10+ Best Javascript Scrolling Animation Plugins

Scrolling animation helps better control the user flow and make sure important content is appropriately shown to a given user. The idea is that, as a user scrolls through the site, different animations get triggered. So here are 10+ Best Javascript Scrolling Animation Plugins to handle all kinds of animations.

Josh.js

A JavaScript library to animate content on page scroll.

Josh.js


Motus

Motus allows developers to create beatuful animations that simulate css keyframes and are applied when the user scrolls.

Motus


Reveal

It is a scroll reveal animations framework with unlimited animation possibilities. Reveal animations can be used with any element in your page. Built with the use of jQuery, GSAP and Animus, Reveal is guaranteed to offer an unmatched scroll reveal animation and design experience.

 Reveal - Scroll Reveal Animations jQuery Plugin


Locomotive Scroll

A simple scroll library used by developers at Locomotive. Built as a layer on top of ayamflow’s virtual-scroll, it provides smooth scrolling with support for parallax effects, toggling classes, and triggering event listeners when elements are in the viewport.

Locomotive Scroll


Sal

Performance focused, lightweight scroll animation library, written in vanilla JavaScript. No dependencies! Sal (Scroll Animation Library) was created to provide a performant and lightweight solution for animating elements on scroll. It’s based on the Intersection Observer, which gives amazing performance in terms of checking the element’s presence in the viewport.

Sal


Lax.js

Lax.js is a plugin to create animation scroll effects. 6,160 stars by now. It is simple & light weight vanilla javascript plugin to create smooth & beautiful animations when you scrolllll! Harness the power of the most intuitive interaction and make your websites come alive!

Lax


Jump.js

A modern smooth scrolling library. Jump was developed with a modern JavaScript workflow in mind. To use it, it’s recommended you have a build system in place that can transpile ES6, and bundle modules.

Jump.js


Rallax.js

Rallax.js is a vanilla JS plugin that implements a dynamic parallax scrolling effect, without dependencies.

Rallax.js


T-scroll

A modern reveal-on-scroll library with useful options and animations.

t-scroll


moveTo

A lightweight scroll animation javascript library without any dependency.

moveTo


ScrollTrigger

Triggers classes on html elements based on the scroll position. Uses requestAnimationFrame so it doesn’t jack the users scroll.

ScrollTrigger


AOS

It allows you to animate elements as you scroll down, and up. If you scroll back to top, elements will animate to it’s previous state and are ready to animate again if you scroll down.

animate onscroll


ScrollReveal

Easy scroll animations for web and mobile browsers.

ScrollReveal


Sweet scroll

ECMAScript2015 Friendly, dependency-free smooth scroll library.

sweet-scroll


Wow.js

Reveal CSS animation as you scroll down a page. By default, you can use it to trigger animate.css animations. But you can easily change the settings to your favorite animation library.

WOW.js


Morphing Background Shapes

A decorative website background effect where SVG shapes morph and transform on scroll.

Morphing Background Shapes


ScrollMagic

The javascript library for magical scroll interactions.

ScrollMagic


1 Comments

  1. Gavinsays:

    Reveal is a great plugin though it is premium but has many beautiful animations and features.

  2. gspa and scroll magic is best one.

  3. JFsays:

    Nice! Thanks!

  4. Luis Dansays:

    If you need WOW.js like scroll animation here is another one Josh.js: https://mamunhpath.github.io/josh.js/

  5. Martinsays:

    For me is AOS https://michalsnik.github.io/aos/
    Simple and easy to use.

  6. Emeka Orjisays:

    Thanks, this helped me

    I used the joshjs framework and it worked great

    Tested it out here “https://codepen.io/emekaorji/pen/jOLdpvX”

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