Flipbook
Simple frame-by-frame drawing app for making hand-drawn animations on the GNOME desktop
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About Flipbook
Flipbook is a young, open-source animation app for Linux that keeps frame-by-frame drawing simple. You draw on one frame, add the next, and play the sequence back, much like a paper flipbook. It offers several brush styles, colour palettes that you can save and reuse across projects, and the option to import a batch of images as frames, which helps when tracing reference footage or reusing existing drawings. It is built with GTK and Vala for the GNOME desktop and distributed through Flathub. The project is developed by a single maintainer on Codeberg, is free with no paid version, and the developer does not accept AI-generated contributions. Features such as multi-frame editing, custom brushes and OCA export are still on the roadmap, and the file format has changed between early versions, so it suits sketching and short hobby animations more than production work, where Pencil2D, OpenToonz or Krita offer more depth.
Best for: Linux and GNOME users who want a quick, uncluttered tool for short hand-drawn animations.
Pros and cons
What works
- Uncluttered interface focused on drawing frames
- Saved colour palettes reusable across projects
- Imports multiple images at once as frames
- Free and open source
Why people leave
- Early project; the file format changed between versions 0.3 and 0.4
- No multi-frame editing or custom brushes yet
- Linux only
Top Flipbook alternatives
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Pencil2D54.5Free cross-platform 2D animation app with layers, onion skinning and sound, still easy to learn.
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Krita52.6Free painting app with a built-in animation timeline and a far bigger set of brushes.
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OpenToonz52.2Free studio-grade animation suite for longer projects that need timelines, effects and scanning.
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Synfig Studio48.9Free vector animation tool with tweening and bones, so you draw fewer frames by hand.
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Flipbook: common questions
Is Flipbook free?
Yes. Flipbook is free, open-source software.
Is Flipbook open source?
Yes.
What platforms does Flipbook run on?
Flipbook is available for Linux.
What are the best alternatives to Flipbook?
The highest-ranked Flipbook alternatives right now are Pencil2D, Krita and OpenToonz. See the full ranked list for pricing, platforms and verified facts.