MoveMatic — Fast, flexible motion for demos and promos

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Motion that moves.

Native Mac motion design for product demos, App Store videos, and the dozen marketing clips you wish were animated.

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The MoveMatic editor: scene composition with a 'Start creating' header, animated layers panel on the left, properties inspector on the right, and a multi-layer timeline below with visibility spans, pulses, and follow tracks.

App Store preview videos

Set the canvas to Apple's preview dimensions, animate the screens, export MP4. Same tool you use for the rest of your product motion.

Product feature demos

Animated cursors with click hotspots. Camera zooms into the detail you care about. Annotated arrows. The "here's what's new" video you'd otherwise hand-build in After Effects.

Social marketing clips

Square, vertical, horizontal — export at any aspect ratio. Particle bursts, pulses, and behaviors give you "scroll-stopping" without learning a 200-tutorial app.

Presentation animations

Drop a hand-drawn arrow that draws on, then bounces. Make a button pulse the moment your speaker mentions it. Export the segment, drag into Keynote.

Layers have lives, not just keyframes.

Every layer in MoveMatic lives on a visibility span: a time range with its own intro and outro effects. Stack a fade, a pop, a slide, a draw-on. The span is the animation. You're choreographing when things exist, not just tweening values from A to B.

Most motion apps treat appearance as a property to keyframe. MoveMatic treats it as a layer's life cycle. Smaller decisions, faster motion design.

Move one thing; everything else follows.

Drag a keyframe and the rest of the timeline shifts with it. Span edges, pulses, group children, video clips — they all participate in the ripple. R cycles modes (off, before, after, both). Set it once; every edit honors it.

Product motion. Without the animating.

Drop in animated cursors with click hotspots, follows that track another layer or trace a path, attractors, and procedural behaviors on any property. Configure once, no keyframes — the scene moves itself. The slow, per-frame parts of motion graphics that pad an After Effects timeline disappear.

One file. A whole video.

A document is a sequence of scenes — each with its own layers, timeline, and stage. Drop Fade, Slide, Push, or Zoom transitions between any two. Lay a document-wide audio bed underneath that fades over the final second.

Render the whole thing as one continuous clip, or any single scene by name.

Pulses for one-shot beats

Drop a Scale / Glow / Radiate gesture on a layer's pulse track. Fires at playback without touching baseline keyframes — the way a real UI emphasizes a button press.

Camera zoom layers

Drop a zoom region; the playhead lenses into it for the span. Full-screen or picture-in-picture. Product detail shots without re-staging the composition.

Particles from any layer

Point a particle layer at any other layer in the scene — a text glyph, an icon, a freeform line. Lines feed their actual stroke curvature so the cloud hugs the path.

Arrows that draw themselves

Drop two points; MoveMatic generates the curve or arc. The bend is keyframable, the stroke draws on, and the arrowhead lands at the end. Built for product callouts and presentation notes.

Mix & Match across a selection

Select any row of layers and one click redistributes Fill, Stroke, Size, Font, or Text Content across them. Shuffles permute a closed pool. Lands as one undo step.

A dedicated trim sheet

Pop out a clip into a sheet with filmstrip thumbnails, frame-precise In / Out fields, a hover playhead that scrubs the preview, and I / O keys.

On the Mac App Store, or a notarized direct download with a free trial that auto-updates via Sparkle.

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