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7 alternatives to manim

3b1b/manim — Animation engine for explanatory math videos (95,660 stars, MIT, ui, analytics, dev-tools).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 94 licence-cleared components from 3b1b/manim itself.

#RepoScoreLicenceStars
1juliangarnier/anime6.2MIT73,755
2framer/motion7.3MIT34,420
3codse/animata5.5MIT2,993
4niazmorshed2007/reanimate4.8MIT1,566
5s2mr/elephant4.6Apache-2.0153
6academysoftwarefoundation/opencue4.8Apache-2.01,006
7cruisediary/pastel4.6MIT3,514

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