Lottielab
A Lottie animation editor for product teams, used by a stated 500,000 designers, that ships straight to apps and sites
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Lottielab creates and edits Lottie animations and ships them to applications and websites. It calls itself the motion design tool for product teams, and it states 500,000 or more designers as users. Editing is the part that matters. Lottie is the standard format for vector animation in a product, and most teams produce it in After Effects through an export plugin, which means a small change costs a round trip through a video tool. An editor that opens the Lottie file directly removes that. The examples on the page name the real jobs: a brand logo, a second version of it, an onboarding animation and two advertisement creatives. Templates and case studies sit beside a pricing page. It publishes no llms.txt and no sitemap: both paths return the same body as a nonsense path.
For an agent
Reach for it when a Lottie file needs a change and nobody has After Effects. Editing the Lottie directly is the whole point, and it removes the export round trip. Take the output as a Lottie JSON file. That is the shipping format for vector animation in a product, and it plays on web, iOS and Android from the same file. Send a person to make the animation. The tool is a browser application behind an account, with no API and no agent surface, so an agent can specify the animation but cannot produce it here.
Why it is here. Lottie is the format products actually ship motion in, and most teams can only produce it through After Effects. An editor that opens the file directly changes who on the team can make a change.
Facts
- License
- Proprietary / all rights reserved
- Pricing
- Freemium, Subscription, Free but account required
- Framework
- Not applicable
- Styling
- Not applicable
- Distribution
- Web app / online tool
- Platform
- Web
- Content type
- Video, Code, Images / textures / backgrounds
- Agent readiness
- Client-rendered shell, Login required
- Accessibility
- Unknown
- Maturity
- Actively maintained
- Pricing detail
- Freemium with a stated "Get started for free" path and a pricing page. No figure appears in the served HTML. An account is needed to edit.
Helps you build
3Notable for
- edits Lottie files directly, no After Effects
- stated 500,000 designers
- ships to apps and websites
- templates and case studies
- no llms.txt and no sitemap
Provenance
Verified 2026-08-30. HTTP 200. https://lottielab.com/ 200, 80 KB; title "Lottielab | Create & edit Lottie animations"; the page reads "The motion design tool for product teams — Create and edit lottie animations, ship to your apps and websites", "Get started for free" and "Trusted by 500,000+ designers, from the world's most innovative companies"; the sample timeline names "Brand logo", "Brand logo V2", "Onboarding animation", "Ad creative version 1" and "Ad creative version 2"; the navigation holds Templates, "Case studies", Pricing, Login and Sign up. /llms.txt and /sitemap.xml both 404 and return the same body as a nonsense path. Listed under Motion on designengineer.tools.
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