Nova Animate is a frame-by-frame animation studio that opens in your browser. Draw your own cartoon, or start from 93 characters and 28 backgrounds and make them move with one tap. No install, no sign-up and no watermark. FlipaClip is an app with its own strengths, so here is how they compare.
Pick Nova Animate if you want to make a cartoon quickly without installing or paying, with characters, backgrounds and one-tap motion built in.
Pick FlipaClip if you animate often and want an app you install on your phone or tablet.
What we say about FlipaClip comes from its own pages (see Sources), read on 12 October 2026.
| Topic | Nova Animate | FlipaClip |
|---|---|---|
| Where you use it | In your browser, on a phone or a computer. | As an app on phones and tablets, from the App Store, Google Play, the Amazon App Store and Huawei AppGallery. There is also a Mac version for M-series chips.2 |
| Price | Free to use, with no sign-up. | Free to download. FlipaClip Plus is its paid plan, with a free trial.12 |
| Watermark | No watermark on your animation. | FlipaClip lists removing the watermark among its FlipaClip Plus features.1 |
| Layers and extras | Layers, onion skin, tracing, a sound library and talking mouths, all in the app. | Plus lists more layers, longer video import, custom canvas sizes, image-sequence export, extra brushes and a larger audio library.1 |
| Best for (our view) | Quick cartoons from ready characters, with no install. | Regular animators who want an installed app. |
Nova Animate cannot open FlipaClip projects. Export your animation as a video, or as pictures if your plan allows it, and use the pictures as a Trace guide.
Open it in your browser and start a new animation, or begin from one of eight ready starters such as a bouncing ball, a plane over the clouds or Diwali.
Tap a character, drag it into place, pinch to resize and turn it, then pick a background such as a sunny day, space, a beach or a classroom.
Choose a move, add a sound effect, a music loop or your voice, then export an MP4 video or a GIF.
93 cartoon characters, 28 backgrounds and more than 450 illustrations in 22 categories, so you start with something on the screen.
Tap Move and your picture bounces, jumps, walks, waves, spins or slides. There are 16 one-tap moves, and the frames are made for you.
8 drawing tools, layers, onion skin that shows the frame before and after, and tracing of a photo or a video.
33 sound effects and 8 music loops made on your device, your own voice, and a mouth that moves with the voice you record.
Choose several frames at once, loop just a range to check one movement, and drag a frame to a new place with a long press.
Write or say what you want, or paste a whole story, in English, Hindi or Hinglish. It shows its plan and builds it from the built-in library.
Make an MP4 video or a GIF and send it to WhatsApp, Instagram or any app from your phone's share menu.
Your drawings stay on your device, and your animations are saved there automatically.
What we say about Nova Animate comes from the app itself. What we say about FlipaClip comes from its own pages, listed here and read on 12 October 2026. Plans, prices and features change, so check FlipaClip's own website before you decide. Where FlipaClip is the better choice, we say so. The “Best for” row and the notes on the better choice are our own view.
Sources
FlipaClip is a trademark of its owner. Nova Clip and its apps are not made by, affiliated with or endorsed by the owner of FlipaClip. The name is used only to say what we compare with.