The best FoldingCell alternatives
8 tools that do a similar job to FoldingCell, 8 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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FoldingCellAn iOS UI component: table cells that expand and fold open with a paper-card style animation.
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RAMAnimatedTabBarController
Open source · MIT · ★ 11.1k
A Swift library that adds animations to iOS tab bar items and icons.
Best for: iOS developers who want animated tab bar icons without writing the animation logic from scratch; Developers building a UI prototype who want a quick visual upgrade to navigation
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Material
Open source · MIT · ★ 12k
A Swift UI framework for iOS apps with Material Design-style components and animations.
Best for: iOS developers who want Material Design-style components without building them from scratch; Developers maintaining existing Swift projects that already use Material
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React
Open source · MIT · ★ 252k
A JavaScript library for building interactive user interfaces out of reusable components.
Best for: Developers building interactive web interfaces with JavaScript; Teams adding React gradually to an existing project, as the README describes
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Hero
Open source · MIT · ★ 22.5k
A Swift library for custom iOS and tvOS screen transitions, set up declaratively.
Best for: iOS developers who want custom screen transitions without writing UIKit animation code by hand; Developers who want shared-element style transitions between matching views
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mo · js
Open source · MIT · ★ 18.9k
A JavaScript library for building motion graphics and animations on web pages.
Best for: Front-end developers who want decorative animated effects like bursts, shapes, or icon animations; Developers who already use a bundler such as webpack or rollup and want to install via npm
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barba.js
Open source · MIT · ★ 13k
A small JavaScript library that adds smooth page transitions to websites without full reloads.
Best for: Developers adding animated transitions to an existing multi-page website; Front-end developers who want to reduce page-load delay without rebuilding as a full single-page app
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AutoAnimate
Open source · MIT · ★ 14k
A small drop-in library that adds smooth animations when elements are added, removed, or moved.
Best for: Frontend developers who want polished list or menu transitions without writing animation code; Teams using Vue or React who want a quick UI improvement
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Dear ImGui
Open source · MIT · ★ 76.9k
A lightweight C++ library for building immediate-mode graphical user interfaces, mainly for tools and games.
Best for: Game developers who want an in-engine debug or tools panel; C++ developers building internal tools that need a quick interface
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to FoldingCell. We don't take payment for placement.