We can’t complain for the lack of tools to create rich HTML5 animated content. Even Adobe finally decided that flash is better for other things (like creating cartoons) than web site animations and transitions. Their “Edge” is actually a sign that they gave in to Steve Jobs’ and realized there IS a market for non-flash web animation after all. So it was the iPhone that changed the way we look at the web and influenced the new standards. Good.
We covered Hype a while ago, and now it seems that there’s another tool to create rich HTML5 content and now Mac App Store is promoting “Purple” – another pro tool for HTML5 animation. It seems that the interface is a little bit more refined visually than in Hype. Think – Pixelmator – with all those dark windows and panels it looks quite nice. As far as the performance goes though, I checked out the Purple gallery on my 2011 Macbook Air (core i5) and it performed pretty slow. Hype is much better in that regard, but Purple was just introduced so I hope they’ll work on performance in future releases. Aside from that it seems that as far as functionality goes both Apps are pretty similar, so it doesn’t really matter which one you buy, but Purple is now half the price (introductory) of Hype, so if you buy it now it will be a bargain at 15 Eur.
You can download Hype for 30 Eur here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hype/id436931759?mt=12
And Purple is available here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/purple/id433132196?mt=12