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24 alternatives to Motion One – New animation library, built on the Web Animations API

Motion (prev Framer Motion) is a fast, production-grade animation library for React, JavaScript and Vue. Build smooth UI animations at a tiny footprint.

Motion One is an animation library for developers that builds on the Web Animations API. It enables developers to create animations for web projects with a modern, standards-based approach. The library simplifies… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Motion One – New animation library, built on the Web Animations API launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Framer Motion▲420

   A truly simple production-ready React animation library

   2019 · motion.dev · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Framer Motion 2▲248

   Framer’s React animation library just got an upgrade

   2020 · motion.dev · its alternatives →

3. 3
   I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library▲156

   Looking at websites such as Clerk, I began thinking that design engineers might be some kind of wizards. I wanted to understand how they do it, so I started reverse-engineering their components out of curiosity. One thing led to another, and I ended up building a small library of reusable, animated components based on what I found. The library is built in React and Framer Motion. I’d love to hear your feedback

   2025 · reverseui.com · its alternatives →

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   Anime.js – Polyvalent JavaScript Animation Engine▲283

   A fast, multipurpose and lightweight JavaScript animation library

   2016 · anime-js.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   The Mighty Framer Motion Guide▲92

   The ins and outs of Framer Motion with 200+ example projects

   2023 · its alternatives →

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   One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first▲506

   Hey HN, I'm Nate, the creator of Tamagui. One is a React framework that does two things differently in hopes of simplifying how we build websites and apps: 1. It unifies React Native and React web with typed file system routing by making Vite able to serve RN. This lets you share (or diverge) your code in a simpler way for cross-platform apps. 2. We've partnered with Zero (https://zerosync.dev) to make local-first work well. We've been building a solution in One that makes Zero supporting server rendering, without waterfalls, and with seamless server/client handoff. ---…

   2024 · onestack.dev · its alternatives →

7. 7VJ
   Velocity.js – Accelerated JavaScript animation▲160

   Velocity.js: An incredibly fast animation engine for motion designers.

   2014 · velocityjs.org · its alternatives →

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   Framer Playground▲357

   A new creative coding environment in Framer X

   2019 · framer.com · its alternatives →

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   Remotion▲428

   Create videos programmatically in React

   2021 · remotion.dev · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Motion DevTools▲190

    A DevTools extension for creating web animations

    2022 · motion.dev · its alternatives →

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    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 →

12. 12
    Blockies Animate▲151

    Smooth, plug-and-play UI animations for any modern web app

    2025 · animate.blockiesui.com · its alternatives →

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    React-magic-motion, a package to automatically animate your components▲60

    react-magic-motion is a npm package for react.js that gives you a component named . All children of this MagicMotion tag will have all their layout changes animated. This automatic animation built on top of framer-motion, so that means that you will get all of its features as well (spring animation, shared layout animations, etc...). https://www.react-magic-motion.com/ https://github.com/etesam913/react-magic-motion

    2023 · react-magic-motion.com · its alternatives →

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    Anime.js 3.0▲354

    Lightweight JavaScript animation library

    2019 · animejs.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser▲295

    Create, host, and share marketing videos with Wave.video, a powerful video marketing platform. Make animations and explainer videos with Animatron Studio.

    2014 · animatron.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Framer Guide to React▲265

    A guide to using React for designers

    2019 · react.dev · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Design and Code in Framer X▲312

    Learn to prototype and build components using React

    2018 · designcode.io · its alternatives →

18. 18WJ
    Wiv.js – A library for a more wiggly div▲265

    2018 · jjkaufman.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Loader generator▲169

    Create animated loaders and generate production React code

    2020 · its alternatives →

20. 20BJ
    Bounce.js – A tool for generating CSS3 animations▲172

    2014 · bouncejs.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Motion-Primitives▲9

    UI Kit to make beautiful interfaces, faster.

    2024 · motion-primitives.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Animate Components▲205

    Elemental components for doing animations in React.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

23. 23CA
    Construct Animate – our new browser-based animation tool▲165

    2023 · construct.net · its alternatives →

24. 24ID
    Impulse – Dynamic JS Animations for the Mobile Web▲93

    2014 · impulse.luster.io · its alternatives →

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