12 Free Lottie Animation Sites for Commercial Use

LottieFiles is where most people meet the format, and for good reason. Beyond the library you get a full workflow: preview an animation, tweak it in the Lottie Creator editor, compress it to the smaller dotLottie format, then grab a CDN link or embed snippet without leaving the page. The public animations run on the Lottie Simple License, which permits commercial use with no attribution, so they are safe for client sites and product UI. The one thing to watch is the Marketplace, whose premium files sit next to the free ones and carry paid licenses, so filtering to Free first saves confusion.

IconScout is a full design-asset marketplace, and its standout feature for this list is the explicit Free Commercial License filter that isolates animations you can use in business work without a purchase. Files come in Lottie JSON, dotLottie, GIF, and MP4, and a built-in editor lets you recolor and resize before export. Plugins for Figma, Adobe XD, and Webflow keep the whole thing inside your design tool. The free set is smaller than the premium catalog, so treat it as a curated shortlist rather than an exhaustive library, and check the creator profile when you find a style you like.

Lordicon focuses on animated icons that respond to interaction, which makes it a strong pick for buttons, toggles, and menu states rather than full illustrative scenes. The library runs well past 46,000 icons in total, with roughly 1,500 available free, downloadable as Lottie JSON or embeddable through a CDN link with control over trigger, colors, and stroke. The free tier asks for a visible credit; a paid membership removes it and opens the whole catalog. Because the icons share one consistent system, they hold together nicely across a product, which is the main reason I keep coming back to it.

Flaticon built its name on static icons, and its animated-icon wing now runs to tens of thousands of Lottie files in a consistent house style. That consistency is the selling point: pull a set and every icon feels like it belongs to the same family, which matters for onboarding flows and dashboards. Free downloads are cleared for commercial use as long as you include the attribution link Flaticon provides on download, and a paid membership removes that requirement. If static icons are also on your list, it slots in alongside dedicated static-icon libraries.

Icons8 offers animated icons in several consistent styles, from flat color to iOS glyph to Material, so you can match an existing system. What sets it apart is access to source: many animations come with the original After Effects project file alongside the Lottie JSON and GIF, which lets a motion designer rework the animation rather than accept it as-is. The free route runs on linkware, meaning a visible link back to Icons8 wherever the icon appears; paid tiers remove that and add formats. For anyone who wants to customize past a color swap, that source-file access is the reason to pick it.

Storyset comes from the Freepik team and takes a different angle from the icon libraries: themed, editable illustrated scenes built for hero sections, empty states, and onboarding. The on-platform editor is the draw, letting you change colors to your brand hex, hide layers, and swap between illustration styles before exporting a Lottie JSON, so the result does not look like a stock file everyone recognizes. Free use is cleared commercially with a visible credit to Storyset, and a Freepik membership removes the attribution. Because the assets are narrative illustrations rather than tiny UI cues, they fit best where you are telling a story on the page.

Lottieflow is a focused library from Finsweet, the Webflow specialists, aimed squarely at common product interactions: hamburger menus, scroll prompts, form success states, loaders, and similar UI moments. Every animation is customizable in the browser (hex color and easing) and downloads as a standard JSON that drops into Webflow, or any other stack. Files are unusually small, often in the 3 to 4 kilobyte range, which keeps pages fast. It is completely free with no attribution, though you now need a free Lottieflow account to download; the trade-off is a smaller, curated set rather than a sprawling catalog.

useAnimations is a tight, developer-friendly library of roughly 90 micro-animation icons optimized for a 32px grid: activity spinners, alerts, media controls, notifications, and the like. The code is released under the MIT license, which makes it the cleanest commercial terms here, with no attribution required. Each icon comes as SVG and Lottie JSON, and there is a react-useanimations npm package for React projects, so wiring one in takes minutes. The limit is scope: about 90 icons at micro scale, so it complements a larger library rather than replacing one.

Loading.io is built around a different idea from the rest: rather than browsing finished files, you generate utility animations (loaders, spinners, progress indicators) and tune the colors, speed, and size in the browser before exporting. Licensing is labeled per asset: LD-FREE is essentially public domain with no attribution, while BY requires a simple credit, so filtering to LD-FREE gets you no-strings files fast. Exports include Lottie, GIF, SVG, and MP4. If you need a brand-matched loader and cannot find a pre-made one that fits, this is the fastest route, though it stays in utility territory and will not produce illustrative scenes.

LottieLab positions itself as a browser-based Lottie editor, a lighter alternative to After Effects with a Figma-to-Lottie path, and it bundles free template collections of animated icons and illustrations to build from. Templates export as JSON, Lottie, GIF, and SVG, and because the editor is the core product, you can take a free template and actually reshape it rather than accepting the default. That makes it a good pick when a stock file is 80 percent right and you want to finish the last 20 percent yourself. The free library is smaller than the big marketplaces, so think of it as an editor with a starter kit rather than an exhaustive source.

Canva folded Lottie animations into its Elements panel, which makes it the lowest-friction way for a marketing team to add motion to social posts, decks, and simple graphics. You drag an animation in, resize it, and layer it like any other element, no export dance required. The trade-off is format: Canva outputs your design as a raster GIF or MP4 rather than the underlying JSON, so it fits content work more than product engineering. One thing to watch is third-party apps like the LottieFiles integration inside Canva, where the original asset license applies rather than Canva's general terms.

Creattie specializes in animated icon and illustration sets that share a single visual style, which is the whole point: pull from one collection and your interface or campaign stays consistent. It is mostly a paid service, but the Free section gives you a real sample under a clearly worded commercial license, so you can test the quality before committing. Assets export as Lottie JSON, GIF, and MP4. Read the license page before you ship, since it carries conditions like no standalone redistribution, and treat the free set as a curated starter rather than a deep library.