Stick Nodes review

Stick Nodes brings the Pivot way of working to phones and tablets, and adds features Pivot users usually wish for. You pose a figure by dragging its nodes, and the app can fill in the frames between poses automatically, with tweening you can adjust. A simple camera pans, zooms and rotates around the scene, movieclips let you reuse and loop animated objects, and textfields handle speech. The developer's site hosts more than 30,000 stickfigures, from people to vehicles, and the app opens older Pivot figure files. The free version is enough to learn on and exports GIFs, but it shows a startup ad and watermarks exports. Stick Nodes Pro, listed at $3.99 on the US App Store, removes both and adds sound effects, MP4 export and extra filters. It is a one-time purchase rather than a subscription, which suits families. Both versions carry a 4+ App Store rating and receive regular updates.

Who it is for

Kids and teens who animate stick figures on a phone or tablet

Price

Free version with ads; Stick Nodes Pro costs $3.99 on the US App Store.

Stick Nodes Pro - Animator Create stickman animations! $3.99
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 11, 2026.

Key features

• Automatic, customizable frame tweening between poses
• Camera that pans, zooms and rotates around the scene
• Movieclips for reusing and looping animated objects
• Over 30,000 stickfigures to download from sticknodes.com
• Opens pre-3.0 Pivot stickfigure files

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Free version covers posing, tweening, onion skin and GIF export
• Strength: Pro is a one-time $3.99 purchase on the US App Store, not a subscription
• Strength: Available on Google Play, the App Store and Amazon, with updates as recent as version 4.3.4
• Weakness: Sound effects, filters and MP4 export are Pro-only features
• Weakness: The free version shows a startup ad and watermarks exports
• Weakness: Small phone screens make precise posing harder than a mouse on a PC

Key facts

• Price: Free; Pro $3.99 one-time (US App Store)
• Platforms: Android, iPhone, iPad
• App Store age rating: 4+
• Downloadable figures: Over 30,000

Where it ranks

Stick Nodes is No. 2 in our Best Stick Figure Animation Software verdict.