Adobe After Effects Alternatives

Adobe After Effects is described as 'Professional-grade motion graphics and visual effects tool for post-production in film, TV, and creative projects through cloud subscription' and is a very popular Motion Graphics software in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Adobe After Effects for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Android apps. The best Adobe After Effects alternative is Natron, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Adobe After Effects are Blackmagic Design Fusion, Blender, NUKE and Apple Motion.

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Adobe After Effects alternatives are mainly Motion Graphics Software, but if you're looking for VFX Software or Video Editors you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows + Free + Video Editing. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Adobe After Effects.
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Adobe After Effects alternatives page was last updated Jan 21, 2025
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    Influx will allow you to import all kinds of audio video files directly and natively into Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, After Effects, and Audition.

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    Country of Origin

    • FR flagFrance
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    Autokroma Influx Features

    1.  Integrated Codecs
    2.  FFMPEG support

    Autokroma Influx VS Adobe After Effects

     
  2. PixelConduit icon
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    The “swiss army knife” of visual effects and live video processing. PixelConduit is a realtime video and graphics compositing tool that’s Fast, Powerful, Precise, Universal, Affordable, Addictive.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

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    • FI flagFinland
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Discontinued

    Based on the support forum being removed, the blog no longer being available, the release of all formerly paid features as a free upgrade, the developer now working at Facebook, and seeming lack of any social media presence in the past 6 years...it looks like this may have been discontinued.

    PixelConduit Features

    1.  Node Based
    2.  Capture Video

    PixelConduit VS Adobe After Effects

     
  3. Solar icon
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    Lightstream Solar is a new GPU-accelerated high-end compositor for VFX work.

    The software provides a node and tree-based workflow, and offers the range of tools one would expect in an app of this type, including layer management tools, colour correction and grading, and addition.

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    • Windows

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  4. TimeLineFX icon
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    Export the particle effects as static animations onto sprite sheets, animation strips or image sequences in PNG format, or if you develop for the iPhone or iPad, you can export using the PVRTC format (Mac only).

    License model

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    TimeLineFX Features

    1.  Timeline

    TimeLineFX VS Adobe After Effects

     
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    AfterCodecs plugins for Adobe CC, giving you the best and missing codecs for faster exports!.

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    • FR flagFrance
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe After Effects
    • Adobe Premiere Pro

    AfterCodecs VS Adobe After Effects

     
  6. Bink Video icon
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    Bink 2 is massively better than Bink 1. You'll be shocked at how low you can drop the data rate while maintaining beautiful quality.

    License model

    • Free PersonalProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Bink Video VS Adobe After Effects

     
  7. JuiceFX icon
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    Flash, Scale, Skew, Shake, Wobble, Jump, Wave even you can add an outline effect with any disered color.

    5 JuiceFX alternatives

    License model

    Platforms

    • Windows

    JuiceFX Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  Presets
    3.  Special effects

    JuiceFX VS Adobe After Effects

     
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