Make your own talking cartoons, right in your browser

Updated 11 October 2026

Animperia is a cartoon maker for people who want to make their own animated cartoons: characters you draw, scenes you build, and lines you record yourself, with mouths that move to the words. It runs in a desktop browser on Windows, Mac or Linux, and it's free during the beta.

To be clear about what it isn't: Animperia doesn't turn photos into cartoons, and it doesn't animate a selfie or a stock avatar. You make the cartoon, from the first drawing to the finished video.

The Animperia editor with Pebble, a simple gray character drawn by hand, talking on a meadow background, and a timeline below with its voice line Pebble line · Pebble — Pebble, drawn in a few minutes from three ellipses and a smile, saying its first line

What you can make

Talking skits and object shows: a cast of characters, each with a voice of its own, in short scenes.
Shorts, Reels and TikToks: pick the portrait canvas (9:16), and every scene is shaped for a phone screen.
Cartoon clips for school projects, videos and streams: export an MP4 with sound, a GIF, or a see-through video to put over other footage.

Make a character talk in six steps

1. Start a project

Give it a name and pick a canvas: landscape (16:9), portrait (9:16) or square (1:1), and a frame rate of 12, 24, 25 or 30 frames a second. You can change the canvas later.

Start a new project: the name Pebble Talks, the canvas Landscape 16:9 and a frame rate of 24 fps — A new project: a name, a canvas and a frame rate

2. Draw your character

In the library, click +, pick Object, and choose Blank canvas to draw it yourself: a pen, a pencil, a pressure-sensitive brush, shapes, a fill bucket and an eraser are all there. Or choose SVG file to bring in a drawing from Illustrator, Inkscape or Figma.

New object with the name Pebble and two ways to start: Blank canvas, to draw it yourself, or SVG file — Draw a character on a blank canvas, or import one as SVG

3. Give it a mouth

Select the shapes of the mouth, press ⌘G (Ctrl+G on Windows) or click Make as body part above the canvas, and choose Mouth. Your drawing becomes a character, and the mouth becomes the part that talks. Make arms, legs or a head into parts the same way, and you can pose them by their joints later.

Make as body part, with the Mouth button picked for the pebble’s smile — The smile becomes the Mouth: from now on the character can talk

4. Record your voice

Record your lines with any app, even your phone's voice recorder, and upload them to the library with + and Sound. MP3, WAV, M4A and other common formats work. If the recording hisses, Remove noise cleans it with one click. To play several characters yourself, give each one a voice of its own: twelve ready-made voices, from Squeaky to Giant, tuned with sliders.

5. Drop the line on the character

Drag the sound onto your character on the stage. The line goes on the timeline, and the character's mouth moves with the words. For a language other than English, right-click the character, pick Give a voice… and choose Other language. The mouth shapes start out plain, made from the mouth you drew, and you can redraw each one by hand. Learn more about lip sync, or read how to lip-sync a character with a free mouth chart.

6. Animate the rest and export

Move characters with keyframes and motion tweens, pose them frame by frame in their own animations (a walk, a wave, a blink), add a background, music and a camera that pans and zooms. When the scene is ready, Export makes an MP4 at 720p or 1080p with all the sound mixed in, and it downloads by itself.

The Export dialog: Video (MP4), the scenes to include and a choice of 720p or 1080p — Export renders the scenes as a video, a GIF or images

Animperia compared with photo-to-cartoon apps

Search for a cartoon maker and you'll find two kinds of tools: apps that turn a photo into a cartoon picture or make a ready-made avatar talk, and studios where you make the cartoon yourself. Animperia is the second kind.

	Animperia	Photo-to-cartoon and avatar apps
Where the character comes from	You draw it, or import your own SVG	A photo, or an avatar made for you
Who makes the motion	You: keyframes, poses, walk cycles, a camera	The app
What you keep	Characters and scenes you can edit and reuse	The finished clip

If you want a quick avatar, those apps are the faster choice. If you want a cartoon of your own, with characters that can come back in the next episode, that's what Animperia is for.

What you need

A computer with a desktop browser on Windows, Mac or Linux. We test Animperia in Google Chrome. It isn't made for phones.
An internet connection: your work is saved online as you go.
Something to record with: a headset, a USB microphone or your phone.
An account: sign up with your email. Accounts are for people 13 and over.

Questions

Is it free?

Yes. Animperia is free during the beta. Sign up with your email, and while the beta has room, you get a link to set your password and start.

Can I make a cartoon character talk with my own voice?

Yes. Record your lines, upload them, and drop each one on the character that says it. The mouth follows your words, and a voice effect can change how you sound.

Does it turn photos into cartoons?

No. You can use a photo or a painting as a background, but Animperia doesn't convert photos into cartoon characters. You draw your characters, or import them as SVG files.

Do I need to be good at drawing?

No. Simple shapes go a long way: the pebble above is three ellipses and a curve. You can also import artwork from another app as SVG. An optional AI helper can draw a character for you from a description, but everything can be done by hand.

Can I make cartoons on my phone?

Not yet. Animperia is made for a computer's browser.

Can I post my cartoon on YouTube or TikTok?

Yes. Export an MP4, then upload it like any other video. For Shorts, Reels and TikTok, start the project on the portrait canvas.

Ready to make your first talking cartoon? Sign up for the beta: it's free while Animperia is in beta.