Figma Motion is an animation layer built into Figma Design. It adds a timeline, keyframes, easing and spring curves to the canvas you already work on, so an animated frame sits in the same file as the components and variables that define it. Figma launched it at Config 2026 on 24 June 2026, and its documentation still describes it as being in open beta.
KinoViz is a standalone browser animation studio. Vectors, text, images, video and 3D models share one infinite canvas and one keyframe timeline, with physics, shader-based materials and an AI assistant that drafts a scene from a prompt. The output is a rendered MP4 or WebM.
Both run in a browser tab. The real question is not which editor is nicer — it is whether your animation belongs inside your design file or outside it.
Choose Figma Motion if your artwork is already in Figma, your team lives there, and the animation is part of the product design conversation. UI motion specs, prototype timing, animated components that other designers reuse, handoff where a developer copies CSS or React out of Dev Mode. Nothing external can match the zero-migration advantage of animating the exact layers your design system already publishes.
Choose KinoViz if the animation is the deliverable rather than a description of one, or if your work needs anything a 2D design tool cannot draw. 3D model import, physics simulation, glass and metal materials, ASCII and halftone treatments, unrestricted 60 fps export, and no requirement that a Figma file, a Figma account or a Full seat exists first.
| KinoViz | Figma Motion | |
|---|---|---|
| Platform / install | Browser only, standalone studio | Browser (and Figma desktop app), inside Figma Design |
| Needs an existing design file | No — start from an empty canvas | Yes — animation happens on frames in a Figma file |
| Seat requirement | Own account and plan | Figma account; Full seat on a paid plan for high-resolution export, the motion agent and publishing animated components |
| 2D vector animation | Pen tool, boolean operations, trim path, path editing, effector arrays | Keyframes, easing, springs and presets on existing Figma layers |
| 3D | GLB / GLTF import with DRACO up to 50 MB, 3D camera, on every plan | Not supported |
| Physics & materials | Rapier physics, liquid glass, reeded and frosted glass, liquid metal, glow, bloom, ASCII, halftone | Not supported |
| AI drafting | Conversational AI assistant (Beta), Creator plan and above | Figma agent for motion, Full seat on a paid plan |
| Export formats | MP4 (H.264), WebM (VP9), single PNG frame, .kino source | MP4, WebM, GIF, SVG, plus CSS / JSON / React code from Dev Mode |
| Transparent output | Single PNG frame only — video bakes in the background | Animated SVG can carry transparency; video formats are flat |
| Lottie export | No | No, as of September 2026 |
| Resolution & frame rate | 540p / 24 fps on Free, 1080p / 30 fps on Creator, up to 1920px short edge / 60 fps on Pro | Above 1920 x 1080 or above 30 FPS requires a paid plan |
| Collaboration | Single seat today; team workspace on Studio (Coming Soon) | Multiplayer files, comments, branching, shared libraries |
| Maturity | Generally available | Open beta since June 2026 |
| Starting paid price | $8 / month (Creator) | $16 / month (Professional Full seat) |
| Best for | Motion graphics and product films delivered as video | UI motion and animated components inside a design system |
Figma figures above are from figma.com/motion, help.figma.com and figma.com/pricing as of September 2026.
It would be dishonest to write this section thinly, so here it is first.
Zero migration. The most expensive part of animating a design is usually getting the design into the animation tool. Every export, every re-import, every re-linked font and re-flattened effect costs time and loses fidelity. Figma Motion deletes that step entirely. You animate the actual frame, with the actual components, using the actual variables. When the design changes upstream, the animation is looking at the changed thing.
Your team is already there. Comments, branching, shared libraries, multiplayer editing, permissions that your admin already configured — Motion inherits all of it on day one. KinoViz is a single-seat product today, with a team workspace planned on the Studio plan but not yet purchasable. For a design org, that difference is not a feature gap, it is an organisational one.
Animated components. Publishing a motion component to a library, so other designers pull in the same loading state or the same drawer transition, is a genuinely design-system-shaped capability. It requires a Full seat on a paid plan, and no standalone video tool offers an equivalent, because a video file cannot be a library asset.
Handoff as code. Dev Mode can hand a developer CSS, JSON or React describing the animation, rather than a reference video they have to eyeball. If the animation's destination is a codebase, that is a shorter path than any rendered file.
If two or more of those describe your situation, stop reading comparison pages and use Figma Motion.
Everything outside 2D vectors. KinoViz imports GLB and GLTF models with DRACO compression up to 50 MB per file, on every plan including Free, and animates them on the same timeline as your flat layers, with camera motion keyframes from Creator upward. Details are in the 3D system documentation. Figma Motion is 2D by construction, because Figma Design is.
Simulation and rendering, not just interpolation. A Rapier physics engine, liquid glass, reeded and frosted glass, liquid metal, glow and bloom, ASCII and halftone treatments, 22 procedural gradient backgrounds and 42 text-effect presets. These are not decorations on top of a keyframe system; several of them are shader passes that a vector design tool has no place to run. The advanced materials sit on the Pro plan.
Output without a seat ceiling. KinoViz caps resolution and frame rate by plan too, but the ceiling is the plan, not the seat type. Pro reaches 1920px on the short edge at 60 fps for $19 a month with a seven-day trial. In Figma, high-resolution video export and anything above 30 FPS require a paid plan, with the motion agent and animated-component publishing gated to a Full seat, listed at $16 per month on Professional as of September 2026. Whether that is expensive depends entirely on whether you already needed the Full seat for design work.
AI that drafts a scene, not a transition. The KinoViz assistant, currently in Beta and available from Creator upward, builds elements and keyframes from a text description, which you then edit by hand. It runs on a credit balance rather than a generation count, and the cost is shown before you send. See AI generation.
No dependency on Figma. Worth stating plainly. If you do not use Figma, or you are the only person on your team who does, or your source artwork arrives as SVG and PNG from somewhere else, Figma Motion asks you to adopt an entire platform to reach a timeline.
Figma exports an animated frame as MP4, WebM, GIF or SVG, with size and frame-rate controls, and can copy the animation as CSS, JSON or React code from Dev Mode. Animated SVG is the interesting one here — it is the only format on either side of this comparison that keeps vectors as vectors and can carry transparency in motion. There is no Lottie export as of September 2026.
KinoViz exports MP4 (H.264), WebM (VP9) and a single PNG frame on every plan, plus a .kino project file from Creator upward. There is no GIF and no Lottie. Transparent output is the PNG frame only — both video formats bake the canvas background into every frame. Rendering happens locally in your browser, so there is no upload and no render queue. Full matrix: export formats.
Figma Motion has no price of its own; it inherits Figma's. As of September 2026 Figma lists Starter free, Professional at $16 per month for a Full seat, $12 for a Dev seat and $3 for a Collab seat, Organization at $55 per month for a Full seat billed annually, and Enterprise at $90. Motion is available on any plan with edit access, but exports above 1920 x 1080 or above 30 FPS need a paid plan, and the motion agent and animated-component publishing need a Full seat on one.
KinoViz lists Free at $0 for 3 projects at 540p with a watermark, Creator at $8 per month for 50 projects at 1080p with a commercial licence and AI credits, Pro at $19 per month for 500 projects up to 1920px at 60 fps with premium materials and a seven-day free trial, and Studio at $79 per month for teams, currently Coming Soon. Current list: pricing.
Pick Figma Motion if you are a product designer animating your own UI, if your organisation runs on Figma, if the animation needs to become a library component, or if a developer will implement it from code rather than watch a reference clip.
Pick KinoViz if you are a motion designer, marketer or founder whose animation ships as a file, if you need 3D or physics or shader materials, if you want 60 fps output without buying a Full seat, or if you simply do not want your animation tool to require a design tool underneath it.
For the wider landscape, best browser-based animation tools in 2026 surveys the category, KinoViz vs Rive covers the interactive-runtime side, KinoViz vs Jitter covers the closest browser competitor, and After Effects alternatives online covers the desktop-replacement angle. If you want to see what a browser timeline actually produces, the template gallery is a faster answer than any table. A broader shortlist lives at Figma Motion alternatives.
Start free — three projects, no credit card, with the 3D editor, physics and keyframe timeline included on the free plan. When you need clean 1080p or 1920px output, 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.
