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24 alternatives to React Simple Animate

UI animation made simple

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. React Simple Animate launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Animate Components▲205

   Elemental components for doing animations in React.

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Blockies Animate▲151

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

   2025 · animate.blockiesui.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes▲1,181

   Hi HN! I was super frustrated at apps like tiktok and wechat preventing me from saving or downloading the animated gifs, so I made a little tool to turn a screen recording into a slack-sized emoji. Hope you get some value from this!

   Jun 2026 · vorpus.github.io · its alternatives →

4. 4AV
   A Visual IDE for React▲479

   I made this because building UIs in a lexical medium like code is super annoying. I have to pre-render what I’m making in my head, and then jump between the browser and IDE to test. I was inspired by the developer console in chrome and safari since I end up editing css there because it’s ironically more convenient. Hope it’s useful!

   2022 · dev.aspect.app · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Animate UI▲19

   Make animated websites easily and quickly

   2025 · animate-ui.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   OpenUI▲543

   Describe UI and see it rendered live

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   React for Designers▲301

   Course for building a React site using components

   2018 · designcode.io · its alternatives →

8. 8
   react.dev▲543

   The new home for React and its documentation

   2023 · react.dev · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Anima 4.0▲193

   Transform Sketch/Figma/XD to React code.

   2020 · animaapp.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    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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    Motion One – New animation library, built on the Web Animations API▲327

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

    2021 · motion.dev · its alternatives →

12. 12
    ReactSymbols UI Kit▲288

    UI elements in ready-to-use components for React

    2017 · coolsymbol.now · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Antd – A set of high-quality React components▲507

    Following the Ant Design specification, we developed a React UI library antd (Pronunciation) that contains a set of high quality components and demos for building rich, interactive user interfaces.

    2016 · ant.design · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Framer Motion▲420

    A truly simple production-ready React animation library

    2019 · motion.dev · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Create animations by dragging an element with your mouse▲379

    Create animations by dragging your mouse

    2022 · animatize.com · 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 →

17. 17
    React-Move▲6

    Beautifully and deterministically animate anything in react.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    React-Typical▲97

    Animated typing without the headaches

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Shuffle for Material-UI▲228

    React editor for busy developers

    2020 · shuffle.dev · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Once UI 1.5▲302

    When I started my career and built my first design system, I was beyond excited. It took a lot of iterations, learning and 6 months of work to launch it internally. In the next job, I did it again, then at the following job, again… And no matter which company I worked for, 80% of the design system was the same. I’ve decided to work full-time on the design system I’ve always wanted, and today I’m launching and open-sourcing it. You can use it to build Next.js apps faster, and I’ve designed it in a way that it’s hard to go wrong with it: you can choose any settings, and you’ll end up with a…

    Dec 2025 · once-ui.com · its alternatives →

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

    2023 · construct.net · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Smooth UI, a React UI Library for Humans▲87

    Modern React UI library 💅👩‍🎤🍭. Contribute to smooth-code/smooth-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    React Sketch.app▲215

    Render React components to Sketch ⚛️💎

    2017 · react-sketchapp.airbnb.tech · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Quarkly▲184

    Design tool to create sites & web apps on React

    2020 · quarkly.io · its alternatives →

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