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A focused layout utility that ties elements to text bounding boxes and makes boxes adapt to their content, with compatibility reaching from CC 2015 up to After Effects 2026.
Pins & Boxes helps After Effects users create dynamic layouts. It lets you align and attach elements to any point of the bounding box of texts, and build boxes that grow and shrink with their content.
The plugin includes position and anchor control effects, and disconnected pins can be parented. Its expressions are universalized to work with foreign-language versions of After Effects. Compatibility spans a wide range of releases, from After Effects 2026 back through the CC 2015 versions.
Version 1.1.005, released November 11, 2025, fixes online activation connection issues and updates the license framework. A demo video is available. In the aescripts library, Pins & Boxes earns its place as a layout tool centered on text bounding boxes and adaptive boxes, with support reaching across more than a decade of After Effects versions.
Pins & Boxes is best for aligning and attaching elements to text bounding boxes and creating boxes that resize with their content in After Effects.
Pins & Boxes is completely free to download and use.
Pins & Boxes supports a broad range of After Effects versions, including After Effects 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020, as well as CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3 and CC 2015. That span covers more than a decade of releases, so most current and older installations are covered. If you are on a very recent or beta build, checking the developer's page confirms the latest supported versions before you install.
Pins & Boxes is listed as free here in our catalog. For the current licensing terms and any activation details, the developer's page is the place to check, since license handling can change over time. The most recent update revised the underlying license framework and fixed online activation connection issues, so referring to the developer's page ensures you have the latest information on how licensing and activation work for this plugin.
Pins & Boxes uses expressions that are universalized to work with foreign-language versions of After Effects. This capability was added in version 1.1.000, alongside position and anchor control effects and the ability to parent disconnected pins. If you run After Effects in a language other than English, the universalized expressions are intended to function across those localized installations. A demo video is available.
Pins & Boxes version 1.1.005, released on November 11, 2025, fixes online activation connection issues and updates its license framework to version 4.4.1. Earlier releases added support for time-limited licenses, fixed compatibility with newer operating system versions, and handled layers that are time-stretched or have a shifted start time. The initial 1.0.000 release arrived in November 2018, and the plugin has seen a series of fixes and additions across its version history since then.
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