FlipaClip alternatives
FlipaClip users often seek alternatives due to intrusive ads, features locked behind paywalls, and performance issues. Many users express frustration with the app's monetization strategy, which has changed over time, making previously free features paid.
Why users look for alternatives to FlipaClip
- Users are frustrated by the high number of disruptive ads, even after purchasing a one-time fee to remove them, and often encounter ads when trying to access basic features like adding sound or importing media.R1R3R4R5
- Many essential features, such as adding sound, more layers, onion skinning, brushes, or extending animation length beyond six seconds, are locked behind paywalls or subscriptions, which users feel is greedy and makes the app unusable without payment.R3R4R9R12
- Users report various bugs and performance issues, including lagging, crashing, projects being deleted, inability to import photos or videos, and difficulties with the user interface after updates.R6R7R8R10
The alternatives
Sketchbook® is a drawing and painting app that offers a wide array of free brushes and tools, allowing users to create various art pieces without ads or mandatory payments R52R58R61. It is praised for being user-friendly and reliable for artists of all skill levels R58.
Better for: Sketchbook® is better for artists looking for a dedicated drawing and painting app with a diverse, free toolkit and no ads R52R58. It suits those who want to convert traditional art to digital for coloring R56 and users who need a reliable, organized platform for illustration R58.
Head-to-head: FlipaClip vs Sketchbook®Adobe Fresco is an art app that users appreciate for its drawing capabilities, offering a good experience for creating art R66R69. It provides various tools and is generally well-liked by users for its core functionality .
Better for: Adobe Fresco is better for artists who value a robust drawing experience and are already integrated into the Adobe ecosystem, despite some syncing issues . It suits users who can tolerate occasional glitches and the requirement to sign in for saving projects R69R70.
Head-to-head: FlipaClip vs Adobe FrescoAnimation Creator is an app that helps users draw and create animations, with some finding it useful for improving their drawing skills . It can be used to make simple animations, and some users enjoy the zoom feature on phones .
Better for: Animation Creator might suit users who are looking for a very basic animation tool and are willing to contend with frequent ads and potential issues with saving projects R79R81. It could be for those who need a simple platform to practice drawing for animation .
Head-to-head: FlipaClip vs Animation CreatorFlipArtify is an animation app that some users find fun and appreciate for its features R94. It allows users to create their own videos and is considered a good drawing app, especially with an Apple Pencil .
Better for: FlipArtify is better for users who want a fun animation app and are prepared for a high volume of ads or the need to pay for premium to remove them R96. It may appeal to those who don't mind paying to unlock features like additional layers R95.
Head-to-head: FlipaClip vs FlipArtifyAnimation Desk® Draw & Animate is an animation app that some users find fun and awesome, with very few ads compared to other apps R108. It allows users to create comics and animations, though some features like different brush types or colored onion skinning may require payment R108R109.
Better for: Animation Desk® Draw & Animate is better for users who prioritize a low ad experience and are looking for an app to create comics and animations R108. It suits those who are willing to pay for advanced features like additional brush types and colored onion skinning R108R109.
Head-to-head: FlipaClip vs Animation Desk® Draw & AnimateYou should stick with FlipaClip if you find its interface clear and easy to understand for animation R30, especially if you are a beginner animator R41. It is also suitable if you are willing to navigate ads by turning off Wi-Fi R35 or if you find its core animation functionality sufficient for your needs .
Evidence note: Animation Creator and FlipArtify have a limited number of detailed reviews to fully assess their strengths beyond basic functionality and ad issues.
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What reviewers actually said
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- [R1] FlipaClip What’s happened..: It was 2019. I was happily animating with this app for the first time. It felt so free. I could use anything any time. After a while, I got tired of ads. I purchased a one time fee promising me that I would never have to watch ads again. It was a simple price- $8.00. I kept on animating a ton. It went on for years. Then 2023 came. I got on the app after installing one update- an
- [R3] FlipaClip Not fair: Why do you make all the helpful and nice things cost money? I’m 9 going on 10 and i cant even add the sound i want without the app trying to force me to pay for premium and also the adds arev very disruptive. I am disappointed that i thought it would be diffrent
- [R4] FlipaClip Ads, greedy.: If you want a simple animation it does the job but it’s exetremely annoying because you have to pay money just to add sound. You could buy the whatever it is and you’ll just get what you’d expect to be free. They really don’t need that much money, they’re just greedy asf and want more. And the every time I want to play my animation it shoves an ad that I’ll never buy a product from i
- [R5] FlipaClip To many adds: 4/5 to many adds
- [R9] FlipaClip Okay app: It pretty good at animating but you pretty much have to pay cause there too many adds and brushes lock behind a paywall
- [R12] FlipaClip Pretty Good, just a couple of things that make it annoying: Flipaclip is amazing. Super easy to use, even on my phone.I can understand why this is a thing but it stills frustrates me, the fact that I can’t use my own music in my animation without the pass. I get it of course, but it still makes it tedious for me to use other editing software so I don’t have to spend any money doing a hobby I enjoy
- [R6] FlipaClip Not my fav but still good!: It’s a good app I didn’t like it was too laggy tho but it may of been my internet but the app is really good! Actually my first drawing/animating app!
- [R7] FlipaClip Ads, bugs, GREED.: This app was beautiful, wonderful even, until the “New FlipaClip” update… there are ads everywhere, when I try importing audio and videos into the studio it tells me to wait for an ad, WHICH DOESN’T EVEN LOAD???? Like yeah, I understand the greed. Hustlers gotta hustle. But come on… the fact that you heartlessly give us users an ad that doesn’t even work shows that you don’t eve
- [R8] FlipaClip The new update changed my flipaclip experience: It’s a really good update, but also it seems like everything is all across the screen, and I still don’t know how to change the fps. I do like how you can change it back to the old flipaclip. Great app and I think it’s the best anamation app that I have used!
- [R10] FlipaClip Nope: Too much storage wasted
- [R52] Sketchbook® Best app ever: If you're looking for a good app for drawing and writing i would recommend this app, it doesn't need you to watch an ad or anything like that to draw and if you want you can create an album and there are so many other stuffs that are so good! I can't recommend this app enough!
- [R56] Sketchbook® Good app but needs some fixing: I really enjoy this app for art especially converting traditional art to digital so i can color it. However a big downside at least for me as someone who records speed pains was the fact the recording on this app also zooms in and moves whenever you do that to your drawing instead of recording the whole cavas. They act like its a perk but it just makes recordings lo
- [R58] Sketchbook® Amazing: I have been using Sketchbook since about 2016-ish, and it has never failed me! As a lifelong illustrator, I could not recommend a better app for artists of all skill levels. It is clean, organized, user-friendly, and comes with a diverse toolkit that will surely satisfy any creative soul lucky enough to come across it. All in all, a very reliable, affordable app with the artist’s experien
- [R61] Sketchbook® I love this: It’s cool because I can make my things and my baby sister can also play on it and it’s awesome it has a lot of tools for u to use and I love it a lot and u guys will to!
- [R66] Adobe Fresco Niceee: Nice good app actually
- [R69] Adobe Fresco Wonderfully wpp: It's q great app I love it but warning if u want to save ur projects u need to sign in it's not w complaint itsnjust a warning so yea wonderfull app I recommend it
- [R70] Adobe Fresco It’s great but…: It keeps glitching and tells me that I can’t delete anything because I need to sync it to something.
- [R71] Adobe Fresco ACCOUNT NECESSARY: I made something small and quick, went to export and I could not export without signing in to some account. I can’t even save to my own device without an account. That alone makes this app pretty useless. What a waste.
- [R79] Animation Creator To many adds: There’s to many add Im getting them every minute it’s very annoying and it’s sometimes laggy
- [R80] Animation Creator My First Drawing!!!!!: I made my first drawing that was a glitched person!!!!
- [R81] Animation Creator Iswniwdn: Has way to much wire adds
- [R82] Animation Creator Absolute trash: This game makes you pay for premium to remove the ads and it kind of just forces you to pay premium because there’s a ad on the bottom that takes up like a 1/3 of the screen, also when you get a video ad it takes like 2 whole minutes, and when I used the eraser the max size was so small and when you change the size on the eraser it also changes the size of the brush
- [R93] FlipArtify Money grab: PLEASE FIX THE FACT THAT YOU CANT ACTUALLY MAKE A MOVIE WITHOUT PAYING FOR PREMIUM!!!!! 🙏 please
- [R94] FlipArtify Best game ever: This is a good game. I recommend this, but if you don’t have time for it I understand just a suggestion
- [R95] FlipArtify Good but kinda greedy: It’s good but I have to watch an add or pay just to add another layer
- [R96] FlipArtify deleted after approximately 1 and a half minutes: ads every other second
- [R107] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate Wasn’t very satisfied: This app seems good, but I waited half an hour for a video to import, and it didn’t even show at all. Do I just need to wait for it to load, or is it not working? It made me really sad, by the fact that it wasted my time. Please fix :(
- [R108] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate Absolutely FANTASTIC: It’s so fun and there are almost NO adds im NOT exaggerating. Only thing I DONT like is that you have to pay for the different brush types that’s the only thing so if the developers could update that it’ll be like a million stars
- [R109] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate Decent enough: I feel like it’s so hard for a single animation app to actually include all the things that I feel like should come with it. Colored onion skinning and being able to move around things in a selection should be a basic essential and not behind a gamble or nonexistent!
- [R110] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate It could be better: I would have liked it if I didn’t have to pay for everything. I could only use one brush ( and the brush sucked) also it was kinda glitchy. So if you are planning on getting this app I would not recommend it. Developers please make this app more free!! It would be sooooo much better!
- [R35] FlipaClip Information 🤓: Annoyed by ads? It’s easy to get rid of them for free :D just turn off your wi-fi :) ( this is if you can’t buy subscription and ads annoy you :3)
- [R41] FlipaClip Amazing: This app is just a great app it’s super beginner friendly it’s good for people who love making music videos to but please get rid of the ads update: I got the premium subscription but for some reason it won’t work I hit restore purchase and did everything I could but nothing happened please help FlipaClip
- [R30] FlipaClip Good but…: Flipaclip is really good for animation. It has a clear and easy to understand interface and works like any animation app. However, it has been increasing in ads and bugs. One thing you need to fix is the bug when I try to insert a photo or video and it just doesn’t work. Thank you.
- [R32] FlipaClip Why is it crashing so much?: I am trying to make a animated series on YouTube and for some reason it keeps crashing every time I open it and I deleted a few things to make more storage and yet it still crashes I have freed around 76.3 MB and it still crashing FlipaClip please help me out here.☹️☹️☹️
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store