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Lottie vs Material: What are the differences?

Lottie: Easily add high-quality animation to any native app (by Airbnb). Lottie is a mobile library for Android and iOS that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json with Bodymovin and renders them natively on mobile!; Material: A Graphics Framework for Material Design in Swift. Express your creativity with Material, an animation and graphics framework for Google's Material Design and Apple's Flat UI in Swift.

Lottie and Material belong to "Mobile Prototyping & Interaction Design Tools" category of the tech stack.

Lottie and Material are both open source tools. It seems that Lottie with 26K GitHub stars and 4.08K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Material with 11K GitHub stars and 1.21K GitHub forks.

Airbnb, Redsift, and The Bubbles Company are some of the popular companies that use Lottie, whereas Material is used by Pardel Technologies, Working Minds, and Contratobook. Lottie has a broader approval, being mentioned in 10 company stacks & 14 developers stacks; compared to Material, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.

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    Multi platform
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    Open source
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    Good Documentation
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    Samples included
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What is Lottie?

Lottie is a mobile library for Android and iOS that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json with Bodymovin and renders them natively on mobile!

What is Material?

Express your creativity with Material, an animation and graphics framework for Google's Material Design and Apple's Flat UI in Swift.

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What are some alternatives to Lottie and Material?
GreenSock
It is a JavaScript library for creating high-performance animations that work in every major browser. It delivers advanced sequencing, reliability, API efficiency, and tight control while solving real-world problems. It works around countless browser inconsistencies.
Framer
Framer is a JavaScript framework that makes creating realistic prototypes a breeze – complete with filters, spring physics and full 3D effects. Framer Generator is a desktop app that imports the resources and folder hierarchy from Photoshop files (Sketch coming soon). Import your design and immediately start to add interaction and animation.
ProtoPie
It is the easiest tool used to turn your UI/UX design ideas into highly interactive prototypes for mobile, desktop, web, all the way to IoT. ProtoPie runs on macOS & Windows and the player app is on iOS and Android.
Principle
It makes it easy to design animated and interactive user interfaces. Whether you're designing the flow of a multi-screen app, or new interactions and animations, it helps you create designs that look and feel amazing.
Fuse
It is a set of user experience development tools that unify design, prototyping and implementation of high quality, native apps for iOS and Android.
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