[opensourcedex]

head to head · open source

lottie-ios vs vant

lottie-ios has 26,881 GitHub stars, 3,840 forks, 44 open issues and last shipped yesterday. vant has 24,383 stars, 9,381 forks, 222 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. lottie-ios leads on adoption by 10% (26,881 vs 24,383 stars). lottie-ios is written in Swift under Apache-2.0; vant is written in TypeScript under MIT. lottie-ios has attracted 14% as many forks as stars, vant 38%. lottie-ios was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.

Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.

lottie-ios ★ 27K vant ★ 24K category Miscellaneous

← all 20902 open source comparisons

Side by side

lottie-ios vant
GitHub stars ★ 27K ★ 24K
License Apache-2.0 MIT
Written in Swift TypeScript
Last push 2026-09-19 2026-09-18
Forks ⑂ 3.8K ⑂ 9.4K
Self-hosting Yes Yes
Data ownership Your server Your server

pick lottie-ios if

  • You weight community size — 27K stars and counting
  • You want the Apache-2.0 license terms
  • Your stack matches Swift
  • You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance

full lottie-ios profile →

pick vant if

  • You want the vant feature set and don't need the biggest community
  • You prefer the MIT license terms
  • Your stack matches TypeScript
  • You evaluated both and vant fits your workflow better

full vant profile →

About lottie-ios

Lottie for iOS is an Apache 2.0 Swift library that natively renders After Effects and bodymovin JSON vector animations in realtime on iOS, macOS, tvOS, and visionOS, and it is aimed at Apple platform developers who want to ship designer authored motion without rebuilding it by hand in code.

read the full lottie-ios overview →

About vant

Vant is a lightweight, customizable Vue UI library for mobile web apps, built for front end developers and teams that ship mobile first interfaces with Vue 2 or Vue 3.

read the full vant overview →

More in Miscellaneous

firecrawl ★ 182K Godot ★ 117K three.js ★ 116K ant-design ★ 100K open-design ★ 97K manim ★ 94K

Related comparisons

ant-design vs open-design ant-design vs manim open-design vs manim firecrawl vs openpencil firecrawl vs draw-io firecrawl vs plasmic firecrawl vs quant-ux firecrawl vs grida firecrawl vs godot godot vs three-js firecrawl vs gdevelop firecrawl vs monogame godot vs imgui three-js vs imgui firecrawl vs sbox godot vs bevy firecrawl vs playwright firecrawl vs crawl4ai firecrawl vs novu firecrawl vs searxng firecrawl vs postiz firecrawl vs cap firecrawl vs openseo firecrawl vs keploy

More Design & Prototyping projects

Compare either of these against the rest of the Design & Prototyping field.

lottie-ios vs ant-design lottie-ios vs open-design lottie-ios vs manim lottie-ios vs anime lottie-ios vs hyperframes lottie-ios vs daisyui lottie-ios vs tabler lottie-ios vs motion lottie-ios vs layui lottie-ios vs Figma-Context-MCP lottie-ios vs Tkinter-Designer lottie-ios vs pencil

Frequently asked questions

Is lottie-ios or vant more popular?

lottie-ios has 26,881 GitHub stars and vant has 24,383. lottie-ios has the larger community by that measure.

Are lottie-ios and vant free?

Both are open source. lottie-ios is licensed under Apache-2.0 and vant under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.

What is the difference between lottie-ios and vant?

lottie-ios is written in Swift and vant in TypeScript. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.

Which should I choose, lottie-ios or vant?

Choose lottie-ios if you want the larger community (26,881 stars) or its Apache-2.0 licence terms. Choose vant if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.