4.22 - January 17, 2026
- Bug fixes

4.21 - December 2, 2025
- Bug fixes

4.19 - September 9, 2025
- Bug fixes

4.18 - September 1, 2025
- Bug fixes

4.17 - August 30, 2025
- Bug fixes

4.15 - August 16, 2025
- Customize keyboard shortcuts
- Bug fixes

4.14 - August 3, 2025
- Bug fixes

4.13 - July 28, 2025
- Bug fixes, reduced lag

4.12 - July 24, 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

4.08 - June 12, 2025
- Lasso fill tool
- Bug fixes

4.05 - April 29, 2025
- Bug fixes

4.04 - April 16, 2025
- Bug fixes

4.03 - April 12, 2025
- Bug fixes

4.02 - April 9, 2025
- Bug fixes

4.01 - April 8, 2025
- Bug fixes

4.0 - April 2, 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
- Big rewrite under the hood, but hopefully you won't notice the difference (other than improved performance)

3.23 - June 15, 2024
- Color picker is now a panel that can stay open on the side instead of a popup window
- Bug fix: possible loss of data if a file was left open longer than three days

3.22 - May 1, 2024
- Can undo changing background color
- Bug fix: crashed on deleting a layer while the layer name textbox was focused

3.19 - January 28, 2024
- 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

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
- Rotate mode, for rotating canvas view without multitouch ("R" keyboard shortcut)
- Higher resolution cursors
- Bug fix: F5 F6 F7 keyboard shortcuts

3.10 - June 1, 2023
- Redesigned icon
- Bug fixes

3.09 - April 25, 2023
- Layer name textboxes expand to show longer layer names

3.08 - April 17, 2023
- Bug fix: fill tool crashing in version 3.07

3.07 - April 15, 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: cursor size

3.05 - March 6, 2023
- Fill tool now has the option to close gaps
- Bug fix: select all keyboard shortcut didn't switch to selection tool

3.04 - November 9, 2022
- Bug fix: File menu missing options in macOS Ventura
- Bug fix: frame flip wheel glitching
- Bug fix: back/forward cycles displaying wrongly sometimes
- Faster importing video

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

3.02 - September 30, 2022
- Bug fix: "add brush shape" not working
- Bug fix: "open recent" not working for some files
- Bug fix: arrow keyboard shortcuts not working

3.01 - September 23, 2022
- Bug fix: version 3.0 crashed on opening sometimes

3.0 - September 22, 2022
- Dark UI redesign!
- Single window interface matches iOS version of the app
- Undo transform without losing selection
- Supports drag & drop to import files
- Timeline zoom slider is next to the timeline instead of in the preferences panel
- Set minimum brush size/flow for pressure sensitivity in preferences
- Zoom percentage is pixel accurate
- Dropped support for pre-Catalina macOS versions
- Bug fix: crashed when quickly pressing play button repeatedly

2.15 - June 11, 2022
- Support for exporting HEVC and ProRes (on compatible devices)
- Bug fix: cycle offset was flipped vertically when previewing

2.14 - April 29, 2022
- Import layers from other projects
- Progress bar when applying changes to multiple drawings
- Bug fix: layer name changes were only saving if you pressed enter

2.13 - January 30, 2022
- Bug fix: some more random freezing/crashing

2.12 - January 28, 2022
- Bug fix: some random freezing/crashing

2.11 - January 12, 2022
- Previews render faster, and it buffers to start playing while still rendering
- Smoother scrubbing
- 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 on redoing fill tool
- 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: crashed on merging layers

2.07 - July 17, 2021
- Remembers last active layer/frame in project when reopened
- Number sliders should be a little easier to slide now
- Minor bug fixes

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
- Compiled for Apple Silicon
- Bug fix: copy/pasting from a project with a different resolution got stretched

2.01 - February 21, 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: couldn't type minus sign into number inputs

1.8.7 - September 8, 2020
- Bug fix: froze on creating a new project

1.8.6 - September 7, 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 13, 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: drawing offset from cursor on some devices

1.8.3 - May 27, 2020
- Bug fix: crashed if there were camera keyframes after the end of the timeline
- Bug fix: drawing offset from cursor on some devices

1.8.1 - April 30, 2020
- Canvas can be bigger than camera frame, and the camera can be animated
- Option to convert cycle to drawings
- Bug fixes and performance improvements

1.7.8 - December 15, 2019
- Drag/drop layer order
- Long press to drag & drop rearrange order of drawings on timeline
- Long press and pull down to split drawing
- Clearer indicator of current frame
- Playback range setting is saved with project
- Option to export only playback range
- Bug fixes

1.7.5 - August 1, 2019
- Crop/expand canvas
- Some minor interface tweaks
- Bug fixes

1.7.4 - July 7, 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

1.7.0 - February 28, 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 7, 2019
- Bug fixes

1.6.7 - January 7, 2019
- Improved GIF export with less flickering of colors
- Autosaves a copy of your project if application crashes
- 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
- Minor bug fixes

1.6.6 - December 9, 2018
- Current layer's name is bold
- Allows zooming out timeline further
- Bug fixes

1.6.4 - November 11, 2018
- Import multiple images as sequence
- Improved audio scrubbing

1.6.2 - September 16, 2018
- Merge layers
- "Draw inside" option (preserves transparency)
- Set shape for brush tool and erase tool independently
- Changing layer opacity is undoable
- Bug fix: update window appeared behind other windows

1.6.0 - September 2, 2018
- Edit multiple drawings at once

1.5.5 - May 31, 2018
- More bug fixes
- Import RoughAnimator projects to Toon Boom Harmony

1.5.4 - April 10, 2018
- 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

1.5.2 - March 24, 2018
- Startup window with recent project list
- Bug fix: incorrect image size on Retina screens
- Bug fix: fill tool glitches

1.4.7 - January 6, 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
- Bug fix: couldn't scrub in new project

1.4.6 - July 27, 2016
- Set playback range of timeline
- Bug fix: crash on pasting from other programs
- Bug fix: "Paint color / BG color" buttons disappearing

1.4.4 - June 8, 2016
- Set preview resolution

1.4.0 - March 7, 2016
- Add custom brush shapes
- Numerical inputs for X and Y movement of selection
- "Add layer - copy timing to blank drawings" works faster
- 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

1.3.7 - February 3, 2016
- Bucket fill blur extends at edges of frame
- Added layer appears just above current layer instead of at top
- Bug fix: images were scaled too big on Retina screens, causing lag
- Bug fix: onion skin range sliders unreliable
- Bug fix: crash on undoing import image
- Bug fix: crash on playback when visible layers didn't extend to end of animation
- Bug fix: cycling sometimes skipped last frame
- Bug fix: background color was changing itself
- Improved auto repair of corrupted files

1.3.6 - January 19, 2016
- Fill tool adjust tolerance
- Bug fix: fill tool sampling unreliable
- Bug fix: display glitches when switching between files
- Bug fix: drawing label didn't appear on timeline when drawing was blank

1.3.4 - November 27, 2015
- Scale X & Y axes independently
- Bug fix: crashes/corrupted files caused by "move forward" & "move back" function
- Bug fix: selection disappeared after scrubbing on timeline or stepping by frame
- Bug fix: some keyboard shortcuts didn't work while cursor was over timeline or tool options panels

1.3.2 - November 15, 2015
- Bug fix: cycles on multiple layers at once caused crash
- Bug fix: changing drawing duration by dragging handles on timeline corrupted drawings

1.3.1 - November 4, 2015
- Replaced slider controls for numbers: click&drag from text box to use like a slider, click to input number manually, or use arrow buttons on either side to increment up/down
- Improved auto repair of corrupted files
- Bug fixes

1.3.0 - October 29, 2015
- Allows fractional framerates
- Displays frame count
- Bug fixes

1.2.9 - September 8, 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

1.2.7 - August 20, 2015
- Adjustable eraser opacity/spacing
- Added hotkey 'i' for color eyedropper
- Bug fixes

1.2.4 - July 13, 2015
- Import video
- Larger brush size allowed
- Bug fix, New Project window appeared behind other windows

1.2.3 - July 5, 2015
- Bug fix, scrub after changing drawing duration would corrupt drawing
- Bug fix, decreased lag

1.2.2 - July 1, 2015
- Bug fix, crashed at launch on Mavericks

1.2.1 - June 30, 2015
- Bug fix, dragging with pan tool lagged
- Bug fix, "Add drawing" options were sometimes disabled incorrectly
- Added hotkey F5 to increase drawing length, Shift+F5 to decrease

1.2.0 - June 29, 2015
- Initial release