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Best Animated React Component Libraries in 2026
These libraries give you finished animated components instead of an animation API. React Bits is the largest free collection, with text effects, backgrounds and interactive components. Magic UI and Aceternity UI focus on landing-page sections with bold motion. Animate UI and Cult UI install through the shadcn CLI, and Motion Primitives provides small building blocks built on Motion. Eldora UI, Kokonut UI, Animata and SmoothUI add more components in the same copy-and-paste style.
What you can do with these tools here
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- Build a stack around them
Pick the categories your project needs and choose real tools for each one, with these tools in the mix.
Open the builder - Put them in a tool stack
Group these tools with everything else you actually use, and share the stack as a page.
Browse stacks - Use them in a workflow
Write out the steps of a job you do repeatedly and place these tools at the step they belong to.
Browse workflows - Save them to your library
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FAQ
- What is React Bits?
- An open-source collection of animated React components, text animations and backgrounds. Components are copied into your project, in JavaScript or TypeScript, with CSS or Tailwind.
- Are these libraries free?
- The core of each is free. Magic UI, Aceternity UI and Cult UI also sell paid templates and blocks.
- Do they work with shadcn/ui?
- Most of them do. Animate UI, Cult UI and Magic UI can be installed with the shadcn CLI, and the rest share its Tailwind CSS conventions.
- What do they use for animation?
- Most are built on Motion. React Bits also offers versions of many components with no animation dependency at all.