| description | Animator is a desktop app backed by cloud services for creating interactive, animated UI components. Bring your designs to life with animation, add interactivity responding to user events and data, and publish your creations as web, iOS and Android UI components. |
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Animator is a desktop app for Mac for creating interactive, animated UI components.
This is what it looks like when you start a fresh project:
And this is what it might look like after you've created your Animator project:
With the Animator app installed on your workstation, you can:
- Bring any Sketch design to life with animation
- Add interactivity by responding to user events and data
- Publish your creation as a clean, web-ready component
- Embed your component with just a few lines of code
But Animator is also a lot more than a design tool.
Animator is for shipping to production: Every component you make in Animator is automatically optimized for production — this is not a prototyping tool. We're building Animator because we believe creative teams should spend less time making throwaway prototypes, and more time shipping.
Animator is for engineers, too: Under the hood, every Animator component is clean JavaScript code that you can always hand-edit, without breaking the link to the source design. No more reworking your handcrafted code as fresh design changes come in. And we provide a powerful API for wiring up your component to external business logic.
Animator is for teams: Every change you make in Animator is automatically tracked in a version control system, so your work is always safe. We've taken care to make sure Animator can integrate with a wide variety of app platforms and frameworks, so your team can try a small sample of Animator within an existing project to see whether it's right for you. And coming soon, you can expect to see features like real-time collaborative editing, branching, sharing drafts, in-context commenting, and more.