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.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | juliangarnier/anime | 6.2 | MIT | 73,755 |
| 2 | framer/motion | 7.3 | MIT | 34,420 |
| 3 | codse/animata | 5.5 | MIT | 2,993 |
| 4 | niazmorshed2007/reanimate | 4.8 | MIT | 1,566 |
| 5 | s2mr/elephant | 4.6 | Apache-2.0 | 153 |
| 6 | academysoftwarefoundation/opencue | 4.8 | Apache-2.0 | 1,006 |
| 7 | cruisediary/pastel | 4.6 | MIT | 3,514 |
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🎨 Gradient animation effect like Instagramscore 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 3,514 stars · 12 components · search them
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