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Clayzo

Free animation engine that coding agents use to build motion graphics

Clayzo is a design tools tool for Developers and Creators, offered as free. Popular alternatives include Developer Tools, Zeplin, Magnific (formerly Freepik).

About Clayzo

Clayzo is a free animation engine built for coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. You describe the motion you want, the agent writes it as a typed TypeScript animation document, renders frames to check its own work, and ships the result as a video or as a live player on a website or in a Swift app.

One command, npx clayzo@latest init, installs the CLI, the authoring library, a web player and two agent skills, one for authoring and one for shipping. The CLI renders labelled frame sheets in about a second, writes review packets that flag blank frames, clipping and contrast problems, and exports MP4, MOV and WebM with alpha, animated WebP, GIF, SVG or PNG sequences. The core is free for your own sites and apps; building a product on top of Clayzo needs a separate license. Sign-in is required to preview, render, review, package and export.

It suits developers and design-minded teams who already work with an agent and want product animations in code. Remotion also builds video from code but is a React framework you program yourself, while Rive and LottieFiles are visual editors with larger player ecosystems. Clayzo has no visual timeline editor, the SDK is closed source, and its license refers to account entitlements that Clayzo can verify.

Clayzo launched its animation engine on Product Hunt on November 2, 2026 and placed #6 of the day; an earlier Clayzo launch in March 2026 pitched a prototyping tool. Buying tip: use the free WebGL player (about 250 KB) for web heroes and keep CanvasKit for pixel-exact playback.

Key features of Clayzo

  • Agent skills for authoring and shipping animations in Claude Code, Cursor and Codex
  • Typed TypeScript animation documents with validation before rendering
  • Frame sheets and review packets that flag blank frames, clipping and contrast
  • Export to MP4, MOV and WebM with alpha, animated WebP, GIF, SVG and PNG sequence
  • Interactivity macros for hover lift, press squash, cursor follow and parallax
  • WebGL and CanvasKit web players plus React and Next.js components
  • Native Swift package for iOS 16 and macOS 13 using Metal
  • CI tokens for automated exports, for example in GitHub Actions

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Free to use, with royalty-free distribution of exported media
  • Agents can check their own frames instead of shipping blind
  • Same renderer for export and full-fidelity playback, so output matches
  • Small web player and a native Swift player with no web view
  • Players make no network requests to Clayzo

Cons

  • No visual timeline editor; you work through an agent and code
  • Closed-source SDK with a restrictive license
  • Account sign-in required for preview, review and export
  • Building a product on top of Clayzo needs a separate license
  • Very new product with a small user base and few reviews

Clayzo pricing

Clayzo uses a free model.

PlanPriceIncludes
Free$0Core engine; sign-in needed to preview, render and export
Product licenseCustomNeeded to build a product on Clayzo, such as an agent for your users

Source: clayzo.com · checked on Nov 3, 2026

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How Clayzo compares in Design tools

Rank by votes
#2 / 29

0 votes from members

Starting price
$0

Category median is $12/mo

Free alternatives
5

Free or open-source tools in Design tools

Clayzo ranks #2 of 29 design tools tools by community votes and is not directly comparable on price.

Common use cases

  1. 1Building animated landing page heroes that play live in the browser
  2. 2Creating checkout or onboarding microinteractions for a web app
  3. 3Exporting product launch clips and social videos from a text brief
  4. 4Adding interactive hover and cursor effects to marketing pages
  5. 5Shipping the same animation natively in an iOS or macOS app

Best for

Developers and small product teams who already use a coding agent and want production web or app animations without a motion designer.

Not ideal for

Motion designers who want a visual timeline editor or an open-source code framework (Rive, LottieFiles, Remotion).

Integrations

  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Codex
  • Claude
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Swift
  • GitHub Actions

Our take

Clayzo is a smart way to let a coding agent produce real motion graphics, and the self-review loop and matching export renderer make results dependable. Since it costs nothing today it is easy to try, but treat the closed license, and the separate license needed to build a product on it, as a risk for core work.

FAQ

What is Clayzo?
Clayzo is a Design tools tool: Free animation engine that coding agents use to build motion graphics.
How much does Clayzo cost?
Clayzo is Free; there is no mandatory paid plan.
What are the best alternatives to Clayzo?
Community-listed alternatives to Clayzo include Developer Tools, Zeplin, Magnific (formerly Freepik), SurgePix.
What does Clayzo integrate with?
Clayzo integrates with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Claude, React, Next.js and more.
Which platforms does Clayzo support?
Clayzo is available on web, macos, windows, linux.
Who is Clayzo for?
Developers and small product teams who already use a coding agent and want production web or app animations without a motion designer.

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