Flipnote Studio

Flipnote Studio is a free downloadable 2D digital animation application available through the Nintendo DSi's DSiWare digital distribution service. It allows users to create both word-based and picture-based notes with the stylus, add sound, and combine them to create frame-by-frame flipbook-style animations. An online service, titled Flipnote Hatena, allowed users to download flipnotes created by other users and to post stills from flipnotes to the sharing site Miiverse. The service officially retired on May 31, 2013, but users were still able to transfer Flipnotes from their Flipnotes account to the Flipnote Gallery World service provided with Flipnote Studio 3D, until it was shut down on April 2, 2018. The application is set to right-hand mode by default. When drawing, the left and right buttons on the D-pad cycle through the frames of the animation being drawn. Animation speed ranges from 0.5 - 30 FPS, and is able to be changed freely by the user. Additional features such as layering, shrinking, enlarging, moving, copying, cutting, pasting, etc. are also available.