4.22 - December 26, 2025
- 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

4.11 - July 22, 2025
- Bug fix: failing to launch on some computers

4.10 - July 21, 2025
- Layer blending modes & clipping masks
- Lock layers
- Lasso fill tool
- Option to use two finger tap to undo, three finger tap to redo
- 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
- Color palette is scrollable to allow more saved colors
- Big rewrite under the hood, but hopefully you won't notice the difference

3.25 - June 24, 2024
- Reduced drawing lag
- Bug fix: hovering over color picker with stylus would change the color
- Bug fix: pressing a button with stylus after drawing a line wouldn't work the first time

3.24 - June 16, 2024
- Bug fix: 3.23 crashed a lot

3.23 - June 15, 2024
- Color picker is now a panel that can stay open on the side instead of a popup window

3.22 - May 1, 2024
- Can undo changing background color
- Bug fix: aliasing when exporting video with a camera move, or when resizing project
- 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

3.18 - January 1, 2024
- Bug fix: 3.17 crashed if a layer was shorter than others

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
- Bug fix: inaccurate brush color

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

3.12 - July 31, 2023
- Reduced lag
- Bug fixes

3.11 - June 15, 2023
- Removed ability to customize arrangement of windows
- Simplified interface layout to match other platforms
- Added interface scale option in preferences
- Rotate mode, for rotating canvas view without multitouch ("R" keyboard shortcut)

3.10 - April 28, 2023
- Redesigned icon
- Bug fix: deleting a brush shape would mess up the remaining brush shapes

3.09 - April 25, 2023
- Layer name textboxes expand to show longer layer names
- Bug fix: drawing offset from stylus tip when on a secondary monitor with a different DPI scaling setting than the main monitor

3.07 - April 15, 2023
- More slots to save 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

3.04 - November 9, 2022
- Option for higher quality when exporting mp4
- Bug fix: frame flip wheel glitching
- Bug fix: back/forward cycles displaying wrongly sometimes
- Bug fix: Y translate number was inverted when moving a selection
- Bug fix: lasso selection sometimes disappeared when editing multiple drawings

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

3.0 - September 22, 2022
- Dark UI redesign!
- 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
- Bug fix: crashed when quickly pressing play button repeatedly

2.14 - April 29, 2022
- Import layers from other projects
- Progress bar when applying changes to multiple drawings
- Bug fix: was unable to draw on some computers due to a bug in an old Intel Graphics driver, now detects this and alerts the user to update the driver

2.11 - January 12, 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

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

2.06 - June 23, 2021
- Bug fix: 2.05 crashed on trying to edit the background layer

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: audio sync drift
- Bug fix: rounding error made opacity never reach full 100%

2.04 - May 20, 2021
- Bug fix: the stylus fix in 2.03 broke touch gestures

2.03 - May 19, 2021
- Bug fix: lag at beginning of stylus strokes
- Bug fix: corrupted preferences files occasionally causing crashes

2.02 - March 29, 2021
- Still trying to improve reliability of saving, now it will make a temporary backup copy of the project so hopefully you don't lose everything even if it does crash mid-save
- Bug fix: failed to open projects if computer was set to a language where decimal points are commas

2.01 - February 21, 2021
- Bug fixes

2.0 - February 1, 2021
- Straight line / square / circle tools
- Onion skin range limit increased to 4
- 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
- Bug fix: failed saves occasionally resulting in deleted project files

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: brush shape reverted to default when switching tools

1.8.3 - May 27, 2020
- Bug fix: crashed if there were camera keyframes after the end of the timeline
- Bug fix: image artifacts appearing in small canvases (under 500x500 or so)
- Bug fix: lasso tool displaying wrong when preview resolution wasn't Full

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 fix: wasn't recognizing finger touches to zoom/rotate
- More 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
- Allows zooming out timeline further
- 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
- 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
- Bug fix: couldn't export PNGs with alpha
- Bug fix: memory leaks causing crashes

1.6.4 - November 11, 2018
- Import multiple images as sequence
- Bug fix: unable to import some mp3 files
- Bug fix: displaying incorrect alpha when preview resolution was less than full

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: crash on undoing delete layer
- Bug fix: added brush shapes didn't show up immediately

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

1.5.7 - August 11, 2018
- More bug fixes, less crashes

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

1.5.4 - April 10, 2018
- Moved "Add layer" and "Add drawing" buttons to side tool panel
- Clearer display of which drawings are included in a cycle
- A few changed button icons for (hopefully) more clarity
- Other interface adjustments to be more consistent with the mobile version
- 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 fixes, improved stability

1.5.2 - May 31, 2017
- Bug fixes, improved stability

1.5.1 - April 17, 2017
- Bug fix: sometimes crashed on playback
- Bug fix: crashed if an invalid license code was entered
- Bug fix: keyboard focus got stuck in tool panels

1.5.0 - April 14, 2017
- Initial release