After Effects plugins — Page 14

Plugins and scripts for Adobe After Effects: effects, particles, tracking, character animation and tools that speed up a motion designer's day. The catalog lists 1,375 plugins, 5 of them free or with a free version.

Motion GraphicsVFXParticlesSimulationRenderingModelingAnimationRiggingColor GradingTransitionsTrackingKeying & CompositingScattering & VegetationUV UnwrappingMaterials & ShadersLightingCameraText & TitlesAudioPresets & TemplatesAssets & LibrariesRetiming & SpeedNoise ReductionImport & ExportInterface & UIWorkflow
Path Visualizer

Plugin Everything

After Effects plugin that draws live vertices, bezier curves and handles from text or paths for a blueprint look.

FreeAfter Effects
Move Anchor Point

BatchFrame Software

After Effects script that repositions anchor points on a grid without shifting the layer, with presets and name matching.

FreeAfter Effects
AEJuice Slides AI

AEJuice

Slideshow pack with 100+ slide compositions in 10 styles plus an AI creator tool for After Effects and Premiere Pro.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
Lockdown 3

Vranos

Free After Effects planar and warp tracker with 3D mesh depth, Paint Link and Composite Brush for cleanup.

FreeAfter Effects
Pixflow TypeToon

Pixflow

Set of 64 colorful animated retro titles with a 3D look and toggleable backgrounds for After Effects.

FreeAfter Effects
Plugin Everything Effect Matte

Plugin Everything

After Effects matte plugin with expansion, roundness, feathering and invert controls for text and video layers.

FreeAfter Effects
Type ReAlign

Adam Sacks

After Effects panel that changes text alignment while keeping type in place, for both 2D and 3D layers.

FreeAfter Effects
AEJuice Stop Motion Animation

AEJuice

One-hour beginner course on designing and animating a stop-motion character with Photoshop and After Effects.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
Chatty

lifehAEcks

After Effects tool for building animated chat conversations with text, emojis, media, audio and avatars.

FreeAfter Effects
Plugin Everything Extrude

Plugin Everything

GPU extrusion effect for live text, shapes and masks in After Effects with directional, vanishing and 3D camera modes.

FreeAfter Effects
ExtendScript Hotkey Manager

Vakago Tools

Record and assign custom keyboard shortcuts to ExtendScript and JSX scripts in After Effects and Premiere Pro.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
Pseudo Effect Maker

BatchFrame Software

After Effects tool for building custom expression-control effects by clicking and dragging, without restarting.

FreeAfter Effects
Render Frame at Markers

Lloyd Alvarez

Free After Effects script that sends frames marked by layer or comp markers to the render queue as stills.

FreeAfter Effects
AEJuice Text Effects

AEJuice

Title pack of 14 text effect styles with 200+ compositions and 100+ animated elements for After Effects and Premiere Pro.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
Dehancer Film Emulation

Dehancer

Film emulation for After Effects, Resolve and Premiere with 60+ stocks, grain, halation and bloom.

FreeAfter EffectsDaVinci ResolvePremiere Pro
easyShape FX

Fremox

After Effects tool from Fremox that applies effects to a selected shape layer with a single button click.

FreeAfter Effects
pt_Multiplane

Paul Tuersley

After Effects script that turns layered Photoshop or Illustrator files into 3D multiplane scenes for depth and camera motion.

FreeAfter Effects
Digital Anarchy Data Storyteller

Digital Anarchy

Turns Excel or CSV data into animated vector charts and maps in After Effects, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.

FreeAfter EffectsDaVinci ResolvePremiere Pro
REDitors

REDitors

Plugin for Premiere Pro and After Effects offering AI silence removal, auto cuts, captions, transcription and titles.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
GradientHub

synthetick

After Effects panel with 500+ gradient presets applicable to Colorama, Color Shift, shape layers and layer styles.

FreeAfter Effects
RE:Vision Effects Video Gogh

RE:Vision Effects

RE:Vision Effects plugin for After Effects, with GPU rendering in version 4 and regular and Pro editions.

FreeAfter Effects
Rowbyte Aura

Rowbyte

GPU plugin that generates hundreds of thousands of procedural vector-like waves in 3D space inside After Effects.

FreeAfter Effects
FontReplacer

PWMedia

After Effects tool that swaps fonts across a whole project, including keyframed text and expressions, with a change log.

FreeAfter Effects
Odometer

Plugin Everything

After Effects plugin that animates counting numbers, words and glyphs with three modes and built-in easing options.

FreeAfter Effects
Swiss Knife

Motion Design School

Collection of 20 After Effects tools for parallax, linked animation, placeholders and support tasks.

FreeAfter Effects
AE Purger

Renico van Wyk

Free After Effects tool by Renico van Wyk that clears the cache and purges RAM from inside the app.

FreeAfter Effects
Pixel Galactic

Pixel Sorter Studio

GPU-accelerated effect that turns movement into dreamy trails, glitchy echoes and flowing pixel distortion.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
TypeMonkey

Orrin Zucker

Kinetic typography generator for After Effects that builds timed word animations and a camera without keyframes.

FreeAfter Effects
Fluxion

grape design

GPU particle plugin for After Effects that makes particles flow along vector fields generated from masks.

FreeAfter Effects
DeepCopy

Charchit Goyal

Shortcut-driven After Effects tool that duplicates precomps, including nested comps, as fully independent copies.

FreeAfter Effects
Safest Zone

Oleksandr Shuryha

After Effects tool that adds safe-zone guides for social videos, ads and thumbnails using platform presets.

FreeAfter Effects
UI Magnifier

Motionist

CEP extension for After Effects and Premiere Pro that adds a live circular magnifier under the cursor.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
MoTi

Ti Nyain

One-click After Effects tool that tags layers by role and generates promo, title and social animation keyframes.

FreeAfter Effects
CloneSpace

grape design

GPU-accelerated After Effects plugin that duplicates a layer and spreads the copies through 3D space.

FreeAfter Effects
LightsOn

Manuel does Motion

Adds animatable lens flares and lights to After Effects scenes using built-in elements, with no separate plug-in.

FreeAfter EffectsBlender
AEP Version Updater

GatoDoMato Scripts

After Effects script that batch-updates old .AEP project files to your current version, folders included.

FreeAfter Effects
CurveConductor

David Beal

After Effects tool where one editable control curve drives the timing of many properties at once.

FreeAfter Effects
mamoworld MochaImport+

mamoworld

Brings Mocha planar tracks into After Effects for stabilized precomps, corner pins, masks and 2D property tracking.

FreeAfter Effects
AI Relight Pro

Baskl.ai

Adds adjustable fake 3D lights to footage in post inside After Effects and Premiere Pro.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
CompsFromSpreadsheet 5

Michael Cardeiro

After Effects script that creates versions of a comp from spreadsheet data, including layers, precomps and render settings.

FreeAfter Effects
AEJuice Add Bounce Expression

AEJuice

One-click After Effects script that applies a bounce expression to selected properties with saved settings.

FreeAfter Effects
Anchor Pro

Leyero

Plugin for After Effects and Premiere Pro that repositions anchor points relative to a clip, sequence or selection.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
AEJuice Add Dynamic Text Box

AEJuice

After Effects script that adds a resizable text box with border and stroke controls to a layer in one click.

FreeAfter Effects
Coresee

Like Minded Labs

Streams Premiere Pro and After Effects projects into live virtual review sessions with frame-accurate playback.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro
ExpressionUniversalizer 4

Lloyd Alvarez

Converts After Effects expressions so projects run in any supported application language, with batch processing.

FreeAfter Effects
AEJuice Add Glow

AEJuice

After Effects script that applies a customizable soft glow to one or several layers in one click.

FreeAfter Effects
AEJuice Add Text Controls

AEJuice

After Effects script that adds control rigs to every selected text layer across compositions in one click.

FreeAfter Effects
Battle Axe Anubis

Battle Axe

Export panel for After Effects and Premiere Pro with naming tokens, dynamic folders, background render and compression.

FreeAfter EffectsPremiere Pro