There's no social layer — no chat, no feed, no DMs. A young creator works on their own project and exports a file. That's the whole loop.

What data do you collect?

An email for the account, and the projects the creator saves. No ad tracking, because there are no ads.

Can they lose their work?

Projects sync to the account and can be exported. We still tell everyone to download their MP4 when an episode's done — old habits die hard.

Any modern phone, tablet, or computer with a browser. A stylus and a bigger screen make drawing nicer, but they're not required.

Inanimator for Parents

What Inanimator is

Inanimator is a creative studio that runs in a web browser. A young creator draws character parts, poses and animates them, and exports a finished video — all in one place.

It is not a social network. There is no feed to scroll, no chat, no comments, and no way for strangers to reach your child. A session is just one person and their project.

What they actually do in it

Open a project, draw parts or pick them from the built-in library (bodies, eyes, mouths, arms, legs), pose them on a stage, and move them frame by frame. Onion skinning shows the previous frame faintly underneath, and tweening fills in the in-between frames from the key poses they set. When a scene is done, it exports as an MP4 at 1080p. That file is theirs.

(It’s a marker-and-notebook-paper sort of world, digitally — a lot of drawing, and a lot of nudging things a few pixels at a time.)

The AI-free pledge, in plain terms

Inanimator is 100 percent AI-free by pledge — no AI-generated art, ever. The drawings are your child’s own hand. Tweening is 1990s-style mathematical interpolation, not AI.

We say this in writing, signed in marker on the homepage. The short version for parents: the art is their own work, and it stays theirs.

Privacy and accounts

One account, one email — for under-16s, that’s a parent’s email.
No ads. No data sold.
Finished episodes export as MP4 files any time, and projects sync to the account. Nothing is locked in.
Cloud sync means a project started on a tablet can carry on on a laptop.

What it costs

Free during the beta. Later there will be one simple paid plan, announced weeks ahead of any change. People who join the beta lock in the Founding Creator price for life, so early members never see a surprise hike.

If it sounds right for your young creator, Inanimator is in closed beta. Join the beta at /beta.