Comparison

Keyframer Preview vs Canvas UI Kit

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Keyframer Preview

Features
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The fastest way to feel your React Native animations. Keyframer is the companion app for Keyframer.dev, the visual animation editor for React Native. Design your animation in the web editor, scan the QR code, and watch it run natively on your phone, powered by the same Reanimated engine your production app uses. Animations that look right in a browser can feel wrong on a device. Timing, easing, gestures, and scroll physics only tell the truth on real hardware. Keyframer closes that gap in seconds, with no build step and no cable. LIVE PREVIEW Scan the QR code in the editor and your canvas appears on your phone instantly. Keep editing on your desktop, every change streams to the device in real time, so you can tune springs and keyframes while feeling the result in your hand. TRULY NATIVE PLAYBACK This is not a video or a web view. Your scenes run as real native animations, the same interpolations, springs, and gesture handlers that Keyframer's generated Reanimated code ships to production. INTERACTIONS INCLUDED Pan, tap, and pinch gestures, scroll-driven transitions, and node-graph logic all work in the preview. If your animation responds to touch, you can test it the way your users will experience it. YOUR SCENE LIBRARY Sign in to browse every canvas you've saved in the editor and preview any of them on demand, on the couch, in a meeting, or on the bus. OPEN SHARED CANVASES Received a keyframer.dev share link? Scan the QR on the share card to open a live, interactive version of the animation on your device. MADE FOR React Native developers, design engineers, and motion designers who prototype with Keyframer.dev and want to validate motion on real devices before shipping. Start designing at keyframer.dev, your first canvas is a QR scan away from running in your pocket.

About

Canvas UI Kit

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Canvas is a universal React Native UI kit, and this is its reference app: the same component library running natively on your device rather than described in a web page. Browse the full catalog of components, from buttons and inputs through data tables, calendars, and charts. Every entry pairs a live, interactive example with its complete prop reference, so you can tap, type, drag, and toggle each control to see exactly how it behaves before you write any code. WHAT IS INSIDE - Live examples for every component, running as real native views - Full prop tables, generated from the library's own TypeScript source - Design tokens for color, typography, spacing, and layout - Templates and patterns showing how components compose into real screens - Instant search across the entire catalog - Light and dark themes, plus a glass surface mode BUILT THE WAY iOS EXPECTS Canvas components follow iOS design conventions, driven by a single component API. This app is the clearest way to see that: it is built entirely from the library it documents. Canvas is free and open source under the MIT license. No account, no sign-in, no ads, and no tracking of any kind.

Screenshots

Keyframer Preview4 screens
Canvas UI Kit4 screens

Verdict

The call

Keyframer Preview and Canvas UI Kit are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Keyframer Preview versus Canvas UI Kit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKeyframer PreviewCanvas UI Kit
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size61 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCatalin Gabriel MironRobert Nannier

In-app purchases

None

Keyframer Preview

No in-app purchases

None

Canvas UI Kit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Keyframer Preview free?
Keyframer Preview is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Canvas UI Kit free?
Canvas UI Kit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Keyframer Preview or Canvas UI Kit have ads?
Neither Keyframer Preview nor Canvas UI Kit shows ads.

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