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.