Open Source Toon Boom Studio Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Toon Boom Studio is OpenToonz. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Toon Boom Studio and eight of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Toon Boom Studio are Synfig Studio, Pencil2D, Pencil and TupiTube.

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  1. OpenToonz icon
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    OpenToonz is an animation program that is a free software version of Toonz, the animation software used by Studio Ghibli, amongst others.

    43 OpenToonz alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    • Almost everyone thinks OpenToonz is a great Toon Boom Studio alternative.

    • OpenToonz is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Toon Boom Studio.

    • OpenToonz is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Toon Boom Studio.

    • OpenToonz is Free and Open SourceToon Boom Studio is Paid and Proprietary
    • OpenToonz is Privacy focusedToon Boom Studio is not according to our users
  2. Pencil2D icon
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    Pencil2D is an opensource animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, based on old Pencil software. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics.

    44 Pencil2D alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  3. Pencil icon
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    Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics.

    39 Pencil alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. TupiTube icon
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    Tupi is a design and authoring tool for digital artists interested in 2D Animation, fork of the KToon project, offering an interface experience focused on 8-100 years olds.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
     
  5. EasyToon icon
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    Easytoon is a program that can create small animated gif friendly, a simple sequence of images giving the illusion of movement. It sounds simple written like that but it is quite complicated to implement, finally brief.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Ella icon
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    Ella (an acronym for Elegant Light Linux Animator) is a light animation software intended to achieve a aim of the Linux world : a functionnal and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) 2D animation sofware.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    This is a simple animation line testing software written in C++ with Qt toolkit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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