Toonsquid

Turn your doodles into real cartoons, one frame at a time.

Toonsquid is a pocket animation studio for your phone. Sketch on a clean paper canvas, add frames, see the neighbouring drawings through onion skin, press play and watch your character come alive. When it moves the way you want, share it as a looping GIF or a video.

DRAW LIKE ON PAPER
• Pencil, ink pen and marker, plus airbrush, crayon and pixel brushes
• Stylus pressure, adjustable stabilizer for smooth lines, stylus-only mode
• Eraser, fill bucket that respects your line art, eyedropper and a vivid colour palette
• Lines, rectangles, ellipses and text for titles and speech bubbles

ANIMATE FRAME BY FRAME
• Timeline with thumbnails, insert, duplicate, move and delete frames
• Onion skin with frames before and after, in red and green
• Hold any drawing for several frames to fine-tune your timing
• Frame rate from 4 to 30 fps and instant looping playback

LAYERS AND SELECTION
• Drawing layers and background layers that stay on every frame
• Lasso selection to move, resize, rotate or flip part of a drawing
• Copy and paste between frames, duplicate and merge layers
• Import a picture as a faded reference to trace over

IDEAS WHEN YOU ARE STUCK
• 18 ready-to-animate ideas with a reference picture and an animator's tip
• A new idea of the day
• A sample bouncing ball to play with from the very first minute

AI HELPERS (OPTIONAL)
• Sketch to toon: turn a rough frame into a clean, coloured cartoon in 6 styles
• Reference maker: describe a character, background or prop and trace it
• Your drawing is only sent when you ask, and it is never used to train AI
• Every AI picture can be reported from inside the app

EXPORT AND SHARE
• GIF, MP4 video, PNG image, PNG sequence and transparent background
• Save to your gallery or share to your favourite apps
• Share a project file to keep a backup or move to a new phone

FREE AND PRO
Drawing and animating are free, with up to 3 animations, 2 layers and 30 frames each, and GIF export with a small watermark.
Pro is a single payment, no subscription: unlimited animations, up to 300 frames and 8 layers each, every brush, MP4 and full-quality export without watermark, and 100 AI renders included.

Your animations are stored on your device. No account and no sign-up needed.