Stick nodes was an introduction to a different type of animation, where instead of drawing each frame new, you manipulate a continuous figure frame to frame.

There are many programs of varied complexity which allow you to animate using a continuous figure with pivot and stretch points. Stick nodes only allows you to manipulate stick figure. I tried two other stick animation apps, Stick fighter and stick animation. All three apps had terrible interfaces. They look like the original computer windows from two decades ago and they are not at all intuitive. Stick Nodes was so bad that I made an entire video and then lost it somewhere in their terrible file system.