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24 alternatives to cattocss

CSS animations library

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. cattocss launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
CSS Wand▲330
Easy copy-paste beautiful CSS animations
2019 · csswand.dev · its alternatives →
2
AnimatiSS▲169
A nice, colorful collection of CSS animations
2022 · its alternatives →
3
CSS3 animation▲271
An experiment with basic CSS3 animations.
2012 · thegoodman.cc · its alternatives →
4
Motion DevTools▲190
A DevTools extension for creating web animations
2022 · motion.dev · its alternatives →
5
CSS Animation Cheat Sheet▲232
Awesome CSS3 plugin for spiffy animations
2014 · justinaguilar.com · its alternatives →
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X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS▲275
x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. No JavaScript required!
Feb 2026 · lyra.horse · its alternatives →
7
CSS Toolkit▲161
Crazy interactive CSS animation builder (Mac)
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
8
CSSeffectsSnippets.▲292
A collection of CSS effects with a click to copy.
2019 · emilkowalski.github.io · its alternatives →
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Tuesday, a new open-source CSS animation library▲18
2015 · shakrmedia.github.io · its alternatives →
10
Transforms in CSS▲117
Free eBook for learning to code animations
2016 · get.oreilly.com · its alternatives →
11
Animate.css▲191
Just-add-water CSS animations
2014 · daneden.github.io · its alternatives →
12
Choreographer-JS, a simple way to handle complicated animations▲39
A simple library to take care of complex CSS animations.
2016 · christinecha.github.io · its alternatives →
13PF
Performance-focused pure CSS loading animations▲49
2015 · connoratherton.com · its alternatives →
14
NeoBrutalismCSS▲97
A CSS library embracing the neo-brutalist design principles
2023 · matifandy8.github.io · its alternatives →
15
98.css▲256
A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs
2020 · jdan.github.io · its alternatives →
16
awsm.css▲173
Simple CSS library for semantic HTML markup
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
17
Tailwind Animations▲132
Beautiful copy + paste Tailwind CSS animations in seconds
2023 · tailwindanimations.co · its alternatives →
18
CSS Blocks by Linkedin▲102
Blazing fast CSS for your design systems and apps
2018 · css-blocks.com · its alternatives →
19
Transformicons▲155
Animated icons, symbols and buttons using SVG and CSS
2015 · transformicons.com · its alternatives →
20
Stitches▲135
The modern CSS-in-JS library with near-zero runtime.
2020 · stitches.dev · its alternatives →
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My 24-hour project, instacss.com▲90
http://instacss.com (in case DNS update hasn't propagated: http://morning-warrior-3377.herokuapp.com/) Last night I was annoyed at how slow (and web 1.0-ish) most CSS reference sites seem to be, so I created this. It's basically a scrape of the CSS reference on w3schools, but with client side searching. Feedback is most welcome! some of the tech involved: node, requirejs, backbone, mongodb the code: http://github.com/rgarcia/instacss
2011 · instacss.com · its alternatives →
22
VoxCSS – A DOM based voxel engine▲53
A CSS 3D engine for the DOM. Renders polygon meshes in HTML by leveraging matrix3d transforms. - GitHub - layoutit/polycss: A CSS 3D engine for the DOM. Renders polygon meshes in HTML by leveraging matrix3d transforms.
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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System.css▲116
A design system for building retro Apple UIs
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
24
CSS Animation 101▲20
A free ebook introducing CSS animation
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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