Spine Editor for IOS (iPad + Apple Pencil)

giuseppe

I have been doing quite a bit of painting and animation in Procreate, and animation in Procreate Dreams and I think Spine's editor would be a great addition to a mobile pipeline.

Procreate outputs PSDs so that is one program that would work well. I'd certainly take the movie output of Spine into Procreate Dreams too.

I think the iPad creative niche is quite popular enough to warrant an iOS build, would love to see it happen.

Giuseppe

Spinebot

Spine is primarily designed as a desktop productivity tool and currently, there are no plans to support iOS, including iPadOS. The development effort required to adapt Spine for iOS is significant due to the technical complexities and the need to redesign the user interface for touch input on smaller screens. Additionally, the market for such a version is considered too small to justify the investment.

giuseppe

Spinebot reply is tired imo. I have a 13 inch screen, i use apple pencil - it's no different to any display tablet and how I work on desktop.

Fact is I don't think the interface needs any redesigning at all. The market is actually quite strong at this point.

Misaki

giuseppe Thank you for sharing your thoughts! As you can see from the Related Discussions section, we have received similar requests in the past, such as using Spine on an iPad. Among them, Mario provided a more detailed response:
https://esotericsoftware.com/forum/d/27979-transpile-editor-to-ipados/3

As he explains, developing a mobile version of Spine would require substantial effort, and in addition, iOS specifications are likely to impose functional limitations. (While Spinebot specifically mentioned the need to redesign the user interface, the functional limitations extend beyond UI concerns.)

For this reason, our current priority is to further enhance the functionality of the desktop editor rather than creating a separate mobile edition.