Animation Desk® Draw & Animate alternatives

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1. [R6] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate 3/5 · US Doesn’t Save???: This app was good but while I was in the middle of animating it randomly exits me out and deletes some frames of my work. Idk what’s happening, but maybe fix it?
2. [R8] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate 4/5 · US It’s good but it’s not all that: Hey y’all so the app is good but there are some bugs it’s minor but annoying. First when I zoom in and when I try to get back out I can’t I have to exit the app and go back in. Next is like a toca boca glitch if you work on it for a while you get kicked out it happened to me and when I went back in my animation I was working on was gone. So yeah if you can fix that
3. [R9] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate 3/5 · US 2 Hours of work, GONE!: I was working hard on an animation that I really wanted to be one of my best. I had been drawing for 2 hours straight. 120 frames or so. I really loved it so far. And then, the screen froze. The app force closed and when I re-entered all of my work had erased. I was devastated. This app has done this 3 times now, and my i-Pad is never slow. Be prepared to lose your artwork.
4. [R10] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate 1/5 · US Just a bunch of glitches: I can’t go 3 slides without project destroying glitches
5. [R2] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate 5/5 · US 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
6. [R3] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate 3/5 · US 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!
7. [R4] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate 2/5 · US 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!
8. [R5] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate 4/5 · US I love it but…: I love this I have made comics and stuff but you do have to pay for certain stuff # a lot. But I still really love it.
9. [R1] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate 2/5 · US 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 :(
10. [R15] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate 3/5 · US Decent: It’s good for animation, BUT you can not add individual SFX
11. [R32] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate 4/5 · US Pretty cool: It was super cool to use, simple, but effective, and I really love the fact that when you’re animating, it looks like you’re doing it with an actual animation desk. Though, if you’re making a story time animation, it only lets you import music from iTunes. Still pretty good.
12. [R45] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate 3/5 · US Audio issues: The app is good and all but today I wanted to import audio for something important but it said to download music from iTunes and I’m broke so I really hope you can somehow make it to where you can import audio from: screen recordings, audio files, downloaded audio, ect please make my dream come true it would mean the world to me.
13. [R13] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate 1/5 · US Why?: I wanted to start my own YouTube channel and do storytime animations, but for some stupid reason, it kept making an inverted copy of my drawing upside down and inverted colors. I was going to ignore it and crop it out using my editing program, but it kept doing it over and over and it eventually messed with the original design on the bottom, and that's whenever I quit. Worst app ever, not to
14. [R18] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate 3/5 · US Bugs with the app: As much as I feel comfortable using the app, there are still bugs. Whenever I’m drawing the drawing duplicates flipped.
15. [R22] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate 1/5 · US Blurry!!: This app is so bad the markers are so glitchy please make the markers way less thick boooooooo!!!!!
16. [R30] Animation Desk® Draw & Animate 3/5 · US Okay: I don’t like how when you go back to layers it doubles it
17. [R51] FlipaClip 1/5 · US 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
18. [R53] FlipaClip 3/5 · US 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
19. [R54] FlipaClip 2/5 · US 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
20. [R55] FlipaClip 4/5 · US To many adds: 4/5 to many adds
21. [R65] Drawing Desk:Learn How to Draw 1/5 · US U HAVE TO GET PRO: I try to pick a picture but every single picture has to have pro…WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OLD DRAWING DESK
22. [R67] Drawing Desk:Learn How to Draw 3/5 · US Little drawings: There are too little drawings and for the others you need to buy premium which some people don’t want to buy. Furthermore many categories which include how to draw anime for example needs premium, so you aren’t learning anything.
23. [R68] Drawing Desk:Learn How to Draw 1/5 · US 1 stars you know why?: So here’s the thing I’ve seen a lot of drawing apps and they have been fake! Fake I tell u and I feel like finally something that is normal so I look and I say “here it comes just one sec” and zero dollars then I click the button and it says for me to subscribe to them I’m like well here I hope you guys can understand me
24. [R70] Drawing Desk:Learn How to Draw 3/5 · US Fun, but immediately there is a FREE TRIAL THEN YOU HAVE TO PAY…: So I saw this app and I was like oh yeah this is an app that’s free and I can draw for free and have fun really of course I understand that people are trying to make money for the ad thingamajigy but I really hoped they wouldn’t bother me with a free trial thing every literal time that I try to click on a drawing. I think this app i
25. [R79] Sketchbook® 1/5 · US no.: I spent over an hour for it to turn out that i cant fill in paint when i use the fill bucket on something and i made the stuff divided and guess what? STILL NO FILLING, IT FILLS THE ENTIRE THING INSTEAD.
26. [R80] Sketchbook® 5/5 · US 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!
27. [R81] Sketchbook® 3/5 · US Idk: I like this app but I can’t use shapes to help and shapes are VITAL for me as a person who cant draw😭
28. [R82] Sketchbook® 1/5 · US deleting half my drawing: can u actually make it stop deleting half of my work ? fix it. pls n thank u
29. [R93] Motionleap 1/5 · US Crashes continuously no updates worthy :/: They did one update in a few years and it was adding ai image maker (ooh ah sigh) meanwhile they have not added anything to their actual usable content that most use this for in several years and now it crashes a minimum of 5 times before its usable on the 6th or 7th (with content from 3 years ago. Sad when they stop caring.
30. [R94] Motionleap 5/5 · US Total scam. DO NOT GET!: I made a video, added one effect and it popped up remove pro limits. ONE EFFECT PEOPLE!!! Total scam can’t make a thing. If they promise total creativity what they mean is CASH GRAB DO NOT GET. And the pictures come with effects so you can not even export it! It is a terrible app, it is designed to take money.
31. [R95] Motionleap 3/5 · US Meh: It’s good but extremely limited in what you can do. Limiting paid users to 5 elements per image is crazy. I have projects that look unfinished. I have to limit my visuals to fit your limitations on creativity. The water effect is the best part of this app and the only reason I subscribed. Once I figure out how to get my water to move elsewhere, I’m done.
32. [R96] Motionleap 2/5 · US No new features users love: Instead of focusing on ai tools that are not that great- focus on introducing new features people love which was overlays, elements, etc. there hasn’t been an update in years. Too bad, the minute someone comes up with a clone app with more options… I’m gone. Been with you for years but you do not roll anything new out.
33. [R107] Adobe Fresco 2/5 · US Constant crashes.: More often than not, I would not be able to open a file, part of the progress of a file would be deleted, all of it would be deleted, or the app would just crash and restart. I would try to restore it via version history, but that would be reset, too. Without these issues, it would be a five star rating.
34. [R108] Adobe Fresco 5/5 · US Niceee: Nice good app actually
35. [R109] Adobe Fresco 3/5 · US Update: After the update, document renaming doesn't work. · translated
36. [R110] Adobe Fresco 1/5 · US Won’t add images: For whatever reason it won’t let me add images to my projects from my camera roll. On iPad, everything is up to date. You’re really starting to shi the bed adobe. The new layout is garbage too. Put the stuff back on the side. Having to scroll through the tools is garbage. You’re garbage.
37. [R57] FlipaClip 1/5 · US 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
38. [R86] Sketchbook® 5/5 · US 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
39. [R87] Sketchbook® 3/5 · US Not beginner friendly: I’ve never used a digital drawing app. I am a complete novice. I downloaded Sketchbook because of the reviews and felt optimistic, however, that led to frustration when upon opening the app, there was no tutorial. I had no idea what to do. I started experimenting with using the various tools, but when I needed to erase, there was NO ERASER! Why? It’s such a basic tool. How
40. [R92] Sketchbook® 5/5 · US Omg buy nowww: Sketchbook is literally amazing. First time. I tried it. It blew my mind of how many brushes there are for free. I mean, you don’t even have to pay for a certain amount of time and it’s just you can do whatever you want. There’s a lot of things that you can do, and you can make, however many, like untitled things you want. So amazing. You should totally buy it. Thank you for not mak
41. [R98] Motionleap 3/5 · US .: A lot of things that were free are now pro only. We barely have any options left
42. [R99] Motionleap 1/5 · US Not worth it anymore: Now they want you to pay for everything on this app which is very ridiculous!!!!! Every update they adding cost to the app. These apps are really starting to be very useless!!!!! Stop switching it up!!!!! We already have to pay for certain things on here why keep adding!!!!! You guys are useless!!!!!!!!!!
43. [R111] Adobe Fresco 5/5 · US 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
44. [R113] Adobe Fresco 2/5 · US 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.