After testing, we whittled down our list to the 10 best 2D animation software by looking for features that made animating more convenient, along with sound track and dialogue capabilities, and importing and exporting options.

GIF Animator is Mac user's best choice for creating amazing animations, avatars, banners and userpics. With this app you can easily convert Video to GIF, or create GIF animation from set of images with a few clicks. ▼ Key features: ● Compiling animation from imported frames ● Importing frames from: video files, PSD layers, animated images, static images ● Automatic frame scaling ● Editing GIF files: add/remove/order frames, configure GIF settings ● Animation testing ● Drag and Drop support ▼ GIF Animator supports variety of import file formats including: ● image formats: GIF, JPG, PNG, JNG, MNG, TIFF, BMP, TGA, PSD, PCX, MAC, PCT ● video formats: AVI, M2V, M4V, MP4, MOV, MPEG, WMV. Liquid Soap Dispenser, Best for those w/o Photoshop, etc.

This is okay for non-graphics people, but probably a waste of money if you have Photoshop. And I'm a bit surprised by the absense of some basic control settings. I bought this app on a whim (heck, only 99¢), after misunderstanding this app's capabilities.

If you have Photoshop 5 or later, you can pretty much do everything this app does, but with a lot more control. This app does not allow you to resize the movie (say you want to turn an animation into a small GIF avatar), and it gives zero control of GIF settings that can help make smaller files.

It's really a one trick pony. If you want to be super-technical about my criticism, I'll say this app can help turn an image sequence into an animation, though I just use an older version of QuickTime to do that, then import the movie into PSD. This gives me TONS more control over the image and sequence after that. Liquid Soap Dispenser, Best for those w/o Photoshop, etc.

This is okay for non-graphics people, but probably a waste of money if you have Photoshop. Avast free boot time scan. And I'm a bit surprised by the absense of some basic control settings. I bought this app on a whim (heck, only 99¢), after misunderstanding this app's capabilities.

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If you have Photoshop 5 or later, you can pretty much do everything this app does, but with a lot more control. This app does not allow you to resize the movie (say you want to turn an animation into a small GIF avatar), and it gives zero control of GIF settings that can help make smaller files. It's really a one trick pony. If you want to be super-technical about my criticism, I'll say this app can help turn an image sequence into an animation, though I just use an older version of QuickTime to do that, then import the movie into PSD. This gives me TONS more control over the image and sequence after that.

Brew Swayne, Not worth a buck. I was looking for an app with a simple interface so that I could take those few funny seconds from home videos and turn them into.gifs. Since I'm not a video editing expert, this looked like a good place to start. I read the reviews first and was a bit skeptical, but figured that perhaps the other users were looking for something more advanced than me, so I bought it anyway. The first thing I noticed is that any video I import is seriously lacking in quality.

When I play the video itself in QuickTime, it's a nice clear picture. But when I import into the app and make my gif, the video quality is just awful. I attempted to go to their website for technical support but Safari can't connect to their server.