GoAnimate. Create real cartoons

Last updated on 12 May 2026

GoAnimate is an online editing studio that allows to create in a simple and playful way small videos in a cartoon way.

GoAnimate is really amazing and you'll find yourself having fun creating videos for your class. The uses are multiple. Your animated videos can be used as part of a reverse class, to dynamically introduce a lesson, to create a presentation that students will remember, to make small situations in language classes … You can also put it in the hands of your students and thus provide them with a fun and rewarding means of expression.

GoAnimate is simple to use, but don't rely on appearances. Behind a colorful and playful interface hides a very powerful creative tool. 

On GoAnimate everything is done by drag and drop and you have complete autonomy to customize characters, movements, backgrounds, …etc sound.

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You can start from a blank sheet or choose from hundreds of existing scenes that you can then edit as you see fit. GoAnimate offers hundreds of characters to slip into your stories. Each of them can be animated in thousands of ways. The possibilities of creation are almost endless. The sequence of your story consists of one or more scenes that will follow one another on a classic editing rule or timeline from your creative studio.

GoAnimate offers very rich and varied bookstores costumes, objects, sets that you will be able to combine as you wish to tell your story.

After the pictures you will be able to take care of the soundtrack. You can record your voice if you wish to give voice to your characters or to comment in depth on the whole video.

GoAnimate has set up a service dedicated to the world of education. avoids all the classic pitfalls of this kind of online platform.  On GoAnimate videos created by you or your students can remain private and before making them public your students will need to ask for permission.

Another detail which is not one of them. GoAnimate does not collect emails from your students and guarantees you a clean visual environment. That's great. To be used alone or with students.

GoAnimate for schools offers a free 14-day trial period to test the tool. Then it will be necessary to switch to a paid unlimited subscription. The platform has planned education tariffs, but the cost remains significant. Allow just over EUR 70 for an unlimited year for you, EUR 120 for a combined subscription for you and around 50 students.

Link: GoAnimate for Schools