Toonsquid, Procreate, Nomad Sculpt... What do they all have in common? Yes, they're all iPad apps, that give creators powerful tools in a compact, lightweight device, but more than that, they are all upfront single purchases. No subscriptions.

FINALLY. the iPad has been lacking an animation app like this for too long. . can't wait to play with this and see what its all about.

This got me wishing Toon Boom had made a full fledged animation app like Harmony for tablets. They definitely could do it.

Fun fact for anyone down in the comments here, if you're worried about the import feature into the library and only being able to import one image at a time, you can import more than one image at once! Click the plus button, import from photos (as you have to do photos for it sadly) then press and hold on an image and it will allow you to select multiple to import! I am unsure if it works for files but you can try that as well with files. Hope this helps anyone :D

You’re telling me I don’t have to suffer in FlipaClip anymore?

Hey Brad, guess what, ToonSquid now has the ability to export assets to be used for other projects in its 1.9 update. It also now has the ability to make shapes using a brush stroke, like in Procreate.

YES! I'm so excited you found this app too! I've been using it since launch and it's improved so much! Literally the Animate and After Effects (Motion Graphics wise) for iPad XD

Purchased this app right after I saw this video. I started playing around with it and I am extremely pleased with how it works and everything you can do with it. So this is my thank you for recommending this app. I can’t tell you how long I’ve been looking for this type of app that makes it so efficient for my animations. Keep doing what you’re doing and know there’s always someone (like me) that appreciates your content. 😁

Great you got around to using it, I've been using it for a month, and been seeing it rise to the tops of the charts. I had a feeling you were going to love it too when I saw the upload. I need audio scrubbing which it has and other bigger programs don't have(CSP) , it has a camera, which Callipeg doesn't have, and it has vector and bitmap layers (Which I wish adobe added to Animate), custom brushes, and etc, really cool. It's like if Flash and Procreate had a baby. Can't wait til further development.

Found your channel just a couple of days ago, and I have made my decision to buy a Samsung tablet and start drawing. I'm 16 and an inspiring Architect and I always wanted a device that could help me achieve my dreams, I'm on a really tight budget, and your videos helped me make my final decision. Thank you for being so informative in all your videos, really appreciate the content, keep it up!

Couldn't have found this video at a better time! I searched high and low for a good application and for some reason didn't find anything useful. Got this video suggested to me today and I'm really happy with this new app. Thank you so much Brad! ❤

Excited to try this out!!😁

Thank you for all the wonderful videos that you make, they are greatly appreciated! I have fallen in love with this app as well!

The animation app ipad users have been waiting for. Finally. Thanks for sharing, Brad!

Thanks for introducing me to this app! I’ve been using this to creat fun KZfaq animations! It’s a really great app.

I wish it had a trial! I need to see what it can do hands on. I love the tweening if it works like old Flash use to, but can’t test it without paying for it, OG well.

YOU COVERED IT! I was waiting for this, found this about maybe a month ago but haven’t used it much 🫠 smooth brain on animation programs in general haha (got tired of years when FlipaClip would delete my animation man…)

Well, I was watching a Procreate tutorial, (cats-it’s waaay out of hand), and noticed your video on the side panel. Needless to say, ToonSquid along with Nomad & Procreate, is now part of my artistic portfolio. I would have never known had I scrolled past. Everything you said is spot on. Ease of use, excellent UI, and powerful. It has the Davinci brush set to boot. Great App and great presentation!

Like all your videos so good. But I have been re-watching this A LOT as I work with the app. It is fantastic. People are going to be able to push this thing to do a lot more then I believe the creators are expecting.

Thank you! This is exactly the program I’ve been looking for.

This looks awesome! Your review has already convinced me to try it out, I love that it’s a 1 time purchase.

It seems like animation apps on the iPad are slowly getting better, but it still feels like the skill ceiling on an app like this is much lower than some of the apps on desktop. I'm still waiting on the day Toon Boom Harmony is ported to iPad (hoping that since Harmony 21.5 they moved to being M1 native, we see an iPad version at some point in the future).

Brad! As always you tell it straight and honest

Woooo, you really should make a beginners tutorial for this app! Please please please 🙏 it should be your next video 😬😁

Just got it after seeing this video. I was looking for something like this. Awesome… thanks!

Cool! I am not a big animation fan myself, but this actually got me interested so i just might give it another try.

This is the app i've been waiting YEARS for. Audio AND video support?! Yes!!!! Thank you for making this video, i never would've found it otherwise :D

Can’t wait to get home from work and try this app out!

So glad this video was suggested to me!

This looks great!

8:05 As a token of my gratitude for this video, I should inform you that it's now possible to import multiple files at once.

This looks great. It's about time someone came out with something like this on iOS.

Awesome! Just downloaded… love that it’s not a sub and looks easy to use relative to some other programs I’ve dabbled with. Great review 😊

I also like that ToonSquid has a camera tool, which I’m waiting for Callipeg to add.

Looks great, thanks for the heads up!

Wooowwwww coooollll! Thank you so much for sharing this! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I bought this app when it came out, haven't played around with it much as yet but the demo looked amazing. Great review of it. You should do a course on it.

I want more videos about ToonSquid, could you do some ToonSquid classes in your Art School series?

Thank you so much for this video! It helped me so much since I didn’t realize the clip studio paint license I purchased is PC only, and doesn’t work with iPads for animation 🥲 this tutorial also helps so much for key frame animation that I’ve desired for ages 💖 (procreate animation is kinda cursed)

I love that squarespace is still sponsoring your videos

This is amazing! The ipad truly lacks a complete animation app and looks like this one is the best one yet. So you can also animate in vectors? Like adobe animate?

wow, cool! thanks for sharing. will be buying this. ive been looking for a decent animation app for a long time now!!! 😊❤

Toonsquid is incredible. The vector tools are great and unlike any other animation app on the ipad

So creative!! Wonderful 😸💞🐶

thank you for reviewing toonsquid !! its hard out here advertising this godly animation app by myself 😂 thank u sm !! im sure keiwan - creator/dev of toonsquid, will appreciate this review ! :D

What I'm really looking forward to are fully using Photoshop brushes in it, then I can start using it with unique lineart brushes

What an app....... Stunning and updated regularly.....

For adding things to your library: Could you use Stage Manager with your files app open on one side and ToonSquid on the other side, then drag and drop files into library?

Whaaaaaaaaaat? Have I been living under a rock how did I not know this app existed???😱😱

That might be useful in future. Thanks a lot! Don't even know how could I find this new somewhere else (:

If i wasn't sold on subscribing to you channel by your dry humor and great explanations, the donut dog would have gotten me

Excellent find

That is so cool! I have had rough animator for over 2 years now, and I haven't touched it often bc it's a pain to use and it lags sometimes. I'll see how toonsquid goes.

The thumbnail alone looks epic

ToonSquid is by far best animation app on iPad. Glad ppl know about it now

YEEESSSSSS OMG i've been waiting for so longgg sdjkfhksaf XD after learning the more intermediate(or even more) animation tools, it's just hard to go back to just the basics which is basically the only stuff available on the ipad that time

This is great. Quick addition the mouth shapes - these are called Visemes

Please More with this app

Best ad I ever seen integrated in a review 😁🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🐶

Hi Brad! Thank you for the info ma man! What kind of iPad were you using in this video? I think I missed it…

I’m glad I saw this video before I embarked on a flip a clip or animation desk journey

hey Brad, your dog is so cute., Your art is Awesome Brad

This is gonna be so helpful since I do tweening for gacha videos but I use CapCut and it’s quite unhelpful and has limited layers /overlays which I don’t like so this will definitely be of help!

Okay, watched this and purchased it!

Beautiful puppy

I like in adobe animate to use the stroke brush tool over a form to be able to separate it and then using the fill tool with too different colors and after that erase this stroke on all the images by once with the multi edit, which is a real time saver. There are some similar things like process on toon squid or the easiest way finally is to use the toogle mask? I hope I was clear and thank you in advance :)

I currently use Callipeg on the iPad and I'm seeing how this app compares

I really wish one of these app add video timelines for animation one day

i love your videos |Brad . ive always wanted to start digital art and animation ,but i cant afford a drawing tablet and im from africa Malawi. i wish i could start digital art. love you. dumchi 😅

Thx for the tutorial

im trying to learn animation and this looks absolutely perfect for me.

5:44 Hi~ Thank for sharing this great animation application ! Can you make a vid of which app you used for your voice recording and how you imported that voice file into this app? Doesn't this app have any recording function ?

Hey Man, I love your channel and I got to know about Toonsquid because of you so thank you. But I do not see a very strong community for this app so it would be great if you could please make more content on this app. Thank you so much for your videos have a great day.

Brad, the software is great, it even works on my iPad Air 4. However, if you plan on making your videos with the animated Brad, yellow background, and lip-syncing, you better have one project as the main rig setup, and duplicate it for future projects. Why I'm telling you this, because right now ToonSquid isn't able to share assets from one project to another.

Donuts! I loved the commercial 👍👍

Toon squid is the best, wish you could have a fast sidebar library, not just key markers, but same concept drag and drop.

When version 2.0 comes, could you do another video on ToonSquid?

Could you do a course on ToonSquid, for people who are new to animation? I would love to purchase that course of yours

very cool!

where can i buy the ipad for animation you are using ?please advise me.thx.

if I follow your procreate courses and beginner course, and if I use toonsquid, would I be able to eventually make a decent cartoon?

My son wants to get into animating. I know nothing about iPads. What generation do you recommend for this to work for someone starting out?

Hi, awesome video. Does it work on android? If not Is there a similar app on android

I really hope there is an an after effects dupe on ipad soon

Wahhh it looks so easyyyyyy

Yo big ytbers are finally using this 😮

That is looks cool😎

Ty

Would you recommend this app/software for someone trying to create video animations but who doesn’t know how to draw well?

Totally dig your videos! My question to you is, if you can already animate in Procreate why do you need to get Toonsquid?

I love my Galaxy note but damn this makes me want to get an ipad!

Hey, Brad. I would love to see a comparision between ToonSquid and the animation features of Adobe Fresco. I downloaded this app several months ago (after watching this video), but then stumbled on the previously unheard of Adobe Fresco. They have a some cool features for non-animators like myself to create animations quickly (animations that track on a drawn path without frame by frame drawing, cloning an animation to make a swarm of them quickly, etc). I want to find a simple to use animation app that allows me to skip as much frame by frame drawing as possible. I have seen glimpses (such as using a puppet in Adobe Character Animator, animatiing on a path in Fresco, the quick keyframe animation in ToonSquid, etc), but none of the programs seem much faster than the others. What is the simplist, fastest app to animation simple animations for a non-animator? I'm a teacher and like to animate the curriculum we are learning to help keep my student's attention. We move pretty quick so I can not spend a month on a 3-4 minute animation. I do not like the look of Animaker, whiteboard animations, etc. I would like to create my own characters, etc....but much more quickly.

Can we do This type of animation in apple keynote?? I watch some of videos where they are use keynote for animation.. plzz tell me

Wow!

You had me at iPad animation app 😂😂

Can this app export frames as separate images? I like to use Adobe Animate to create sprites for games and I've been wanting something that could do it on iPad.

I Cant figure out that “animate in” thing, or the easing, I can’t find a way to make it work

Wow, this Draw a Stickman reference got me. im playing this thing that made my childness.

Find this app is kinda like find one treasure chest 🤩

Please make a video about iArtbook app