EffectCraft

EffectCraft is a free, open-source motion graphics and visual effects program modelled on Adobe After Effects, made by ArtCraft. It is a compositor written from scratch in Rust that runs natively on macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD and in a browser through WebAssembly.

Features

• Compositions, keyframes (linear, Bézier, hold, eased and roving) and a graph editor with value and speed curves.
• Solid, shape, text, footage, adjustment, null, camera and light layers, nested compositions, parenting, track mattes and 38 blend modes.
• 259 effects, including blur, colour correction, distortion, keying, particles and simulation.
• 3D layers with cameras, depth of field and lights that cast soft ray-traced shadows.
• JavaScript expressions, and export to H.264 and ProRes with alpha, PNG, TIFF and 32-bit EXR sequences and GIF, with Lottie import and export.

History and availability

EffectCraft was first released on 2 October 2026 as one of the seven original Crafting Apps and is marked as in development. Ars Technica and TechSpot covered it as ArtCraft's take on After Effects. It is released under the MIT or Apache-2.0 licence; official builds are on its page at getartcraft.com, in the storytold/effectcraft releases on GitHub and through the ArtCraft Launcher.