Lottie
Plays After Effects animations exported as JSON, rendered to SVG or canvas.
Animation and motion npm MIT
How Lottie is used
Lottie joined the catalog on its public numbers (4,314,430 downloads a week on npm and 32,250 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 18 public GitHub projects of our scan, 6 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use React (100.0%), Next.js (66.7%), Framer Motion (55.6%).
AgentGid articles about Lottie
Lottie popularity over time
Gid Score 59: downloads 77, use in agent projects 26, GitHub stars 70, downloads trend 56 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Lottie
| React | 100.0% of Lottie projects · 3.1× more than average |
|---|---|
| Next.js | 66.7% of Lottie projects · 3.7× more than average |
| Framer Motion | 55.6% of Lottie projects · 7.0× more than average |
| GSAP | 55.6% of Lottie projects · 30.8× more than average |
| ESLint | 88.9% of Lottie projects · 2.4× more than average |
| React Icons | 44.4% of Lottie projects · 15.9× more than average |
| Three.js | 44.4% of Lottie projects · 19.0× more than average |
| Tailwind Merge | 55.6% of Lottie projects · 3.0× more than average |
By coding agent
| Cursor | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
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Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Lottie as a dependency.
How Lottie is funded
Open Collective: Lottie
| Received, last 12 months | $4,005 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $3,020 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $45,575 |
| Raised since the start | $153,802 · $108,228 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $138 · $1,138 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -71% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 4 |
Top company backers all time, 13 companies in total
| LottieFiles | $41,000 since Nov 2020 |
|---|---|
| Lottielab | $28,000 since Feb 2022 |
| Google Open Source | $16,000 since Feb 2024 |
| Robinhood | $7,050 since Jun 2022 |
| Stream | $500 since Jul 2021 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Oct 2020. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Ways to fund Lottie
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install lottie-web |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (12), TypeScript / JavaScript (4), PHP (1), React Native / Expo (1) |
| Example projects | Automattic/wp-calypso, databayt/hogwarts |
Alternatives to Lottie
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Animation and motion does the same job as Lottie: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
More in Animation and motion: tw-animate-css Framer Motion Tailwind CSS Animate Embla Carousel Motion GSAP React Native Reanimated canvas-confetti