FlipaClip: Create 2D Animation Reviews

FlipaClip is so amazing and useful if you want to be good at animating, especially because it has layers, and if you have the premium version like me, it can also give you the option to add an unlimited number of layers instead of just 3, I also like that they have onion skin, which is a ghost version of the previous drawing if you didn't know, and not only that, but it can also be colored red and green depending on how you set the “layers before” and “layers after” thing higher, there is just one more thing that I'd like to mention, I can do other cool things like adding voice, music, or just any old type of audio from my files, and I can copy keyframes very easily, and if you guys have that problem where you end up not copying every single layer, you can always hold a keyframe down and then you'll have the option to add a frame onto the next frame or the previous frame and even add a blank frame on the next frame or previous frame, this is a perfect way to add in -betweens on your animation, so anyway, that's it for my rating. I would like to suggest a few things for an update, for example, when you use the fill bucket tool, you can decide how transparent the color will be. I’d also like to make a suggestion, I was thinking it would be a good idea to add a button that says “ lip-sync”. When you press that button, FlipaClip listens to the audio you added to your animation, and then it adds a set of mouths that will match the sound you're making.

Hello, I’ve been using this app for three years almost and I’ve grown attached to it, but I am here to complain about its newest update. I find it hard to use because I have a iPhone XR and with the swipe up to view all previous tabs gets in the way of animating because well, it’s like the home button and I keep exiting out from this app it’s a real pain. But with the older version of this app it doesn’t have that issue. I wish there could be a way to switch between the versions. With its new look it feels like it’s brand new and it doesn’t feel right or comfortable I keep looking at my other animations and see that they are much better than the ones I am currently making it’s easier to play back and forth between frames and it’s not only me who is complaining but a few of my other friends who also used this app before it got its update. It makes us beginner animators very upset to start from the beginning all over again it’s like losing motivation and making a bunch of WIPS instead only find yourself going nowhere. So please, I suggest there should be a way for animators who use this app to revert between the old version and the new version not only would it make the people I know happy but it’d be a win for everyone. Some people like the newer version they can have it, others don’t like it they can have their old friend back! So please I hope you think or at least take a moment to consider this. This is all I had to say thank you!

Hello this app creators, I love FlipaClip because it is great for beginners at animation and people who either not draw on paper, or can not find an app to animate or draw on. I have found a few bugs that need to be fixed, the first one I found was that when I was doing a simple animation when it started crashing every time I tried to play it or slide the frames, it really annoyed me so I did not do the animation anymore until it started to affect my phone, so all of my movies and animations had to be deleted because I had to delete FlipaClip for it to be able to work I know it is not just me who had gone through FlipaClip crashing. The second one I found was that, my this app did something that didn't like, it made me not being able to slide the frames and if I wanted to play the animation it would go slower or faster then I put the frame speed to be, and like the first I had to delete my this app again because it was affecting my phone. The last one I found was, the Comeback Contest, it was going slower than the frames should be and the paint bucket wouldn't work, same with the highlighter, and the pencil. The same thing happened to my friend who was also doing the contest. I also would like if the new audio update would work because when it came out I deleted FlipaClip and got it again but when I got it again there wasn't the update and again the same thing happened to my friend. I would like if you fixed the bugs and update thank you.

I love everything about this app and I have had no problems that bother me or just minor issues that don't bother or affect me using FlipaClip at all. FlipaClip is truly spectacular and I've used FlipaClip every since I got it about some years ago. When I see other people say that this app is a poor app I wonder what goes on their head if it's a problem with their device or something else because FlipaClip is the best for animating on a mobile device in my opinion. My only problem that bugs me is that when I set a size for a font, lets say 50 (I've been trying to do that size) it would quickly change to a higher size like 61 (what it's been changing to for me) and I've had to quickly fix it so it wouldn't happen again and it's irritating. I have nothing against the creators or FlipaClip itself but if something could be done about the issue, that would great. :)

Also a recent problem has occured after drawing pictures for a little over 30 frames where after drawing the outline I try to use the paint bucket and it colors over the whole entire frame including the outline and I have to color it in the layer under it instead which is time-consuming and is very frustrating. It's never had this issue before and my sister said this has started happening, as well.

It’s a good animation app; easy to learn and you can use a bunch of different layers and change layer opacity once you buy the full version. It’s definitely worth the five dollars but it needs some things fixed. First of all, figuring out how to change layer opacity was a challenge as almost every time I tried it when I was learning how to do it I ended up moving the layer around instead of changing its opacity. That’s because you have to slide your finger over the percentage on a layer and if you hold a second to long you end up dragging the whole layer around. Please fix this, because being able to change layer opacity is quite cool and it was very frustrating trying to figure it out. I feel like it would have been better if there had been some sort of slider once you tap the layer percentage.

That said, I picked up how to use FlipaClip in the course of a few days and by week or two had made my first animation, which was great considering so many animation programs require you to spend weeks just learning how to use the interface. I love using FlipaClip but it keeps crashing every so often when I have multiple layers. Please fix the crashes, because they get annoying and there is a lot you can do with FlipaClip when it’s not crashing on you. The layer opacity interface and the crashing were the only problems I had though, and I would still recommend this to anyone who wants to learn animation.

Dear this app,

I think this app is a good animation website I would recommend getting it but the cons out list the pros in my opinion. The fill bucket tool even if you lower the threshold it still paints everything. THE LACK OF BRUSHES I know that this app isn’t a drawing app it’s meant for animation and it does the job quite well but if you want to create anything close to professional animation with layer modes and stuff this app isn’t the way to go... and I am not saying you can’t create stuff like that but it difficult and it is also behind a paywall which isn’t all that expensive. I recommend for this app to add at least ten brushes including airbrush,fade brush and a BETTER ink pen and I would also recommend that there would be layer modes like overlay,multiply and CLIPPING and etc if they feel like it( I feel as if this app would be the best animation app if the recommendations I listed weren’t behind a paywall. Overall FlipaClip is a extremely good app for beginners learning to animate not much for pros and if you are looking to make professional stuff it is going to be difficult without paying... I also feel like the maximum layer someone should have instead of 3 layers should be 5 and if you pay it could go up to 40 layers. this app I honestly feel like if you add these features it would be the best free animation app out there for beginners.

Sincerely me :)

I love this app, and it is honestly the best animation app I’ve ever used. It’s easy to use and to learn how to animate with. Although, there are a few things I’d suggest to be changed. First of all, I’d use black line art with dark colors sometimes, and I’d want to change the dark colors inside the line art into lighter colors. But when I try to fill it in with a lighter color, it will change the color of the line art as well. I tried to change the color of the line art into a light shade of grey, but it replaced the dark colors inside the line art as well. Even when I’d try to replace dark colors with different dark colors, this would still happen. Is there anything you can do to turn up the color recognition/sensitivity for the bucket tool? Another thing I’d like to address is sometimes when I’m using the lasso tool to copy and paste certain parts of frames, what I’m trying to paste won’t show up on the frame at the bottom of the screen, but it will show up on the frame in the middle of the screen (where you can edit what’s on the frame). But if I don’t notice this, the frame doesn’t update and it will delete what I just pasted on the frame. If there’s any way you can fix these, I’d be really grateful. Thank you for taking your time to read my review :)

I’m animator, or at least I want to. I have heard about FlipaClip for so long but now just recently downloaded it. What was the outcome? Well... let’s see. First, the thing that gets to the top of my head is the way to use the audio option. I hate how you can only use your files and ITunes Store. I usually just export it from my photos. But it just doesn’t work. Please add more options for audio, because I’m not a person who uses those techniques, if any times. The second one is kind of how the ruler system works. With other systems, I’ve used their ruler tool and it was fine. But something throws me off with how you guys decided to make yours. I was using the circle ruler tool to obviously make a circle. But when I didn’t draw exactly in the lines, It just bugged out/didn’t look good at all. I’m used to apps not making me do it EXACTLY on the lines, but doing it here just makes me feel, I don’t know, off. Third: The Zooming System. For all of my digital drawings, I always zoom in. It helps me focus on what part I’m making. But the zooming is, I don’t know, just a little buggy/laggy. It’s like the ruler situation. But the zooming feels kind of like a magnet, sticking to somewhere when it’s not supposed to. But there isn’t too much going on really. Good app, here’s some money. But anyways, I hope you can fix these things, if you even can. Other than that, it’s a pretty good animating app. Bye!

I’ve loved FlipaClip for a very long time, and always will. I had a friend in a summer camp I went to in middle school and I met a nice girl. She was very good at drawing and she was always on FlipaClip. I asked her how she made her animations and she showed me how on FlipaClip. Soon after I fell in love with it! Sadly, I never got that her socials, but I’ll always remember her and my amazing friends that I met there because of FlipaClip.

Now enough of that... let’s talk about the actual functionality...

It’s honestly an amazing app. I’ve created some of my best work on FlipaClip. I even used it to do a science project. It’s easy-to-use and the mechanics are amazing! You can use vivid colors to create abstract art, or animations... Or if you want a more deeper richer piece, then you can! You can make all sorts of different things! Another cool feature that they have are competitions... Competitions include making an animation based on a theme to make for when you first open FlipaClip ... Or for a music video! And part of the competition is getting a prize! (You’ll have to find out what the prizes are once you download it hehe) Anyway I’d totally recommend FlipaClip for just starting off, a project, report, assignment, relaxation, or if your just really good and can’t take your professional equipment with you! It’s portable, functional, and the best animation and art app out there!

Hi dev team! So, uh I’m a 12 year old who recently got interested in animating and wanted to try FlipaClip (my friends say it was good for beginners, please don’t be mad at me for being 12) I don’t know if it’s just me but when I made a project once but I guess when I came back it didn’t save.... was there a bottom to push that made it save? Also when I was trying to put music to animate with (I had the file prepared and everything) it said that the feature was locked and that I can buy the feature or I can watch and ad, and since I know my parents aren’t willing to spend money on an app (no offense to you guys, your awesome!) I decided to watch an ad instead...so uhm the wouldn’t load it just said tap to play every 2 seconds or so..so I restarted FlipaClip , and tried playing the ad again but this time it just showed me loading screen and and kicked me out. I don’t know what to do about it n such. You might be wondering, why the five star review when u clearly didn’t have a five star experience on FlipaClip ? Well I know that apps take a long time to develop and meet to people’s expectations, and everybody makes mistakes! I only hope that FlipaClip gets better in the future! Stay safe and drink water! (Lol I have no idea why I said that....)

So I personally love FlipaClip because it lets you animate whatever you like on a mobile device but I have a few problems. One of them is I wish you could change the size of the eraser and drawing tool, I don't know if you already can, but it doesn’t seem clear if there is. If you could change the size it would be very helpful making small, and detailed drawings. Also, the layers... so I personally do not see how the layers would be helpful in drawing, why do they draw on the first layer? And the last problem I have, the lack of the ability to delete layers, frames, projects and movies. If you don't want something in your animation you have to erase the frame (again it would be helpful to increase and decrease the size of the eraser with this) but then you have a blank frame just there that you can't get rid of. If there is a way to remove frames, movies, and projects I clearly could not find it and I would appreciate if someone could let me know how. Also, if you just do not want a movie or a project anymore I wish we could just get rid of it. Anyways those are my only problems otherwise great app I have been wanting to animate for what feels like ever since I saw my first Wings of Fire animation and now I finally have the opportunity to make my own and I am very relieved mobile people can now animate!

I love to use this app for being able to have many layers, adjustable onion views, and all the many perks it has. However, one question I would like to have answered is why there is no way to have an account that can save your animations and be edited on a different device. Shouldn’t this make animation easier to do on the go and more easing since you know your animations will be backed up?

The apps I am going to use as a wonderful example for this are Adobe sketch and draw. Both have the ability for the user to create an account so they can have their drawings saved onto the account. Users can easily go from iPad to iPhone and have their same drawings be there. For the people who care a lot about their work, it would be nice for their art to be backed up onto an account on this app. This way, they know that even if their electronics take a splash in water or go missing, their hard work is still able to be accessible.

I am not a genius in coding, nor am I an expert on how to create apps such as these. The following is simply my suggestion, but that does not mean you have to agree with it. FlipaClip already is amazing for those who spend the time to create gems, and it’s wonderful for beginning animators to grasp onto. Thank you for reading what I had to say, and have a splendid rest of your day.

I’ve had this app for over three years now, but I have just recently downloaded this app premium. FlipaClip is really simple and is perfect for beginners. Like I said in the title, I use it almost every day! I love how easy the controls on this app are, I love the setup of FlipaClip , and so much more! I love FlipaClip, however there is a reason why I still don’t believe it is the BEST animation program. (I also have a few suggestions for your app.)
Before I got this app Premium, I had to to install sound to my animation from my files, and to do that, I had to watch an advertisement. It never really bothered me, until one day the ads stopped working. I mean, you could still watch an ad, but when it was over, you received nothing. I hear many of my friends who also have this app (but not Premium) complain about this bug. If you could fix that, I bet many of your customers would be much happier.
Now for my suggestions. I am an artist. I use many drawing and animating apps, however my most-used programs are MediBang Paint, Procreate, and Gimp. If you could add some extra tools, such as a gradient tool, a magic wand/select tool, or maybe a paint bucket expand tool (that way we don’t have to deal with those pesky white dots) that would be awesome. That you for reading my review!! 💖

I have really tried so many animation apps which either cost money and still sucked or was free but NEEDED you to pay to get the tools that were required. With this, you get the basic layouts and additions aren’t very much needed, but does make your animations a tad easier. I also love how simple the mechanics are in this. Just a matter of sliding up and down and the color wheel gets all the custom colors you need rather than picking the basic colors of red blue etc. I hope every talented artist and animator would choose this as a start to their career or hobby. I have always thought most of the 5 star ratings were fake until I realized how great this is. Live on, this app!!

One more thing. I would love an option to hide the previous frame so you can see the next much easier. I do get that it is to compare to the last frame so you can turn or move the drawing, but it’s hard to see the next frame when last previous was completely black and my only option was to put a frame between. I don’t have much time anymore to express myself in art like I used to, and I would love to spend every second animating on this, and it wastes precious seconds doing so. But that’s just me being selfish for wanting that. Anyways, thank you for reading if you are. Great app! 💜💖💜💖💜

I’ve used FlipaClip for a while now for little practice animations and it’s been great. I took a break from it for about a month so far because I found something else that worked better for me, and I decided to go thru all my old animations. Every single time, and I mean, every single time I tried to click on one, I got a Minecraft ad. I could not open a single project without getting a Minecraft ad. Not an exaggeration. I know you can pay to remove ads, but I really don’t think an ad for every single click is necessary. I’d also like to say that when I use the Apple pen, (this only happens on this app) the stroke is extremely slow, I guess you could say. It lags behind where the screen is actually being touched and is hardly useful. I also believe that having to pay for more than 3 layers is annoying. For artists like me, we usually like having a sketch layer (usually deleted, so this won’t count), coloring layer, lineart layer, shading, and background layer. Including the fact that you also have to pay to merge layers, this is something that really gets in the way. If you’re looking for something to get started, FlipaClip is for you, but I do not recommend this for fully completed animations, as it crashes occasionally and for the reasons above^^ of course many people can get this to work for them, but this is just my 5 cents.

Been using for a while, like it but find it hard to maneuver about with a small phone such as mine. Hating the ads every time I stop an animation when I first come in, it blasts ads at people who don’t pay whenever they try to stop an animation. I like working with things on it, but the paint bucket system is so nit picky, it’ll fill the whole background because one tiny pixel is not connected. I suggest fixing the “pain” bucket to make it less painful, and stop with the ads??? You make enough money from people spending money to escape them. Speaking of paying, why are a lot of nice things locked under payment? Us who do not want to spend money on a mobile app for animating get lack luster in the features. To keep it short and simple for people who are reading this, download only if you have at least half of your sanity left, you’ll go insane if you’re under that. :] oh, sorry for the poor explanation, but my problem with the paint bucket is how literally 1 pixel not connected with the lines will fill everything else, I am sorry that this sounds so nit picky with it and it probably doesn’t need to be changed, but I hate having to find that one out of order line. So instead make FlipaClip either give you maybe a little direction to where the line is if it is possible? Also I do not need help with animation speed, thank you though :-]

So there are a few problems (I edited the rating because I saw a couple of more problems when I’m animating. So, first of all, I think FlipaClip is frustrating because you cannot undo deleting layers. I was making my first animation and I took a long time to make the sketch because I’m bad at drawing ;-; But then I realize one of my layers were attached to my sketch layer. So, I delete the layer that was attached to the sketch, and realized I have made a terrible mistake! The whole sketch layer was gone, and I can’t undo it. I couldn’t finish the sketch even though it took me hours. This was really frustrating.

The brushes aren’t that great. The pencil tool, I don’t think is good for sketching, and the highlighting and brush tool are weird to use... This ink pen I don’t understand very much. The ink tool gets bigger when you push down harder when the the tool size is big. Also, when you use the bucket tool, it doesn’t fill the space completely and there are some white spots. And whenever I’m tapping something, there is a painted dot that comes up because I tapped the screen with my palm.

Uh that’s it really. I wish I could like FlipaClip more, because I see what other people are able to do with it. I’ll continue using it and see how I do, and I will update the rating if I encounter anything that I like/don’t like. Sorry if these don’t make sense because I’m 11 XD

I love FlipaClip since it’s not like the other animation apps! But here’s the thing..when I go into the frames viewer, in the top right corner there is a button to select all the frames giving you the ability to copy, paste, etc. And you can select and deselect the ones you want and don’t want, but that’s not my point. Sometimes I’m creating animation memes and I have to repeat some frames. So I go to the frames viewer and do stuff, but sometimes I have so many frames to deselect it could take me from 10-15 minutes and ending up with only 30 or 20% left on my IPad, and usually there are some animation memes that take long to animate. What I mean is that the button just HAS to select every. single. frame. And WE have to go deselect the ones we don’t want to be copied by ourselves and it usually takes forever! Please add an option for us to select the frames we want without having a button choose them all. (Or even better, something where you can type how many frames you want selected. Ex. Frames 55-72.) It’s kind of annoying for me because I’m not really good at waiting. Please add my suggestion or do something like it. It would mean a lot to me.

From, anonymous animator.

If you are looking to animate, I recommend FlipaClip for starters, 3d animation ( usually ) starts with a sketch, and then a small 2d uncolored clip, that’s basically what FlipaClip is, I’ve wanted to animate since I was 9 and this is FlipaClip I’m starting on, I haven’t spotted any flaws, FlipaClip is just awesome

Edit: I came back to edit it because I noticed that there are 2 certain ads that kind of question me, a lot of things about them. There’s really only 2 ads that play on this app, one of them being an ad for the new spiderman movie, and the other one being a roblox ad, except these ads come up at random times, for example if I see a mistake in my animation and pause it, one of these ads come up, and my question about them is just, “ what? “ the spiderman one os advertising the spiderman movie but it doesn’t say anything about seeing it in the movie theatre or watching it on a website, it just advertises it, and the roblox one isn’t JUST roblox, the ad is basically advertising their game, and the game isn’t an official roblox event. It’s supposed to be some fruit loops and roblox crossover thing, but they don’t show any sign of roblox except that the ad is on roblox, they’re basically just advertising their game, and not the platform, it’s just kind of confusing, but thank you for reading.

I love this app, but one thing I’m not that big of a fan of is lets say I’m making a movie for my family right? And I need to make moving words, I use this app, but then when I save it to my photos and put it in IMovie (what I use to make the movie) it has the this app watermark on it. It’s not much of a problem but I just wish I could make the words move without the watermark on it, oh and also, when I use the fill tool to fill my thing in and it has like a one pixel line out, the paint tool goes out of it then I have to find the hole. But other then that, I love it! One more thing! I don’t really like the fact I have to turn WiFi off to get no ads but then I forget to turn it back on. (Sorry this was long and I get it if you didn’t read this) Edit: it would be cool to share my stuff with friends! And maybe more preset backgrounds? I recommend this app if you are a beginner or wanting to do something when your bored, or making a stop motion/movie! But I do wish there was an easier way to copy a frame without tapping each one you don’t want like, I’m making one with lots of frames but I need to use the “frames viewer” to copy them, I have to tap EACH frame that does not need to be copied, so maybe there could be an option to have all frames not
selected?

Hello developers, I absolutely love this app and I use it almost daily for animations on my YT channel. It’s very easy to pick up many techniques for animating on this. Although one thing bothers me, the white dots that show up when using the paint bucket. I know that you could just use a different layer or brighter colors or thicker line art. But I prefer thin line art, a fine mix of bright and dark colors, and I like to use all the frames for better reasons than coloring. Also it takes way too much time coloring manually or just copying and pasting the line art (also that can look messy) maybe you could add something that selects the object that you pick and when you color all around it, it only colors what you selected, kind of like the wand tool on IBS paint. This could make it a lot easier for making stripes or even blending colors on a character. Or you could make it to where the white dots won’t show up, or anything else that comes to your mind that will help this, it’s your app and I am only a user with an annoyance. Please do take this advice, I know many people don’t like this problem and it would make so many people happy if it was fixed. Thanks a bunch! -føxy <33

*UPDATE: I got a response from the developers and was given a solution to remedy this issue. I really appreciate receiving a personal response. I will make more space on my device to prevent this problem in the future. Thank you!

Original Review: I personally love FlipaClip, but this year has been terrible. All of the time I lose my animation because of some glitch, but I’m over it. I worked really hard on a animation of a show I’m starting but my episode I was half way into that took hours glitched out and destroyed the layers I was working on. There are so many ads, I can’t stand it. When I go on and work on my animations, there’s a ad. It gets rid of my whole animation mood. When I drawing in FlipaClip , it sometimes delays. And this is a drawing app, how is that even possible. The copy and paste system is absolutely broken 99 percent of the time. Every time I’m trying to copy and paste something big, I have to do it individually. So when I put audio over it, I have to individually paste each frame in. It used to be where if you pasted to fast, it would freeze on the loading screen, but now it’s even worse.

FlipaClip is really great. I really enjoy this app, it’s my main animation app on my phone. I never really experience and casualties. There are just two issues. 1. Every time I copy and paste something on many frames, it crashes after a certain number of frames I’ve copy and pasted on. This one isn’t too bad, but it be nice if it was fixed. ((I’M NOT SURE WHAT HAPPENED BUT THIS PART OF THE REVIEW IS NO LONGER IMPORTANT, BECAUSE IT’S DOWNLOADED NOW!)) 2. I just got a brand new iPhone, and after doing an iCloud backup on my old iPhone and transferring the backup too the new iPhone, this app is the only app that won’t finish downloading. We’ve tried deleting this app and reinstalling it, but as expected none of the data was there when I reinstalled it, and I really want all the data to be there. We shut-down my phone and re-set it up as if it was brand new and did everything as usual (assuming my phone was the problem) but this app is doing the exact same thing as it was before. It won’t finish downloading. At this point, I believe there is something wrong with FlipaClip . I honestly don’t know if there is anything that can be done too fix it. But if there is something, that can fix it. Can you? Sorry for such a long paragraph.

I give this a four star rating because there’s a few bugs and things that bother me.... for instance, I’ve recorded a piece of audio, seems to be going good, right? But then I come to find whenever I drag that piece of audio up to a track and tap on it, it disappears! But yet the audio is still there? I would like you to fix this bug please. It gets annoying because I can’t find the end to the audio when I’m trying to record a new piece.
The rest of this is just recommendations, but I still think you should take this to mind. First of all, I thing you should add more tools, like: blur/blending, line straightener, stuff like that. It would really help make my animations more appealing. Secondly, we should be able to have more layers. I already have the “6 layer” but I feel that is not enough, well, just in my opinion. We should be able to buy more layers, it would really help.
Thank you for reading my review, please take all of this to mind, you don’t have to add it but I would like you to think about adding it into your wonderful app. Flaws aside, overall, I think this is a pretty good app. I was so happy when I found FlipaClip and still am using it. Again, thank you for your time.

I’ve been using this app for about 6 months, and there are some really annoying things in there, but other than the “You have to pay money for literally everything” (it gets on my nerves.) it is a pretty good app. I mean, I’ve been making many animations. But, I’ve never been able to join Maps or anything because of the rule “No Watermark”. But let’s get into the reasons why I think it’s good. In my opinion, I think it’s good because it probably is a good app for beginners like me. It really was helping me improve, (for a reason I don’t know.) but it just is FlipaClip I’m comfortable with. Now onto the bad reasons. I think the this app watermark is one of my main problems. Like I said earlier with the “No watermark” rule. And it just drives me crazy. And you know, some people can’t afford things on this app. Let’s say you are poor in a small house. You wanna be a YouTuber to make money. You do animations, but never can do Maps. (Multi Animator Project) because, if you do a map part, they will credit you, and they are most likely more famous. You would get more subscribers. So, that would prevent you from getting more money to pay Taxes, Bills, etc. so that is why i give it 4/5.

Hey this app I love FlipaClip it has the layers and perfect tools and it’s very easy and simple to use and everything but I noticed in your contest templates your able to draw outside the box and that reminds me of adobe flash (I don’t use it because I don’t like it as much lol) I suggest maybe you could like do that with normal projects but when uploading it or saving it, it only saves what’s inside the box I thought that would be really cool and make it kinda easier when animating something that requires something like that- it’s just something I requested or an idea for you that’s all.

Edit: I’m also having problems with the fact I am an animator, so I have different devices I use to animate. I use only this app to animate since it is a great app, I purchased the whole bundle of features on my phone. I tried to put it on my tablet but it wouldn’t work, I don’t want to have to purchase it again, I suggest you create a thing where you can make accounts so you can login to your account and it’ll be easier and you won’t have to buy what you already bought again.

I've checked out comparable animation apps on FlipaClip store and this one is quite good! The video import feature was faster than I expected, frame scrubbing was smooth and natural, and it was easy to adjust opacity on layers, merge them, and lock them.

It has one major downfall: the drawing tools. It only has four, and their options are insufficient. The pen tool's minimum size is .1 mm, and even when you zoom out on the largest canvas, it just isn't small enough for detail lines, making everything look big and blocky. The highlighter, ostensibly a marker, has only one tip and cannot be angled with your stylus, meaning it has limited use. Finally, the paintbrush appears to have serious opacity issues in the current version. I was still throwing "globs" of paint on the canvas even at 7% opacity, making delicate shading and layering impossible. Pressure sensitivity on all the tools appears to be buggy, and would not work even when I turned off touch controls. Finally, there's no ability to add your own brushes or modify the way the current brushes work, outside of size and opacity. (The eraser adds a feathering option, which the paintbrush could use.)

Hey! I'm going to start off with the bug because I want to get that out of the way. When I saw the update, I was relieved because FlipaClip would crash after prolonged use, and now there was a fix. Unfortunately, I find that FlipaClip crashes twice as much now. It's not much of an issue because my phone is relatively fast and I can easily reopen everything quickly, and the new autosave update helps out too. I would love to see the bug fully fixes though. I know how hard you guys work so I'll edit this bit out when the fix comes around, plus I didn't want that small issue to take away from your guys' rightfully deserved 5 stars. Which brings me on to my next point. FlipaClip is amazing. I bought the pro version 3 times (First iPad broke, bought on second iPad, then I got a phone). I'm not mad about that though because your team deserves it. FlipaClip is super simple and easy to use, the audio sync is amazingly helpful, and the tools are pretty great too! Overall great app, and I can't wait to see what you guys add in the future :).

FlipaClip is pretty good. It seems like it’s more of a beginners app. Something to practice for future animation and not something you should use forever. There are a few things that do bother me though. The biggest annoyance for me is the fact that you have to copy paste your line art down a layer to be able to use the fill bucket. The fill bucket never works 100% on any app. There will always be little white patches which is why you go back and fill those it. That would force you to do it on another layers so you don’t mess up the line art. Another thing that bothers me is there isn’t really a blending option. I like to use a mix of soft shading and cel shading but you can’t blend so I have to use only cel shading which is a little bit annoying. As most artists know everyone has a drawing style. I draw with a lot of soft shading. I mean I understand that soft shading is a bit difficult to animate but it would be nice if you could blend a bit easier. The last thing is probably really petty sounding but I really wish there were more tools. It would be a lot easier to animate certain things with more tools.

I’ve been using this app for a while now and I absolutely love it! The tools are really simple to use and the overall layout of the program is really easy, especially for beginners. I have found a few things that are a little annoying however. With the eraser, it could be on 70% opacity and it would erase the entire drawing and just leave streakmarks. What I think could be better is if the eraser didn’t streak and rather changed the opacity of the drawing as a whole? And with the layers, say you have a layer that is at 60% opacity and a layer that is 100% opacity, and you want to merge the 60% on top of the 100%, it will change the opacity of both layers to 100%. What I think could be improved with this is when two layers merge, it will make one layer, but the opacity of them both stays the way they were before they were merged. I hope that isn’t too much to ask, just small things I found mildly annoying. Overall the program itself is really great, I just thought those things could be improved.