How-to guides, fair tool roundups and neutral comparisons for 3D motion design and AI motion graphics, and for the videos people actually ship: launch videos, data stories, website heroes and social cuts. Every piece opens with the answer and shows when it was last checked.
Unlimited free 1080p exports. No watermark. Runs in your browser.
Guides, roundups, comparisons and reference, newest first. Every piece shows when its facts were last checked, and roundups don't rank Paraplex first by default.
12 AI motion design tools compared and ranked, sorted into three kinds: generative video, prompt-to-video agents, and AI inside a motion editor.
Four rules, the same on every page, so you can check the work instead of taking our word for it.
Every piece opens with a two-sentence answer, then shows the working. If that's all you needed, you can stop there.
Each page shows when its facts were last checked. Roundups and comparisons link every source with an as-of date and are re-checked every quarter.
Paraplex isn't ranked first by default. Roundups say plainly when another tool is the better pick, and neutral comparisons leave Paraplex out of the verdict.
How-to guides end with the finished project, ready to open in Paraplex and take apart layer by layer.
Learn covers the craft and the category. When you want the exact steps inside Paraplex, or a finished scene to take apart, start here.
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The Help Center walks through every panel and tool step by step, from a first animation to the final export.
Open the Help Center02
Open any of 70+ templates and see every layer, keyframe and light that made it, then make it yours.
Browse the templates03
Free browser tools for liquid glass, moving gradients, kinetic type, chart videos and Lottie to MP4. No account, no watermark.
See the free toolsThe next pieces in the queue. Each one goes live here once its facts are checked.
How-to
From a blank scene to a pane of glass that bends the type behind it: the dials that matter, in order, and the finished scene to open.
Reference
Sizes, aspect ratios and safe zones for TikTok, Reels, Shorts and the Instagram feed in one sheet, re-checked whenever a platform changes its specs.
Explainer
What kinetic type is, where it works and where it doesn't, the motions that carry it, and how to make a first title card.
Roundup
Desktop, browser and AI tools for motion graphics, sorted by the job each does best, with prices as of the day they were checked.
Comparison
A neutral matchup of two 2D motion tools: where each is faster, what each exports, and who should pick which.
How-to
Length, formats and pacing that hold up on launch day, built from your real screens, with the finished scene to open.
Learn is Paraplex's library of how-to guides, tool roundups, neutral comparisons and reference sheets for 3D motion design and AI motion graphics. Each piece opens with a short answer and shows the date its facts were last checked.
They're written to be. Paraplex isn't ranked first by default, every tool is judged on the same criteria with linked, dated sources, and each roundup says plainly when another tool is the better pick.
Every page shows an Updated date. Roundups and comparisons are re-checked every quarter and after major product events, and their sources carry as-of dates, because these tools change often.
No. Roundups, comparisons and reference sheets are useful whatever tool you use. How-to guides are written for Paraplex and end with the finished scene, which opens free in your browser.
In the Help Center at paraplex.ai/help, which covers every panel and tool step by step. Learn covers the craft and the category: how to make a kind of piece, and which tools to make it with.
Yes. Paraplex has a free plan with 1080p exports and no watermark, and it runs in your browser with nothing to install. Pro starts at $19 a month billed yearly and adds 4K at 60 fps, transparent export and batch export.
Start free in your browser. Upgrade when your work needs 4K.
Paraplex is a browser-based 3D motion design studio with an AI assistant that edits real layers and keyframes.
Motion graphics
Paraplex fits motion graphics for designers and marketers, in the browser with nothing to install. It isn't built for VFX or compositing.
Procedural motion
Paraplex fits procedural and data-driven motion in the browser: generators you can edit in JavaScript, particles placed from a spreadsheet, and one version per row.
Demo videos
Paraplex fits polished demo videos built from the screenshots and recordings you bring, with a cursor that clicks and drags. It doesn't record your screen.
Lottie editing
Paraplex opens a .json or .lottie file as native layers, adds 3D, light and video export around it, and exports the flat parts back to Lottie.
Website heroes
Paraplex fits website hero scenes that run as a live embed and also export as video.
AI launch motion
Paraplex's assistant builds launch motion as real layers and keyframes you edit on a timeline, and each change waits for your Apply or Discard.
Every comparison says where the other tool wins. These hold for all of them.
Each Paraplex piece runs 1 to 60 seconds. Long edits, vlogs and full-length videos belong in a video editor; Paraplex can make the titles and overlays that go in them.
Keying, tracking and compositing live-action footage is work for a compositing app such as After Effects. Paraplex is built for motion graphics.
Paraplex imports GLB and glTF models and plays their own animations, but you model and rig them first in a 3D app such as Blender or Cinema 4D.
Paraplex publishes video, Lottie and live web embeds. For state-driven animation built into an app's own interface, a runtime tool such as Rive fits better.
Paraplex charts animate for video and embeds. For charts a reader filters and hovers inside an article, a web charting tool such as Flourish fits better.
Paraplex dresses the screenshots and recordings you bring in browser frames, 3D devices and a moving cursor, but it doesn't record your screen. Record first, then build the demo.
One page per tool, each dated and sourced. Jitter and After Effects are up first; the tools listed below are next.
Jitter Alternatives for 3D Motion Design
2D motion vs 3D motion
Jitter is a fast, well-liked 2D motion tool. Paraplex is for when the piece needs real glass, chrome and light, an assistant whose changes you approve one by one, or a live embed.
Verdict, feature table and sources, as of October 2026
After Effects Alternative for Motion Design
Motion graphics vs VFX
After Effects is the standard for compositing and VFX. Paraplex is for motion graphics in a browser tab: free to start, an assistant that builds the animation, and one scene for every screen.
Verdict, feature table and sources, as of October 2026
