Framer Motion
Framer Motion is a production-ready animation library for React, JavaScript, and Vue that simplifies the creation of smooth, performant, and interactive animations.
Our verdict
Who it's for
Build production-ready animations for web with a simple, powerful JavaScript and React animation library.
Who should look elsewhere
Motion+ features require a subscription
Pros
- +Easy to learn and use API
- +Supports React, JavaScript, and Vue
- +Handles complex animation scenarios (gestures, layout, scroll)
- +Focuses on performance and native feel
- +Extensive resources with Motion+ (components, pre-built animations, tutorials)
Cons
- −Motion+ features require a subscription
- −Visual editor is currently in alpha
Key features
- ✓Simple API for animation creation
- ✓Independent transform animations (x, y, rotateZ)
- ✓Smooth, hardware-accelerated scroll animations
- ✓Exit animations with AnimatePresence
- ✓Native-feeling hover, press, and drag gestures
- ✓Industry-leading layout animation engine
- ✓Timeline sequences with variants and stagger
- ✓Real spring physics for animations
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | — | month | 10 CMS collections; 1,000 pages; 5 MB file uploads |
| Basic | $10 | month | Creative personal sites; Free custom domain (on yearly); Connect your own domain |
| Pro | $30 | month | Growing professional sites; Everything from Basic, plus:; Staging and instant rollback |
| Scale | $100 | month | Advanced, high-traffic sites; Everything from Pro, plus:; Custom locale regions |
| Enterprise | — | month | For teams that need custom limits, enterprise security, and dedicated support.; Custom limits; Enterprise security |