Animation Desk® Draw & Animate App Reviews

I beta tested this app and have seen the improvements it has been through so far. It has come a long way. The developers are very open to feedback and act on user suggestions. With that said, heres my review: Cons - Update: Apple Pencil support has been added and works wonderfully. If you dont have and iPad Pro, its still limited to one active stylus in the app. limited stylus support; not sure what drove the decision to build in support for just the Adonit Jot Touch, but currently thats the only stylus supported - Update: this has improved somewhat, but still happens. moving around on the canvas is slow and when placing two fingers down to move it around, it almost always creates an unintentional mark that you have to turn around and erase - disruptive to workflow - Update: this has been fixed! login status doesnt seem to stick between sessions, meaning when I close the app after being logged in with my kdan ID, I relaunch the app and 80% of the time when I go to access purchased or subscribed features like the animation kit, it acts like Im not logged in; the annoying fix for this is to log out and then back in - Update: Apple Pencil responds as expected. I havent had a need to use anything else since... stylus responsiveness is botchy; for example, Ill be zoomed in to my work on the canvas and when trying to make mark to say extend a line, it doesnt mark as expected; I might get a dot or something; however, when I lay down a stroke elsewhere it tends to work. Frustrating to say the least. - Update: this appears to have been fixed... New bug: toolbar has a tendency to shift from the left edge to what appears to be the left edge of a 9.7 inch iPad screen; especially when using the minimize button for the bottom toolbar. PROS: -Brush selection with the animation kit is pretty extensive and gives you a lot of expressive options -Full screen canvas is clean and gives you maximum workspace to get your vision down -Toolbar is intuitive and holds the most common tools youll need to work on your animation (thanks for adding the frame tools in the quick toolbar; going to save a lot of time pumping out animations) -Frame manager interface is clean and works as expected. Thanks for making the suggestion I had of being able to select more than one to delete. I like the fact that you can double tap a frame and it brings you to that frame (a little touchy at times though and doesnt always work) -Anizone community where you can post your animations and give/get comments on others work. Great source of encouragement to get better. - Newly added tutorials and the newsfeed in the recent update bring this app to another level. Good add. Overall, this app is a pretty solid animation app. I would recommend it!

You just need to try it and I see endless ideas to create. Love it !!!!

I really like the blending tools! Im a new user and havent figured out how to import or copy paste vector graphics and other images. For free hand its wonderful.

This app is a little over rated... Theres an app called "animation" and its only $5.99... No membership fees and all that crap! Not to mention unlimited layers and tons of fading color options and transparency. You can even combine pieces of animation! Sooo much better than this app... And u dont have to retrace every frame! You can rotate every part, even if its on the same layer! So yeah DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS!

I GOT THE APP AND A MONTH LATER, I CAN START A NEW PROJECT. IT SAYS YOU NEED A KUBO WHATEVER ITS CALLED ACCOUNT TO ANIMATE A NEW PROJECT. DO NOT GET!!!!

I mostly use this app for daily sketches and storyboarding. As some comments mentioned, the app did have some serious bugs, including frames randomly disappear and the frame sequences got messed up when you open the app. I have seen some improvements myself, and some enhancement for Pencil. Great job!

Its great for starting animation. It really encouraged you to find your skill level and improve in many different ways.5 stars!!

This app is fun to play around with when Im not on the ipad. Great way to create simple animations on my phone.

I love this app. It is really easy to use, and you get tons of brush choices and even more color choices. You dont need the extra features to make fantastic movies, which is normally an issue with other apps. A must have for any person who has creative mind, or just wants to animate!

This is exactly what I was looking for.

I started using this, since many YouTubers animate. I tried it, uploaded my first animation and people actually liked it!! Thank you!! I recommend this!!!!

Dont download this app unless you plan on paying for it.

I like the app and all of its features but theres no audio feature and if there is then where is it? Plus I dont have anymore than 2 layers, which gives me very little advantage.

Still one of the best apps created!

Its good to animate but no audio i mean whats an animation app with no audio

One of my animator friend introduced this app to me and said how this app actually streamlines his workflow in creating big animation projects and how he can make use of the features provided in transit. I tried it and found lots of tutorials and i think Im beginning my animation adventure. BTW, free trial rocks!

I have had this app for a month or so and I have had no serious problems. Except I dont know if they meant too but I can only make 3 animations and I need more. And when I want more animations it tells me too Sign up Kdan Cloud. I mean dont say that. Tell us exactly how to get more so its more easy for us the people. The ones downloading your app. Remember that. And keep up the good work. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Once upon a time this was my one-stop for animation. I would do my rough pencil drawings in this app (it has my absolute favorite pencil on the iPad Pro with  Pencil) and then Id export and do my inking on my computer. These days the app is so limited that you cant even draw with multiple layers without paying a monthly or yearly fee, despite the fact that my previous versions had full functionality. Sorry guys, but you really ruined what was the absolute greatest animation software on the iPad. Look elsewhere until they realize that charging for cloud storage and added brushes is fine, but layer support is a MUST.

Where the fiddle dang darn is the bucket tool

I liked it sooo much but why do we have to pay to get more space for more animations, my fourth one was gonna be really good. Im a little disapointed