verve vs Jitter

Motion graphics exported as video, GIF or Lottie, versus code that animates your own component.

What Jitter is

Jitter is a motion design tool in the browser, built for creative teams. You bring in a design, often straight from Figma, animate its layers on a timeline, and export the result as a video (MP4, MOV or WebM), a GIF or a Lottie file. Teams use it for social posts, ads, feature reveals and logo animations, and there are hundreds of templates to start from.

Use Jitter, not verve, if

The animation is going somewhere code can't run, like a social post, an ad, an email or a slide deck. A video or a GIF is the right thing to hand over there.
It's motion graphics rather than part of an interface, like a launch video or a logo reveal.
You're starting from a design and nothing's been built in code yet. Jitter takes layers straight from Figma.
Your team makes lots of versions of the same piece, in different sizes or languages. Jitter has templates and batch tools for exactly that.

Use verve if

The animation is part of a working interface, like a menu that opens or a button that reacts when you press it. A video of a button can't be pressed.
Text should stay text, so screen readers and translation still work.
It has to fit whatever space the layout gives it, at any width and in either theme.
You'd rather ship a stylesheet than a video file.

Side by side

What	Jitter	verve
What you leave with	A video (MP4, MOV or WebM), a GIF or a Lottie file	Motion, GSAP or CSS source, in your own files
What ships in your bundle	The video or GIF, or a Lottie player and its JSON	Motion or GSAP if you export those; nothing at all for CSS
What gets animated	Your design, rendered into frames or drawn by a Lottie player	Your own DOM, with its markup and styles
Text	Part of the picture	Your real elements, so text stays text
Handing it to a developer	A Lottie file, or an easing curve copied as CSS	The whole animation, as code
Where it plays	Anywhere a video or GIF plays, including social posts, email and slides	The web

What you end up writing

Jitter's MP4 on a web page — the animation is the video

export function FeatureReveal() {
  return (
    <video
      src="/feature-reveal.mp4"
      autoPlay
      muted
      loop
      playsInline
    />
  );
}

verve's CSS export for a badge entrance, with nothing to install

.badge {
  animation:
    badge-transform 600ms 0ms both,
    badge-opacity 300ms 0ms both;
}

@keyframes badge-transform {
  0% {
    transform: translate3d(0px, 16px, 0);
    animation-timing-function: linear(0, 0.004 1%, 0.026 2.5%, 0.062 4%, 0.108 5.5%, 0.202 8%, 0.455 14%, 0.574 17%, 0.681 20%, 0.758 22.5%, 0.823 25%, 0.887 28%, 0.936 31%, 0.973 34%, 0.998 37%, 1.015 40%, 1.025 43.5%, 1.03 47.5%, 1.028 53%, 1.003 76.5%, 1);
  }
  100% {
    transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0);
  }
}

@keyframes badge-opacity {
  0% {
    opacity: 0;
    animation-timing-function: ease-out;
  }
  100% {
    opacity: 1;
  }
}

Check it yourself

Every claim above about Jitter 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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