Linora: 2D Animation & Rigging

Five Attempt Studio

About this app

Linora is a 2D animation maker for your phone: draw vector art, rig characters with bones and animate them on a timeline. No PC needed.

Make cartoons, character animations, animated logos and stick figure animations. Draw a character, give it a skeleton, pose it and bring it to life with keyframes.

DRAW VECTOR ART
• Pen tool for Bezier paths and a point tool with corner, smooth and symmetric points
• Open, split and close paths at any point
• Pencil that turns a freehand stroke into a smooth vector path
• Fill bucket, rectangles, circles, stars and free shapes
• Boolean operations: union, difference, intersection, exclusion
• Masks, linear and radial gradients, opacity per object
• Text you can edit at any time, even after it is animated
• Layers and groups: rename, reorder, hide, lock and delete

PRECISE LAYOUT
• Rulers with straight and slanted guides
• Smart guides that line objects up with each other and with the canvas
• Flexible grid: any cell size, major lines, lines or dots, from the corner or the centre
• Snapping to the grid, to guides and to objects
• A pivot point you can drag: turn an arm around its shoulder, a needle around its axis

RIG CHARACTERS WITH BONES
• Bone tool for skeletal animation and character rigging
• Inverse kinematics (IK) on two-bone chains
• Smooth skinning with weights you can paint
• Pose a character right on the canvas
• A ready rigged stick figure to start from

ANIMATE ON A TIMELINE
• Keyframes for position, rotation, scale and opacity
• Full turns: 360° spins once, 720° twice, and an endless spin loops seamlessly
• Easing per key: smooth, linear or hold
• Timeline with scrubbing, playback and autokey
• A key table with a row for every animated object: drag keys to retime them
• Animation clips and animation layers, additive or overriding

EXPORT AND IMPORT
• Export your animation as an MP4 video or a PNG sequence at 24, 30 or 60 fps
• Export and import SVG, edit vector files on the go
• Import images and trace over a photo or a sketch
• Move projects to another phone as .lin files

EASY TO START
• An actions window pops up right above whatever you select
• Built-in help that walks you through your first animation
• Set up the editor your way: canvas, objects, grid, rulers and snapping

FAST AND PRIVATE
• A fast GPU engine keeps the canvas smooth while you draw, zoom and play
• Works offline: no internet access needed
• No ads, no tracking, nothing collected
• Autosave keeps your work safe

Linora is made for students, beginners and designers who want a real animation and vector drawing tool on Android. New features keep coming. Ideas and bug reports are welcome: the email is in the app, under More.

What’s new

What's new in 1.0.3:
• Rulers and guides, straight or slanted
• Smart guides: objects snap to each other
• Grid: any cell size, major lines, dots, start from the centre
• Actions window right above the selection
• Editor settings page
• Draggable pivot point
• Full turns in animation: 360°, 720° and more
• Path points: corner, smooth, symmetric; split and close
• Edit text after typing it
• Duplicate, Out of group, delete in Layers
• Smoother pinch zoom
• New built-in help
• Lots of fixes