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Whether you want to scribble quick notes or draw sketches, you will create high-quality animations as you wish with FlipStudio. There is a whole host of tools that will let you bring your creations to life and create high-quality flipnotes.\n\nIt's very easy to share your own animations with friends and the world. FlipStudio has \"material system\" that can share animation project files.If you download the material of works and register it in your favorite frames and layers, you can use the material for your own work! So you can learn animation skills and tips from great cartoons and masterpieces.\n\nFlipStudio comes with everything you need to start animating. You can also learn frame-by-frame animation skills from projects of lots of expert works with \"material system\". So recommended for all users learning animation. \n\nDownload FlipStudio today and start animating!\n\nDRAWING TOOLS, LAYERS\n• Use up to 6 layers for free!\n• Deformation function\n• Effect function\n• Lasso tool\n• Favorite frame, layer function\n• Copy-paste frames(frames viewer)\n• Tracing function\n• Apple Pencil is supported.\n\nANIMATION TOOLS\n• FlipStudio's powerful and fun animation tools make frame-by-frame animation easy.\n• Onion skin animating tool\n• Frames viewer\n• Back/forward animation controls\n• And more!\n\nAUDIO\n• Easily add and edit audio clips using up to eight audio tracks for free.\n• Record sounds with the mic and use them as special effects and music for your Flipnote creations.\n• Voice changer\n• Pitch / speed changer\n• Import your own audio files\n\n- Added a new feature that makes it easy to make a video of the process of drawing an illustration !!\n• You can easily make illustration making videos !!\n\nWORLD GALLERY\n• Enjoy with everyone! \n• Find your favorite channel.\n\nMATERIAL SYSTEM\n• If you download the material of works and register it in your favorite frames and layers, you can use the material for your own work!\n• You can learn animation skills and tips from great cartoons and masterpieces.\n• Post great material and make your channel popular!\n• Posted works will be marked with parent work link and child work mark.\n\nPREMIUM MEMBERSHIP\nIt is a paid plan that allows you to use FlipStudio more comfortably.\nYou can try it for free for one week only for the first time, and there are 1-month plan and 3-month plan. The 3-month plan is a very profitable plan with virtually no charge for 1 month.\n\n- No ads\n- Unlock Charactor studio\n- Unlock 2 types of canvas\n- Unlock material system limit\n- Max number of frames 999\n\nRestore purchases\nWhen changing the device model, you can restore it by clicking the \"Restore purchase\" button in the app. You need to log in with the same Apple ID as when you purchased it.\n\nAuto-renewal subscription\nIf you do not cancel the automatic renewal more than 24 hours before the end date of the period, the contract period will be automatically renewed. You will be charged for automatic renewal within 24 hours of the end of the contract period.\nYou can check your subscription below.\nDevice settings → Select Apple ID → Subscriptions\n\nTerms of service / Privacy policy\nhttps://flipstudio-1.jimdosite.com/terms-of-service/","facts":{"developer_id":925904164,"developer_url":null,"first_released":"2020-11-16T08:00:00Z","support_url":"https://flipstudio-1.jimdosite.com/","privacy_url":"https://flipstudio-1.jimdosite.com/terms-of-service/","website_url":null,"app_version":"1.47","release_notes":"- Bugs fixed.","rating_current_version":4.46526,"rating_count_current_version":5915,"star_counts":[285,139,402,795,4273],"genres":["Games","Trivia"],"languages":["EN","JA"],"content_advisories":null,"device_families":["iphone","ipad","ipod"],"chart":null},"freshness":{"apple_read_at":"2026-10-21T02:20:13.911Z","catalog_read_at":"2026-10-17T23:21:11.601Z","reviews_checked_at":null,"summary_written_at":"2026-10-17T22:07:11.596Z","placed_at":"2026-10-17T05:57:13.398Z","scored_at":"2026-10-21T02:46:12.731Z"},"editorial":{"one_liner":"Free app for drawing flipbook-style frame-by-frame animations, with layers, audio tools, and sharing through a gallery.","what_is":"FlipStudio is a drawing and animation app for creating flipbooks with tools for sketching, layers, onion skinning, and frames. 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