# Alight Motion

> Motion Design & Video Effects

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1459833443](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1459833443)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1459833443`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Bending Spoons Apps ApS
- **Category:** Photo & Video
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (76,589 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.2.59
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-11
- **First published:** 2019-12-21
- **Size:** 191 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-22
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alight-motion/id1459833443)
- **Website:** [https://alightcreative.com](https://alightcreative.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://alightcreative.com/privacy](http://alightcreative.com/privacy)

## Description

Be part of the movement! Alight Motion is the first professional motion design app for your smartphone for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, bringing you professional-quality animation, motion graphics, visual effects, video editing, and compositing.

It offers multi-layer graphics, vector and bitmap support, 160+ effect building blocks, keyframe animation, parent/child layer linking, camera pans and zooms, masking, color adjustment, easing, bookmarks, motion blur, and flexible exports (MP4, GIF, PNG sequences, stills). Free to use with a watermark; paid memberships remove the watermark and unlock premium effects, with subscriptions auto-renewing unless canceled and managed in Apple ID settings. For more details, see alightcreative.com/tos and alightcreative.com/privacy.

## Rankings

- #4,808 — Overall
- #2 — animation
- #7 — adobe flash
- #19 — spoon
- #33 — video editing
- #47 — editor

## Review summary

Users praise Alight Motion for its powerful, feature-rich animation tools and potential to create professional-looking videos, especially for multi-part tweening and complex animations. However, recurring issues bog the experience: frequent crashes and glitches, lag during playback, and unreliable exports—often worsened by ads and a heavy paywall. Many users report long ads, slow exports, and reliability problems with complex effects. While beginners may struggle, fans say the app shines once learned. The app is valued for its capabilities, but stability, performance, and monetization remain the main concerns.

### Pros

- Powerful, feature-rich animation tools (multi-part tweening and animation of separate parts).
- Strong potential for professional-looking results once you learn the interface.
- Widely praised as a capable animation app with impressive features and capabilities.
- Helpful for improving animation skills and progressing in your animation journey.

### Cons

- Frequent crashes and glitches that interrupt work and exports.
- Lag during playback, especially after adding multiple objects or effects.
- Unreliable exports and long export times, often failing with complex effects.
- Ads in the free version are lengthy and frequent, disrupting workflow.
- Paywall/premium pricing and perceived reduced value due to monetization.

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