Stick Nodes Pro - Animator
reviews and complaints

Considering beginner/advanced animation with stickfigures? Want basic controls and easy, yet powerful tools at your disposal? This app is for you! The price is easily passed when you consider everything you can do with this app. First, you can download bunches of other stickfigures, tools, backgrounds, and other stuff. You can add audio, sounds, and music (ONLY WITH PRO VERSION) and, you can easily export it into .MP4 or .gif file and export it.

Pros:

- Bunches of features to make a good animation
- Lots of stickfigures, backgrounds, and tools to choose from
- Easy to use
- Library of free audio (PRO)
- Updated regularly with new features and fixes

Cons:

- May be hard to get started
- Crashes usually always occur with new devices or device updates

I have a large request. Like very large.

-drum roll-

The ability of .bmp files able to be used in Stick Nodes! Like the ones used in Pivot like, kinda like 'sprites' used in Pivot Animator. This is the biggest and most favorite request I have for the game, I really want this to be added as a lot of sprites have the guns I love insanely, I hope this gets added and a lot of my friends do to. Since we don't have computers to use Pivot we use Stick Nodes. Anyways I hope there's an ability of Sprites and .bmp files able to use in Sticknodes, along creations from Pivot 3 and such, I hope this is possible to add but I know it'd be confusing on how. But that request would make this game WAYYY better for me and some other people.

Anyways, [protected]/10 best animator along Pivot.

This app is probably the best animator app I’ve ever used and there’s probably not going to be a better one cause sticknodes pro is soooo fun to use and is perfect for a lot of ages, but my only request is that maybe you can improve the join stickfigure option. I’m asking this because the join stickfigure option is kinda confusing when you want to use filters (blur,tint,opacity). For example I got a pack that creates one stickfigure I tried to tint and blur it for an epic effect but it ended up only tweening one part of the stickfigure, I’m not so sure if there was an option to fix this issue like maybe switching the chosen joined stick figure so you can tint,blur,glow,opacity said stickfigure but if there wasn’t an option to begin with I think you should do that for another update. The app is great!

Hey Ralph, First of all, I love this app. It has given me such a great creative outlet in my life I’ve had this app for 4, going on 5 years, since I was in 5th grade, and I’m still making animations going into my sophomore year of high school. I’ve almost never had a problem with this app as far as I can remember. The problem I’m having is that whenever I try to select a background image whether it be for an animation background or a stick figure creator background, it just exits the photos. And it mostly happens when I try to select a normal quality image or very high quality. Sometimes if I’m quick enough to select an image the app just crashes entirely. I’m on an IPad so I don’t know if this is a problem for people with different tablets or phones. Still a great app! Just has some bugs with recent updates.

I’ve been looking for a good app to animate on mobile with when I got into an animating class in school, I really enjoyed using the software but it lacked lots of stuff. so when I found this app I was so exited! At first I had the normal app then I upgraded to pro and really love using the app. But of course there are things that I should suggest even though I know it’s a lot harder to do then I think. The app doesn’t have a sand footstep yet and I think that could be useful and fun for beach scenes and stuff. I also think you should be able to view the layers of your animation off to the side or something, kinda like how all the specific things in the same layer are displayed on the side of the program on Pixlr X. Other then a few recommendations that the app doesn’t need to be perfect, it’s the best animating app I’ve ever used!

Hey Ralph, I think you might know me. I think I asked you something at stick nodes.com asking if their was a way to watch how to make a fight combo without youtube and you said to just experiment. Well, I kinda found out how... My mom though, she made my dad delete it, and I can no longer do that :(. I don't know if you made it, so that your animations stay on the device as files or whatnot, but if it was you, then great job! I do recommend multiplayer. It would be really cool, and I made an animation showing what it would be like(still working on it, probably not for a while because of my mom), and in my head, it looks like a bunch of people moving a single stick figure's arm all over the place at once XD. If you take the time to read this, then I hope you take this into consideration.
Best Regards
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Keep up the good work!

I used this app for 5 YEARS! If this app didn’t exist, I wouldn’t be able to even move a segment in another animating app! Just three things. 1. I wish there were an option when you want to put a stick figure behind another figure, or the the front. 2. Every time I have a 2 stick figures, one faces front, one faces the side (Like the Ralph 2020 pack) one frame has the figure facing the side, next frame, I delete the side figure and import the front figure. Play the animation and you see the SF change to the FF. But there is a white pause in the middle. Please fix that! 3. Now this is a REALLY BIG THING I want in the app! What if we had challenges in the place where you download stickfigures? Like for example the challenge is to make Sonic! The challenge changes every week or whenever you want it to change Ralph. Anyways I love the app it is the best animating app! Can’t wait to see what is coming next!

This hasn’t happened to me yet but I’ve heard people were getting jump scared. Apparently this is an Easter egg that happens when you shake the device. Sometimes, I know I accidentally shake the iPad, but at least now that I’m expecting it (I believe in ghosts by the way) I won’t think it’s a demon hunting me, but if this happens to me I’ll shake more and then... infinite loop. Then again, (although ostriches don’t really do this,) I’ll probably bury my head in the couch like an ostrich and wait to wake up in a sanitarium. Seriously if there’s a jump scare like with a scream or something I’ll probably just explode and realize my worst fear is no longer the prince of darkness. It’s getting a one way ticket to both a heart attack and heaven. But I guess it is kind of funny, if this won’t traumatize you like it will probably do to me. Although if I have the sound off like always I’ll start cracking up, so anyways, this game is great but please get rid of this jumpscare.

Hey! Ralph, if you reading this then please consider adding some of these features in the 4.0.0 update or the 4.0.1 update.

Use previous segment’s color:
This idea came around when I was making a stick figure and thought it would be cool if we could change the color of static segments just by changing the color of the segment before it. This could open up a lot of possibilities for making custom shapes in Stick nodes while coloring each individual shape without needing multiple stick figures.

Follow Locked Movement(FLM):
This one would be harder to add but if it was possible for segments to follow the movement of other segments while one is locked could add a whole other element to Stick nodes animations.

Gravity Physics:
This would be another hard one which if you did make it I’d expect it to be a feature in 5.0.0, but if there was an option to make your stick figure(or movie clip) follow gravity physics based on a number as the frames go on.(kind of like it’s animating itself)

Ok so I’m animating watching YouTube and it freases so before the same day I downloaded a pack that only got 1 stick the ghost and it happened so I even tried to send the files too no one to se if it was just import that fros and I cood delet it not send it that’s not how files work I think I don’t know but no no no that’s how I know it was the gost prop because I searched prop so i named the pack prop so ya I don’t blame the person the pack overall had a skull graves 2 of them candy pumpkin pumpkin candy baskets but please try to fix I think I don’t code anything what so ever but I thank a glitch because of me home buton pressing right after and it didn’t get it properly but probably not also I opened normal sticknodes qwote *checksnever mind I have not gotten on so ya it reset all that but my stiks save and thank you for efforts to make sticknodes what it is so 5 stars but if you do fined the problem and fix it please mencin me in the change log but if you can’t I understand ps sorry for all the typos

Ralph, you KNOW it is real. And I’m pretty sure you also know that lying is a sin, so STOP saying that the demon thing is fake, jerk!
AND IF IT IS FAKE THEN HOW DID IT HAPPEN TO ME?! Yeah, please explain that. Oh, I noticed Apple never sponsored you... Bad luck...? Jealousy...? No... BECAUSE THE AGE RECOMMENDATION DOES NOT FIT THE GAME BECAUSE IT IS SCARING THE LIFE OUT OF LITTLE INNOCENT CHILDREN WHO HAS DONE NOTHING TO YOU! Overall, someone who has a pile of trash for a heart can make a pretty OK animation app. But Ralph, if you accept the fact that the demon was real, BECAUSE BY NOW WE ALREADY KNOW THAT IT IS AND IF YOU DENY IT ONE MORE TIME I WANT SOMEONE TO MAKE A VIDEO OF THE WHOLE JUMP SCARE HAPPENING! And other wise, AT LEAST JUST GET RID OF THE DEMON! Then I will get stick nodes pro back. Alright? SO THANKS FOR NOTHING FOR TRYING TO GIVE CHILDREN FOREVER LASTING NIGHTMARES OF A DEMON WATCHING THEM AND WAITING TO COME BACK ON THEY’RE SCREEN TO SCARE THEM ALL OVER AGAIN! YOU’RE WELCOME! Now if you excuse me, I need to go watch Mandolorian.

I remember first getting the pro version a while back, I was just using the free version making silly animations and showing them to my family like I was the next Disney lol, this app has brought me so many good memory’s and friends honestly the community around the app is amazing and so is the developer! (Notice how he actually responds to reviews and not some generic generated response) The app is basically a “simple” animating tool, I call it simple as in easy to get into, hard to really master type business. I’ve seen some amazing stuff made in this, and honestly is a good competitor to stick based animation apps on computer, but with the luxury of having it in your pocket to use anywhere. I really don’t have any complaints about this app it’s 100% worth the price! (The only thing I dislike is how you can’t import large audio files, but not a big deal.) I don’t tend to animate as much in this anymore, but it’s still fun just to pop on this when I have free time and make something. Thanks for the memory’s and all the good times you brought me, Ralph. (Sorry for the weird long review)

Obviously there are limits to a node animation platform, but with Stick Nodes it’s starting not to matter. I enjoyed the free version for about 2 years before I finally got permission to drop the $2 on pro, and it’s been amazing. The ability to add sounds and export as MP4 made it worth my money 10x over, and then the new updates came out with adding tweeted frames. It is as powerful as you promised and cut minutes off a workload. Polyfill nodes bring in many possibilities and I’ve been loving everything that the pro comes with. The killer in this update though DEFINITELY has to be the auto-camera. One use of it is all you need to see just how powerful Stick Nodes has become. Seriously, auto panning and resizing the camera on its own!? The only real problem I have with the app at this point is that to delete or add a mass number of frames you have to mash the buttons like a God Of War QTE. Being able to hold the buttons down would be a nice alternative. That aside, this is the best node animation apps on the internet and one of the much better animation platforms overall in my opinion. You’ve made your money with this one Ralph.

Hello Ralph, you don’t know me, but I have a YT channel. D1gital4rt1st. I have a few videos on there and I enjoy making them. But the video I love most is my stick nodes animation. Go check it out. But what I am here to say is, please make the game multiplayer. It would improve everybody’s animation by a lot. But here are some of the problems I already thought of. Since you are working on the animation together, there should be like a group thing you can create. But if the other people want to delete a frame or the project, they should ask the creator of the group. It sends them a message and tells them to select yes or no. Next is the connection thing. It sends the people invites to the group, which lets them say yes or no, and then adding on to that, my favorite part, USERNAMES. It would be really cool to have accounts and usernames on stick nodes they are so that everybody can Identify you. When you scroll all the way to the bottom of the menu on the left, it shows all of the multiplayer items and tools. If you have made it this far Ralph, or whoever it is reading this, please support my idea. If you choose not to plz don’t say anything. Thank you for your time.

This app is AWSOME and that’s a understatement but there is this one glitch that I really hope gets fixed soon. (It might be my device or my eyes messing with me but please look into it anyways) Whenever I press tween when I turn it off the animation doesn’t look as good. (slower/faster in different moments in the animation) I waited for a while but it never got fixed. Example:I was working on a big project of mine and then I accidentally pressed the tween button and the beginning and end looked rushed.So I thought I should mention it and if you answer this or you read this and fix the glitch it would make my year. Again this is the greatest app I have and probably the best I ever will have.
I really appreciate the effort you put into this Ralph, and I hope this helps you improve stick nodes. Sorry for making this so long. (If you actually read the entire thing your 5x more awesome that I thought) Also sorry if this review doesn’t look good, and sorry if I repeat myself a bunch.

Also (ik I said that already but hear me out) maybe you should make another stick nodes app that’s multiplayer.
It would be easier for collabs. (Ima be honest idk how ppl do collabs so idk if this is really necessary but yea)

It all starts back a couple months ago
I enjoyed making FlipaClip animations but it was a little too complicated for me I did not understand as much as I do now and I still don’t understand much about it. So then I tried out stick nodes (non pro version) and I liked it! After I had stick nodes for awhile I chose to upload some animations to YouTube, at the time I only had one sub and the had subbed to me awhile ago, I chose to upload episode one of a series called the darkness (I’m currently on episode four of it) The next day after uploading episode 1 I got a notification that I got my second sub! I said “no way, really?!? I can’t believe it I finally got my second sub!” So I kept on making stick nodes animations. Then a couple days ago I got to 3 subs so that meant I did a three sub special! (Not a Stick nodes animation) so then the other day, I chose to buy this: stick nodes pro! I really am enjoying it people have really been enjoying it my today like maby an hour ago by now another stick nodes channel said that they really enjoyed one of my videos, they even asked if I would subscribe to them I was so happy! So I subbed to them and they subbed to me! So I think that People are enjoying my animations! Sorry that I said everything about my story my point is that these are making me more popular the best part is that I really like making these animations and people are enjoying them! Thanks for making this animator exist your helping me grow my youtube channel if I could I would rate this app TEN STARS so yeah I really like this app! Oh yeah and don’t forget to subscribe to me! My channel name is nicotheknee!

This is sooo annyoing I can even animate or make Stickmans the sad thing is I thought that this was gonna be my Animating app but it was very bad I’m sorry I just really wanted to like it

My son was playing the game and ran into my room crying and scared. I made it to the phone in time to see that the phone was flashing in color, and a demon face appeared in the app! Not cool at all

I did a project 409 frames now I can’t even import it and if I shorten it it would not even look right and am not finished 409 frames isn’t event that much u gotta do better smh‍♂️‍♂️‍♂️‍♂️

When I entered the game there was a glitchy screen and the stick
guy had a face that I hate. and the stick man was gone. After like 2 seconds the guy came up close to the screen with a scary face
red eyes, some blood on the face. Please fix this.(it scared the
Frick out of me)

Landscape mode does not work correctly as it does not check whether the app is upside down or not ( I prefer the home button to be on the left side, so the app should respect that and not force me to turn my ipad upside down just to use it).

IMHO that is a serious design flaw

I loved this app but after the new update it's not fun anymore
I saved a stick figure that I. Was gonna upload and it was very detailed took me oh i dunno 1 hour to make and I saved it but it didn't save so you made me hate you now I used to love you

-a big fan who's now a big hater

Dear developer or devs of sticknodes please make it so that I don’t have to download and every single individual sound also when I get the into sticknodes the sound work and idk how make those sounds on a link so wth am I suppose to do make it so that I just simply download it like a pack :D

I spent hours making a anamation and I saved it and it was saving the last frame and it kicked me out of the app and all that time was wasted making the animation it deleted the animation:(((((((((((‍ I am very angryyyyyyyyyyyy :(((((((((((((((((

The website would not let me download my characters, I would love for you to bring back the way you would download stuff in the old days before this way you download it... I think it’s only on iO,Android,Apple. For me they only work on mobile. Please get it fixed because this is my favorite app I have on my tablet... Thank you

It’s nothing special about it all it does is add noise and another thing they don’t even have premade stuff like dragons I like dragons and all sorts of animals but there are none that are premade so I recommend you can get it it’s not exactly staff get the other one instead it’s way better and it’s free so I would recommend to the creator to make Dragons

This app has a scary demon Easter Egg that popped up out of nowhere and scared our son to death. He’s 9 years old and loves animating figures with stick nodes but he is so scared tonight that he doesn’t think he can sleep. Shame on whoever put this into Stick Nodes Pro. We won’t allow him to use it again until there is a glitch fix. His mom and I saw it too and it is just sick.

The prank that is being pulled from time to time is really disturbing and causes trauma. The boys had enjoyed for a time but this prank really scared them. What is the idea of this prank? We will be removing this app and replacing it. I am sure this is not the first time parents have been complaining about it. This is warrants a serious action from your part or we will file a complaint.

I used to love this app. But now I can’t even get in my project. I worked really hard and I was doing really good. But now I can’t get it open! You need to update and fix that. Lately this app has been really annoying. It keeps glitching and crashing. I keep losing my hard work! If you want people to continue to use this app your going to have to fix a lot of problems. So please fix it.

So when I first saw a Stickman tournament I was quite inspired to make one so I wanted to find out what some people used to make tournaments and it was THIS FRICKIN GAME the reason I rated one star is because it’s to complicated and gives you no totorial (I know I spelled that wrong) and I’m not gonna sit for 9 hours trying to (stick)figure it out. Get it? But still it’s just too complicated

It’s not good.I’m not allowed to Watch YouTube! Please put the tutorials in the game I Think it’s much too hard to make characters! I don’t think it’s a good game I can’t download characters… respond please! The only reason I’m giving it two stars it’s because I would like the cat.. I looked at other reviews and I don’t think they’re real because it’s bad!
Don’t spend your money on it it’s a waste!

Bought this app to test and do some stick figure animations. Unusable to say the least. Appears to be a desktop app that was made into a mobile app. Doesn’t follow any of the design principles for mobile apps (menu styles, navigation, transitions, swipe, not even rotation come on!)
Couldn’t even get to test whether the app does what it’s supposed to do. Sorry dude, not good. Major redesign is required.

Please make this an extension to stick nodes or add a feature where you can add all of you stick figures to stick nodes pro (I downloaded stick nodes and had over 150 zip files in that app then I decided to switch to stick nodes pro but none of my stick figures saved I thought there was a way to get it back but for mobile users you cant and I would have to reinstall all 150 zip files BUT if you are on computer I’m pretty sure there is a way to get them!) DEVELOPERS PLEASE SEE THIS