Open source animation projects
Every project in the registry tagged animation, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
Animation engine for explanatory math videos
Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents.
JavaScript animation engine
A modern animation library for React and JavaScript
Procedural vector editor that runs in your browser, no signup needed
An iOS library to natively render After Effects vector animations
The motion graphics toolbelt for the web
A zero-config, drop-in animation utility that adds smooth transitions to your web app. You can use it with React, Vue, or any other JavaScript application.
☠️ An elegant way to show users that something is happening and also prepare them to which contents they are awaiting
🎉 performant confetti animation in the browser
React Native's Animated library reimplemented
Unleash your creativity with Pixelorama, a powerful and accessible open-source pixel art multitool. Whether you want to create sprites, tiles, animations, or ju
Claude Code skill for short films with no video model: 43 film styles, each a style prompt plus a demo film made entirely in code by Claude Opus 5.5 (incl. OPUS
⚡ Dynamically generated, customizable SVG that gives the appearance of typing and deleting text for use on your profile page, repositories, or website.
Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool -- Fork of the last GPLv2 commit of Aseprite
A renderer agnostic two-dimensional drawing api for the web
[EN]It is an iOS UI module library for adding animation to iOS tabbar items and icons with Lottie, Liquid Glass and adding a bigger center UITabBar Item. [CN]【
UI kit to make beautiful, animated interfaces, faster. Customizable. Open Source.
Pixel art animation and drawing web app powered by React
✨ PTerm is a modern Go module to easily beautify console output. Featuring charts, progressbars, tables, trees, text input, select menus and much more 🚀 It's c
Versatile and extensible page transition library for server-rendered websites 🎉
Delightful SwiftUI effects for your app
:balloon: Modernized and sophisticated tooltips, fully customizable with an arrow and animations for Compose and Kotlin Multiplatform.
⌨️ Keyboard manager which works in identical way on both iOS and Android
tailwindcss-motion is a Tailwind CSS Plugin made at RomboHQ. It’s a simple, yet powerful, animation library with a simple syntax.
AI-native SwiftUI component library with full-stack recipes — connect via MCP for instant access.
A lightweight scroll animation javascript library without any dependency
📈 Beautiful, high-performance Graphs and Charts for React Native built with Skia
📈📊📱💻🖥️An elegant modern declarative data visualization chart framework for iOS, iPadOS and macOS. Extremely powerful, supports line, spline, area, areaspli
The first truly composable CSS animation library. Built for Vue, React, SCSS, and CSS, AnimXYZ will bring your website to life.
Wave is a spring-based animation engine for iOS and macOS that makes it easy to create fluid, interruptible animations that feel great.
Lightning-fast and Zero Allocation Tween Library for Unity.
A modern open source rendering engine for animation and visual effects
This library provides advance views for lists and stacks. Some of the views are build on top of RecyclerView and others are written in their own. Annotations ar
Open Source API and interchange format for editorial timeline information.
Library for animated data visualizations and data stories.
An easy-to-use customisable show case view with circular reveal animation.
🎉 Welcome to follow the official account of "WPFDevelopers"! It covers the basic controls and custom control library (screenshot controls) of WPF. This projec
A production-ready C++ vector graphics engine supporting SVG and Lottie formats, featuring advanced rendering backends such as WebGPU for high-performance graph
WAS-NS v3 Reborn; Tools for image processing, filters, masking, text, logic, numbers, latents, files, 3D scenes, and animation.
Versatile ASCII and ANSI Art text editor for drawing in the Linux/Unix/macOS terminal, with animation, 256 and 16 colors, Unicode and CP437, and customizable th
Inochi2D SDK - Bring your characters to life
watching-you is a javascript library for building animations that watch anything on DOM 👀.
Three.quarks is a general purpose particle system / VFX engine for three.js
A render management system you can deploy for visual effects and animation productions.
Video editor that runs in the browser: timeline, text, image, video and audio layers, animations, filters, export with sound. Fabric.js + React + Next.js.
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Frequently asked questions
How many open source animation projects are there?
This registry tracks 46 projects tagged animation, with 544,231 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is manim at 95,978 stars.
Are these animation projects free to use?
Yes — 46 of the 46 carry an explicit open-source licence across 6 distinct licences, so there is no licence fee. Where a project also sells a hosted or enterprise version, the self-hosted path remains free.
Which animation project should I choose?
The list above is ranked by GitHub stars, but stars measure attention rather than fit. Check three things on each card: the licence (permissive versus copyleft), the language it is written in, and the last-push date — a high-star project that has not been pushed in a year is a liability.
Are these animation projects still maintained?
30 of the 46 were pushed in the last 90 days, and every card shows its exact last-push date so you can see the rest. Sort your shortlist by that date before committing to a migration.