LottieFiles Changelog

Seamlessly switch between light mode, dark mode, and custom themes—all from a single dotLottie file. No more duplicating assets. Lottie Theming makes it effortless to apply themes dynamically, saving you time and effort. Other enhancements including a new ungroup feature for top-level containers and additional Fill rule options in the appearance section. It also brings numerous bug fixes to enhance mask reliability, nested scene dimensions, onboarding tours, and advanced actions in the outliner and timeline. Moreover, selection on the canvas has been refined to improve deep and overlapping selections, ensuring a smoother user experience and adding more flexibility and precision to your animation workflow.

In this release, we’re stoked to introduce Lottie Theming! Now, you can easily and quickly select various themes embedded in dotLottie files and seamlessly integrate them into Framer. You can also sync Lottie themes with Framer’s Dark and Light modes to display your desired themes effortlessly.

This release introduces exciting new features, notable improvements, and a range of bug fixes to enhance usability and performance. Highlights include the addition of an Outliner window, a revamped export flow eliminating the need to redirect to the web, and updated keyboard shortcuts for improved navigation and control. We've resolved several issues, especially around selection, bounding boxes, and playback stability.

LottieFiles is now available on Framer!

Key features:

• Access 500K+ free & premium Lottie animations + your team’s private library.

• Load animations faster with dotLottie support

• Recolor animations with customizable color pallete

• Easily add interactivity

This update enhances the handoff experience across the Download & Embed panels on the animation page, providing clear and accessible in-app guidance for developers, designers, marketers, and product managers. The refined instructions ensure that users can efficiently implement animations in their preferred tools. Additionally, the update includes code snippets and visual elements for easier guidance, making it simpler to integrate animations seamlessly into any project. This release also expands support for a broader range of tools, offering a more versatile experience tailored to diverse user needs.

This release brings several exciting updates and fixes to Lottie Creator. Highlights include a new auto-save feature that saves work when switching tabs, a revamped “Get Started” experience, and the introduction of parent constraint support to resolve issues with unsupported Lotties. Additionally, performance improvements make zooming on the canvas smoother, and a variety of bug fixes address saving issues, keyframe manipulation, and timeline inconsistencies. The release also enhances the UI with updated property panel styles and scrollable public animation detail panels.

• Fixed issue where "Shape Skew Transform" is falsely flagged by the Feature Checker

• Minor bug fixes and UI enhancements

LottieFiles for Figma now supports spring animations! Add a bounce to your prototypes with seamless, fluid transitions. Create your production-ready animation: lottiefiles.com/figma

Lottie Creator has introduced several exciting new features and improvements to enhance the user experience. Users can now release their files as Remix, enabling collaborative sharing and editing within the community. Additionally, a new feature allows the entire UI to be hidden for better focus on the canvas. Improvements include automatic layer renaming when new elements are added to the timeline, and smoother management of Creator windows. Bug fixes have addressed issues, including anchor point grid changes in the undo stack and ensuring keyframes update when resizing the window.

The latest update introduces the new canvas, individual pan and zoom settings for each scene and arrow key navigation for layers. Improvements include shift-drag snapping to keyframes, direct playhead navigation to keyframes, and enhanced scene navigation, panning, and zooming. Various UI inconsistencies have been fixed, along with corrections to scene background colors and layer re-ordering and dragging issues. These enhancements and fixes significantly improve the overall user experience and efficiency in managing animations.

In this release, Creator supports matte layers in nested scenes, and users can jump the playhead between keyframes using the shortcuts. The timeline scrubber and work area playhead are now bound to the duration of the scene, and advanced layer functions like hide and focus are enabled in multi-select mode, and dragging windows such as plugins is now more fluid.

This release of Creator supports matte and masks and allows exporting the segments to dotLottie files. It also enhances undo/redo actions for work areas and segments, provides multi-selection functionality, and includes better naming for source and layer scenes. Bug fixes address issues such as adding random keyframes at the playhead position, loader animation-induced slowness, and new black background shapes. These updates aim to streamline the user experience and improve performance.

The latest Lottie Creator update introduces new features like work area markers, the ability to select all keyframes of a track, a new edit menu, and importing SVGs directly from Clipboard and Finder. Bug fixes address issues with random keyframe additions, bezier stroke rendering, and keyboard shortcuts, ensuring a smoother and more efficient user experience.

Animate anything you can imagine directly on Figma with the power of generative AI ✨

We’re excited to announce the release of new features and improvements in Lottie Creator, including the Motion Copilot, collapsible animated properties for nested scenes, and the ability to copy, paste, and export nested scenes as .lottie files. This update also brings enhanced path creation visibility, improved asset insertion from AI prompts, better playhead scrubber accuracy, refined shape-level property animations, and more intuitive drag-and-drop functionality. Additionally, several bug fixes have been implemented to improve overall performance and stability.

You can now download your animations as Optimized dotLottie/JSON and export them to GIF, MP4, WebM and MOV right within the plugin.

In this release, we’ve added linear gradient support to the color picker and introduced options to flip objects vertically or horizontally from the context menu. You’ll also find new animation preset tooltips and animated presets in the right menu and an improved scene duration format for better clarity.

Explore 400,000+ and counting free and premium animations for your projects on Canva!

The latest update to Lottie Creator introduces many new features and improvements designed to enhance your animation workflow. Now, you can import animations directly into pre-comp scenes, streamlining your process like never before. Enjoy the new layer actions such as focus, lock, and hide, making it easier to manage complex animations. We've also enabled the ability to copy and paste objects and keyframes between Creator tabs, incorporated undo/redo functionality for canvas size adjustments, and improved the rotation interaction on tracks to synchronize with the property panel.

In our latest update to Lottie Creator, we're excited to introduce powerful new features and significant improvements. Users can now create new nested scenes from existing ones or start with empty nested scenes, enhancing workflow flexibility. We've also introduced the ability to import SVGs with line breaks, addressing a key user request. On the improvements front, we've updated all keyframe sizes on the timeline and enhanced the usability of the saving status indicator.

Additionally, we've fixed several bugs, including path opacity issues and incorrect lengths of selected imported assets on the timeline. These updates ensure a smoother, more efficient animation creation experience.

Dive into our new Trim Paths feature and streamline your workflow with intuitive new onboarding and efficient timeline performance improvements. Tackle your projects with enhanced tool accuracy and enjoy a smoother user experience with our latest bug fixes. From simplified path selection to more precise animation controls designed to boost your productivity and creativity.

LottieFiles for Adobe After Effects is now on aescripts + aeplugins! We also have a shiny new video that showcases everything you'll need to know about our plugin.

We've made it more intuitive to update your plugin version, and also made it easier to reach out to our support team if you have any questions.

This release introduces multiple changes, including better canvas technology, added accuracy to the cursor during path editing, various bug fixes, and general improvements.

In the latest update of Lottie Creator, we're thrilled to introduce the Kinetic Typography plugin, a game-changer for designers aiming to elevate their animations with dynamic text effects. This standout feature, alongside interactive shape drawing and enhanced alignment options, marks a significant leap in creative possibilities. We've also refined the user experience with improved shortcuts, tooltips, and UI enhancements.

This release includes hotfixes and the inclusion of the AI Prompt to Vector plugin. The AI Prompt to Vector plugin for Lottie Creator allows you to convert creative prompts into stunning vector graphics easily. Utilizing advanced AI technology, this innovative plugin allows you to select from a variety of styles to match your project's aesthetic. It is designed to enhance creativity and streamline the design workflows so you can focus on animating your designs and telling your story.

In our latest update, we've introduced exciting new features and significant improvements to enhance your animation workflow in Lottie Creator. Highlights include the ability to render compound SVGs correctly, innovative toggling between source and layer names in the timeline, and the introduction of moving path vertices with arrow keys for precise adjustments. We've also implemented an anchor lock tool, added a shadow box to the preview modal for better visual clarity, and introduced infinite scroll in the Lottie animations library to streamline your navigation experience. Alongside these new features, we've made improvements like shape-to-path conversions and mouse panning capabilities and addressed a variety of bug fixes, including tooltip clarifications, zooming enhancements, and playback consistency for duplicated nested scenes, ensuring a smoother, more intuitive user experience.

Access premium Lottie animations to bring an additional touch of creativity and style to your design projects right from inside the LottieFiles for Figma plugin!

LottieFiles for Figma Dev Mode now supports Player Controls!

Access over 300,000 free and premium animations from LottieFiles' extensive public library, enriching your FigJam experience.

This is a minor release with usability improvements and our state-of-the-art Duplicator plugin.

This release focuses on enhancing the animation creation experience with new features like trim path support and scrubber enhancements alongside significant bug fixes that improve playback realism, editing precision, and overall software reliability.

Tiny but important update: Switched to dotlottie-react player (and updated react-scripts).

LottieFiles for Figma Dev Mode now supports Figma's Visual Studio Code extension!

The latest update introduces shape duplication, hotkeys for keyframes, nested scenes reordering, mobile warning overlay, export/import naming, and a pen and path tool. It also fixes several issues related to nested scenes offset, hotkey functionality, layer hotkeys, rendering order, shape extension, keyframe movement, rotation values, and asset import naming. Tooltips have been improved to provide better guidance.

In the latest 1.0.0 update of Lottie Creator, we've introduced improved bezier rendering, drag-and-drop file importing, and incremental search in the Lottie Library, alongside improvements like optimized performance updates and enhanced compound path handling. New features facilitate seamless creation and collaboration, such as multiple keyframe selection and improved save flow error handling. Bug fixes address UI inconsistencies, enhance export functionalities, and improve overall user experience, ensuring smoother design workflows.

In this release, we've introduced exciting new features like file renaming, innovative trimming shortcuts, and enhanced shape selection with right-click functionality, along with an 'animate all' shortcut. We've made significant improvements, including enhanced scale transformations, refined undo behaviors in property panels, and improved numeric input control and SVG import rendering. Additionally, we've addressed critical bug fixes, resolved draw order issues, corrected play-head behavior, standardized default naming for SVG imports, and fixed tabbing and case sensitivity in delete/backspace functions.

🛠️ Introducing LottieFiles for Figma Dev Mode!

This new plugin allows you to easily access your animation’s Asset URLs and auto-generated embed code directly within Figma. No more toggling between tabs – just simply Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V to integrate your Lottie animations into your projects.

Check it out at lottiefiles.com/figma

In this update, we added custom cursors, context menus, and visual feedback. Improvements include better scene names, and a simplified appearance. The software also fixed bugs related to multi-selection, playhead position, and canvas updates.

The SVG to Lottie feature is now available on LottieFiles for Canva! Upload your own SVG then choose from a variety of animation presets and seamlessly add a touch of motion magic to your Canva designs.

Single and multiple variant components are now supported in the Figma to Lottie plugin.

The latest update on the LottieFiles for Adobe After Effects plugin brought back the QR code feature so you can test your animations on mobile with ease.

This is a minor release for General Availability. It only includes a better anchor selection and faster timeline scrubber.

With this release, users can expect a more stable and user-friendly experience. The bug fixes address various issues, ensuring smoother workflow and accurate results. The new features and improvements enhance the toolset's capabilities and provide more control and flexibility to users. We will continue to listen to user feedback and iterate on the product to enhance its functionality and usability further.

We've added support for auto layout and instant transitions! Use Figma's auto layout in your animations to animate resized elements or simply feature UI elements. Adding instant transitions to your prototype flow will now open doors to more interesting animations made with Figma to Lottie.

We've added support for nested frames and grouped rotations! You can now animate frames within frames, as well as rotated groups.

This release includes several improvements and bug fixes to enhance the overall user experience of our application. We have introduced new features, fixed existing issues, and made various usability enhancements. We have focused on optimizing the user interface, fixing bugs, and introducing new features to enhance the overall usability of our application. We believe these changes will greatly improve your animation workflow and provide a more intuitive and efficient experience. We hope you enjoy using these new features and enhancements!

We are excited to announce the release of a new update that brings several improvements and bug fixes to our software. This changelog provides a detailed overview of the changes made, including the reasons behind them and the resulting benefits for users.

LottieFiles for Canva gives you access to 100,000+ free, ready-to-use customizable animations. Enhance your designs, tell better stories and engage users across your Canva projects, whiteboards, presentations, social media posts, videos and websites.

In this release, we've made several important changes and fixes to enhance the functionality and usability of Lottie Creator. These updates address various issues reported by users and aim to provide a smoother and more efficient experience.

These changes aim to enhance various aspects of Lottie Creator, including selection management, copy-paste functionality, playback controls, render order, timeline interaction, layer removal, clipboard operations, and user experience improvements. You will now have more control and flexibility while working on your animations.

We’ve added support for stroke gradients! You can now add linear and radial gradients to the stroke property. Stroke gradients are also supported by our presets.

In this release, we have made several minor and patch changes to enhance the functionality and user experience of our application. These changes address specific issues, introduce new features, and improve performance. Here's a detailed overview of what has been improved:

These updates enhance user experience by introducing new features, fixing bugs, and implementing user-driven improvements. Enhanced features include shortcuts for export, improved history tracking, visually appealing animations for errors, and a reduced autosave interval to minimize data loss. The overall result is a more stable, user-friendly application with convenient functions like adjusting canvas size for Lottie animations and easy click-and-drag repositioning of group shapes.

Add depth and a more realistic look to your animations with gradient support on Figma to Lottie! 

Render and upload multiple Lottie animations in bulk to save you time while streamlining your process!

We're excited to unveil preset controls in Figma to Lottie! You now have the flexibility to adjust the duration of your animations, among several other new controls, allowing for more precise animations. 

Big news for Figma to Lottie users! Check out the new Trim Path feature which allows you to animate stroke layers and create stunning motion graphics effortlessly. 

Lottie Creator's latest update includes a range of features, fixes, and improvements to enhance user experience, provide more control and flexibility within the tool, and resolve known issues. You can expect improvements in visual rendering, usability, customization options, and the overall stability of Lottie Creator.

Another exciting Figma to Lottie update! With the latest feature, you can control animation speed the way you like. Speed up or slow down your animation at the pace you prefer with ease. 

We're back with a bang! Our latest release is packed with dazzling updates and enhancements. Brace yourselves as we introduce you to the future of motion with Lottie Creator.

Figma to Lottie now has vector mask support! With this, you can hide or reveal selected contents of your layers, allowing you to create complex visual effects and apply selective visibility for that extra touch of magic to your animations. 

In this release, we have addressed several issues reported by our users. Here are the details of what we've changed: Scale Ratio Lock Property: We fixed an issue where changing the scale ratio lock property was affecting other Shapes' properties. Vertex Points Visibility: We have fixed the issue where

Figma to Lottie now supports boolean shapes! Complex designs and shapes created with the union, subtract, intersect, or exclude functions can now be animated and exported to Lottie with our plugin.

We’ve added text support in Figma to Lottie, which includes variable font compatibility! Now you can create captivating animated text effects using a wide range of font variations – perfect for marketing banners, ads, and more. 

We are thrilled to announce the latest release of Lottie Creator (v0.33), packed with bug fixes that enhance your user experience. Here is what you can expect from this update: When importing SVG, it is now automatically centered on the canvas. We have added a version label in the header to make

Exciting news! Lottie Creator is moving to the private beta phase 🎉 This means that a select group of users will now get to experience the magic of Lottie Creator firsthand.With its range of amazing features, from importing and testing animations to adjusting scenes and animation properties, Lottie Creator is

Do you have questions about the Figma to Lottie feature? Fret not, we've launched a dedicated Help Center. This will be your one-stop destination to understand any limitations and get guidance on maximizing the feature's potential.

We're changing the limit on the number of people who can join Basic Plan workspaces from 1 to unlimited! You can now invite as many people as you want to your free plan to collaborate on the LottieFiles platform 🤜 🤛

Our latest update to Lottie Editor introduces a new feature – the file edit limit. This feature enables you to track the number of files you've edited on Lottie Editor, ensuring that you're not caught off guard when you reach the limit.Once you reach your file edit limit, you'll see

We’re finally introducing a faster way to export GIFs on the LottieFiles platform! With this new method, you'll notice that GIF exports are now 5-10x faster compared to before 🎉We’ve also fixed a few minor issues:Automatic dotLottie optimizationAdded the option for you to add a link to an animation's descriptionFixed

Reduce your file sizes without compromising quality for an efficient design workflow.

Ensure your Lottie animations play across different players such as web, Android, iOS and more using the Lottie Feature Checker!

We're thrilled to announce the addition of the Telegram sticker export feature to Lottie Editor. This new feature will give you even more flexibility in exporting animations, thereby helping to streamline your workflow.We've also made improvements to the overall animation editing experience, including:Canvas aspect ratio can now be locked to

We've enhanced the Insert as GIF feature on the plugin to improve the GIF's quality as well as the speed of the process. With this update, you can:

• Insert high quality GIFs quicker. Insert GIFs for three different sizes.

• Insert transparent GIFs with Alpha support.

Furthermore, with this update, we've also resolved an issue with the Customize feature reported by some of our users.

We're excited to announce the release of Lottie Mockups, a new feature that allows you to preview and test your animations in context. This powerful tool lets you place a screenshot of your app along with a Lottie animation on the screen, providing a realistic preview of how it will

We're always working to make your Lottie Editor experience better! Here's a rundown of the latest improvements:Upload new animations directly on Lottie EditorInfo panel displays file specificationsOpen animations in Classic Editor

We're thrilled to announce that we've added on Lottie Feature Checker to the LottieFiles platform. This feature, first made available on our After Effects plugin, lets you easily check the compatibility of your animations across different players such as web, Android and iOS.With this tool, you can now test your

We've brought a whole lot of updates to our Lottie Editor, making it even easier and more fun for you to edit and personalize your Lottie animations! Here are just some of the new features under the hood:Improved layer selectionImproved color selection and real-time updates in the canvasCustomize text and

The Lottie Feature Checker is now available on our latest v3.1.0 release!The Lottie Feature Checker lets you see which Lottie features are used in your animation, and whether or not it would play across different players such as web, Android and iOS, among others.Now you can test your animations directly

Unleashing your creativity on the LottieFiles mobile app just became a whole lot easier, as you can now create animated posts and designs using the beautiful templates in our app's motion canvas feature. We'll be introducing seasonal and timeless templates covering topics like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Thank You, Happy Birthday and

You can now generate asset links in highly optimized Lottie formats, which lets you embed animations in your websites and apps with huge savings on files sizes. Access all four formats available as asset links (Lottie JSON, optimized Lottie JSON, dotLottie and optimized dotLottie) on the LottieFiles platform!You can also

We're thrilled to bring you some spectacular updates to the LottieFile platform! First of all, you can now export your animations to the GIF, MP4, MOV and WebM formats in 150 x 150 px for free 🥳We've also added the option for you to include some information about your animations,

You can now easily find others to collaborate with when you upgrade to our Team Plan. We'll suggest a list of people that are likely to be your teammates based on your sharing history and organization, and you can invite them to your workspace with just a single click!

As part of our Handoff & Embed feature, you can now use oEmbed links to add animations on supported sites like Notion, WordPress and more. Additionally, you can also use iFrame codes instead of JavaScript codes to display animations on websites.Other updates for this release:Added links to the animations in

Instagram story canvasWe’ve launched the Instagram story canvas for you to create social media stories and wow your followers! Take your own photos and backgrounds and add a special sparkle from thousands of beautiful animations.Animated sticker packsWe’ve launched animated sticker packs for Telegram and WhatsApp so you can go all

It’s now even easier to view animations in various use case scenarios! We’ve added a couple of new screen templates with curated animations for a loading screen, success screen and error screen.

Adobe XD plugin 3.0.0We’ve integrated the new LottieFiles platform into our Adobe XD plugin, giving you direct access to your workspaces, projects, folders and files. You can now upload new animation versions, update your animations’ status and even collaborate with others – all without leaving the plugin!Figma plugin v19We’ve resolved

This is it, folks! The game changer for working on motion, and one of our biggest product rollouts yet – the new LottieFiles platform✨Our platform comes with a whole slew of shiny new features, letting you. As part of this massive release, you’ll also see some major changes to your

We’ve integrated the new LottieFiles platform into our Figma plugin, giving you direct access to your workspaces, projects, folders and files. You can now upload new animation versions, update your animations’ status and even collaborate with others – all without leaving the plugin!

We’ve added the Education section on our website so that you can satisfy your hunger for more Lottie knowledge from top experts – be it in the form of in-depth courses or short tutorials. We hope you’ll have a blast learning something new every day 🤓

We’ve launched a new feature on our Android and iOS mobile apps that lets you preview animations in app screen templates. Whip out your app now to check out what your animations will look like in a loading screen scenarion

We’ve resolved an issue with importing animations locally from your computer.

We’ve upgraded our user authentication and management system, with increased security requirements for user login credentials. This update is applicable across all LottieFiles products, including web, plugins and apps.

We resolved a couple of issues with Lottie block rearrangement on the Editor. Previously, after the block rearrangement, you needed to reload the Editor to preview the Lottie animation. Furthermore, we've also resolved an issue with importing animations from the Media library.

You can now preview and test Lottie animations on multiple iOS and Web Players simultaneously using the LottieFiles macOS desktop app. This helps you ensure that your animations render perfectly on different players, and lets you check on the backward compatibility of your Lottie animations on older players easily.

Missed any of the fun and informative events organized by the Lottie Community? Fret not as you can now catch up on them all on our Community page. Just pick an event video, sit back, and enjoy. Happy learning!

We’ve added the cool new color palette feature in the latest version of our Figma plugin, which lets you recolor animations to any shade you fancy, as well as generate palettes from Figma artboards. A couple of bugs were also ironed out along the way.

Introducing our new color palette tool! You can now instantly tweak and preview any public animation’s colors using either a curated preset of colors, or a color scheme of your choice. This feature is just what you need if you’re looking to apply your brand colors to animations.

We created a new landing page for the LottieFiles for WordPress plugin, which lets you add free Lottie animations to your WordPress site in just minutes without breaking a sweat. Check out the page to learn more about what else it can do for you. Or better yet, take the

Ever wished you could easily round up a bunch of animations based on a theme (cute kittens!), or for a specific use case, like an app’s loading screen? With our new collections feature, you can do just that by curating free animations into as many collections as you’d like –

Every time one of your public animations gets featured on the LottieFiles homepage, you’ll now get an email notifying you of this so that we can let you know just how awesome you are 💯

After months of prepping, we finally unveiled LottieFiles’ new logo and brand colors to the world! Our new look was rolled out on our website and across all touchpoints like our plugins, apps and social media.

Just what can exactly can you do with LottieFiles? Well, the new and nifty use cases section on our homepage explains it all succinctly yet comprehensively to give you a pretty solid idea.

Did you know that LottieFiles is gearing up to make a big splash in South Korea? In line with this, we’re excited to have the Korean versions of our homepage and ‘What Is a Lottie?’ page ready for our users!

We’ve set up a new set of dedicated pages for you to sign up for or log in to LottieFiles when you’re being redirected to carry out either of these actions.

In conjunction with Ramadan and Eid, we created a special page curating all of our festive-themed animations in one convenient location to make it easier for our users to design eye-catching festive campaigns.