Figma Motion launched at Config 2026 on 24 June 2026 and put a real timeline on the Figma canvas: keyframes, easing, spring curves, presets and an AI motion agent, animating the same layers your design system already publishes. Figma's own documentation still describes it as being in open beta.
It is a strong first release, and for a designer whose work already lives in Figma it is hard to beat on convenience alone. People go looking for an alternative for reasons that have little to do with the quality of the editor.
You are not in the Figma ecosystem. Figma Motion animates frames inside a Figma Design file. If your artwork arrives as SVG and PNG from somewhere else, or you are the only person on your team with a Figma account, adopting an entire design platform to reach a timeline is a disproportionate move.
You need Lottie. As of September 2026, Figma exports an animated frame as MP4, WebM, GIF or SVG, and can copy the animation out as CSS, JSON or React code from Dev Mode. Lottie is not on that list. If your handoff target is a Lottie player, this is a hard stop.
You need 3D, physics or shader materials. Figma Design is a 2D vector tool, so Figma Motion is a 2D vector animation layer. Model import, simulation and shader passes are not gaps to be filled in a later release; they are outside the product's shape.
You do not want to buy a Full seat. Figma's documentation states that exports above 1920 x 1080 or above 30 FPS require a paid plan, and that the motion agent, animated-component publishing and high-resolution export require a Full seat on a paid plan — listed at $16 per month on Professional as of September 2026. If you only need the timeline, that is a lot of design tool to pay for.
It is still in open beta. Figma warns that features may change and that you may experience performance issues. Reasonable for a June release, but worth knowing before you build a quarter's pipeline on it.
Who it is for: motion designers, marketers and founders whose animation ships as a video file, and anyone who needs 3D, physics or materials on the same timeline as flat vectors.
KinoViz is a standalone browser animation studio, so nothing has to exist in another tool first. It has a keyframe timeline with 40 easing curves and per-property control, a pen tool, boolean operations, trim path and effector arrays, plus the things a 2D design tool structurally cannot do: GLB and GLTF import with DRACO compression up to 50 MB per model on every plan including Free, Rapier physics, liquid glass, reeded and frosted glass, liquid metal, glow and bloom, ASCII and halftone treatments, 22 procedural gradient backgrounds and 42 text-effect presets. An AI assistant, in Beta from the Creator plan, drafts a scene from a prompt that you then edit by hand.
Export: MP4 (H.264), WebM (VP9) and single PNG frames on every plan, plus a .kino source file from Creator upward. No Lottie, no GIF. Transparent output is the PNG frame only — video bakes in the canvas background. Rendering happens locally in your browser, so there is no upload and no render queue. Resolution rises by plan: 540p at 24 fps with a watermark on Free, 1080p at 30 fps on Creator, up to 1920px on the short edge at 60 fps on Pro. See export formats and the 3D system.
Starting price: Free $0, Creator $8/month, Pro $19/month with a seven-day free trial, Studio $79/month (Coming Soon). Pricing.
Full head-to-head: KinoViz vs Figma Motion.
Who it is for: teams who want fast, template-led 2D animation for social and product marketing, with real-time collaboration and Lottie handoff.
Jitter is the alternative that overlaps Figma Motion most directly on intent: a browser timeline for 2D layout animation, a large template catalogue, and multiplayer editing. It is 2D only, with no 3D import, physics or shader materials, but it covers the everyday motion-graphics brief quickly and its template-first workflow is a genuine speed advantage.
Export: video, GIF and Lottie, with Lottie available on the free plan as of September 2026. Paid plans add ProRes and WebM, with transparent export and frame-by-frame controls on higher tiers.
Starting price: free plan with three workspace files, 720p at 30 fps and a watermark. Paid plans are priced per editor per month but are rendered dynamically on jitter.video/pricing, so check the current rate there rather than trusting a figure quoted elsewhere.
Full comparison: KinoViz vs Jitter.
Who it is for: product designers and game developers whose animation lives inside software and responds to state or input.
Rive is not a video tool and does not pretend to be one. You animate vectors, wire them to a state machine, and ship a .riv file played by runtimes for JavaScript, iOS, Android, Flutter, React, React Native, C++, Unity and Unreal. It also has bone-based rigging and mesh deformation, which makes character animation practical in a way none of the other tools here match. If your reason for leaving Figma Motion is that a rendered clip is not enough — the thing has to run inside the product — this is the substitution.
Export: .riv runtime file plus MP4, WebM, GIF and PNG sequence video export on paid plans, as of September 2026.
Starting price: Free $0 per seat per month, Cadet $9 per seat per month with a three-seat maximum, Voyager $32 per seat per month, Enterprise $120 per seat per month, as listed on rive.app/pricing in September 2026.
Full comparison: KinoViz vs Rive.
Who it is for: web designers and front-end developers animating icons and illustrations that ship into markup.
SVGator animates SVG in the browser and has the widest set of web-native outputs on this list. If the reason you looked past Figma Motion is that you want an animated SVG you can paste into a page and a Lottie of the same asset, SVGator covers both from one project. It is single-asset focused rather than scene focused, with no 3D and no AI drafting.
Export: animated SVG with CSS or JS on every tier (watermarked on Free), Lottie JSON from Starter upward, and GIF, WebP, PNG sequence and MP4 from Pro upward, with video up to 3840 x 2160 at 60 fps as of September 2026.
Starting price: annual pricing lists Free $0, Starter $20/month, Pro $24/month and Team $27 per seat per month with a three-seat minimum.
Who it is for: marketers, social teams and non-designers who need finished content quickly and are not chasing motion craft.
Canva is not a competitor to Figma Motion on animation depth, and it is honest to say so. Its model is applying entrance, exit and emphasis effects to elements and adjusting the timing, not per-property keyframing. What it has instead is breadth: its free plan alone lists over 1.6 million templates and 4.7 million photos, videos, graphics and audio files, plus brand kits and a whole design suite around the animation. For a large share of everyday social output, that combination finishes the job faster than any timeline.
Export: MP4 and GIF among a wide range of design outputs.
Starting price: Free $0, Pro $180 per year (about $15 per month), Business $250 per year per person, Enterprise on request, as of September 2026.
Full comparison: KinoViz vs Canva.
Who it is for: teams whose deliverable is specifically a Lottie or dotLottie file, already using LottieFiles for hosting and handoff.
LottieFiles' Lottie Creator is a browser editor built around the Lottie format rather than around video. It is the most direct answer to the single sharpest gap in Figma Motion, and it sits inside an ecosystem — hosting, a CDN, player libraries, team libraries — that the format handoff usually needs anyway. The trade is the same one the format makes: a vector runtime draws a defined set of primitives, so heavy blurs, glass and metal materials, shader treatments and 3D are outside what it can carry.
Export: Lottie and dotLottie, plus video and GIF.
Starting price: LottieFiles publishes a free tier and per-user paid plans, but its pricing page could not be read reliably at the time of writing, so check lottiefiles.com/pricing for the current rate before comparing.
Background on the format itself: Lottie alternatives.
| If you need… | Pick |
|---|---|
| 3D models, physics or shader materials | KinoViz |
| A finished video file, no runtime, no design tool underneath | KinoViz |
| Browser authoring with Lottie output and team editing | Jitter |
| Animation that reacts to state or input inside a product | Rive |
| Animated SVG for markup, with Lottie as a second output | SVGator |
| Volume of everyday social content, fast, from templates | Canva |
| A Lottie or dotLottie file as the specific deliverable | Lottie Creator |
| Animated components published to a Figma design system | Figma Motion — stay where you are |
That last row matters. If your animation needs to become a library asset that other designers reuse, or a developer will implement it from CSS or React out of Dev Mode, no tool on this list replaces Figma Motion, because a video file cannot be a design-system component.
For a wider survey of the category, see best browser-based animation tools in 2026. If your starting point is a desktop pipeline rather than Figma, After Effects alternatives online covers that route. And if you would rather see output than read tables, the template gallery is the shortest path.
Start free — three projects, no credit card, with the 3D editor, physics and keyframe timeline included on the free plan. MP4, WebM and PNG export are available on every plan. For clean 1080p or 1920px output without a watermark, plus premium materials and AI credits, Pro includes 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.
