Stick Nodes is a powerful mobile stickman animation studio inspired by Pivot, letting you craft and export stickfigure movies as GIFs or MP4s. It pairs frame tweening, a camera tool, reusable movieclips, and a growing community library of stickfigures for a complete animation workflow. With 10,000,000+ downloads and a 4.6988 rating from 86,032 reviews, it remains a favorite for aspiring and seasoned animators alike.
Pros & Cons
Mobile-first animation workflow with frame tweening and camera tools
Large community and thousands of downloadable stickfigures
Reusable assets via Movieclips and strong export options (GIF, MP4 with Pro)
Not ranked in any top lists, which may reflect competitive visibility
MP4 export and some advanced features require Pro access
Limited built-in drawing/sticker tools compared to some rivals (no mention of stickers/drawing in core features)
About Stick Nodes - Animation
Stick Nodes - Animation is an entertainment app developed by ForTheLoss Games.
Download Statistics
Stick Nodes - Animation has been downloaded 17 million times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 120 thousand times.
User Ratings
Stick Nodes - Animation is rated 4.72 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 86 thousand ratings.
App Information
Stick Nodes - Animation is FREE to download. The APK download size is 61.20 MB. The latest version available is 4.3.1. The last update was on May 26, 2026.
Technical Requirements
Stick Nodes - Animation requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play August 2014.
Description
Stick Nodes is a powerful stickman animator app created with mobile devices in mind! Inspired from the popular Pivot stickfigure animator, Stick Nodes allows users to create their own stickfigure-based movies and even export them as animated GIFs and MP4 videos! It is one of the most popular animation apps among young animators!
■ Features ■ ◆ Import and animate images as well! ◆ Automatic customizeable frame-tweening, make your animations smoother! ◆ A simple camera to pan/zoom/rotate around the scene, similar to the "v-cam" in Flash. ◆ Movieclips allow you to create and reuse/loop animation objects within your projects. ◆ A variety of shapes, color/scale on a per-segment basis, gradients - create any "stickfigure" you can imagine! ◆ Textfields allow for easy text and speech in your animations. ◆ Add all kinds of sounds effects to make your animations epic. ◆ Apply different filters to your stickfigures - transparency, blur, glow, and more. ◆ Join stickfigures together to easily simulate holding/wearing objects. ◆ A large community full of all kinds of interesting people and other animators. ◆ Over 30,000+ stickfigures (and counting) to download from the website. ◆ Export to GIF (or MP4 for Pro) to share your animation online. ◆ Compatibility with pre-3.0 Pivot stickfigure files. ◆ Save/open/share your projects, stickfigures, and movieclips. ◆ And all the other typical animation stuff - undo/redo, onion-skin, background images, and more! * Please note, sounds, filters, and MP4-export are Pro-only features
■ Languages ■ ◆ English ◆ Español ◆ Français ◆ Japanese ◆ Filipino ◆ Português ◆ Russian ◆ Türkçe
Stick Nodes has a thriving community where animators have a good time, help each other out, show off their work, and even create stickfigures for others to use! There are thousands of stickfigures (and more added daily!) over at the main website https://sticknodes.com/stickfigures/
As of one of the latest updates, Stick Nodes is also a Minecraft™ animator as it allows you to easily import Minecraft™ skins and animate them instantly!
Search for "stick nodes" on YouTube to see just a few of the thousands of animations users have made with this stickfigure animation app! If you're looking for an animation creator or an animation maker app, this is it!
■ Stay Updated ■ New updates have been never-ending for Stick Nodes since it's original 2014 release. Keep up-to-date with the latest news and updates about your favorite stick figure animation app and join in with the community!
Stick Nodes is *the best* simple animation app available on the Android market! It's a great tool for learning animation, even in a school setting for students or newbies. At the same time, Stick Nodes is robust enough and powerful enough for even the most skilled animator to really showcase their skills!
Thank you for trying out Stick Nodes! Leave any questions/comments below or on the main Stick Nodes website! Common questions are already answered on the FAQ page here https://sticknodes.com/faqs/
Recent changes: ◆ A few small changes, including a fix for flipping triangles/trapezoids with certain color gradient issues. ◆ Sprite distortion/skew (toggle with button in Sprite menu or docked quick tools) ◆ Added sideways gradient for triangles ◆ Many other improvements, full changelog: https://sticknodes.com
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Would be five, but it is four because the gray box covering the right, and I can't find any option to close that gray box on the side and the options seem smaller than before as if the screen was shrunk down, but the buttons like the add frame, delete frame, copy frame and paste frame are all above the box and so is part of the frame box for all the frames you made, that thing is also extended a little over the box, and I also tried downloading on a different device and the box is still there
★★★★★Nicholas Torres· Jul 8, 2026
Perfect app! Drawing animations is inconsistent, so this is 300x better! If you want to make animations like the YouTube vids download this app not flipaclip! It is easy even for people with no experience
★★★★★Lamonte Bishop· Jul 1, 2026
It's really good if you're an animator and there are tutorials that help you to this a great to animation app it's just it sucks that sound effects are pro only features tho, but you can try and add sound effects yourself from audios.
★★★★★Jeorge Mata· Jul 11, 2026
As a self-taught animator this helped me a lot with learning. Even though I might be a kid it's the best animating app I found so far. IM TALKING ABOUT YOU FLIPACLIP- and it barely uses any battery, has a windows-computer style and just good
★★☆☆☆FRANCIS ONYEJE EKWUMEMGBO· Jun 23, 2026
The app is great but need some improvement. Like been able to import your images for the free tier. I may haven't mastered the app, but it really needs an upgrade
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Technologies used by Stick Nodes - Animation
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Trust & Safety: The app requests a broad set of permissions to support its free-to-use and Pro features, including network access, storage read/write, foreground services, vibration, and ad-related identifiers. This aligns with the app’s advertising-supported model and media export capabilities. No location permissions are listed in the provided data.
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