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24 alternatives to Inertia – Not your Grandfathers animation editor

I'm working on a cross-platform mobile keyframe editor that animates views within your app. It's not a typical Flash style animator. Instead it works on native views that have traditional rendering and accessibility, etc. Runs on iOS (SwiftUI), Android (with jetpack compose) and Web (React)

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