Taking Anima to the Next Level
Making bicycles for your creative minds
We’ve started Anima with a goal to empower designers — To allow you to own your design. Our vision is bringing the power of code to visual tools, giving designers the power of developers.
Design tools are bicycles to creative minds.
- Paraphrasing Steve Jobs.
Auto-Layout Plugin
If you’re reading this article, you’ve probably heard of Auto-Layout plugin already. It gives designers the power to work on a responsive layout, right inside Sketch, using only visual tools.
We’ve launched Auto-Layout for free a few months ago and we got so much love — Now we know that a lot of designers and developers shares this pain with us, the pain of taking designs to production.
Building things to last
We plan to build powerful tools, and take part in the upcoming shift in designers toolbox and methodology. In order to do it, we first need to build a sustainable business. A business that makes products built to last.
First thing first
Everything that is free today will remain free.
We plan to release a new set of paid products and features, that would make you, UI designers, more powerful. If you find it useful, you’ll be able to subscribe for one of the paid plans and enjoy it. If you like the free ones, they are still free, and we will continue maintaining them, no worries.
Why subscription?
- Continuous updates — Fixes and new features on a regular basis.
- Pay as you go — Stop/Pause at any time, pay only when you use it.
- Cloud services — Cloud is the smoothest way to communicate your designs, wether it’s for code-export, handoff or for sharing with your clients.
What’s next
We want to improve your workflow, and bring it to a new level, and we have to do it step by step. Our job isn’t done yet on responsive layouts and taking it to production. We’re working on day & night, making visual tools to give you the power of code with no coding. So what’s coming soon:
- 📦 Code Export & Handoff — Taking your creations to production.
- 📐 Stronger Responsive Designs — With even more visual tools.
- ✉️ Sharing — Getting your designs to Stakeholders.
We’re getting great feedback of what’s not working and what’s missing, and we feel your pain. You’re making us sharper and better. Well done, keep it coming 💪
Looking a few steps ahead, after we conquer responsive layouts, we’re planning to take it even further. We’re here for the long run, stay tuned 😎
