Animate Anything with Stick Figures

Fights, parkour, stories, memes. One free app. Windows, Linux or your browser.

Three steps, one app. If you can drag a mouse, you can animate.

Drag any joint and inverse kinematics moves the rest of the body. Pin a foot, pull a hand, done.

Add a frame and pose again. Onion skin shows the frames around it, so the motion stays smooth.

Export an MP4, a GIF or an image sequence, ready for YouTube, TikTok or your Discord server.

Pro tools, arranged so a first-timer can use them. Start simple and go deeper when you’re ready.

Pull a hand, plant a foot, drop the hips. Try it right here.

Same animation, two ways to work. Switch any time.

Drag the top of the path to reshape the jump.

Sketch scenery, smears and effects on their own layers, frame by frame, over your animation.

Line Circle Colors Polygon Test rig

Ninja

Effects17 effects. Drag to compare.

GlowBefore

GlowRGB splitPixelateOutlineLight sweepCRT+11 more

Export MP4, GIF or a PNG sequence.

MP4GIFPNG

1920 × 1080 · 24 fps · H.264

Drop in music and sound effects, then time every hit to the beat.

Double-click a project file. It opens in StykAnimate, ready to keep animating.

A real Pivot project playing in StykAnimate · Pivot animation by Uriel

Keeps timing, camera, sprites, polygons and gradients.

Keeps your library, movieclips, poses, sprites and camera keys.

Free figures, effects, moves and whole scenes made by other animators. Download one and it opens in StykAnimate with a double-click.

New features and fixes arrive often, and the Setup version installs them for you.

Share what you make, get help when you’re stuck, and shape what StykAnimate becomes next.

Share animations, ask questions and hear about updates first.

Post your figures, effects and scenes for everyone to use, and download what other animators made.

Found a bug or have an idea? Send feedback from the app or the website and talk it through privately.

Still curious? Ask on Discord or email us.

Yes. StykAnimate is completely free, with no subscription and no paywall. Development is supported by optional donations on Ko-fi.

A 64-bit Windows or Linux PC, or a modern browser. Windows Setup keeps itself up to date; on Linux, download the new AppImage when an update is released.

Open StykAnimate in your browser. A larger screen and a mouse or pen are recommended. Save projects as files to keep a copy outside browser storage.

Yes. StykAnimate opens .piv and .stk files from Pivot Animator and .stknds, .nodes and .nodemc files from Stick Nodes. Double-click them after installing.

As an MP4 video, an animated GIF or an image sequence, including high resolutions. Large exports stream straight to disk.

Installers come straight from StykAnimate’s official GitHub releases, and every version lists its SHA-256 checksum on the download page.

Watch Your First Animation. It walks through a complete animation, from the first pose to the finished clip.

Download StykAnimate and make your first animation today. It’s free.

Version 1.2.5 · Windows · Linux · Browser