Adobe says Animate is in maintenance mode: security and bug fixes only, with no new features planned and no announced discontinuation date. Move your campaign production on your own schedule.
The daily work: new sizes, revisions, and client review.
Animation control, and a task-by-task comparison table.
The same 970 × 250 banner exported from each tool, to download and inspect.
An offer to rebuild your first Animate banner set with you.
Desktop animation tools
Timeline editors you install on your computer.
Adobe Animate
Choose Foldwrap
Your team ships multiple sizes, revises offers, and needs editable animation plus client previews and export from one place.
Consider Adobe Animate
Your work depends on character rigging, frame-by-frame drawing, ActionScript, or a library of scripted Animate projects.
Google Web Designer
Choose Foldwrap
Your recurring job starts in Figma and ends with animated campaign sizes, a review link, and export files.
Consider Google Web Designer
You need a free desktop authoring tool, custom interactions, or Google’s dynamic ad workflow.
Tumult Hype
Choose Foldwrap
Your banners are designed in Figma, and each campaign needs many sizes that the next revision touches.
Consider Tumult Hype
Your work relies on physics, scene-based interactions, or your own JavaScript, or a one-time license and offline work matter most.
Figma plugins
Animate and export banners without leaving Figma.
Bannerify
Choose Foldwrap
You design in Figma, want an animation draft on import, and finish sizes, review links, and exports outside the Figma file.
Consider Bannerify
Your banners should never leave the Figma file, or you need Lottie embeds, hover states, MRAID, or playable formats.
Creative platforms
Browser platforms that add hosting, feeds, approvals, or team workflows around production.
Bannerflow
Choose Foldwrap
Your masters are designed in Figma, you hand HTML5 ZIPs to a media team, client, or ad platform, and you want a price you can see.
Consider Bannerflow
You need ads served from hosted tags, product feeds and dynamic ads, or approvals across many users and brands.
Bannerwise
Choose Foldwrap
You design campaign masters in Figma and need editable animation, multiple sizes, preview links, and downloadable files on a monthly plan.
Consider Bannerwise
You need dynamic product feeds, creative rules, multiple users, or direct ad-network publishing.
Celtra
Choose Foldwrap
You design in Figma and deliver the files: editable animation, several sizes, a preview link, and HTML5 ZIPs on a monthly plan.
Consider Celtra
You coordinate production across teams and markets and need team roles, approval workflows, ad serving, or live product feeds.
The Brief (ex Creatopy)
Choose Foldwrap
Your team designs campaign masters in Figma, adjusts motion with timing, easing, and keyframes, and delivers files to a media team or ad platform.
Consider The Brief
Production is one part of a wider platform need, such as ad serving, publishing, and enterprise governance.
Viewst
Choose Foldwrap
Your job ends with a finished ad set: editable motion, campaign sizes, a preview link, and downloadable files.
Consider Viewst
Your workflow needs more team coordination: built-in comments, approval statuses, or creative performance analytics.
Abyssale
Choose Foldwrap
You design in Figma, want the import animated, and need to export every size and revision without counting credits.
Consider Abyssale
You generate high volumes from spreadsheets, an API, or Airtable, or need design approvals and print-ready PDFs from the same templates.
AI ad generators
Generate new ad concepts, images, copy, and videos.
AdCreative.ai
Choose Foldwrap
You have the approved design and need the campaign: animation, sizes, review, and HTML5, video, or GIF export.
Consider AdCreative.ai
You need new creative to test: generated concepts, product images, copy, videos, and creative scoring.
Still researching?
Not sure which tools belong on your shortlist?
The HTML5 banner tools roundup compares tools by workflow, revisions, export limits, and price, including some without a comparison page here. Pick two, then try the same campaign in both.