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Looking for a Toontastic alternative?

Google’s Toontastic 3D is no longer available — but kids still want to draw, animate, and narrate their own stories. That’s exactly what this is.

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Free for iPhone & iPad · no accounts, no ads

Toontastic is gone. The idea behind it shouldn’t be.

Since Toontastic 3D was removed from the App Store in 2022, if you and your kids love inventing a story, drawing characters, animating scenes, and narrating over them in their own voice, Unicorn Book Stories carries that torch — as a storybook studio that's actively updated.

How it works

  1. Invent the storyKids write or dictate their tale page by page — beginning, middle, and end, just like a story arc.
  2. Draw and animate the scenesThey design their own characters and choreograph how everything enters and moves on each page.
  3. Narrate over the actionThe built-in Audio Studio records their voice page by page — the part Toontastic families miss most.
  4. Share the showThe finished story exports as a real video with animation, voice, and their own composed music.
📲 Free on theApp Store
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Story-first, like Toontastic

Kids don't animate random clips — they build a whole story with pages, structure, and an ending.

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Draw-your-own everything

Characters and scenes are hand-drawn by the kid — no stock puppet feeling.

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Voice narration

Kids narrate over their animated pages in their own voice — Toontastic's magic ingredient, alive and well.

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Music, composed by them

Where Toontastic had canned scores, kids here compose their own soundtrack.

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On the App Store today

Actively developed for iPhone and iPad — free to download, and it keeps getting new creative tools.

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Kid-safe by design

No accounts, no ads, no trackers — books and recordings stay on your device.

Questions parents ask

What happened to Toontastic 3D?

Google removed Toontastic 3D from the App Store in 2022 and later discontinued it entirely; its website is no longer online. Many app lists still recommend it, which is why so many families end up searching for an alternative.

Is Unicorn Book Stories a good Toontastic replacement?

If your kids loved inventing stories, drawing characters, animating scenes, and narrating in their own voice — yes, that's exactly this app's shape, built around making real books that play like cartoons.

What about Puppet Pals?

Puppet Pals fans tend to feel at home too: it's the same 'direct your own show' joy, with hand-drawn characters, page-build animation, narration, and music — in an app that's actively maintained.

Is it free? What devices?

Free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad.

More ways to create

Animated storybook maker · Book Creator alternative · Puppet Pals alternative

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