Open-source animation software
2268 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged animation, ranked by how closely animation is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
2268 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| z56402344/BaseAnimation An Android demo application collecting nearly 200 animation examples and custom controls with full source code, including splash screens, L… | 32 | 1030 | abandoned |
| Augus/ngAnimate A CSS animation library providing prebuilt effect classes (slide, fade, flip, rotate, bouncy) for AngularJS 1.2 applications via the ngAnim… | 32 | 1013 | abandoned |
| codrops/ModalWindowEffects A collection of experimental modal window appearance effects built with CSS transitions and animations, published as demo code by Codrops. … | 32 | 1013 | abandoned |
| cocos2d/CocosBuilder CocosBuilder is a free visual editor for rapidly building games and apps on the cocos2d game engine, using JavaScript bindings so content r… | 32 | 1011 | abandoned |
| matteogobbi/MGSpotyViewController An Objective-C iOS library providing a view controller with a table view and Spotify-style parallax and blur header effects. Developers sub… | 23 | 1010 | abandoned |
| sachinchoolur/lightgallery-desktop LightGallery Desktop is a cross-platform desktop image viewer built with Electron and Node.js. It offers animated slideshows, zoom, fullscr… | 23 | 1004 | abandoned |
| Godot Engine Godot Engine is a free, open‑source, cross‑platform 2D and 3D game engine written in C++. It provides a full editor, scripting languages, a… | 96 | 118407 | stable |
| OpenCut OpenCut is a free, open-source video editor for web, desktop, and mobile, positioned as an open alternative to CapCut. It provides a timeli… | 72 | 90555 | active |
| moeru-ai/airi Project AIRI is an open-source, self-hosted AI companion (waifu/virtual character) platform inspired by Neuro-sama, supporting Live2D and V… | 87 | 50294 | active |
| Bevy Bevy is a free, open-source, data-driven game engine and app framework written in Rust, built around a custom Entity Component System (ECS)… | 91 | 48687 | active |
| Alpine.js Alpine.js is a lightweight JavaScript framework for composing reactive behavior directly in HTML markup using declarative attributes like x… | 98 | 31963 | active |
| iced-rs/iced Iced is a cross-platform GUI library for Rust inspired by The Elm Architecture, offering a simple, type-safe, reactive programming model wi… | 72 | 31779 | active |
| mdbootstrap/mdb-ui-kit MDB UI Kit is a Material Design component library built on Bootstrap 5 with plain vanilla JavaScript, offering 700+ components such as moda… | 64 | 24245 | active |
| Compose Multiplatform Compose Multiplatform is a declarative UI framework by JetBrains, based on Jetpack Compose, for sharing UI code across Android, iOS, deskto… | 100 | 19429 | stable |
| Motion Canvas Motion Canvas is a TypeScript library that lets you program animations with generator functions and provides a web‑based editor for real‑ti… | 60 | 19146 | active |
| kivy/kivy Kivy is an open-source Python UI framework for building cross-platform GUI applications from a single codebase. It is built on OpenGL ES 2.… | 68 | 19028 | stable |
| WLED WLED is a fast, feature-rich open-source firmware for ESP32 (and legacy ESP8266) microcontrollers that controls addressable RGB LED strips … | 89 | 18773 | active |
| UIkit UIkit is a lightweight, modular CSS and JavaScript front-end framework for building fast web interfaces. It provides a large set of compone… | 97 | 18538 | active |
| MaterialDesignInXAML/MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit A comprehensive Material Design theme and control library for WPF applications in C# and VB.NET. It provides styled versions of all major W… | 92 | 16282 | stable |
| Zulko/moviepy MoviePy is a Python library for video editing and automation, supporting cuts, concatenations, compositing, title insertion, and custom eff… | 75 | 14949 | stable |
| tamagui/tamagui Tamagui is a TypeScript framework for styling React apps with full parity between React web and React Native, comprising a style library (@… | 95 | 14246 | active |
| SketchyBar SketchyBar is a highly customizable, fast status bar replacement for macOS written in C. It is configured and extended dynamically through … | 90 | 12480 | active |
| ant-design/ant-design-mobile Ant Design Mobile is a React component library providing essential UI blocks for building mobile web applications. It offers optimized, cus… | 91 | 12058 | stable |
| zyronon/douyin A mobile-first short-video web application that imitates TikTok/Douyin, built with Vue3, Vite5, and Pinia. It uses axios-mock-adapter to se… | 61 | 11544 | active |
| Open 3D Engine (O3DE) Open 3D Engine (O3DE) is an Apache 2.0-licensed, multi-platform 3D game engine for building AAA games, cinema-quality 3D worlds, and high-f… | 88 | 9739 | active |
| microsoft/fast FAST is Microsoft's collection of tools for building standards-based Web Components, centered on the lightweight @microsoft/fast-element li… | 100 | 9679 | active |
| blueedgetechno/win11React A web application that replicates the Windows 11 desktop experience in the browser using React, Redux, and CSS. It includes simulated apps … | 10 | 9660 | active |
| 1weiho/open-slide open-slide is a React-based slide presentation framework designed for AI coding agents to author decks from natural-language prompts. It pr… | 77 | 9209 | active |
| open-pencil/open-pencil OpenPencil is an open-source, AI-native design editor that opens and writes native Figma (.fig) files, with built-in AI chat that can creat… | 83 | 9153 | active |
| sebastianstarke/AI4Animation AI4Animation is a deep learning framework for data-driven character animation and control, built around Unity with a Python remake (AI4Anim… | 63 | 8873 | active |
| Pokedex A Pokedex Android app demonstrating modern Android development with Hilt, Coroutines, Flow, Jetpack (Room, ViewModel), Material Motion, and… | 67 | 8362 | active |
| PixiEditor PixiEditor is a free, open-source, cross-platform desktop 2D graphics editor built in C# with Avalonia. It combines pixel art, painting, an… | 96 | 8057 | active |
| win12-online/win12 Win12 Online is a web-based recreation of a hypothetical Windows 12 desktop experience, built entirely with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It s… | 76 | 7267 | active |
| makepad/makepad Makepad is a creative software development platform for Rust that provides a cross-platform UI runtime with a live-editable design DSL, com… | 68 | 7205 | active |
| melonjs/melonJS melonJS is an open-source, MIT-licensed 2D/2.5D HTML5 game engine for indie developers, built with ES6 classes and TypeScript support. It p… | 100 | 6416 | active |
| Defold Defold is a free, source-available, cross-platform game engine for building 2D and lightweight 3D games for desktop, mobile, web, and conso… | 98 | 6357 | active |
| dialogic-godot/dialogic Dialogic 2 is a Godot 4.5+ plugin for creating in-game dialogs, visual novels, and RPGs with a visual timeline editor and character managem… | 83 | 6054 | active |
| AidLux (AidLearning) AidLux (originally AidLearning) is an AIoT development platform that runs a native Ubuntu Linux environment with GUI, deep learning tooling… | 63 | 5812 | active |
| vercel/streamdown Streamdown is a React component library that serves as a drop-in replacement for react-markdown, purpose-built for rendering Markdown strea… | 84 | 5665 | active |
| cinder/Cinder Cinder is a free, open-source C++ library for professional-quality creative coding, covering graphics, audio, video, and computational geom… | 54 | 5539 | active |
| Augani/openreel-video OpenReel Video is a fully browser-based, open source video editor built with React, TypeScript, WebCodecs, and WebGPU. All editing and expo… | 80 | 5310 | active |
| KaijuEngine/kaiju Kaiju is an open-source 2D/3D game engine written in Go and backed by Vulkan, with a built-in visual editor that itself runs as a game in t… | 81 | 4725 | active |
| not-fl3/macroquad Macroquad is a simple, easy-to-use cross-platform game library for Rust, heavily inspired by raylib. It lets you write the same code for Wi… | 73 | 4631 | active |
| unchihugo/FluentFlyout FluentFlyout is an open-source Windows 11 utility that displays modern, Fluent 2-styled flyouts for media control, lock key status, and tas… | 87 | 4623 | active |
| moshang-ax/lottery A 3D sphere-based lottery/raffle web application built with Express and Three.js for company annual party prize draws. It supports configur… | 74 | 4569 | active |
| geeklee/srt-whiteboard-animation A Python-based skill/tool that converts SRT subtitle files into whiteboard-style hand-drawn animation videos with a warm paper background. … | 59 | 4427 | active |
| lapce/floem Floem is a native Rust UI library with fine-grained reactivity, inspired by Xilem, Leptos, and rui. It provides a declarative, ergonomic AP… | 65 | 4301 | active |
| crafter-station/petdex Petdex is a public gallery of animated pixel-art pets (mascots) for coding agents like Codex, Claude Code, and Gemini CLI, consisting of a … | 81 | 4222 | active |
| bluelinelabs/Conductor Conductor is a small, full-featured Android framework for building View-based applications without Fragments. It wraps standard Android Vie… | 51 | 3898 | stable |
| TresJS TresJS is a declarative Vue 3 library that renders Three.js scenes using Vue components via a custom renderer. It lets Vue developers build… | 93 | 3746 | active |
| Ajaxy/telegram-tt Telegram Web A, an official Telegram web client built with a custom React-like framework (Teact) and GramJS MTProto implementation. It is a… | 99 | 3554 | active |
| AMP AMP (AMPHTML) is an open-source web component framework for building fast, user-first websites, Web Stories, ads, and interactive emails us… | 95 | 14905 | maintenance |
| HeapsIO/heaps Heaps is a high-performance, cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine and graphics framework written in Haxe, created by the designer of the Ha… | 74 | 3509 | stable |
| UniVRM UniVRM is the standard Unity implementation of the VRM 3D humanoid avatar file format, which extends glTF 2.0. It supports importing and ex… | 89 | 3392 | active |
| threlte/threlte Threlte is a declarative, type-safe 3D framework for Svelte that wraps Three.js with reactive components. It ships as modular packages incl… | 93 | 3340 | active |
| AWTK AWTK (Toolkit AnyWhere) is an open-source cross-platform GUI engine written in C, developed by ZLG, targeting embedded systems, RTOS platfo… | 77 | 3323 | active |
| pmndrs/uikit uikit is a library for building performant 3D user interfaces in three.js, with first-class React bindings via @react-three/uikit. It provi… | 63 | 3244 | active |
| legions-developer/evilcharts EvilCharts is an open-source collection of beautifully designed, animated chart components for React and Next.js, built on Recharts and Apa… | 63 | 3130 | active |
| pixijs/pixi-react @pixi/react is a React renderer that lets you build PixiJS applications declaratively using JSX components like <pixiContainer> and <pixiSp… | 58 | 2883 | active |
| Makie.jl Makie is a high-performance, interactive data visualization and plotting ecosystem for the Julia programming language. It offers multiple b… | 100 | 2823 | stable |
| HarleyCoops/Math-To-Manim-lfs-archive A Python project that turns math and physics questions into reasoned visual explanations rendered as Manim animations and study notes. It u… | 80 | 2789 | active |
| PowerHouseMan/ComfyUI-AdvancedLivePortrait A ComfyUI custom node implementing LivePortrait for fast facial expression editing and animation with real-time preview. It can edit expres… | 24 | 2681 | active |
| morethanwords/tweb Telegram Web K is the open-source TypeScript web client powering web.telegram.org/k/, based on the original Webogram and actively patched a… | 75 | 2652 | active |
| bytedance/scene Scene is a lightweight Android library for navigation and UI composition based on views, designed to replace Activities and Fragments in a … | 67 | 2524 | active |
| Liniyous/ElaWidgetTools ElaWidgetTools is a C++ component library that brings Microsoft Fluent UI styling to Qt Widgets applications. It provides a rich set of cus… | 59 | 2518 | active |
| mlt131220/Astral3D Astral 3D Editor is a free, open-source web-based 3D engine and editor built on Vue3 and Three.js. It supports 30+ model formats, BIM light… | 67 | 2499 | active |
| knight-L/sc-datav A data visualization big-screen dashboard built with Three.js, React 19, and ECharts that renders precise 3D geographic maps (e.g., Sichuan… | 45 | 2478 | active |
| learnhouse/learnhouse LearnHouse is a next-generation open-source learning management system (LMS) for creating, sharing, and selling educational content. It com… | 100 | 2404 | active |
| AstraThreshold/oled-ui-astra A C++ UI framework for building smooth, animated menu interfaces on small OLED displays in embedded projects. It is designed to be easy to … | 31 | 2402 | active |
| ncdai/chanhdai.com A pixel-perfect developer portfolio website and shadcn/ui component registry built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and MDX. It serves both as a… | 74 | 2395 | active |
| xbpeng/MimicKit MimicKit is a lightweight Python framework providing a suite of motion imitation methods (DeepMimic, AMP, ASE, AWR, and others) for trainin… | 50 | 2360 | active |
| amilich/isometric-city IsoCity is an open-source isometric city-building simulation game built with Next.js, TypeScript, and HTML5 Canvas, featuring traffic, pede… | 60 | 2319 | active |
| vizia/vizia Vizia is a declarative, reactive desktop GUI framework for Rust, letting developers build cross-platform applications in pure Rust without … | 75 | 2316 | active |
| Gio Gio is a Go library for writing cross-platform immediate mode GUIs, supporting Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and W… | 77 | 2275 | active |
| walterlow/freecut FreeCut is a professional-grade, browser-based multi-track video editor requiring no installation or uploads, with all media and project fi… | 62 | 2273 | active |
| whiteboard-video-engine A Remotion-based renderer plus distributable agent skill that converts Chinese story text or ordered images into 3:4 vertical hand-drawn di… | 57 | 2224 | active |
| LayaAir LayaAir is a TypeScript-based 2D/3D game engine supporting WebGL, WebGPU, OpenGL, and Vulkan with full-platform publishing to HTML5, native… | 98 | 2219 | active |
| VIPyinzhiwei/Eyepetizer A Kotlin Android client that replicates the 'Eyepetizer' short-video app, built with Android Jetpack components and coroutines in an MVVM a… | 28 | 2143 | active |
| 0xsline/OpenChatCut OpenChatCut is an open-source, local-first desktop AI video editor with a professional multi-track timeline that AI agents (built-in, Codex… | 79 | 2131 | active |
| facebookresearch/ai4animationpy AI4AnimationPy is a Python framework for AI-driven character animation using neural networks, providing motion capture processing, training… | 56 | 2111 | active |
| gosu/gosu Gosu is a lightweight 2D game development library for Ruby and C++, providing a window/main loop, 2D graphics and text via OpenGL, sound an… | 67 | 2090 | active |
| ossia/score ossia score is a free, open-source interactive sequencer for audio-visual artists, designed to create interactive shows, installations, and… | 88 | 2072 | active |
| ErLinErYi/PlantsVsZombies A Plants vs. Zombies clone built entirely in C++ on Cocos2d-x 3.16, with 104 levels, 13 plants, and 14 zombies. It doubles as a learning re… | 23 | 2028 | active |
| astrofox-io/astrofox Astrofox is a free, open-source motion graphics application that turns audio into audio-reactive visuals, available as both a web app and a… | 85 | 1987 | active |
| B3D Framework B3D Framework (formerly Banshee 3D) is a modern C++17 library providing a foundation for high-performance game engines and real-time graphi… | 77 | 1938 | active |
| hsuanyi-chou/shadcn-ui-expansions A collection of additional React components built on top of shadcn/ui, including multiple selector, loading button, infinite scroll, dateti… | 63 | 1938 | active |
| ButzYung/SystemAnimatorOnline XR Animator is an AI-based full-body motion capture application that uses a single webcam with MediaPipe and TensorFlow.js to drive MMD/VRM… | 92 | 1912 | active |
| FACEGOOD/FACEGOOD-Audio2Face FACEGOOD Audio2Face is an open-source deep learning framework that converts audio into facial blendshape weights for driving digital humans… | 61 | 1912 | active |
| mmatyas/pegasus-frontend Pegasus is a cross-platform graphical frontend for browsing a game library and launching emulators from a single interface. It emphasizes c… | 83 | 1894 | active |
| eez-open/studio EEZ Studio is a free, open-source, cross-platform low-code visual tool for designing desktop and embedded GUIs with LVGL support. It includ… | 96 | 1847 | active |
| openvideodev/react-video-editor OpenVideo Editor is a client-side web video editor built with React, Next.js 15, and the OpenVideo engine (PixiJS/WebCodecs), serving as a … | 61 | 1797 | active |
| pocket-stack/pocketjs PocketJS is a portable application runtime that compiles Solid, Vue Vapor, or Octane component code into a native UI tree rendered by a no_… | 81 | 1768 | active |
| debugger22/github-audio A React + TypeScript web application that converts real-time GitHub events (pushes, issues, pull requests) into music and visualizations. I… | 39 | 1754 | active |
| bklit/bklit-ui Bklit UI is an open-source collection of composable chart and utility components for React, distributed via the shadcn/ui registry so you c… | 59 | 1741 | active |
| cclank/cell-architecture-studio An interactive 3D cell biology gallery built with React, TypeScript, Vite, and Three.js that renders selectable cell specimens with organel… | 53 | 1726 | active |
| salgum1114/react-design-editor A React library providing a canvas-based design editor built on Fabric.js and Ant Design, supporting image editing, diagram composition, an… | 93 | 1709 | active |
| JohnEarnest/Decker Decker is a multimedia platform and sketchpad for creating and sharing interactive documents with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted be… | 77 | 1647 | active |
| ct.js Ct.js is a free, open-source 2D game engine and IDE built on PixiJS/WebGL for making HTML5, desktop, and mobile games. It offers visual lev… | 10 | 1629 | active |
| ractivejs/ractive Ractive.js is a template-driven JavaScript library for building reactive user interfaces with declarative data-binding, event handling, and… | 32 | 5914 | maintenance |
| ShizukuIchi/winXP A web-based recreation of the Windows XP desktop experience built with React and JavaScript. It recreates draggable, resizable windows, a s… | 32 | 5863 | maintenance |