OpenToonz
OpenToonz is a macOS 2D animation program for drawing, painting, compositing, and producing frame-by-frame animated scenes and short films.
What is OpenToonz?
OpenToonz is a 2D animation application for creating hand-drawn and digital animated work on macOS. It helps animators, students, hobbyists, and small studios build scenes from scanned drawings or digital artwork, then paint, sequence, composite, and render them into finished shots. The app supports both raster and vector workflows, which makes it useful for traditional frame-by-frame animation as well as mixed production pipelines. OpenToonz includes an xsheet and timeline, a node-based effects workflow for compositing, and tools for digital ink and paint. Because it is open-source and free to use for commercial and non-commercial projects, it is commonly used for learning animation, experimenting with production techniques, and completing independent projects.
Key features
- Create frame-by-frame 2D animation with xsheet and timeline workflows
- Paint scanned or digitally drawn artwork with digital ink and paint tools
- Work with both raster and vector images in the same production pipeline
- Composite scenes and effects with a node-based visual workflow
- Render finished animation shots from layered scenes and sequences
- Extend the app with additional effects and plug-in workflows
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
OpenToonz is legitimate animation software and its normal file access is consistent with creating and saving art projects, image sequences, and rendered output. It may read and write large project folders and media assets, which is expected for animation work. Keep your project files backed up before major edits, renders, or cleanup so you do not lose scene data or exported media.
Recommendation: Keep OpenToonz if you use it for animation, learning, or project work. If you no longer need it, you can remove the app, but make sure any scenes, palettes, drawings, and exported files you want to keep are saved elsewhere first.
Common paths
/Applications/OpenToonz.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/OpenToonz~/Library/Caches/io.github.opentoonz.OpenToonz
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/OpenToonz
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/io.github.opentoonz.OpenToonz.plist
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