4.22 - January 19, 2026
- Bug fixes

4.21 - December 2, 2025
- Bug fixes

4.20 - September 15, 2025
- iPadOS 26 compatibility fixes

4.19 - September 3, 2025
- Bug fixes

4.15 - August 17, 2025
- Customize keyboard shortcuts
- Bug fixes

4.14 - August 4, 2025
- Bug fixes

4.10 - July 21, 2025
- Color palette is scrollable to allow more saved colors
- Bug fix: camera moves would start a frame late in exported video
- Bug fix: black outline around a layer with a clipping mask applied
- Bug fix: shift + down arrow keyboard shortcut didn't work
- Bug fix: lag when moving camera

4.09 - June 17, 2025
- Bug fix: degraded image quality on some devices

4.08 - June 12, 2025
- Lasso fill tool
- Option to show brush cursor when hovering, if supported by your Apple Pencil
- Apple Pencil Pro squeeze gesture support
- Bug fixes

4.07 - May 19, 2025
- Bug fixes

4.06 - May 13, 2025
- Option for "desktop mode" adds tools to zoom/rotate/move the canvas with keyboard & stylus rather than with fingers
- Bug fixes: some lag and crashing on older devices

4.05 - April 29, 2025
- Bug fixes

4.04 - April 16, 2025
- Bug fixes

4.03 - April 13, 2025
- Bug fixes

4.02 - April 10, 2025
- Bug fixes

4.0 - April 5, 2025
- Layer blending modes & clipping masks
- Lock layers
- Option to turn off antialiasing, for pixel art
- Option to flip canvas horizontally
- More accurate preview of final line when using shape tools or smoothing
- Uses Apple Pencil's built in stroke prediction to reduce appearance of drawing lag. You can turn it off if it looks weird to you
- Removed support for Adonit and Wacom bluetooth styluses
- Big rewrite under the hood, but hopefully you won't notice the difference (other than improved performance)

3.25 - July 3, 2024
- Bug fixes

3.23 - June 16, 2024
- Color picker is now a panel that can stay open on the side instead of a popup window
- Can undo changing background color
- Bug fix: crashed on deleting a layer while the layer name textbox was focused

3.21 - March 24, 2024
- Bug fixes

3.20 - March 19, 2024
- Bug fixes

3.19 - January 15, 2024
- Bug fix (hopefully): occasional random loss of work when hiding the app. Not sure if I actually fixed it, please report if it happens again
- Bug fix: redo deleting a selection didn't work

3.17 - January 1, 2024
- Bug fix: couldn't delete a selection in "edit multiple" mode
- Bug fix: dragging multiple selected drawings glitchy sometimes

3.16 - November 29, 2023
- Can move multiple selected drawings across the timeline together
- Option to feather lasso selection
- Dropdowns with choices for standard framerates & resolutions when creating a project
- Prevents screen turning off while playing video

3.15 - October 22, 2023
- Transform onion skin (aka shift and trace)
- Faster exporting
- Improved GIF quality
- Onion skin works in "edit multiple" mode
- Bug fixes

3.14 - September 28, 2023
- UI tweaks, bug fixes
- Moved playback range sliders to timeline panel

3.11 - June 15, 2023
- Bug fixes

3.10 - June 1, 2023
- Redesigned icon
- Can drag and drop project folders from Files app to import
- Bug fixes

3.09 - April 25, 2023
- Layer name textboxes expand to show longer layer names
- Bug fix: drawing with Pencil was laggier when project had more layers/drawings

3.08 - April 18, 2023
- Bug fix: fill tool crashing in version 3.07

3.07 - April 16, 2023
- More slots to save colors
- Can input hex codes for colors
- Crop/resize works faster
- Bug fix: changing duration of multiple drawings together shifted camera keyframes
- Bug fix: some glitches/crashes when using gestures to undo/redo
- Dropped support for iOS 10 and earlier

3.05 - March 6, 2023
- Fill tool now has the option to close gaps

3.04 - November 10, 2022
- Bug fix: volume buttons glitching in iOS 16
- Bug fix: frame flip wheel glitching
- Bug fix: back/forward cycles displaying wrongly sometimes
- Faster importing video

3.03 - October 25, 2022
- Bug fix: copy/paste problems in iOS 16
- Bug fix: Quicktime export problems with fractional framerates
- Bug fix: Y translate number was inverted when moving a selection

3.01 - September 27, 2022
- Bug fix: crashing in older iOS versions

3.0 - September 22, 2022
- Dark UI redesign!
- Drag to resize timeline panel height
- Undo transform without losing selection
- Supports drag & drop to import files
- Zoom percentage is pixel accurate
- Bug fix: crashed when quickly pressing play button repeatedly

2.16 - June 21, 2022
- Bug fix: the previous update broke Quicktime export on older versions of iOS

2.15 - June 10, 2022
- Support for exporting HEVC and ProRes (on compatible devices)

2.14 - April 28, 2022
- Import layers from other projects
- Progress bar when applying changes to multiple drawings
- Bug fix: failed to export video when project was over 2960x2960 and contained audio

2.11 - January 13, 2022
- Previews render faster, and it buffers to start playing while still rendering
- Bug fix: audio failed to play sometimes
- Bug fix: fill tool was inaccurate because it sampled based on the low res preview
- Bug fix: crash if playback range went past the end of the timeline
- Bug fix: memory leaks causing some random crashes

2.10 - December 18, 2021
- Bug fix: failure to import some audio files

2.09 - December 14, 2021
- Multiple audio layers
- Use audio from imported video files
- Bug fixes

2.08 - October 10, 2021
- Separate controls for brush Opacity and Flow
- Bug fix: import images crashed on older iOS versions
- Bug fix: cycle offsets displayed wrong when project had more than 20 layers
- Bug fix: was allowing . at beginning of project filenames which would make them invisible

2.07 - July 20, 2021
- Organize project files in folders
- Remembers last active layer/frame in project when reopened
- Number sliders should be a little easier to slide now
- Bug fix: eraser never erased all the way to fully transparent

2.05 - June 21, 2021
- Improved line smoothing/stabilization
- Numeric inputs for layer opacity
- Transform handles don't appear until you finish drawing the selection shape, so it's easier to see what you're selecting
- Bug fix: changing volume buttons function didn't work
- Bug fix: copy/pasting from a project with a different resolution got stretched
- Bug fix: finger touches occasionally interfering with Pencil touches

2.01 - February 22, 2021
- Bug fixes

2.0 - February 1, 2021
- Straight line / square / circle tools
- Under the hood changes to project file structure. The import scripts for After Effects, Flash/Animate, and Harmony have been updated accordingly and you can download the new versions of them at roughanimator.com
- Bug fix: brush size with maximum stylus pressure was bigger than brush size with pressure sensitivity off. You might have to increase your brush size now to compensate if you liked how it looked before.

1.8.8 - November 19, 2020
- Onion skin range limit increased to 4
- Bug fix: number sliders opening the keyboard when they shouldn't

1.8.7 - October 4, 2020
Bug fixes for iOS 14:
- Apple Pencil Scribble feature was interfering with number sliders and timeline scrolling
- Text on buttons was wrong color

1.8.6 - September 8, 2020
- Duplicate multiple selected drawings
- Change duration of multiple selected drawings, works with multiple layers selected now
- Bug fixes and performance improvements

1.8.4 - June 14, 2020
- Adjust pivot point for rotating/scaling lasso selection
- Change duration of multiple selected drawings at once (only works if they're all on the same layer though)
- Bug fix: didn't allow playing audio from other apps in the background

1.8.3 - May 28, 2020
- Bug fix: crashed if there were camera keyframes after the end of the timeline
- Bug fix: crashed on "convert cycle to drawings" for long cycles

1.8.2 - May 1, 2020
- Bug fix: "Sync layers" mode was messing up camera keyframes and causing some crashes

1.8.1 - April 28, 2020
- Canvas can be bigger than camera frame, and the camera can be animated
- Increased resolution limit to 4096 (but be careful, higher resolutions could still be less stable, depending on your device)
- Bug fix: drawing labels and cycles were shifting over to the wrong drawings when a drawing was deleted
- More bug fixes and performance improvements

1.8.0 - March 23, 2020
- Option to convert cycle to drawings
- Reduced drawing lag

1.7.9 - December 26, 2019
- Bug fix: Okay/Cancel buttons were cut off in the export video dialog

1.7.8 - December 15, 2019
- Drag/drop layer order
- Playback range setting is saved with project
- Option to export only playback range
- Option for flip wheel to step by keyframe instead of by frame
- Bug fixes

1.7.6 - September 21, 2019
- Drag drawing duration directly on timeline
- Long press to drag & drop rearrange order of drawings on timeline
- Long press and pull down to split drawing
- Clearer indicator of current frame
- Works with Logitech Crayon
- Bug fixes and performance improvements

1.7.5 - August 1, 2019
- Crop/expand canvas
- Supports copy/pasting between RoughAnimator and other apps
- Toggle pressure sensitivity in tool options panel
- Some minor interface tweaks
- Bug fixes

1.7.4 - July 8, 2019
- Press the brush or eraser button twice to save brush presets
- Bug fixes

1.7.3 - March 31, 2019
- Can split selected drawings onto a new layer
- Minor interface tweaks
- Bug fixes

1.7.2 - March 6, 2019
- Bug fix: the new line smoothing feature caused crashes sometimes

1.7.1 - March 3, 2019
- Bug fix: interface scaling problems on iPhone

1.7.0 - March 1, 2019
- Line smoothing is improved and adjustable
- More options for cycles: back/forward, offset position
- Cycles maintain the same start frame if you add/delete inbetweens in them
- Flash/AE/Harmony conversion scripts updated to work with the new cycles
- Bug fixes

1.6.8 - February 8, 2019
- Starts playing from current frame
- Playhead moves along with playback
- Bug fixes

1.6.7 - January 8, 2019
- Improved GIF export with less flickering of colors
- Onion skin opacity is lower on farther frames
- Can delete multiple selected drawings at once
- Relabeled a few things to be hopefully more self-explanatory and intuitive
- Project list has thumbnails
- Increased height limit to 1920
- Minor bug fixes

1.6.6 - December 9, 2018
- Moved preferences out of Project Options menu to its own button
- Moved Copy/Paste buttons up to be closer to Select All button
- Current layer's name is bold
- Allows zooming out timeline further
- Bug fix: trying to drag the multiple frame selection box scrolled the timeline instead
- Bug fix: canvas zoom/pan/rotation glitching and sometimes getting stuck

1.6.5 - November 17, 2018
- Bug fix: muting notifications made RoughAnimator's audio playback muted too
- Bug fix: lasso selection was offset when preview resolution was less than full

1.6.4 - November 12, 2018
- Pinch to zoom timeline
- Transform handles are visible outside canvas
- Improved audio scrubbing
- Supports Apple Pencil 2 double-tap actions

1.6.3 - September 24, 2018
- Import multiple images as sequence (requires iOS 11 or higher)
- Reduced drawing lag at beginning of stroke
- Faster loading
- Bug fix: crash on importing video
- Bug fix: failed to move exported video to iCloud Drive

1.6.2 - September 8, 2018
- Adjust interface scale in app preferences
- Option to use two finger tap to undo, three finger tap to redo
- Merge layers
- "Draw inside" option (preserves transparency)
- Set shape for brush tool and erase tool independently
- Changing layer opacity is undoable
- Bug fix: fill tolerance didn't work
- Bug fix: right arrow keyboard shortcut crashed

1.6.1 - August 31, 2018
- Apple Pencil bug fixes

1.6.0 - August 27, 2018
- Edit multiple drawings at once
- Timeline can be zoomed out further
- Bug fix: Apple Pencil pressure sensitivity problems
- Bug fix: canvas rotation didn't work

1.5.7 - July 2, 2018
- Allows accessing project files from Files app

1.5.6 - June 9, 2018
- Bug fix: crash when creating or editing project on some older devices
- Bug fix: crash when exporting to Photo library in iOS 11

1.5.5 - May 31, 2018
- More bug fixes
- iPhone X screen layout support
- Import RoughAnimator projects to Toon Boom Harmony

1.5.4 - April 11, 2018
- Moved "Add layer" and "Add drawing" buttons to side tool panel
- Moved "Layer options" and "Layer names" toggles to preferences
- Added preferences setting to hide playback range sliders
- Clearer display of which drawings are included in a cycle
- A few changed button icons for (hopefully) more clarity
- Project opens with top layer active rather than bottom layer
- Bug fixes

1.5.3 - March 26, 2018
- Save colors in palette
- Drag up/down from frame step buttons for quick flipping
- Bug fix: couldn't import audio from Music library
- Bug fix: audio playing at unwanted times
- Bug fix: number sliders getting stuck

1.5.2 - March 17, 2018
- Apple Pencil precision should be improved, please report if you're still getting jagged lines

1.5.1 - April 24, 2017
- Can set volume buttons to undo/redo or flip back/forward
- Bug fixes

1.4.10 - February 24, 2017
- Bug fixes: crash on rendering large projects, a few other crashes

1.4.9 - January 16, 2017
- Set minimum brush size/opacity for pressure sensitivity in app preferences
- Bug fix: crashed on trying to import video

1.4.8 - January 9, 2017
- Bug fix: froze on opening some projects

1.4.7 - January 7, 2017
- Improved color accuracy
- "Sample this layer & above" option for bucket fill tool
- Bug fix: Quicktime export distorted at certain resolutions
- Bug fix: image sometimes disappearing on undo

1.4.6 - July 27, 2016
- Set playback range of timeline
- Updated Adonit stylus support

1.4.4 - June 2, 2016
- Rotate canvas

1.4.3 - March 30, 2016
- Allows zooming out the canvas view
- Keyboard shortcuts now work with Control key for PC layout keyboards
- Bug fix: lowering preview resolution now correctly makes drawing less laggy

1.4.0 - March 7, 2016
- Support for Adonit and Wacom Bluetooth styluses
- Add custom brush shapes
- Numerical inputs for X and Y movement of selection
- Zoomed in canvas expands to fill empty screen space
- Import/export to iCloud Drive and other storage apps
- Bucket fill blur extends at edges of frame
- "Add layer - copy timing to blank drawings" works faster
- Bug fix: unreliable undo
- Bug fix: memory leak caused rendering to slow down and eventually crash
- Bug fix: crash on import video
- Bug fix: crash on trying to delete the only drawing on a layer
- Bug fix: file corruption caused by delete/undo last drawing on a layer
- Bug fix: problems with audio playback while scrubbing
- Bug fix: incorrect display on timeline of which drawings are blank
- Bug fix: wasn't cleaning up temporary cache files

1.3.7 - February 6, 2016
- Sort projects by last modified
- Keyboard shortcut Q to toggle fullscreen canvas
- Displays zoom level
- Added layer appears just above current layer instead of at top
- Bug fix: crash on undoing import image
- Bug fix: cycling sometimes skipped last frame
- Bug fix: fill tool crashed on pressing outside canvas
- Bug fix: fill front/behind toggle didn't update
- Improved auto repair of corrupted files

1.3.6 - January 19, 2016
- Attempted to fix Apple Pencil pressure sensitivity - still untested, please report any problems
- Option to ignore pressure sensitivity (in case Pencil support is still unreliable)
- Reduced scrubbing lag
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Allows drawing strokes that begin from outside the canvas
- Fill tool adjust tolerance
- Bug fix: fill tool sampling was unreliable
- Bug fix: can now cancel playback before it's done rendering

1.3.4 - December 5, 2015
- Scale X & Y axes independently
- Improved line smoothing
- Bug fix: cycles on multiple layers at once caused crash
- Bug fix: crashes/corrupted files caused by "move forward" & "move back" function
- Bug fix: selection disappeared after scrubbing on timeline or stepping by frame

1.3.1 - November 13, 2015
- Replaced slider controls for numbers: press&drag from text box to use like a slider, press to input number manually, or use arrow buttons on either side to increment up/down
- Improved auto repair of corrupted files
- Reduced drawing lag
- Copy/paste between projects
- Option for forward/back buttons to step one frame at a time
- Allows fractional framerates
- Displays frame count
- Bug fixes
- Preliminary support for iPad Pro & Apple Pencil (untested, please report bugs)

1.2.9 - September 15, 2015
- Timeline color coded to show blank drawings
- Bug fixes
- Note: first load of each project after this update will be unusually slow, but should return to normal the second time

1.2.8 - August 28, 2015
- Bug fix, app froze on creating new project

1.2.7 - August 21, 2015
- Handles for scaling/rotating selection directly on canvas
- Set preview resolution in app preferences
- Adjustable eraser opacity/spacing
- Bug fixes

1.2.6 - July 28, 2015
- Import video fixed, actually works now

1.2.4 - July 14, 2015
- Import video
- Larger brush size allowed
- Bug fix, eyedropper tool caused crash

1.2.0 - July 6, 2015
- Displays audio waveform on timeline
- Improved undo/redo (faster & includes changes to timeline)
- Rearranged some buttons for better consistency across platforms
- Bug fixes

1.1.6 - June 17, 2015
- Adjust horizontal zoom of timeline in app preferences
- Bug fixes

1.1.5 - May 15, 2015
- Rearranged some buttons for better use of space
- Bug fixes

1.1.4 - May 5, 2015
- Smoother interpolation of curved lines
- Color picker dialog
- Tint onion skin drawings

1.1.2 - February 17, 2015
- iPhone support
- GIF export
- Flip selection, horizontally or vertically

1.1.0 - January 27, 2015
- Selection copy/paste, rotate/scale
- Rename/duplicate projects
- Cycle drawings on timeline
- Split drawing at playhead

1.0.1 - January 20, 2015
- Initial release