Flipnote Studio offers the user three main tools with which to create drawings, a pen, an eraser, and a paintbrush. With these tools, the user may create frames for short animated sketches, called flipnotes. Additional features such as layering, shrinking, and enlarging are also available, as well as the option to import black and white images via the DSi Camera Album.One flipnote animation may consist of hundreds of frames, and to go along with the animation itself, the user may choose to record a soundtrack with the DSi microphone.Flipnote Studio is a free downloadable application for the Nintendo DSi's DSiWare digital distribution service. Developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo Flipnote Studio allows the user to create both word and picture-based notes with the stylus, add sound, and put them together to create frame-by-frame flipbook-style animations. Though referred to as Moving Notepad by Nintendo in prior English-language keynote addresses and conferences,the application was announced at E3 2009 officially as Flipnote Studio. It was released in Japan on December 24, 2008, in North America on August 12, 2009, and in Europe and Australasia on August 14, 2009. It was also included as a preloaded program on the Nintendo DSi XL.