and it's sufficiently capable it can handle just about anything I need. And I can import from Affinity Designer if necessary.

My oly complaint is not about the app but about how difficult it was to find the the Apple App Store - I had been searching on several related terms but finally found this because of a reference on some website - glad I kept trying. Many thanks to the developers!

Used by Splashtastic Productions to create animated GIFs of characters and props that go into Apple Keynote presentations that are exported as videos. To see how good they look, search “MoviesByMartino”. The elegant user interface is easy to navigate and learn while you get animation done. Makes simple tasks easy and complex ones possible. Like nesting animations within animations so, for example, a character can walk and chew gum at the same time.