TurboAnimator for Google Slides

Automates tedious animation tasks in Google Slides with one keypress
What is TurboAnimator for Google Slides?
Slides Animator is a Chrome extension that automates animation tasks in Google Slides. It allows you to quickly add and delete animations, change animation styles, and perform other animation-related tasks with ease. This extension solves the tedious and ergonomic issues associated with using animations in Slides, making it a valuable tool for animation-heavy workflows. Please note that this extension is currently in the early beta release and may have some bugs. It is not affiliated with Google or the Slides team.

Extension stats

Users: 476 ▲ 18
Rating: 5.00 (2)
Version: 0.7.5 (Last updated: 2024-02-21)
Creation date: 2023-04-08
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 209.92K
URLs: Website

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Extension summary

TurboAnimator (https://turboanimator.com/) is a browser extension that lets you automate animation-related tasks in Google Slides with simple key combinations. You can quickly add and delete animations by pressing a few keys, and setup common animation presets. Please note that you cannot add entirely new types/custom/more animations (and no extension can do that) - this is simply for fast automation.

Why?

Using animations in Slides is sometimes tedious. There's no default way to change the default animation style and delay, and you need many clicks to add, delete, and modify animations.

My personal use-case: I always prefer a Fade In animation at 0.3 seconds delay, which previously requires 4 interactions per animation (Add Animation > Click on the animation type > Change to Fade In > Drag the timing slider exactly to 0.3 seconds). I created this extension to make my workflows much faster by just pressing "Alt+A" to add this animation.

As of this version you can:

  • Add your preferred animation (chosen through the Options menu) with a single keypress (Alt+A by default)
  • Delete the last animation in the list (Alt+Shift+D by default)
  • Delete the last animation for the selected element (Alt+Shift+R by default)
  • Use hotkeyed custom animations besides the default (e.g., Alt+Shift+1 by default for custom animation 1)
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User reviews

This is great in that I can just open up a slide, select a bunch of elements, and (on mac) hit the alt+shift+1 to animate them. Only bug is, after the "appear animation" is added to the elements, they are then, one by one, made to fade out. i'm only interested in fading in so i have to then hit ctrl+z as many times as there are elements. this is fine for me as it's still a huge timesaver... but it's a bit curious that i select "fade in" on the options pane but it still fades out.
by Alex Ghose, 2024-06-30

Simple and saves me five clicks. Awesome.
by Josh Grossman, 2024-06-29
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Extension safety

Risk impact

TurboAnimator for Google Slides requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

TurboAnimator for Google Slides is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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