Is there a real After Effects alternative that runs online?

For mainstream motion graphics, yes. Browser tools now handle vector animation, keyframe timelines with easing, text effects, video layers and in some cases 3D models and physics, then render finished video right in the browser. What none of them replace is After Effects as a compositing and VFX suite: rotoscoping, advanced masking and tracking, expression scripting, and the third-party plugin ecosystem. If your work depends on those, treat browser tools as a complement rather than a replacement.

Which After Effects alternative handles 3D?

KinoViz is the tool on this list that imports 3D model files (GLB, GLTF, FBX up to 50 MB with DRACO compression) and animates them on the same timeline as 2D vector layers, with camera motion, materials and HDRI lighting. The 3D editor is available on every plan including Free, while SVG-to-3D extrusion and 3D animation keyframes require Creator or above. The other tools listed are 2D vector or layout tools.

Can browser tools export the formats a studio pipeline needs?

Partly. MP4 is universal across these tools. Beyond that it fragments: SVGator lists MP4, GIF, WebP and PNG sequence on its Pro tier, Jitter lists ProRes and WebM on paid plans, Rive lists MP4, WebM, GIF and PNG sequence on paid plans, KinoViz exports MP4, WebM and PNG frames, and Linearity Move exports MP4, MOV, GIF and Lottie. If you need a specific intermediate codec, check that format on the vendor's own page before committing.

Do any of these support real-time collaboration like Figma?

Jitter, Rive, Canva and Fable all position multi-user or team workspaces as core to how they work. KinoViz is single-seat today; its three-seat team workspace with shared editing and comments sits on the Studio plan, which is marked Coming Soon and cannot yet be purchased. If several people must edit the same file this month, that narrows the list considerably.

What should I actually try first?

Start from your deliverable. A video file points to KinoViz or Jitter. An interactive component a developer will embed points to Rive. An animated SVG or Lottie for a website points to SVGator. Everyday branded social content, especially if you already live in a design suite, points to Canva. A native Mac and iPad app points to Linearity Move. Every one has a free tier, so the cost of being wrong is an evening.

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After Effects Alternatives Online: 6 Browser Motion Tools Compared

Q: How much does After Effects cost, and what do the alternatives cost?

As of September 2026 Adobe lists the After Effects single-app plan at US$22.99 per month on an annual plan billed monthly, with Creative Cloud Standard at US$54.99 per month and Creative Cloud Pro at US$69.99 per month after an introductory period. Among the alternatives on this page, paid entry points range from roughly $8 to about $20 per month per editor, and every tool listed has a free tier of some kind.

The best After Effects alternative online options in 2026. Six browser and lightweight motion design tools compared on 3D, export formats, collaboration and price.

Sep 10, 2026

Adobe After Effects is the reference standard for motion graphics and compositing, and it is a desktop application: you install it, it wants a capable machine, and as of September 2026 Adobe lists the single-app plan at US$22.99 per month on an annual plan billed monthly, with Creative Cloud Standard at US$54.99 per month and Creative Cloud Pro at US$69.99 per month after an introductory period.

For a great deal of professional motion work, that is more tool than the brief requires. A launch video, a logo animation, a set of social cuts, an animated hero for a landing page — these are jobs where a browser tool now finishes faster, and the render happens right in the browser tab with nothing to install.

This page compares six of them. It is honest about the ceiling: none of these replaces After Effects for rotoscoping, tracking, expression scripting or a plugin ecosystem. All of them replace it for the everyday 80 percent.

How to choose

Answer four questions before you look at a single feature list.

What is the deliverable? A video file, an interactive component, an animated SVG, or a Lottie for engineering. This eliminates most of the list immediately.
Do you need 3D? Real 3D model import is rare in browser tools.
Who edits it? Solo, or several people in one file at once.
Where does it end up? Social feed, product UI, website, broadcast. The required export format follows from this, not the other way round.

At a glance

Tool	Runs in	3D models	Key exports	Free tier	Paid from
KinoViz	Browser	Yes (GLB/GLTF/FBX)	MP4, WebM, PNG, `.kino`	3 projects, 540p, watermark	$8 / month
Jitter	Browser	No	Video, GIF, Lottie; ProRes and WebM on paid	3 files, 720p, watermark	Per editor, see vendor
Rive	Browser + desktop	No	`.riv` runtime; MP4, WebM, GIF, PNG seq on paid	3 collaborative files, 1 project	$9 / seat / month
Canva	Browser + apps	No	MP4 plus suite formats	Large template and asset access	$180 / year (~$15 / mo)
Linearity Move	Mac and iPad apps	No	MP4, MOV, GIF, Lottie	Free tier with lifetime credits	About $8 / editor / month
SVGator	Browser	No	SVG, CSS, Lottie, GIF, WebP, PNG seq, MP4	Static SVG unlimited, animated SVG watermarked	$20 / month (annual)

All figures from each vendor's public pages as of September 2026.

The tools

1. KinoViz — closest to a general-purpose motion studio in a tab

KinoViz is a browser animation studio built around a keyframe timeline with 40 easing curves and per-property control. Vectors, text, images, video and 3D models share one timeline. It is the only tool on this list that imports 3D model files: GLB, GLTF and FBX up to 50 MB with DRACO compression, with camera motion, materials and HDRI lighting. The 3D system is on every plan including Free.

Beyond that it carries a Rapier physics simulation, a materials layer (liquid glass, reeded and frosted glass, liquid metal, glow and bloom, ASCII, halftone), 42 text effect presets, boolean path operations, pen tool and trim path, and a conversational AI assistant in Beta that drafts editable scenes from a text prompt rather than returning a locked render.

Exports: MP4 (H.264), WebM (VP9) and single PNG frames on every plan, plus a .kino source file from Creator up. No GIF, no Lottie, and no transparent video — both video formats bake the canvas background in, so a transparent asset means a PNG frame. Resolution scales by plan: 540p at 24fps watermarked on Free, 1080p at 30fps on Creator, up to 1920px on the short edge at 60fps on Pro. Rendering happens locally in your browser — no upload, no render queue. See export formats.

Pricing: Free $0, Creator $8/month, Pro $19/month with a seven-day free trial, Studio $79/month (Coming Soon). Pricing details.

Best for: motion designers and founders whose deliverable is a video and whose scenes need 3D, physics or material work.

Limits to know: single seat today, no Lottie or GIF export, no compositing or tracking.

2. Jitter — browser motion for teams shipping volume

Jitter is a browser motion design tool built around templates, speed and real-time collaboration. Its public sitemap lists a large catalogue of individual template pages, and starting from one is the intended workflow.

Exports: video, GIF and Lottie, with ProRes and WebM on paid plans and transparent export on higher tiers, as listed in September 2026. The free plan lists unlimited drafts, three workspace files, 720p at 30fps and limited AI credits, with the watermark removed on paid plans.

Pricing: Free, then Pro, Max, Ultra and Enterprise priced per editor per month. The amounts render dynamically on Jitter's pricing page and could not be read reliably at the time of writing, so check the vendor site.

Best for: marketing and product teams producing a steady stream of 2D social and app-store assets together.

Full breakdown: KinoViz vs Jitter.

3. Rive — when the animation has to react

Rive is a different category that overlaps at the edges. You animate vectors on a timeline, then wire them to a state machine and ship a .riv file that a runtime plays inside an app, site or game, responding to input and application state. Runtimes cover JavaScript, iOS, Android, Flutter, React, React Native, C++, Unity and Unreal. Its editor runs in the browser and as a desktop download.

Exports: the .riv runtime file primarily; paid plans also list MP4, WebM, GIF and PNG sequence video export.

Pricing: Free at $0 per seat per month (3 collaborative files, 1 project, 10 MB asset import per file), Cadet at $9 per seat per month with a three-seat maximum, Voyager at $32 per seat per month, Enterprise at $120 per seat per month.

Best for: product and game teams whose animation is embedded software, and anyone needing 2D character rigging.

Full breakdown: KinoViz vs Rive.

4. Canva — animation inside a general design suite

Canva applies entrance, exit and emphasis effects to elements and pages and exports MP4. There is no keyframe timeline in the motion-design sense, but there is an enormous library: the free plan alone lists over 1.6 million templates and 4.7 million photos, videos, graphics and audio files, 5 GB of storage and a brand kit, with up to 20 Standard or Premium AI uses.

Pricing: Free $0, Pro $180 per year (about $15 per month), Business $250 per year per person, Enterprise on request.

Best for: teams producing high volumes of everyday branded content where motion is a garnish rather than the point.

Full breakdown: KinoViz vs Canva.

5. Linearity Move — a native app for the Apple workflow

Linearity Move is not browser-based, which makes it the outlier here, but it is a genuine lightweight After Effects alternative for designers already on Apple hardware. It ships as universal macOS and iPadOS apps (macOS Big Sur or later, iPadOS 14 or later), is Apple Silicon native, and pairs with Linearity Curve for vector design. There is no Windows or browser version.

Exports: MP4 and MOV, GIF, and Lottie, with adjustable resolution and frame rate and a transparent background option.

Pricing: a free tier with lifetime credits, then paid plans starting around $8 per editor per month, with a Pro tier in the $25 to $30 range depending on billing term.

Best for: Mac and iPad designers who want a native app and Lottie output, and who do not need cross-platform access.

6. SVGator — the specialist for animated SVG and Lottie

SVGator animates SVG in the browser and exports code-ready output. If your deliverable is an animated icon, illustration or logo for a website, it is the most direct fit on this list.

Exports: animated SVG with CSS or JS on every tier (watermarked on Free), Lottie JSON from Starter up, and GIF, WebP, PNG sequence and MP4 from Pro up. Its Pro video export lists up to 3840 × 2160 at 60 fps and up to two hours in length.

Pricing (annual billing): Free $0, Starter $20/month, Pro $24/month, Team $27 per seat per month with a three-seat minimum.

Best for: web designers and front-end developers shipping vector animation into a page or an app.

Which one should you try

Deliverable is a video, and the scene needs depth — KinoViz. It is the only option here with 3D model import, physics and shader materials on one timeline.
Deliverable is a video, and volume matters more than depth — Jitter.
Deliverable is an interactive component — Rive.
Deliverable is an animated SVG or Lottie — SVGator.
Deliverable is everyday branded content — Canva.
You want a native Apple app — Linearity Move.

Also worth knowing: Fable is a browser-based motion design platform positioned around a Figma-adjacent workflow, where imported Figma layers stay editable. It offers a free Starter plan and prices paid plans per editor, but current figures could not be verified for this page, so it is listed here without numbers rather than with guessed ones.

For the broader category survey, see best browser-based animation tools in 2026. If your specific question is whether to keep using Lottie at all, Lottie alternatives covers when video export is the better call.

Try KinoViz free

Create a free account — three projects, no credit card, with the 3D editor, physics, boolean tools and keyframe timeline all included on the free plan. When you need 1080p or 1920px output without a watermark plus premium materials, Pro comes with a seven-day free trial.

Competitor details are based on public information as of September 2026 and may change; verify on the vendor's site.