RoughAnimator Reviews in 2026

Audience

Artists, professionals and anyone seeking a hand drawn application to create animations

About RoughAnimator

Fully featured hand-drawn animation application runs on iPad, Android, Mac, and Windows. Powerful enough for professional animators, and simple enough for beginners. Everything you need to create traditional hand-drawn animation, anywhere you go. Timeline with unlimited layers and easily adjustable exposure length of individual drawings, for pose-to-pose or straight-ahead, animating. Onion skinning, preview playback, scrub along the timeline. Import audio for lip-syncing. Import video for rotoscoping animation. Custom brushes, and support for Samsung S-Pen and other pressure-sensitive Android devices. Supports Apple Pencil, Logitech Crayon, Adonit & Wacom styluses for iPad. Control framerate and resolution. Export animation to Quicktime video, GIF, or image sequence. RoughAnimator projects can be imported to Adobe Flash/Animate, After Effects, and Toon Boom Harmony. RoughAnimator is the most powerful hand-drawn animation program in this price range.

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$5.99 one-time payment

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