Procreate Dreams versus ToonSquid - Which Animation App is better?

Which iPad animation app is better? Procreate Dreams or ToonSquid?
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Interface
The interface of Procreate Dreams is setup somewhat similar to Procreate. You have the Gallery which is called the Theatre where all your movies are stored. Here you can make a new movie file and start animating. ToonSquid has the same setup. A gallery with all your movies and the place you can create a new movie. In Procreate Dreams you have some default options for creating a movie and even adjust the duration and aspect ratio of your movie. In ToonSquid you have it all in one window. When you have created your movie you move to the timeline.
TimelineIn Procreate Dreams you have the timeline and the stage. ToonSquid has a similar setup, but it looks a lot more like Procreate or any other animation software like Adobe Animate. In Procreate Dreams you can select a brush and start animating frame by frame. When you pull down the timeline you are in Flipbook mode where you have more screen estate to concentrate on animating. You can use onionskin and adjust the colours, opacity and frames you want to se before and after. ToonSquid has the same features, expect the Flipbookmode. You always have the timeline, which you can collapse to have more screen estate. But then you can not create a new keyframe. In Procreate Dreams you can extend your drawing by dragging your frame while holding another finger on the screen. In ToonSquid you can easily move frames around and extend the drawings. Procreate Dreams has one timeline. If you want to create a new scene you have to group it. In ToonSquid you can create different scenes in the same movie and keep them separate.
Drawing
The drawing experience in both apps is similar. You have a variety of brushes you can work with. They both have default brushes and you can import Procreate Brushes into Procreate Dreams and ABR or Photoshop brushes into ToonSquid. In Procreate Dreams you can only adjust the size and opacity of the brush. In ToonSquid you can adjust all of the properties of a brush. You can even turn a pixel brush into a vector brush. ToonSquid has pixel brushes and vector brushes. Procreate dreams only has pixel brushes.
Selection tool and Transform
In Procreate Dreams there is no selection tool or transform you can do in drawing mode. You have to add a keyframe to the timeline and then you can transform the whole drawing using Move and Scale, Warp or Distort. In ToonSquid there is a selection tool you can use to select a part of your drawing and transform it in the same way.
Layers
In Procreate Dreams you can use layers on each keyframe. The only thing you can change to turn it off or on and adjust the opacity clear and and delete it. In ToonSquid you can add layers, group them, Lock them, Copy and Duplicate the layers. Lock transparency, Set it as a reference layers to separate your inks from the color layer, and merge all visible layers. You can also apply all of the blend modes.
KeyFrame animation
In Procreate Dreams you use separate tracks for the body parts and start animating them. The parts are not connected to each other. When you have finished your keyframe animation you need to make a group to move the whole animation around the screen. In ToonSquid you can setup the character with Transform Hierarchy, so that the parts of the body are linked to each other. It is a much better way to do keyframe animation of a character. In ToonSquid you can use different shapes to draw. You can even animate shapes using vector points to animate them. In Procreate Dreams you can not.
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