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24 alternatives to Scroll Buddy

Hi! Instead of a boring scrollbar I made a scuba dude that swims down the page when you scroll. The idea came from nostalgia; remember SkiFree game on Windows? I wanted a skier skiing down my site. Building the skier mechanics in pure javascript turned out to be difficult so I started with a runner, added a santa hat, and recently built scuba buddy. You can try it directly as soon as you start to scroll down the page, and see the other animations with the "Change Animation" button. Technical details: entirely javascript, takes scroll depth value (window.scrollY) and inputs that into…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Lax.js▲343

    Create beautiful & smooth animations when you scroll

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn your website URLs into scrolling mockups in minutes

    2021 · its alternatives →

  3. 3S

    2012 · johnpolacek.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Easy scroll animations for web and mobile browsers.

    2014 · scrollrevealjs.org · its alternatives →

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    WOW.js▲123

    Animate elements on-scroll to catch attention. Such Magic.

    2014 · mynameismatthieu.com · its alternatives →

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    Silky-smooth, uninterrupted scroll-driven web animations

    2025 · webstudio.is · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, thank you for being a part of the internet we love. We’re Arnav, Mo, Jeremy and we’re building an “Internet for-you page” that recommends blogs and essays based on your interests. Try it here (https://www.browserbuddy.com/)! We love to discover and learn from personal blogs, essays, and articles on the internet. But despite exciting advancements in language modeling, it’s felt harder to discover interesting links from real people. We believe there is untapped potential to use these language models as “curators” rather than “creators”. To explore this, we’re building a…

    Dec 2025 · browserbuddy.com · its alternatives →

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    A playful way to make your website funnier

    2014 · theonion.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Browse webpages with your facial expressions

    2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    https://github.com/michalsnik/aos

    2016 · michalsnik.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Smooth gifs for launching your website or sharing an article

    2024 · howdygo.com · its alternatives →

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    Simplifying scroll animations with tailwind inspired syntax

    2024 · michal-skoula.github.io · its alternatives →

  14. 14IS

    2021 · noscript-infinite-catfacts.glitch.me · its alternatives →

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    Cuan cerdas berawal dari strategi yang terukur! Temukan panduan memilih permainan yang tepat serta tips mengatur target harian di OLXCENTER. Gabung dan pelajari triknya sekarang!

    2018 · react-reveal.com · its alternatives →

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    CSS3 and JavaScript library to create scroll animations

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Performance focused, lightweight JavaScript scroll animation library

    2018 · mciastek.github.io · its alternatives →

  18. 18IH

    Hello HN, I had some christmas free time over the last two weeks (Merry Christmas btw ;-)) and used that time to completely recreate the website of my app[1]. I used all the fancy new tools. I didn't know some of them when I started. What was my goal? * Pretty website * Blazing fast * Mobile first * SSR * Webp support * Generally all the best website practices (high lighthouse score) What did I use? * Tailwindcss (https://tailwindcss.com/) * Tailwind Components (https://tailwindui.com/) * React (https://reactjs.org/) * ViteJs…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    A simple scrolling library for jQuery

    2017 · noobscroll.js.org · its alternatives →

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    This is a silly little multiplayer game I made for a gamejam that involves skiiing and not crashing. Some of you who are nostalgic for the 90s might like it :)

    Apr 2026 · easel.games · its alternatives →

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    Build stunning scroll-based animated websites effortlessly

    Apr 2026 · lexoratechnologies.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23AF

    Over the past few days, I've been working on this fun idea I had when I first saw the blur.js post, here on HN. My first though was to make a game using it. So, I wrote Friendblur. Check it out: http://friendblur.com/ This was my first Backbone.js app, as well. It seems to work pretty good on IE, FF, Chrome and Safari. I used Bootstrap to quickly get it out there. There's no server side database or anything, yet. I don't keep track of scores or anything. The only thing the server does is pipe facebook image data back to the user, because that was the first idea I had as to how to get around…

    2012 · friendblur.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey there! I'm Sami. Over the past year, I've been busy building apps for clients, and I always found it challenging to discover a great animated component library. So, I took it upon myself to learn how to create beautiful animations. It was tough at first, but with persistence and a lot of practice, I eventually started crafting some really impressive animations for my clients! Now, I'm excited to share some of my favorite creations with you on my platform, DynaUI. I'd love to hear what you think!

    2024 · dynaui.design · its alternatives →

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