Animista
Create beautiful CSS animations in your browser
Animista launched on March 15, 2017 with 532 votes, #18 of 3,481 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
In plain words
Animista is a web-based tool that lets developers browse, customize, and export pre-made CSS animations. Users can tweak animations to suit their needs and download only the ones they want to use in their projects. The tool is designed for web developers and designers looking to save time on animation creation rather than building them from scratch.
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From the sources
Animista is a place where you can play with a collection of pre-made CSS animations, tweak them and get only those you will actually use.
Animista is a CSS animation library and a place where you can play with a collection of ready-made CSS animations and download only those you will use.
Animista is a place where you can play with a collection of pre-made CSS animations, tweak them and get only those you will actually use. Animista started out as a small side-project of mine . As I was increasingly using CSS animations, I thought it would come in handy to have them organised in a meaningful and accessible way so that they can be easily reused on different projects. The idea was to create a playground of a sorts where a collection of pre-made animations could be tested and tweaked before actually using them. Seeing how various options like easing, delay, duration and others affect the animation proved to be very useful. And basically that is how Animista was born. I have…from animista.net
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