Adobe After Effects AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Motion Graphics Software

The best Motion Graphics alternative to Adobe After Effects is Blender, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Adobe After Effects and many of them are Motion Graphics Software so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Motion Graphics Software alternatives to Adobe After Effects are Natron, Friction, enve and EffectCraft.

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  1. Blender icon
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    A comprehensive open-source 3D software suite for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, and animating. It supports renderings, simulations including fluid and cloth dynamics, complex compositing, video editing, and Python scripting, running across all major operating systems.

    157 Blender alternatives

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    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Haiku
    • Steam
    • Flatpak
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    Splash Artwork for Blender 4.3
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  2. Natron icon
     225 likes

    Natron is an open source, cross platform nodal compositing application. It is built around industry standard open source tech such as OpenFX, OpenEXR, OpenColorIO and OpenImageIO. The feature set includes realtime playback/RAM cache, multi-threaded rendering, 2d tracking...

    24 Natron alternatives

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    • Flathub
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  3. Friction icon
     45 likes

    Friction is a powerful and versatile motion graphics application that allows you to create vector and raster animations for web and video platforms with ease.

    15 Friction alternatives

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  4. enve icon
     43 likes

    Enve is a free and open-source 2D animation app. It can create both vector and raster animations and even use sound and video files. It has been created with flexibility and expandability in mind.

    62 enve alternatives

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  5. EffectCraft icon
     12 likes

    Motion graphics and visual effects, in pure Rust.

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    • Flatpak
    • AppImage
    • Online
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  6. Pikimov icon
     19 likes

    Pikimov is a free web based motion design and video editor.

    36 Pikimov alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  7. Cavalry icon
     18 likes

    Cavalry makes 2d animation smarter, easier and faster to produce. Design in real-time for advertising, mobile, data visualisation, web, broadcast, UI, generative art, experiential, games and more.

    20 Cavalry alternatives

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    • Freemium
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  8. Fusion is the world’s most advanced compositing software for visual effects artists, broadcast and motion graphic designers and 3D animators.

    26 Blackmagic Design Fusion alternatives

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  9. TiXL icon
     18 likes

    TiXL is an open-source solution for creating interactive 3d content and animations. It combines the best aspects of animation, compositing, and coding into a lightweight and intuitive UI. Your designs can be shared as executable or rendered to movies.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
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  10. NUKE icon
     36 likes

    NUKE is a powerful compositing application that delivers unparalleled speed, an efficient multi-channel scanline rendering engine, and a first-class feature set that is unrivalled in the desktop market.

    19 NUKE alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
    NUKE screenshot 1
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  11. Lottielab icon
     16 likes

    Lottie-focused animation tool empowering teams with faster workflows than After Effects, seamless real-time collaboration, easy imports from various design tools, runtime property adjustments for dynamic needs, and ensures robust animations when shipped to apps and websites.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  12. Create interactive SVG animations with precise keyframe and easing control, custom vector paths, shape and text editing, gradients, masks, boolean operations, blend modes, snap, grid, advanced export options including Lottie, GIF, and no JavaScript required.

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