https://swashmotion.com/whats-new Every Swash update, newest first: new features in the browser motion editor. en Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://swashmotion.com/whats-new#2026-10-06 https://swashmotion.com/whats-new#2026-10-06 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Ransom note — a widget that spells your text in cut-out letters, no two alike: photo scraps or paper cut-outs, rect, scissor-cut or torn. Letters assemble one by one, swap and wobble; Re-roll picks new ones

Cursor — a pointer that travels through stops and moves, hovers, clicks, double-clicks, drags or selects at each one. Sets: Apple, Pixel, Flat, Figma with a name tag, Touch and 3D with frosted glass. Point a stop at a layer and the cursor turns into a hand over it

Pixel assemble — a reveal that builds a layer from flying pixels or scatters it apart: text, images, shapes and video. Five presets, from Pixel dust to LED board

Glyph field — a new background of tiny marks in coloured bands: squares, diamonds, rings and crosses that drift, flicker or breathe

Glyph Dither got new character sets, pixelation, contrast, brightness and density, a dark-to-light colour gradient and a transparent background

Scramble is back: letters change in place, so the line no longer jumps. Pick the characters it flips through, and let letters appear only when their turn comes. New presets: Decode appear, Symbols decode and Decode words for the word cycler

The sound library grew from 76 to 201 sounds in 14 sections, and a recording can now be cropped so it never starts before its layer

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Ring, Twin rings, Helix and Cylinder can be solid now: an opaque bar with its own face, inner side and edge colours, thickness and padding

Twist the bar around itself — one half-turn on a ring makes a Möbius strip — and let it roll for a ribbon that keeps turning

Text on the inner side and on the edges of the bar, and their own colours for the second of Twin rings

Four new shapes: Twisted bar with four coloured faces, Stack with a slab per line turning in steps, Torus and Funnel

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Sixteen new gallery layouts: Deck, Carousel, Spin, Flicker, Sphere, Gravity, Frames, Field, Proximity, Card Tunnel, Iso Focus, Spiral, Carousel 3D, Stories, Image Trail and Path

Globe and Map — a dotted world that spins or lies flat, with pulsing markers, meridians and reveal, twinkle and size animations

Six new backgrounds: Northern Lights, City Grid, Pistons, Realigning, Paint Flow and Layout grid, each with its own colours

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Animators have a voice now: a letter popping in, a word sliding out — each move can make its own sound, exactly in time

A library of 76 hand-picked sounds with sections, search and preview on hover; every preset comes with a sound that fits it

Choose where the sound lands — at the start, across the whole move or at the end — and how often it repeats per letter or copy

Audio tracks: add your own music or keep the sound of a video, trim it, loop it, fade it in and out, and let it duck under the effects

Twelve built-in soundtracks to start from

Cascade: volume and pitch can rise or fall from the first letter to the last

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Pixel sort — a glitch effect that sorts pixels along rows, with four animations: progress, threshold, sweep and flicker

Kinetic blocks — a background pattern of moving rectangles: width, length and cell motion, with waves staggered across columns

The add-layer buttons moved to the top bar, next to undo and redo

Effects now follow the loop length of the project, so loops close without a jump

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Background — a new section with animated patterns as a layer: Mesh gradient, Moiré, Lava lamp, Voronoi, Truchet, Waves, Flow field, Topography, Particles and more

Stepped gradient — a gradient cut into bands; the bands and the gradient move on their own

Voronoi got rounded cells, gaps, cells of different sizes and organic edges

Remove background — one click on any image, and the cut-out lands on top of the original (Pro)

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Widgets — ready-made animated blocks: Counter, Terminal, Pills, Ticker, Chat, Progress, Reel, Icon, Confetti and DVD

Counter rolls like an odometer, flips or spins like a slot machine; Terminal types commands in a Mac, Windows or Linux window; Pills fall and bounce with real physics

Reel — a list that scrolls through a focus line, in four styles, with variable-font axes on the focused word

Gallery — drop in a few images and they cycle on their own, in five layouts: 3D, Stack, Wheel, Wipe and Zoom

A new studio look: floating panels, a section rail on the left and a calmer dashboard

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Background blur — frosted glass behind any layer: what is under it blurs, the layer stays sharp

Light rays — beams built from the bright parts of the frame itself, with a point-source mode

Tone layers — the frame split into four tonal bands, each with its own block grid

Cyanotype, Kaleidoscope and Posterize

Adjust — exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, temperature, tint, saturation, vibrance and more, as a layer effect

CRT gets mask types, a refresh bar and flicker; Refraction gets mosaic patterns and taller frost

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Rotation now has a pivot: turn a word around a corner or any point, not only around its centre

Groups keep their own anchor, so rotation and scale of a group behave like a single object

Template pages on the site — every community template has its own page with a preview, fonts and a one-click open in the editor

Random is now one of the unit orders for animators, next to forward, backward and centre

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Copy for Swash is live in Figma Community: select layers, copy, paste into a Swash project

Text comes over with its font, weight, width, italics, line breaks, case and underline

Shapes, images, gradients, strokes, shadows and blend modes travel too — as editable layers, not screenshots

Groups stay groups, nested ones included; the plugin tells you upfront what it cannot carry

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The editor opens straight from the site — no sign-in to start

Your work is kept in the browser; sign in later and it moves into your account as a project

Templates and typefaces on the site open in the editor with the same one click

Typewriter can shift the text into the layout as it types, instead of revealing it in place

Decoration lines and plates follow each letter, so they move with animated text

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Cmd+G groups whatever is selected; Group is also in the right-click menu

Animate a group by element: presets run across its members with an order and a stagger between them

Blur and mask work on the whole group or on each member separately

Group members get their own rows and bars on the timeline, so their timing is editable in place

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Eighteen blend modes per layer — the Figma set: multiply, screen, overlay, colour dodge, difference and the rest

Mosaic — twelve procedural tiles that cover the frame by tone

Block swap moves whole cells off the grid; Dither gets ink and paper colours in mono

Animator menu regrouped by what an animator does, and it hides what does not apply to the object

Click an animator bar on the timeline to open just that animator in the panel

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Depth animator — move letters towards and away from the camera

Outline animator — animate stroke colour and opacity

Put other objects inside a 3D shape: a word can sit inside the sphere the text is wrapped on

Compound presets are now layers, one property each — edit any of them separately

Add animator by type, not only from a preset card

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More than a hundred new fonts and styles in the catalogue, italics included

Every typeface has a page on the site: try the variable axes, type your own line, open it in the editor

Font picker shows previews, with search and category chips

Drawn paths get tangent handles, corner rounding and a closing ring on the first point

Text on a path can draw on: the path reveals itself with the letters riding it

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Select part of a line and give it its own font — one text object, several typefaces

Non-variable fonts let you pick the style; italics for twelve more families

Change Font gains an instant swap next to Shape and Dissolve

Gradient background lives in the palette; shape fills accept transparency

Blend in and Blend out on animators — a soft start instead of a jump, and a guaranteed return by the end

Copy a deformation onto another object

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Typewriter block — a block cursor typing the line, with a matching delete on the way out

Roll and Roll out — letters roll through a slot, up or down

Bar reveal and Bar hide — a plate uncovers the text by line, word or letter, in Block or Lines flavours

Wiggle — smooth periodic drift that loops without a seam

Color shift — a plain colour transition for the whole text

Random stagger order for any progress-driven animator

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A timeline panel at the bottom of the editor; it absorbed the layers list, so every object is one row

Every animator is a bar: drag it, stretch it, snap it to the playhead, neighbours, seconds and the ends of the clip

Objects get their own time range — set when something appears and disappears

Box-select bars across the track, zoom the track, scrub the playhead

Right-click an object on the track for the same menu as on the canvas

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Morph text from one font into another — letters flow into their new shapes instead of cutting

Two rebuild types: Shape rebuilds the outlines, Dissolve melts one font into the other

Gooey styling with softness and plumpness, so the change reads as liquid, not as a crossfade

Set the variable axes of the target font, not just the font itself

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Suggest what to build next and back the ideas you want

Ten votes per account, twenty on Pro — closing an idea gives them back

Follow an idea to hear when its status changes

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Fit text into a shape — draw a contour or point at an object, and the letters fill it

New deformers: taper, arc, flag, barrel, melt and shear

Apply shaders to selected layers instead of the whole scene

New shaders to play with

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Everything below is now open to everyone — no invite needed

Pro adds 4K export, 60 fps and unlimited projects, with a 7-day free trial

The free plan keeps working without a time limit: exports carry a small Swash mark

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Risograph — misregistered ink layers with paper grain

Halftone — print-style dot screen

Glitch, chromatic aberration, bloom and film grain

Effects stack: order them and tune each one separately

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Add images and shapes alongside text — rectangle, capsule, circle, triangle, diamond, pentagon, hexagon, star

Layers panel to reorder, rename and hide anything on the canvas

Select several objects at once by dragging a box across the canvas

Blend modes, masks and per-object opacity

Upload your own fonts and use them in any project

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Arrange text in 3D: ring, twin rings, sphere, cylinder, helix, or a tunnel running away from the camera

Run text along a curve — wave, arc, serpent, or a path you draw yourself

Repeater to multiply an object into a rhythm, with per-copy offsets

Deform the whole line — bend, skew, wave it as one shape

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MP4, GIF and PNG

Pick resolution and frame rate; the panel tells you upfront if your browser cannot encode a format

Export runs in the browser — nothing is uploaded to render

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A library of ready-made animations grouped by what they do: enter, exit, motion, scale, rotate, colour, fade

Preview an animation before applying it

Variable-font axes animate too — weight, width, slant

Word cycler: swap words on a schedule inside a single line

Every preset is a starting point — tune it, then save your own default

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Publish your project as a starter template for the community

Browse community templates from the sidebar

Use a template to start a new project in one click

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Sign in with Google — no password to remember

Your projects follow you across devices

Work saves automatically to the cloud

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New multi-project files view with thumbnails

Rename, duplicate, and delete projects from the dashboard

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