---
title: EffectCraft
description: EffectCraft is a free, open-source app for motion graphics and visual effects, an alternative to Adobe After Effects.
verified: 0.9.2
---

EffectCraft is a free, open-source app for animated titles, motion graphics and compositing. It is an alternative to Adobe After Effects.

You build a composition from layers (solids, shapes, text, footage, other compositions), animate their properties with keyframes, add effects and render the result. The panels and shortcuts follow After Effects: Project, Composition, Timeline, Effect Controls, Effects & Presets and the Render Queue. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, and in the browser.

EffectCraft is young and in alpha. It cannot open After Effects projects (`.aep`), and some things still behave differently from After Effects. See [Can EffectCraft open After Effects projects?](faq/after-effects-projects.md).

## Start here

- [Install EffectCraft](getting-started/install.md)
- [Make your first composition](guides/make-a-composition.md)
- [Animate with keyframes](guides/animate-with-keyframes.md)
- [Add an effect](guides/add-an-effect.md)
- [Render a video](guides/render-a-video.md)
- [Import footage and image sequences](guides/import-footage.md)

## When something is wrong

- [EffectCraft does not use my graphics card](troubleshooting/gpu-not-used.md)
- [Footage is missing or offline](troubleshooting/footage-missing.md)

## Sections

- [Getting started](getting-started/index.md)
- [Guides](guides/index.md)
- [Troubleshooting](troubleshooting/index.md)
- [FAQ](faq/index.md)

## Get help

Ask in [Discord](https://discord.gg/artcraft) or open an issue in the [issue tracker](https://github.com/storytold/effectcraft/issues). Say which version and which system you use.