Beginner-friendly animation apps that move your creativity

Whether you’re dreaming of a career in animation or you’re just looking to liven up your social media posts, these beginner-friendly apps can make your projects pop.

Create images using digital brushes, then bring your illustrations to life with frame-by-frame 2D animation. Once you’ve made your videos, add sound and save files as MP4s to share with the world. You can also create GIFs, draw on top of images and videos, and show off your skills in themed challenges like making holiday cartoons.

Make professional-quality animated videos in a variety of styles, from silly to businesslike. Use existing templates or create your own attention-grabbing animated logos, cartoon calls to action, or moving charts and graphs. When your projects are complete, you can save and export them as crisp HD videos.

Use colors and geometric shapes to create 2D figures you can animate, share, and save as GIFs and PNGs (or MP4s with a Pro subscription). Or download existing characters to add to your movies along with text, sounds, backgrounds, and camera moves like zooms and widescreen. To save time, loop and reuse clips within projects.