unlumen UI
Freemium shadcn registry of Motion-driven React components
unlumen UI is a shadcn-compatible registry of animated React components built with TypeScript, Tailwind and Motion. Its registry.json declares 233 items — 136 registry:ui entries (124 once demos are removed), 78 examples, 11 components, 5 hooks and 2 libs — split between roughly 79 marketed components and about 45 lower-level animation primitives (text effects, button effects, transitions, tilt/magnetic/shine, particles). Roughly half the catalogue is free and the rest is Pro, gated behind a Polar licence key passed to the shadcn CLI. It also ships an MCP server so AI editors can browse and install from the registry directly.
npx shadcn@latest add https://ui.unlumen.com/r/dock.jsonReach for unlumen UI when the ask is marketing-page motion — aurora and pixel backgrounds, gooey navbars, text reveals, dock magnification — rather than application chrome; for forms, tables and dialogs you still want plain shadcn/ui or Radix underneath, and unlumen assumes that base is already installed. Install by full registry URL (https://ui.unlumen.com/r/<slug>.json, verified working) or configure the @unlumen-ui namespace in components.json first; every component pulls `motion` as a dependency. The trap for agents is the paywall: the registry advertises Pro slugs so they look installable, but they 401 without UNLUMEN_LICENSE_KEY in .env.local passed as a bearer header or ?token=. Check the free/Pro label before you promise a component, and prefer the free slugs when the user has not bought a licence. Accessibility is not claimed anywhere in the docs, so audit keyboard and reduced-motion behaviour yourself on anything interactive.
Why it is here. One of the better-engineered paid shadcn registries: a real registry.json, a working MCP server, and a primitives layer under the showpieces so you can compose your own effects rather than only pasting finished ones.
- 124 non-demo registry entries
- ~45 low-level animation primitives, not just finished components
- MCP server for AI editors
- Pro slugs gated by Polar licence key in the CLI
- $119 one-time or $69/year
Verified 2026-08-15. HTTP 200. https://ui.unlumen.com/components (200, full free/Pro component listing), https://ui.unlumen.com/r/registry.json parsed directly (233 items, type counts, 124 non-demo registry:ui slugs), https://ui.unlumen.com/r/dock.json (200, confirms `motion` dependency and install-by-URL), https://ui.unlumen.com/pricing, https://unlumen-ui-docs.vercel.app/docs/installation and /docs/mcp (reached via 307 from ui.unlumen.com/docs), https://ui.unlumen.com/llms.txt (200). Per-component docs pages under unlumen-ui-docs.vercel.app/docs/components/<slug> 404, so the exact namespaced add command was not readable and the URL form is given instead.
