Animation Desk Classic App Reviews

Once the sound and animation options are intuitive, this app is the best for animation. Selecting a file/any option to see the wav form in relation to the play head.

Dis is so good. I'm making an animated film right now.

I’ve been a long time user of this app, I loved it big time. This was the very first app/software I used to start animating. But... each update gets worse. I’ve started to dislike this app each time there’s an update. With each update there’s a glitch or the previous glitch gets worse, and worse, and worse. One glitch that made me stop using this app was when I go to record an audio. The audio won’t play even after I’ve recorded it multiple times, used different projects, different FPS, it just wouldn’t work! This really frustrated me to the point I’ve stopped using it. Then another problem is you either lose your frames and/or lose the audio each time you go back to your project. The FPS would change and when I go to change it back, it deletes my audio. Plus when I go to download the animation it’d delete some frames making the animation choppy and not very pleasing to look at. It’s a shame that my favorite and first animation I’ve used gone bad because I used it since it came out. I would’ve rated it two stars but I gave it 3 because of its features included. It’s a nice app but the glitches ruined the fun of it. Please fix these. I would love to use this app again but it’s too frustrating to use. Thank you for reading if you have.

Ok I'm in love w this soooo much I use it all the time but the bugs are seriously making me mental. First of all the sound works but then doesn't and never works after that. Also I can't even use it cause this pop up telling me to go to iTunes won't leave no matter how many times I say ok or go to the store( nothing even there) and I've turned it off and on 4 times cause that's the only way I can even go to another screen .....

Wow! I am very impressed! I was goofing around with the app as I do after every update, and I could not find anything wrong with it! The colors stay solid and clear, frames don't disappear, and it works very smoothly! I think I can finally animate something! Keep up the great work!

You need to fix the bug so I can save my art picture please and can you make the animation frame shorter pleas that would be helpful

I originally had the AD Free but I decided it might work better with the paid version. It's basically the same besides the tools. I wasted $6 on an app that you can't even put sound to. I honestly prefer animations that aren't silent. Fix this!!!! I want to upload my own music without having to pay tons of money. Total waste.

It great but it needs to allow us to have more layers. I ow I need more because I doing big projects with animation. I would do it on computer but I don't have a computer to do it on. So I need something else. I tried this but I really need more layers to do it on

I find that the more and more and longer I use the app the more problems pop up that take forever to fix or never get fixed. One of the biggest issues I have with the apps recently is how the sound only works like 70% of the time and when I say that I mean that it literally just records the sound itself, but when it comes time to put the sound with the animation it works only when it wants to which is for all practical purposes never once. I don’t even understand why doesn’t work most the time. I mean I’ve been using this application for years and only now the audio is being unusable so I am aware that they have the ability to make a working audio system but they don’t seem to be doing it. Some other issues are with how files are stored while the system works very good sometimes I’ll make a new file and put some projects in it just for me to close the then come back to the app just for the file to be gone and all my projects back where they were. I find this problem is rare enough for it to not really be all to bad but it seemed worth mentioning. But it does have more intuitive design then most apps so I can give it that. I also know that this review has been mostly negative but it does have some good qualities but this review is already to long. My final thoughts are that it’s good for beginners but that’s about it. But just a couple of changes and it could be amazing.

This app has kicked me out multiple times and i'd like if we could have infinite layers. Like other animation apps. On the bright side on this one has more brushes you can use photos and you can make awesome backgrounds. But it deletes the background all the the time. And please MORE LAYERS! Thank you for taking your time and making this as best as can be

I liked this app very much, until I encountered freezing and lost several projects app. I found it intuitive and I was able to create a project very quickly. I couldn't can't sign in to create a new account. Now I am checking out the cloud version, I couldn't use the trial version, signed up for the monthly charge, I hope this works.

This app lacks to define resolution of the project, 720p, full hd, 2k, 4K etc.

It is one of those apps that you can hardly find a replacement. I just love how it allows you to animate easily, I can sketch out whatever's in my mind, export them and show my friends, simple as that!

The app’s interface is welcoming and easy to understand, and I enjoyed it, until I discovered that it kept losing my sequences or rearranging them.

This app is AMAZING! I have made some animations that I show my friends and they LOVE IT!!!❤️❤️❤️ I used to ALWAYS watch other warrior cats animations but NOW I can mak my OWN animations!!!!!AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️🎂🎂🎂🎂🔥🔥🔥😍😍😍

I love it, I’ve had no problems with it so far, and in my opinion I would say it’s perfect for young animators (like me) and older ones.

I don't think they support this app anymore After paying money for one year subscription I thought things will be better , but I was wrong Even if I logged into the account it wouldn't give me the features they claim they offer. If you are looking for something professional, this is NOT the app for you. It brought me so much disappointment as I had asked for a refund for the brushes that I paid for and never got, but they gave me no reply till this day. I really hope that Apple would do something about it as the app developers are remaining irresponsive. If their app is still on the App Store, they must be paying money for Apple on an annual basis to keep it there. So, the app is not forsaken, and hence I ask apple for help as soon as possible.

البرنامج جميل بدايةً كنت اظن بأنه برنامج بسيط وكنت استعمله بشكل متقطع ولكن بعدما استمريت على استخدامه وجدته جميلاً ويستحق المبلغ حيث يحتوي على جميع الادوات المناسبة لعمل مقطع رسوم متحركة وبغاية السهولة- والعديد من الفرش المفيدة - مع خاصية الضوء التي تتيح رؤية الصفحة السابقة واللاحقة لتسهيل مهمة رسم الحركة التابعة- مع امكانية تصدير المقطع كفيديو. اتمنى في التحديث القادم وضع اكثر من طبقة واحدة لكل لقطة (adding multilayer per frame) شكرا لكم ياسر العراق

It's easy and fun to use, but it crashes whenever I try to load it. Can you please fix this?

This app is bet out of all that I've downloaded. I finally found an app that I can use to download things on u tube with good details. I like the merging videos too. Thing is... When u merge the videos, the background does not change. So if you merge it with two videos with a background, then only one of the backgrounds stay. So I had to buy an app to merge videos. Otherwise swell app. I totes recommend this to anyone who likes animating.

This is the best, most easy to use, high quality app for animation i've ever used. I 100% recommend this app to any young animators, or animators on a very small budget.

Don't get me wrong this is definitely one of my favourite apps I have purchased. The beget problem is....it's super buggy, it glitches, and it doesn't let you put background sound in very well (Not at all, actually). If you're fine with those things, and are looking for an easy, good animation app, then I extremely recommend this one. 👌

The animation app industry for mobile and tablet devices has not matched full computer versions. This app is great for learning and making professional roughs on the go, and close to the best on OS. If you want to make professional finish/polished animations use the real thing. Stop complaining...what do expect?

Alright, I am loving this app so far! But there’s one thing I might have to complain about (well not really.) So the audio, It won’t let me record or do anything with it. All of the controls in the audio are faded, I guess it means that I have to do an in app purchase? Or maybe something else? Anyway, I still love this app. Just needs 1 change and I will be happy at last.

Think it's a good app 😏

Apps labeled premium should NEVER have IAPs (in app purchases) This app used to be great but a while ago they crippled it unless you spend $15+ on IAPs. Do yourself a favor and skip this one!

It's fun, and good for aspiring young animators, but it can't be used quite as professionally as I would have hoped. It has too many limitations that close in on your creativity. I've tried to lip sync to recordings, but that doesn't work. For the longest time, I though, "Wow, I just can't lip sync. I'll never make a proper AMV!" But then I realized, this app only goes up to 24 bloody frames-per-second! I just needed to vent about that, I likely don't have a clue what I'm talking about.

I mean overall I think this is a eh app because it's full of bugs so find a better app plz because I don't rally like it

I'm too poor to get a professional animation tablet, and this is my next best option, though there's a lot of bugs that have cost me weeks of work and frames deleting on their own or appearing in a random spot in the animation. I hate how the pencil and quill are so pixelated at the smallest size and how frames become blurry if they're duplicated, and that you can barely zoom in on what your drawing. The select tool is awful and shifts a random section of the frame content after I move a drawing and it is very blurry, and the fact that there are only 2 layers to work with and all the blurry, pixelated lines make the drawing quality very poor. I've had this app for 3 years and I'm very disappointed in how nothing has changed for the better, if anything, it's worse. I wish there was an update that fixed all of this.

It's a neat app. Feels natural. I have a problem where after closing the app or my iPad times out and reopening a project a seemingly random frame will be replaced with the frame before. No way to retrieve the original frame. Which means I can only use this thing to mess around. But what are you gunna do for $5.00?

This app is pretty much unusable, the moment you open it, it freezes and crashes. This has, apparently, been gong on for four years now and the devs won’t do anything. Please, PLEASE don’t waste your me y like I did! You cannot get a refund.

It's quite aggravating to use-- half the time when you put either the apple pencil or your finger down to make a mark, nothing happens, so you have to lift up and try again. It can take 3-4 tries before you get a line started. This is nigh unusable for anything more detailed than a stick figure. I have the larger version of the iPad Pro.

This app could be a lot more. It needs more finger gesture shortcuts. It needs to cooperate better with the Apple Pencil. The interface is ok but I'm not a fan of the realistic tool icons. Clearer icons will help a lot. I'd like this to be Procreate for animation. It's ahead of the pack with all the features it has, but i hope they haven't stopped working on it.

Complicated at first but then be comes very adjustable and smooth the only complaint is recording the audio , but you can just do that. When you upload it to what ever soft ware you use 👌👌👌👌👌👌

Worst app ever bc it glitches half the time

I was so happy when I got this; finally an animation software that was cheap, and wasn't ridiculously complicated. I had just got done with a short that took three hours to make, and when I'm just about to put the soundtrack in, it won't "insert" the soundtrack. I thought I finally figured it out, but no, the short is still silent. I wasted three hours.

Downloaded this app quite a while ago, and I just love how it combines traditional animation with my iPad! Looks very much like an actual animation desk!

I was having fun animating when I realized that sound ONLY works if your animation is 6 fps, please fix this!

Not bad but too much description blabla.

This is by far the best app ever!! I have one suggestion though, I would like an "upload to YouTube" button so I don't have to export it to my photos. But this is the best app!!!! 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄 LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!

Would like to see improvements

I try to animate and when I close out of the frame the frame gets deleted. And when I insert a photo and draw on it and close out of the animation the photo disappears and it only shows what I drew. Oh and why won't it let me erase part of the photo when I insert a photo? It won't even let me delete the frame with a inserted photo and if I inserted a photo and add a BLANK frame it won't be blank, it will be the photo I inserted. EDIT : They fixed it... yay 5 stars EDIT 2 : if you insert a photo and draw on it and close out of the animation, the photo will still disappear.

I really want to love this app however there are a few issues. First the inability to define the projects final resolution, then there is the fact that you can't really make changes to the background easily (wanted to make a background in app so it wouldn't clash with the foreground). I would also love to be able to add more layers to the panel you're working on. Lastly and most importantly the fact that you can't copy and paste panels from one project to another is frustrating. I wanted to have a flash back from a different project in the one I'm currently working on but can't find a way to copy the previous panels. Still like it for animation though.

Small yet powerful app. Easy to learn and use. Haven’t crushed or disappointed me yet. Highly recommended.

Didn't have this problem before but it's happening a lot very recently. I would draw a page and press new page, I would delete the new page because I don't like it and the page before it would delete too. This has happen many times. Also I can't import sounds, I have to record it. Lame but still ok

Technically animates but the drawing features are awful. I would prefer a less pretty app that gives me actually decent brush engines. This seems great for a kid to s**** around with who doesn’t actually want to spend much time with animating but nothing about this feels semi professional. An animation app needs to be able to animate yes, it needs to have a functional set of tools to draw with otherwise it will never look nice. Also capping FPS to 24 seems a bit limiting

Definitely you can’t get more, it is not intuitive functionality, every time I try to download my sketches in, it took me time to scroll down to my find my last sketch, I try to duplicate just a frame, I couldn’t do it, it duplicates 3 or 4 frames, I had to delete the rest, then I have to download it again...I try to follow the names of the bottoms, to figure it out the functionality of the app it will take more time figure it out how it works, but what I figure it out!!... that it is not going to do what I want it is so basic...sorry you need to work more for intuitive functionalities...

Not bad but bs controls at times