Inbetween is a free 2D drawing and animation studio, built for artists. From sketch to final film, no limits.
Windows · Linux (Ubuntu) · macOS coming soon · alpha
Three dedicated workspaces, designed around the way you create. Draw, animate and cut the whole film, switching whenever you like without leaving your project.
Bring your drawings to life with a timeline and exposure sheet that work together. Onion skinning, audio, camera movements, reusable symbols and smooth keyframe animation are all built in.
From expressive sketches to print-ready artwork. Enjoy textured brushes, powerful blending and live effects, with professional colour management, soft proofing and precise print controls.
Lay out every shot of your project on one timeline, timed to voices, effects and music. Try transitions, camera moves and subtitles, pitch it full screen, then double-click a shot to animate it in the Animation Studio.
Everything you need, from the first rough sketch to the final frame.
Shape your shot on the timeline. Fine-tune every beat on the exposure sheet. Same frames, two ways to work.
turn the pages and watch the little runner in the corner
Also inside: Reusable symbols, keyframed motion, layer locks, a Library for your sounds, images and palettes, a Reference Window for images, video and 3D models, and Python scripting.
Photoshop brushes (.abr) are supported, and Clip Studio Paint (.sut) and Krita (.kpp, .bundle) brushes have partial support. Customise every stroke, or create something entirely your own.
Drop your brushes in. If one can’t paint quite as it did, the import tells you what stands in.
From the tip to the texture, shape every detail in Brush Studio. Adjust pressure, tilt, dynamics and wet paint, and try each change as you go.
A texture the paint takes, as paper’s grain
14 control groupsLive drawing padUp to 800% zoom
Create, customise and share brushes as .inbrush files.
Colour every figure across an entire layer’s animation in one step. Smart Fill closes small gaps in your sketches and paints neatly beneath the lines.
press OK: every drawing on the layer
Draw a path, set the timing, and watch your in-betweens fall into place.
Choose an easing curve or adjust each frame’s spacing by hand. See how the movement changes before placing your drawings.
Bring dialogue, music and effects into your timeline. Scrub the waveform, hear every beat, and animate in sync.
“it’s all in between” · every shape, timed by hand
Stack tracks, adjust volume and pan, and mute or solo with a click.
Trim, split, fade and crossfade clips right on the timeline.
Animate to the waveform, hear every edit, and keep picture and sound together.
WAV · MP3 · AIFF · Linked video audio · WAV mix export
Bring your scenes to life with camera movements, layered depth, and precise timing. All without leaving your canvas.
Open PSD and PSB files from Adobe Photoshop, work in Inbetween, and export them back. Differences are clearly flagged along the way.
Layers preserved where supportedAnimation timelines includedDifferences explained
Take your animation into compositing and editing. Export to Adobe After Effects with your camera and layer motion rebuilt, or send ready-made timelines, for one shot or your whole film, to DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro.
played as it comes, it shows what the app shows, frame for frame
Camera & motionLayered sequencesEditing timelines
Differences are explained before export.
No cloud. No ads. Just you, your tools and your work.
Inbetween never uploads your drawings or projects, never shows ads and never sells your data.
cam: hold on the 0, 24 frames
Draw, animate, cut and export your film with no limit on frames, layers or length. That never changes.
overlap: the tag lags behind the string
Your projects stay on your disk. Everything you create is yours to use, sell and publish, with no credit required.
sign it. it’s yours.
No generative AI tools. No prompts creating your artwork. Just your imagination and your craft.
pencil test: no prompts, just the pencil
By default, every project keeps its last 20 saves and autosaves every three minutes, so you can go back.
Everything you need to draw, animate and finish your film, free.
Download InbetweenThe Windows download comes with FFmpeg, a separate free program under the GNU LGPL, which Inbetween runs for video. On Linux, Inbetween uses your system’s FFmpeg. FFmpeg source code · Licence · Third-party notices
Come draw with us.
Join the Inbetween Discord to share your pencil tests, ask questions and tell us what to build next.