Best Animation Apps

Blender

Open Source

Blender is a free and open source 3D Creation Software.

Adobe Animate CC

Commercial

Adobe Animate CC is a multimedia authoring and computer animation program.

Autodesk Maya

Commercial

Autodesk Maya, commonly shortened to Maya, is a 3D computer graphics software that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Synfig Studio

Open Source

Synfig Studio (Synfig) is a free and open source 2D vector graphics and timeline-based animation software.

Imagine

Free

Imagine is an image and animation viewer for Windows.

Xara Designer Pro

Commercial

Xara Designer Pro is a design software for print and the web.

OpenToonz

Open Source

OpenToonz is an opensource of 2D animation software.

Plotagon

Commercial

Plotagon Education is the award-winning app that allows students to create instant animated videos simply by typing.

OGRE

Open Source

Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine (OGRE) is a scene-oriented, real-time, 3D rendering engine, as opposed to a game engine. OGRE is cross-platform and …

Houdini

Commercial

Houdini enhances core modeling, rendering and animation tools while focusing on performance and scalability for Film, TV and Games.

Processing.js

Open Source

Processing.js is a JavaScript port of Processing, a programming language designed to write visualizations, images, and interactive content.

VideoScribe

Commercial

VideoScribe is software for creating whiteboard animations automatically.

Raphaël

Open Source

Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web.

Sketchfab

Freemium

Sketchfab is a platform to publish, share and discover 3D, VR and AR content.

UnFREEz

Open Source

UnFREEz is a high-speed Windows application that will take any number of images, saved as separate GIF files, and create a single animated GIF.

Krita

Open Source

Krita is a professional free and open source painting program.

Autodesk 3ds Max

Commercial

Autodesk 3ds Max, formerly 3D Studio, then 3D Studio Max is a professional 3D computer graphics program for making 3D animations, models, games and images.

Pencil

Open Source

Pencil is an open-source GUI prototyping tool that's available for ALL platforms. Pencil is built for the purpose of providing a free and open-source GUI prot…

Cinema 4D

Commercial

CINEMA 4D is a 3D modeling, animation, motion graphic and rendering application.

K-3D

Open Source

K-3D is a free 3D modeling and animation software.

GraphicsGale

Freemium

Graphics Gale is a free animation and graphic design software.

MODO

Commercial

Modo’s powerful and flexible 3D modeling, texturing and rendering toolset empowers artists to explore and develop ideas without jumping through technical hoop…

Hype

Commercial

Create beautiful HTML5 web content.

Moovly

Freemium

Moovly is a cloud-based platform (SaaS) that enables users to create and generate multimedia content: animated videos, video presentations, animated info grap…

Vectorian Giotto

Free

Vectorian Giotto has powerful yet very simple user interface that will allow you to quickly and easily create professional Flash animations for websites.