What's new

The story of DoodLoop, newest first.

Unreleased

Draw

• Always-visible size dot in the tool dock, drag to change size any time.
• Choose freeform or preset (S/M/L/XL) brush sizes in Settings.
• Stabilizer slider to smooth strokes as you draw.
• Eraser size is independent of the brush size.
• Text on the canvas: live preview, 30+ fonts shown in their own typeface, place as a movable/rotatable selection.
• Reference grid overlay (square, rule of thirds, isometric, 2- and 3-point perspective) that never becomes part of your drawing.
• More shapes: triangle, pentagon, hexagon, star, and heart, alongside line, rectangle, and ellipse.
• Squash & stretch a selection: drag the edge handles to scale it along one axis independently. A selection stays a floating, non-destructive overlay until you commit it, and Undo while it floats cleanly returns to the original.
• Ruler drawing guide: strokes snap to a line, rectangle, circle, or oval you place, move, rotate, and resize on the canvas. Works as a reference edge by default (Keep my distance), so drawing off the guide gives parallel lines and concentric shapes (inside or outside); turn it off to snap onto the guide.
• Symmetry and the ruler share the same feel: they sit together in the bottom-left canvas cluster. Tap to switch on/off, touch and hold to pick the flavour. Their guides show and hide the instant you toggle them.
• Tool outline: a live ring showing brush/eraser/shape size at your fingertip or Pencil as you draw (dashed for the eraser). Toggle it, and pick finger/Pencil, in Settings.
• Fresh Phosphor icon set, and a marching-ants outline around selections and pastes.

Animate

• Frame notes (Pro): scribble private, hand-drawn notes right on a frame, even out in the margin around the canvas. Notes have their own colour and size, a clear "Annotating" mode with a coloured border, an eye to show/hide them, an eraser, and clear-all. They are never played back and never exported.
• Copy and paste frames: copy a frame from its menu, then paste it at the end from the frames strip.
• The frame + button can switch (touch and hold) between Add frame and Duplicate last frame, and remembers your choice for one-tap repeats.
• Import from the camera: snap a reference photo and draw over it.
• Onion skin gains Loop (wrap around the ends), a colour on/off toggle, and separate before/after counts and blend.
• Docked audio timeline: waveform clips on a time ruler, drag to move, trim handles, and per-clip speed and fade in/out. Centered transport (skip to start / play / skip to end), an mm:ss ruler ticked per frame, and a playhead that glides as it plays.

Share

• Time-lapse recording: capture how a drawing comes together and export it as its own video.

Interface

• Redesigned editor top bar that adapts to small screens (iPad mini, Split View) by folding actions into Media and View menus instead of clipping.
• The dock is tools only; colour, size, symmetry, and Fit moved to a compact bottom-left canvas cluster.
• Groups on the home screen: an All / Groups toggle, with your own named stacks plus automatic rows (Recent, Earlier, Small, Large).
• Import from the camera, and the frame + can switch to duplicate mode.

Get set up

• A first-run welcome screen, an in-editor guided tour (the ? button), Lock rotation, and the option to keep unsaved sheet input.
• Report a bug and an Open source acknowledgements list in Settings.

Version 1.0

The first release of DoodLoop.

Draw

• A data-driven brush engine with a visual brush picker, essentials (pens, pencils, ink, brush, crayon, calligraphy, highlighter, airbrush) and a shading set, plus savable custom brushes.
• Apple Pencil pressure and tilt.
• Fill (bucket) with threshold, gap-close, smooth edges, whole-layer, and sample-all-layers.
• Smudge and Blur.
• Shapes (line, rectangle, ellipse) and Symmetry.
• Select, move, scale, rotate, flip.
• Text and Eyedropper.

Animate

• Frame-by-frame timeline with duplicate, reorder, and holds.
• Layers with blend modes and glow.
• Onion skin with adjustable range, opacity, and colors.
• Looping playback with an adjustable frame rate.

Sound & share

• Record and import audio on multiple tracks, synced to your animation.
• Export video (MP4/HEVC), animated GIF, APNG, and PNG sequences, never watermarked.

Your work

• Projects are open .doodloop files in the Files app.
• One-tap backup and restore, and Recently Deleted.
• Import existing FlipaClip projects with layers intact.

Free & Pro

• Free to make and share animations, no ads, no watermarks.
• A one-time Pro unlock for higher frame rates, larger canvases, and pro export formats.