Workflow for After Effects

Retriever is a relink utility for After Effects that locates missing assets. Click relink, choose a folder, and it searches through all subfolders to bring lost links back into your project.

Snapshot FX is an After Effects tool for creating snapshots of effect stacks so you can navigate between different states quickly, applying an entire snapshot or updating only selected components.

SpotifyCtrl is a plugin for After Effects that lets you control Spotify directly from within the application, without switching away from your project. It supports Spotify Premium accounts only.

States is an After Effects tool from Hasan Atallah that stores values of properties, animations, and effects. Create reusable presets for individual layers or whole compositions, render all states, and turn them into templates for Mogrts.

STRUCTURA is a context-aware asset management tool for After Effects from Eunomia Logic. It organizes projects into professional hierarchies while protecting renders, dynamic links, and complex rigs.

SuffixSlayer is an After Effects tool that removes the frame # suffix from image renders. It supports a name-your-own-price licensing model and works across a wide range of After Effects versions.

Super Sweeper is an After Effects script from Akimbo Studio that sorts comps and assets, eliminates unnecessary folder depth, and consolidates assets by file type while protecting items you don't want reorganized.

System Monitor Pro is a dockable panel for After Effects that displays real-time RAM, CPU and GPU monitoring inside AE. It updates every second while you work, on Windows.

Text Layers to ChatGPT connects After Effects to ChatGPT, letting you generate and modify text using custom prompts. It's built for translation, spell-checking, and automating text content creation directly inside After Effects.

Text2Spreadsheet is an After Effects script that exports all text from a project into a spreadsheet, lets you edit it, then reapplies the changes back to the project with a single click.

Trim N Collect is a script for After Effects that trims media used in a project and prepares it for archive or exchange. It handles transcoding, consolidation, and collection of footage and image sequences.

Versioner is an After Effects plugin for managing multiple language or content versions without duplicating your projects or comps. Tag specific layers to specific versions, then switch between them with a single click.

Automation Toolkit Pro is an After Effects script by Alon Shemer that lets you build your own custom buttons with custom functionality — a button maker spanning layers, compositions, keyframes, projects, files and folders.

CI Master Thumbnailer is an After Effects panel that generates thumbnails from your compositions, layers and video clips. It offers control over resolution, proportions, timing and how frames are captured and saved.

Expression Calculator is an After Effects tool that calculates the difference value of a selected property before and after an expression, aimed at designing templates that use expressions.

Fast Renamer is a layer-renaming tool for After Effects that also works in Photoshop and Illustrator. It renames layers quickly and ships in five languages, with one license covering all three platforms.

Font Collect is an After Effects script that automatically gathers the fonts used in a project, much like After Effects collects footage. It gathers locally installed fonts and logs the results.

Font Previewer Lite is a native plug-in for After Effects that lets you preview fonts directly inside the application. It supports a broad range of After Effects versions from CS6 through 2025.

Layer Sitter is an After Effects tool from GMD Motion for managing parented layers. It parents selected layers through a filterable list, by creating customized nulls, or with Quick Parents.

LayerGenerators is a collection of three tools for After Effects that automate the creation of layers. It carries a student and faculty discount and supports a broad range of After Effects versions.

MoDeck.io Upfront Subscription makes After Effects templates editable online through a drag-and-drop editor. It connects mogrt properties to spreadsheet data to generate many videos at once, with a free desktop app for syncing.

Motioneer Lite is a motion engine for After Effects that copies animations and attaches them to other layers while retaining comp and layer ratios. It works with keyframes, masks, and transformation properties.

Move To is an After Effects tool for moving layers within the timeline, quickly and easily. It runs on both Mac and Windows and works with After Effects CC and higher.

Obsessive Layers 2 is a layer-trimming tool for After Effects that trims layers to keyframes, markers, track mattes, parents, children, selection, visibility, and composition bounds. It has been discontinued in favour of Fresh Trim.