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Designer Tools

Motion & Animation

Tools for adding life to your designs — from micro-interactions and Lottie exports to full motion graphics and animated UI components.

9 tools curated

The Tools

01Rive

Rive

Freemium

Real-time interactive animation for apps and games. State machines let you build animations that respond to user input — exported as tiny, fast runtime files.

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02LottieFiles

LottieFiles

Freemium

Create, edit, and ship Lottie animations. The editor, marketplace, and workflow plugins make it the fastest path from After Effects to production.

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03Jitter

Jitter

Freemium

Browser-based motion design tool built for UI designers. No After Effects knowledge needed — create smooth UI animations and export to MP4, GIF, or Lottie.

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04After Effects

The industry standard for motion graphics. Steep learning curve, but unmatched capability for complex animations, compositing, and Lottie exports via Bodymovin.

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05Spline

Spline

Freemium

3D design and animation in the browser. Build interactive 3D scenes, export to web, and even embed directly in Figma or websites.

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06Principle

Mac-native tool for designing animated and interactive user interfaces. Timeline-based with a shallow learning curve — great for micro-interaction prototyping.

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07Cavalry

Procedural, data-driven 2D animation with a node-based workflow that handles generative and reactive animation in ways After Effects can't match. Now fully free for individuals after Canva's acquisition.

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08Runway

Runway

Freemium

The leading AI video generation platform for motion designers. Gen-3 Alpha produces coherent, cinematic video from text or image prompts with enough quality for real commercial use in social and title sequences.

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09Lottielab

Lottielab

Freemium

The actual authoring tool for Lottie animations — where LottieFiles is a marketplace, Lottielab is where you create and edit from scratch or AE imports. Far more useful for product animation workflows.

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