Slapstick App 12+

I found it’s fun to add a little zaniness to my world! You can walk through rooms and add to them moving gaping mouths, wide eyes, licks of flame or puffs of smoke—and then share your wild and funny AR visions with others. See and share your world in new ways. Download more free packs of animations too beyond the standard set. A fun app! 😎👍

This is an update of a review I left just a few days ago. Looks like 99% of the issue I took with the UI (it’s iPhone X and above problem) has been fixed, so, of course, I’m left evaluating the app on the merits of its great animation. I’d still really like to see access to the face camera, but that’s a feature request, not really bugginess. Thank you Buck.

This review hurts to write because as a design professional, I’m a HUGE fan of Buck’s work. What they do well - animation, unfortunately, is not the problem with the app. The animation is fantastic, in fact. The other thing that works well is the AR component - stickers stick and track well and easily. The problem with app is that the interface is unusable. For starters, whereas it seems optimized for iPhones X and up (it fills the screen), things land under the notch, and the stickers at the bottom don’t scroll (or not well, if they do. I don’t know- I couldn’t get them to anyway). Additionally, there doesn’t seem to be an obvious way to de-select a sticker, so I found myself constantly dropping a new one onto the screen unintentionally. Also, how is there no option for the face camera - odd omission. Anyway, 5 stars for the animation and quality of AR, minus 3 stars for being unusable. Skip for now. Maybe future updates....?

This app is easy to use and allows kids and adults alike to be creative and start experimenting with AR from an easily accessible platform.