Werble: Photo & Video Animator

What a delightful find, this is! Making video clips or GIFs that loop seamlessly is difficult, at best, and Werble makes it easy; import a photo from your camera roll and add pre-built looping elements atop it — things like random graphic design pieces or flames or falling leaves; there are tons of things available (most as IAPs, but no subscription—buy the element once and you can use it as much as you want for as long as you want). The elements that are included are a great way to get a feel for the app and if you think it’d be worth it to buy other element packs. For me, it was a no-brainer; many of the element packs are tremendously useful for my work. (I do media production professionally, and have already found ways to incorporate some of the stuff I build in Werble into my work.) This is an easy to use app that makes it fun to build spectacular animations on your favorite iOS device. (My only complaint about it is that as of now, they only offer square canvases, but I wrote to the developer and they tell me that different aspect ratios are on the way!)

So impressed, so useful for designers/artists. I consider it an amazing design tool. We needed this. Artists and designers have searched for exactly this for years. You guys are the only ones who have actually pulled it off. The future is so bright for this software. This will bring forth a new evolution for content creators/designers/artists, marketing, etc. so not only is it an awesome design tool, it’s so much fun!! I hope to see you guys expand the software- I believe this will be a goto tool for designers. Great work! I hope to see deeper design options for advanced users, custom text animations, and the ability to export various high resolution video sizes like 16:9 etc. I see this being a great great tool for web designers too. So if we can mask things off and export in a transparent way for the way for the web that would be even cooler. For example animating a logo without a white background having the ability to do it with a transparent background video export would be amazing. Anyway- I love what you guys have done it’s exciting and so radical.

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This is the greatest app to use for animating your art. I use Werble extensively to create artwork for podcasts on social media. But after emailing the developers more than once for over a year, we are still unable to SAVE our projects within the app! This is absolutely ridiculous. If you are designing an animated piece and you go to a different app to find an additional picture to include in your art, Werble can suddenly “refresh” and you lose all your progress with absolutely no way to get it back. What kind of “professional” app is this?!? Checking the app size on my iPhone shows the app uses over 5GB in storage. The cache is all there from every project I’ve made in two years. LET US SAVE OUR PROJECTS. Stop making new features when the most important one is still missing. I was promised a year ago by the developers that this feature would be “available soon”. Is this a joke? I cannot recommend this app to other artists due to this very simple feature being missing. Also missing is another simple feature: an “undo” option in case you mistakenly move a layer. Scroll through critical reviews on here and witness the developers promising everyone that these features are “coming soon”. Over a year is not considered “coming soon”.

I usually only write a review so the app will stop bugging me, but not this time. Werble is not only good, but made me excited to write a review—no nagging required! The UI feels intuitive and is aesthetically pleasing. The ability to add multiple layers and edit each individually makes a huge difference in the final result. Beyond adjusting the lighting, colors, rotation, etc., you can even add animated effects to your animated effects with the pulse feature! Unlike some other apps, you don't have to pay to export your Werble creation in high resolution video or GIF format (what's the point of making it if you can't share it?), and there are plenty of free, high quality animation packs—no sad, tiny sample packs here. The premium packs are reasonably priced if you want them, but you don't need them to make stunning videos and gifs. The cost to permanently remove watermarks is a little higher than other apps of this type I've used, but if my $4 helps the creators continue to develop and grow this app, I'm happy to pay it! Keep up the great work, Werble team!

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I do want to say that this could eventually be something great! It makes creating a GIF feel very simple. As far as I can tell (feel free to correct me cause I’d rather be wrong) but when you import a picture it crops in. There is no way to pinch zoom back out to get the entire picture. You can hold and move to a different part of the image but that’s still not getting the entire image. Another huge obstacle I found was for photographers who have beautiful pictures on their social media the only way to get those pictures to work with the app is to screenshot it. Unfortunately....now it will crop in and also when exporting a final creation, it creates a very very low resolution gif and the final image is unusable. Like it’s really bad...If I could show you the photo you would agree. No desktop version which I thought maybe I could use to import jpeg images to mess around with but it looks like you are just stuck with your phone library at the moment. To wrap it up, for fun...sure, maybe but if you are looking to stand out with a quality photo...it’s just not there yet.