Free and open source · Windows and macOS

Rig, animate and ship 2D characters.

Anim2D is a skeletal animation editor with bones, meshes and constraints, a dopesheet and graph editor, and an FX builder with 37 ready-made effects. Export straight into the runtimes your game already uses.

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Windows 10/11 · macOS 14+ on Apple silicon and Intel · MIT License

The Anim2D editor with a rigged character, the bone tree and the properties panel

Exports for

Unity
Godot
Cocos
Phaser
Pixi
libGDX
and other runtimes

Everything a 2D rig needs

Rigging

Bones with shear and inheritance, slots and draw order, skins with their own bones and constraints, IK, transform and path constraints, bounding boxes and clipping.

Meshes and weights

Edit meshes or trace them from an image's alpha, paint weights, link meshes and key deforms.

Animation

A dopesheet and a bezier graph editor, ease presets, retiming, motion paths, onion skinning, crossfade preview, events with audio and reference footage for rotoscoping.

Tools

Auto-rig, physics baking, mirror and pose tools, frame sequences, PSD and OpenRaster import with live resync, command search, customisable shortcuts and themes.

File formats

Opens skeletal animation JSON, binary and editor project files. Exports JSON or binary .skel with a packed .atlas.

Export

A texture packer and unpacker; GIF, APNG, WebP, MP4, AVI, MOV, PSD and image sequences; and a Unity bridge that exports straight into a spine-unity project.

Animate mode with the timeline and dopesheet — **Animate mode.** Key poses on the timeline, shape them in the dopesheet and graph, and preview crossfades between animations.

Weight painting on a mesh — **Meshes and weights.** Trace meshes from your art and paint how each vertex follows its bones.

An FX builder in the box

Pick one of 37 parametric effects, such as impacts, slashes, explosions, coin bursts, hearts and level-ups. Tune it with sliders and export it as a skeleton you can drop into a character or straight into your game. Register effects from your own Spine exports as new templates.

Browse the preset catalogue →

Download

The latest release, for Windows and macOS.

WindowsInstaller, with updates built in Windows portableOne file, nothing installed macOS · Apple siliconM1 and later, macOS 14+ macOS · IntelmacOS 14+

The builds aren't code-signed yet. On Windows, SmartScreen may ask: choose More info → Run anyway. On a Mac, the first time: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. Each release lists SHA-256 checksums. All releases and their notes · Install guide

Learn it

Editor guideEvery panel, tool and shortcut FX presetsAll 37 effects, with previews Preset authoringWrite your own parametric effects Template round tripTurn Spine exports into templates