verve vs Figma Motion

Animation for the layers in your Figma file, versus code that animates your own component.

What Figma Motion is

Figma Motion is a timeline inside Figma Design, in open beta since June 2026. You animate the layers in a frame with keyframes, presets and bezier or spring easing, and an animated component carries its motion to every instance. It exports video, GIFs and animated SVG on any plan. On a paid plan with a Full or Dev seat, Dev Mode also gives developers the animation as CSS, React (built on Motion) or JSON.

Looking for a Figma Motion alternative?

If you are looking for a Figma Motion alternative, the difference is which artifact the animation ends up attached to. Figma Motion animates the layers in your Figma file, and its code describes those layers — fitting it onto the markup you actually shipped is a separate step. verve starts from the component that already exists in code and writes the animation into it, as Motion, GSAP or CSS. Export is free and needs no account or paid seat, and every export is replayed in a real browser and checked against what you designed. If the design still lives in Figma and the motion belongs next to its components and variables, Figma Motion is the closer fit.

Use Figma Motion, not verve, if

You're designing in Figma, and the motion should live next to the components and variables it belongs to.
What you need is a video, a GIF or an animated SVG, made from the file you already have.
Your developers already work in Dev Mode and want to read the timeline there before they write anything.
You want an AI agent to write keyframes, or change a lot of them at once, inside the design file.

Use verve if

The component already exists in code and you want the animation written into it. Figma's code describes Figma's layers, and fitting it onto your markup is a separate step.
You want GSAP. Figma's code comes as CSS, React or JSON.
You don't have a paid Figma seat, or don't want your export to depend on one. Export here is free and needs no account.
You want every export played in a real browser and checked against what you designed.

Side by side

What	Figma Motion	verve
What you leave with	Video, GIF or animated SVG on any plan; CSS, React or JSON from Dev Mode on a paid seat	Motion, GSAP or CSS source, in your own files
What ships in your bundle	Motion for the React code; nothing for CSS	Motion or GSAP if you export those; nothing at all for CSS
What gets animated	Layers in a Figma frame	Your own DOM, with its markup and styles
Where the code goes	Snippets keyed to Figma's layers, which you or an agent fit onto your markup	Motion writes it onto your component's elements; CSS and GSAP target a class the export adds to your markup
What code export costs	A paid plan with a Full or Dev seat	Nothing, and no account
Where it is authored	In Figma, on your design	In the browser, on the rendered component

What you end up writing

Figma Motion's code for one layer, as Figma's own agent guide shows it

// get_motion_context for 16:2894 — scale animation
<motion.div
  initial={{ scaleX: 1, scaleY: 1 }}
  animate={{ scaleX: [1, 1.18, 1, 1], scaleY: [1, 1.18, 1, 1] }}
  transition={{
    scaleX: { duration: 2, times: [0, 0.175, 0.375, 1], ease: ["easeOut", "easeInOut", "linear"], repeat: Infinity },
    scaleY: { duration: 2, times: [0, 0.175, 0.375, 1], ease: ["easeOut", "easeInOut", "linear"], repeat: Infinity },
  }}
/>

verve's Motion export, written into a pasted component

import { motion } from "motion/react";

export default function WeeklyChange() {
  return (
    <motion.p
      className="text-sm text-muted-foreground"
      initial={{ y: 16, opacity: 0 }}
      animate={{ y: 0, opacity: [0, 1] }}
      transition={{
        y: { type: "spring", stiffness: 260, damping: 24, mass: 1, restDelta: 0.01, restSpeed: 0.01 },
        opacity: { duration: 0.3, times: [0, 1], ease: "easeOut" },
      }}
    >
      <span className="font-medium text-foreground">+4.3%</span> vs last week
    </motion.p>
  );
}

Check it yourself

Every claim above about Figma Motion is answerable from their own documentation. If one of them goes out of date, it is a bug on this page and we would like to know.

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