After Effects Plugins

Plexus 3 Render Only is a licensing option for After Effects intended for headless render machines using the command line renderer. Purchasing it requires owning at least one full Plexus 3 license.

Plug-n-telligence is an After Effects tool from Exposure that knows exactly which plugin you want to use every time you click the button. It merges your thoughts with patented artificial intelligence.

Position Matte 2 is a compositing tool for After Effects that creates mattes from 3D Position Passes. It aims to reduce the number of matte passes required and cut down on roto work.

Power Robot AE Work Manager is an After Effects panel for time tracking and project cost reporting inside AE. Log time per activity with one click and generate reports and exports when a project wraps.

PQ Mo•Bits is a library of pre-animated, customizable everyday icons for After Effects. Search or browse a dockable panel inside After Effects, drop icons into a project, and tweak parameters with the controllers.

PQ Type Boi is an After Effects panel offering over 120 pre-animated type arrangements. Browse animated thumbnails, click to generate a comp, and adjust parameters from a single control layer.

Precomp Anchor Repo is an After Effects script that aligns anchor points and positions to a layer, composition, or parent area. It detects areas of precomps, masks, track mattes, expressions, and more.

Prism 2 is an After Effects tool that gives you greater control over layer and item labels. It adds colour swatches beside label names, project-item colouring, and toggles for skipping locked or unmatched layers.

Quick Access 2 for After Effects is a file navigation utility from R-Smart that provides quick access to recent import, render, and project paths, plus favorite paths and recent effects.

Quick Delete & Reset 2 is a script for After Effects that removes expressions, effects, masks, keyframes and layer markers, and resets transformations across selected layers, the active composition, selected compositions or the entire project.

Quick ToneMapper is a free After Effects plugin from PixelGym for tone mapping CG renders. It helps recover overblown highlights and introduce contrast, working with 32-bit or 16-bit float unclamped files.

Radnika - Animated Typeface is an animated multi-purpose sans-serif for After Effects, developed by Animography. Its design bridges the strong, expressive typefaces of the 19th century with the finer, rather stern typefaces of the 20th century.

Remove Unnecessary Mask Keyframes is a script for After Effects that clears out keyframes generated by the built-in mask tracker. It examines the tracker's every-frame keyframes and removes those that fall under a similarity threshold to their predecessor.

Scrigins Keyless Zoom is a procedural camera system for After Effects that builds zoom shots without keyframes. You set start and end positions and duration, and it handles the easing and precision math.

Sliced Box is an After Effects tool for creating dynamic animated 3D sliced boxes with one click and complete key-framable control. It ships with animation presets and works with any footage or layer.

Smart Keyframe Navigator is an After Effects script that lets you move through keyframes using your keyboard. Its behaviour adapts based on whether layers or properties are selected in your composition.

Smart Posterizer is an After Effects script by Ian Pinder that automatically detects visual change in an animation and uses it to control time posterization on other properties. It runs as a ScriptUI panel opened from the Window menu.

Smart Selector is an After Effects plugin for picking layers by clicking directly on what you see. It sees through bounding boxes, adjustment layers, precomps and layer transparency to find the layers you point at.

SnapKey is an After Effects tool for capturing, blending and reusing animation states. Save a complex setup across multiple layers as a single Snap, then recall or blend between saved states at any time.

Social Beam connects After Effects to Instagram, letting you post in three clicks. It exports mp4 files and publishes to Instagram Posts, works on M1 Macs, and supports After Effects versions from CC 2018 through 2023.

Spiral Maker is an After Effects script that creates spiral patterns from a mask path. One click makes the pattern, and you can add stroke or fill, bake or unbake, and reverse multiple mask paths.

Stereo 3D Toolkit 3 by Ryan Cashman is a set of stereoscopic workflow tools for After Effects. It handles left and right channel hierarchies and supports multiple Stereo 3D workflows within a single project.

Take This is an After Effects script that stores and swaps layer transforms and expressions. It offers a straightforward way to capture transform and expression data and reapply it across layers.

Taxon is an After Effects panel for managing a composition by controlling layers that share attributes such as Type, Name, and Label Color. It's free to use and includes selection and action buttons.