Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Adobe Animate

Product categories

2D Animation 2D Game Engine 3D Game Engine Animation Art Tools Charting Libraries Design Tools Game Development Game Engine Graphic Design Graphic Design Software Vector Graphic Editor

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Adobe Animate are Synfig Studio, Pencil2D, and Unity. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Synfig Studio Landing Page
1

Synfig Studio

Just another WordPress site
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Animation #2D Animation #Art Tools
Pencil2D Landing Page
2

Pencil2D

Pencil2D is an opensource animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, based on old...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Art Tools #Animation #2D Animation
Unity Landing Page
3

Unity

The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 197 social mentions
enve Landing Page
4

enve

A new open-source 2D animation software for Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Animation #2D Animation #Art Tools 4 social mentions
Haiku Animator Landing Page
5

Haiku Animator

Create powerful animations for any app or website
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Animation #2D Animation #Photo & Video
Godot Engine Landing Page
6

Godot Engine

Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 447 social mentions
GSAP Landing Page
7

GSAP

GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform) is a suite of JavaScript tools for high-performance animations that work in all major browsers.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $99.0 / Annually
#Javascript UI Libraries #Charting Libraries #Animation 72 social mentions
Tahoma2D Landing Page
8

Tahoma2D

Tahoma2D is a powerful program for 2D and stop motion animation. Tahoma 2D is based on OpenToonz.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Animation #2D Animation #Graphic Design 2 social mentions
Pencil Landing Page
9

Pencil

Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Animation #Drawing #Graphic Design Software
Lottie Landing Page
10

Lottie

Lottie is an online platform that helps the users in editing and shipping their animations in a few clicks.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Animation #Design Tools #Vector Graphic Editor 92 social mentions
Spine Animation Landing Page
11

Spine Animation

Spine is 2D skeletal animation software for video games.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Animation #Javascript UI Libraries #Vector Graphic Editor 27 social mentions
Inkscape Landing Page
12

Inkscape

Inkscape is a free, open source professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Graphic Design Software #Digital Drawing And Painting #Art Tools 483 social mentions