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紅葉 · momiji, the maple leaf — and a baby’s tiny “maple-leaf hands.”
Draw the keyframes. Fill in the frames between. Hand-drawn animation, made faster.
A 2D animation studio for artists — frame-by-frame drawing with onion skin, storyboards and animatics, camera moves, audio and lip-sync timing, effects, and Auto In-Betweens that build on your drawings, right on your computer.
Works with pressure-sensitive drawing tablets on Mac, such as Wacom, XP-Pen and Huion.
Features
Classic hand-drawn animation tools, plus helpers that take care of the repetitive parts so you can spend your time on the drawings that matter.
How it works
Draw two key poses, let Auto In-Betweens fill the drawings between them, check the motion with onion skin, then play the loop and export it as video, GIF or a PNG sequence.
Draw two keys and Fill In Missing Drawings creates the frames between — it matches the parts of your line art and moves them along arcs. It runs on your computer, uses no AI model, and every result is a normal drawing you can tweak or redraw.
Import a voice track, load your character’s own mouth drawings and place mouth shapes on the timeline’s lip-sync track. Automatic timing from the audio is on the roadmap.
Fire, water, lightning and portal effects you place over your drawings, then size, key and adjust by hand until they feel right.
Key camera pans, zooms and rotation on the timeline, and pin sound clips to the frame where they should start playing.
Start from ink, pencil, chalk, marker, watercolor and oil presets, or build your own in the Brush Creator, with pressure, tilt and texture.
Sketch shots, add dialogue, notes, timing and camera moves, and turn your boards into an animatic before you commit to the full animation.
A fast, pressure-sensitive canvas with onion skinning, timeline, layers and playback — hand-drawn animation at its core.
Twelve short lessons on the principles of animation, with tips for practising each one on the same canvas.
AI you control
Everything in Momiji Frame’s core — drawing, animation, storyboards and Auto In-Betweens — works without any AI. A few experimental AI helpers exist, and they start switched off: you have to turn them on in the app, and they need a license.
Nothing AI runs until you switch it on, and you can switch it off again whenever you like. While it’s off, the app makes no AI requests.
We don’t use your drawings, projects or voice tracks to train AI models. If you use an optional cloud AI helper, only the frames you send to it leave your computer.
In-betweens come from your keyframes, lip sync uses your character’s own mouth drawings, and effects sit over your scene. Everything ends up as frames you can tweak or redraw.
Drawing, frame-by-frame animation, storyboarding, Auto In-Betweens and export all work with AI switched off.
The essentials
The drawing and animation tools are the heart of Momiji Frame, built for the way you already work, with the tablet you already own.
Pressure-sensitive drawing with pencils, inks, paints, fill and eraser, plus select, lasso and eyedropper tools.
Timeline, layers, onion skinning and playback for classic hand-drawn animation.
Set a loop In/Out range on the timeline, hold frames, play in reverse and check the timing as you go.
Sketch panels, add notes and timing, and play your boards back before you animate.
Wacom, XP-Pen, Huion and other pressure-sensitive tablets on Mac. Windows support is planned.
Learn the 12 principles of animation inside the app, then practise them on the same canvas.
Missing a tool you rely on, like shapes, symbols or vector layers? See what we’re exploring and tell us what you need.
Switching tools
If you’re looking for a new home for your 2D work, here’s an honest picture of what Momiji Frame does today — and what we’d like to hear from you about.
Available in Momiji Frame
Not there yet
Momiji Frame isn’t a one-to-one Animate replacement yet. These are the things Animate users ask about most — we’re exploring them and want to know which matter to you:
Adobe and Adobe Animate are trademarks of Adobe Inc. Momiji Frame is not affiliated with or endorsed by Adobe.
Learn
New to animation or brushing up? Short lessons inside the app explain each principle with a moving example and tips for practising it right on the canvas.
Platforms
Momiji Frame is launching on Mac first. A Windows version is planned, and we’re exploring tablets. Your license will cover each platform as it’s released, so you won’t buy the app twice.
Use a drawing tablet with pressure support.
Yours to keep
Momiji Frame Pro is a one-time license. No subscription, and your drawings are never held hostage.
Momiji Frame Pro is a one-time purchase of $79. Buy it once, with no subscription. The version you buy is yours to use for as long as you like.
One license covers all your devices: every Mac you own now, plus Windows and other platforms as they ship. No buying the app twice.
Use the full Pro app free for 30 days before you buy. The 12-principles lessons and core drawing tools stay free.
Everything you draw and animate belongs to you, and we don’t use it to train AI models.
Launch pricing
Planned pricing at launch. Start free, try Pro free for 30 days, then buy it once and keep it. No subscription.
Try the full Pro app free for 30 days before you decide.
$0free
Learn the craft and start animating.
Buy once
$79one-time license
No subscription. Try it free for 30 days.
The full studio, yours to keep.
Optionaloff by default
For heavier cloud features. Nothing here is needed to animate.
Prices in USD. This is planned launch pricing: purchases, the trial and credits aren’t live yet. The one-time price doesn’t include unlimited cloud AI; cloud features use credits. Waitlist members will hear first about any changes.
Coming soon
Planned items are on the way. Exploring items are ideas we’re scoping now — your feedback decides what comes first.
Bring 3D props and backgrounds into your 2D scenes as reference or render layers.
Momiji Frame on Windows, covered by the same license.
Turn an animation loop into a brush and paint living detail like birds, rain or crowds into your scenes.
Mouth shapes timed from the voice track automatically, using your character’s own mouth drawings.
Reusable walk, run and idle cycles, and a personal library for your own loops.
Momiji Frame on iPad and Android tablets.
Lines, rectangles and ellipses for layouts and backgrounds.
See the actual shape of your dialogue and music on the timeline while you time your animation.
Tools that Adobe Animate users rely on, for reusable characters and smooth motion.
File formats that move cleanly between Momiji Frame and the rest of your tools.
Which tool would make Momiji Frame your main animation app? Join the waitlist and tell us — we read every answer.
Beta testers
Momiji Frame is looking for a small group of animators to try the Mac beta and say what works and what doesn’t. Leave your name and email, and tell us what you animate with today. Questions? Use this form, or email contact [at] momijiframe.com.
The forms on this page collect what you type into them: your email address, and for the beta form your name and anything you tell us about your tools. Submissions are stored with our website host, Netlify. We use them only to contact you about Momiji Frame’s beta and launch. We don’t sell your information. If you’d like yours removed, reply to any email we send you or write to contact [at] momijiframe.com.
FAQ
Mac first. A Windows version is planned, and we’re exploring tablets. One license will cover each platform as it’s released.
If it’s a pressure-sensitive tablet that works on your Mac, such as Wacom, XP-Pen or Huion, Momiji Frame reads its pressure and tilt.
Yes. Momiji Frame Pro is a $79 one-time license with no subscription. One license covers all your devices: every Mac you own now, plus Windows and other platforms as they ship. You can try the full app free for 30 days first, and the 12-principles lessons and core drawing tools are free.
Cloud AI is optional and experimental, and it stays off unless you switch it on. Heavier cloud features, such as cloud lip sync and advanced in-betweening (both coming), use credits. Pro includes credits, and you can top up with small packs; the one-time price doesn’t include unlimited cloud AI. When you use a cloud AI helper, only the frames you send to it leave your computer. Auto In-Betweens doesn’t use AI or credits and runs entirely on your computer.
It starts off. AI is opt-in and can be switched off again at any time. Momiji Frame is a full hand-drawn animation app without it.
No. We don’t use your drawings, projects or voice tracks to train AI models.
You do. Everything you draw and animate in Momiji Frame belongs to you.
Not yet. Momiji Frame focuses on hand-drawn, frame-by-frame animation today. Symbols, tweening and vector layers are on our roadmap to explore — tell us what you need so we can prioritise.
Education pricing for students, teachers and schools is planned. Join the waitlist and we’ll share details before launch.
Momiji Frame is in active development. Waitlist members will be the first to know the launch date.
Join the waitlist for launch news. Pro comes with a 30-day free trial.