3 Free and Open-source Animations Apps for macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon)

1- Aseprite

Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool

Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)

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2- macSVG

an open-source free HTML5 and SVG animation designer

macSVG is a MIT-licensed open-source macOS application for designing and editing Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) content for HTML5 web pages, mobile apps, animation design, and general graphics usage.

SVG is an open-source format for computer graphics documents based on the authoritative Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition) – W3C Recommendation 16 August 2011 from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and is supported on most modern web browsers, and many application frameworks.

macSVG can produce dynamic, high-quality graphics and animation for HTML5 web views that can be displayed on most major desktop and mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, macOS, Microsoft Windows and Linux. This video shows an example of SVG animation in macSVG:

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3- Pencil2D Animation

An easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.

Pencil2D is an easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.

Pencil2D is an animation/drawing software for Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil2D is free and open source.

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