Company Overview
Founded in 2016 by Nattu Adnan and Tom Wickline (originally as part of Design Barn) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, LottieFiles is the world's leading platform for Lottie animations. Lottie is a lightweight, scalable vector animation format open-sourced by Airbnb, and LottieFiles built a complete ecosystem for creating, sharing, collaborating on, and integrating these animations.
LottieFiles hosts over 1 million free Lottie animations and serves millions of designers and developers worldwide. The company is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with a distributed remote team, and is the most influential platform in the Lottie animation ecosystem.
In the design assets space, LottieFiles competes with Rive, Haiku Animator (discontinued by HubSpot), SVGator, Flow, and JSON2Anim.
Core Products
| Product | Description |
|---|---|
| LottieFiles Animation Platform | World's largest Lottie animation library with 1M+ free animations, supporting search, preview, and download |
| LottieFiles Player | Cross-platform SDK supporting Web, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, and more |
| LottieFiles Editor | Online Lottie animation editor for modifying colors, sizes, speeds, and other parameters without design tools |
| LottieFiles API | Developer API for integrating the Lottie animation library into websites, apps, and design workflows |
| LottieFiles Plugins | Plugins for Figma, Adobe After Effects and other tools, enabling direct upload and management from design tools |
| LottieFiles Testing Tool | Lottie animation testing tool for previewing and debugging animations across different devices and environments |
Core Strengths
- Complete Ecosystem: End-to-end Lottie workflow from creation, sharing, testing to integration
- Massive Library: 1M+ free Lottie animations covering a wide range of scenarios and styles
- Cross-Platform Player: SDK support for all major frontend frameworks and mobile platforms
- Design Tool Integration: Plugins for Figma, After Effects, and other tools bridging design and development
- Lightweight Format: Lottie files are significantly smaller than traditional GIF and video formats while maintaining vector quality
Key Milestones
- 2016: LottieFiles founded in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, launching the Lottie animation sharing platform
- 2026: Continues expanding the animation library and platform features, serving millions of global users
Market Position
LottieFiles is the largest and most active platform in the Lottie animation ecosystem, holding a leading position in lightweight vector animation. Its main competitors include:
- Rive: Interactive animation platform with state machine-driven real-time animations, targeting games and interaction design
- Haiku Animator: Animation tool acquired and later discontinued by HubSpot
- SVGator: Web-based SVG animation editor enabling vector animation creation without coding
- Flow: Interactive animation tool focused on product motion design, supporting Lottie and GIF export
- JSON2Anim: Lottie animation conversion tool for transforming JSON animations to other formats
