# Boop

> Boop is a 2D animation app for Windows 10 and 11. It does frame-by-frame and tweened animation on a timeline that works like Flash and Adobe Animate's, with vector and raster layers, textured brushes on scanned paper, and a playback window that keeps looping while you draw. Free for 14 days, then US$6.99 a month. Made by an independent developer.

Boop is sold at https://boopanimator.com. It runs offline with no account to sign in to; drawings are ordinary files on the user's own computer.

## What it does

- Vector layers: lines and fills that stay editable. Erase whole lines or up to where lines cross, join messy junctions into one line, push lines about with liquify, and "boil" lines for a hand-redrawn shimmer.
- Raster layers: painted pixels for backgrounds and painted work, with soft brushes, smudge, and a fill bucket that closes small gaps and fills under the lines. Raster resolution is chosen per drawing (100% to 300% of the stage; 200% by default).
- Twelve brushes, one engine: pencil, ink, marker, airbrush, chalk, charcoal, watercolour, bristle, gouache, dry brush, crayon and splatter, on scanned papers, with pen pressure and tilt. They work the same on vector and raster layers.
- Timeline: keyframes and holds as in Flash and Animate, onion skin, loop ranges, folders, and blocks of frames that can be dragged, copied and pasted.
- Symbols with their own timelines, motion tweens with easing, and a camera to frame the shot. Scenes with transitions between them.
- Bones and rigs (cut-out animation): draw a skeleton, attach drawings to its bones, pose it by dragging, and let bendy bones curve a limb smoothly. Rigs can be imported from another Boop file.
- A playback window that loops (on a second screen if there is one) and shows every change as it is made.
- Lip sync: mouth shapes worked out from a recorded voice track.
- Boops: animate together with other people, each in their own copy of Boop, over the internet. Sessions are joined with a code and are end-to-end encrypted.
- Rulers, guides and perspective grids; a trace that lays another drawing over the page to draw over.
- Export: MP4 video with its soundtrack, looping GIF, a single PNG, or a PNG for every frame.
- Hotkeys can be reassigned; light, dark or match-Windows theme; adjustable accent colour and panel sizes.

## Requirements

- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. No Mac or Linux version yet.
- A pen tablet is recommended, but a mouse works just fine. For pen pressure, turn on Windows Ink in the tablet driver.
- Internet is only needed now and then to check the licence (never the drawings); Boop keeps working for up to 30 days offline between checks.

## Price and licence

- 14-day free trial of everything, no card needed.
- After that, two ways to pay, each with every tool, brush, export and update:
  - Monthly: US$6.99 a month, tax included.
  - Lifetime: one payment of US$149.99 with tax included, at a launch price of US$99.99 until 5 February 2027. It lasts for the lifetime of the product - as long as Boop is sold and supported.
- One licence key runs on up to 3 computers at a time.
- Cancel any time; Boop keeps working to the end of the month paid for.
- Full refund within 14 days of any payment (monthly or Lifetime), once a year, self-service and instant.
- When the trial or subscription ends Boop becomes view only: drawings still open, play and export.

## Links

- [Boop home page](https://boopanimator.com/): features, pricing and questions
- [Download the free trial](https://download.boopanimator.com/Boop-setup.exe): Windows installer
- [Subscribe](https://buy.stripe.com/9B68wRbhB5DJ2Uy99j0ZW05): US$6.99 a month
- [Buy Lifetime](https://buy.stripe.com/6oUdRbbhB4zF7aO0CN0ZW04): US$99.99 once, tax included (launch price, then US$149.99)
- [Refunds](https://boopanimator.com/refunds) and [get a refund](https://boopanimator.com/refund)
- [Terms](https://boopanimator.com/terms) and [privacy](https://boopanimator.com/privacy)
- Help: help@boopanimator.com