The Best 38 Synfig Studio Alternatives

  • Pencil

    Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Mac

  • OpenToonz

    OpenToonz is an animation program that is a free software version of Toonz, the animation software used by Studio Ghibli, amongst others.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows

  • Pencil2D

    pencil2d is an opensource animation/drawing software for mac os x, windows, and linux, based on old pencil software.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux GitHub

  • DragonBones

    DragonBones is an open source project for 2D skeletal animation. It has a skeletal animation design panel named "DragonBonesDesignPanel" and a 2D skeletal animation library based on ActionScript.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone iPad

  • Spine

    Spine is 2D animation software designed specifically for software and game development. Animators, artists and programmers unite to bring your games alive.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • TVPaint Animation

    TVP Animation is the leading paperless drawing and animation tool, able to imitate traditional techniques such as Pen Brush, Gouache, Watercolour, Pencil, Felt-tip and...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Android

  • Spriter

    Spriter : an intuitive 2D animation tool for video game makers.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Toon Boom Harmony

    Toon Boom Harmony Network is the industrial animation software for studios worldwide. BRUSH ENGINE Brushes in Harmony are now better than ever for creative drawing....

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • KoolMoves

    KoolMoves is a web animation authoring tool that creates Flash animations with multimedia slide shows, media players, and action scripting and frames for animated gifs....

    Commercial Windows

  • EasyToon

    Easytoon is a program that can create small animated gif friendly, a simple sequence of images giving the illusion of movement. It sounds simple written like that but it...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Ella

    Ella (an acronym for Elegant Light Linux Animator) is a light animation software intended to achieve a aim of the Linux world : a functionnal and WYSIWYG (What You See...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • MonkeyJam

    MonkeyJam is a digital penciltest program. It is designed to let you capture images from a webcam, camcorder, or scanner and assemble them as separate frames of an...

    Free Windows

  • Cacani

    Now, artists will be able to draw and paint their animations in a shorter time with CACANi’s unique auto inbetweening and auto painting workflow. CACANi is designed...

    Commercial

  • Adobe Director

    Adobe Director allows the creation of short animations playable on Adobe Shockwave and standalone executables on both Windows and Mac OS X making it an option for...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows