Callipeg vs. Expressive Animator vs. JavaScript vs. RoughAnimator Comparison Chart

Expressive Animator is an SVG vector animation software that helps users create and export animated icons, logos, and illustrations. It provides professional vector tools and keyframe-based timeline animation features for bringing motion to vector graphics. Users can import SVG, PDF, Adobe Illustrator files, and Figma designs, and animate them using easing controls, motion paths, masking, and other techniques. Expressive Animator also allow users to export their animations in other formats as Lottie, GIF, PNG, and video.

Fully featured hand-drawn animation application runs on iPad, Android, Mac, and Windows. Powerful enough for professional animators, and simple enough for beginners. Everything you need to create traditional hand-drawn animation, anywhere you go. Timeline with unlimited layers and easily adjustable exposure length of individual drawings, for pose-to-pose or straight-ahead, animating. Onion skinning, preview playback, scrub along the timeline. Import audio for lip-syncing. Import video for rotoscoping animation. Custom brushes, and support for Samsung S-Pen and other pressure-sensitive Android devices. Supports Apple Pencil, Logitech Crayon, Adonit & Wacom styluses for iPad. Control framerate and resolution. Export animation to Quicktime video, GIF, or image sequence. RoughAnimator projects can be imported to Adobe Flash/Animate, After Effects, and Toon Boom Harmony. RoughAnimator is the most powerful hand-drawn animation program in this price range.