Animated SVG icon maker

Animate your own icons in the browser and ship them as animated SVGs. One file carries the artwork, the motion, and the trigger that fires it. For UI and product designers.

Bring in your Figma or Illustrator icons
Exports as SVG, Lottie, Flutter, or React
Triggers for hover, click, and scroll

Start animating

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How to animate icons in SVGator

Same path whether you animate one icon or the whole set.

Bring in your icons

Upload your SVG set, paste from Figma, or draw it with the Pen tool.

Animate the states

Morph one shape into another or draw a stroke in, on a keyframe timeline.

Wire up the trigger

Pick what starts it: hover, click, scroll into view, or the Player API.

Hand it off to dev

Export one SVG file and your developer drops it straight into the page.

An animated icon maker built for whole icon sets

These four keep every icon in the set on the same motion rules.

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Timing lines up
Copy keyframes from one icon to the next and the set moves alike.
Icons respond
Hover, click, and scroll triggers export inside the file itself.
Edges stay sharp
One SVG file covers a 16px menu slot and a 64px empty state.
Morphs run clean
Morph a hamburger into a close icon, or draw a check stroke by stroke.

Animated SVG icons made in SVGator

Drawn and animated by SaaS teams, design studios, and freelancers.

Every icon in the set moves like it belongs

Four reasons UI teams keep the icon work in-house.

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Why choose SVGator

One timing for the whole set
Reuse timing and easing across every icon in the same project.
Icons that answer the user
Hover, click, and scroll states ship with the file, ready to wire.
Every icon plays on its own
The SVG carries its own animation code and runs in any browser.
The icons are already yours
Animate the icon your product uses, drawn to your system.

Why designers keep animating icons here

The parts they mention after delivering the first set.

I've been advocating for SVGator as our go-to tool for creating scalable vector animated assets on my team at Asurion... I've been noticing SVG animations start popping up in many of our digital products

Ilya Tsuprun

Principal Product Designer

SVGator is good for anything, from animating icons to logos. The files turn out super light, which is great because it keeps our site running quickly. I exported clean no-bloat code.

Exie Larraine

Frontend developer

Being able to animate icons directly in the browser without any plugins or downloads is such a time-saver. SVGator is such a convenient tool for a busy UI designer like myself.

Zolta Littel

UI designer

Every format your icon set needs

From a CSS-only icon on the web to a Lottie microinteraction in the app.

Alternative formats:

MP4

MOV

WEBM

GIF

WEBP

APNG

Open editor

SVGator is for

Product teams, design systems, and studios

The same icon set passes through all three of these desks.

Product UI designers

Your Figma icons come in with strokes and groups intact.

Design system owners

Keep one set of motion rules as the library grows past fifty icons.

Frontend developers

Drop in one SVG and call play or seek through the Player API.

Animated icons for SaaS products and dashboards

On the web, SVG is the honest default for icons. It renders natively, stays sharp at any size, and takes CSS or JavaScript animation with no player library.

Lottie earns its place where a native app already runs a Lottie player. SVGator exports standard or optimized JSON, plus React Native and Flutter files.

An icon that moves reports what the interface is doing. A check confirms the save, a spinner says the request is still in flight, and a bell shake pulls the eye.

Animated icons for design systems

On mobile, the icon is the interface. A tab bar, a pull to refresh spinner, and a save confirmation each tell the user what the app is doing right now.

SVGator exports Lottie JSON for iOS and Android, and delivers SVG with a webview component for React Native and Flutter, with the Player API for control.

Test the motion at real size before handoff. An icon that reads well at 64px in the editor can turn to mush inside a 24px tab bar on a phone screen.

FAQ

1. What is an animated icon?

An animated icon is a small interface graphic with motion attached to it: a bell that shakes when a notification lands, a check that draws itself when a form saves. The motion reports a stat change to the user. In SVG form the animation code sits inside the file, so the icon plays wherever the file goes.

2. Are animated SVG icons better than GIFs?

For an interface, yes. An SVG icon stays sharp at 16px and at 64px, answers hover and click, and holds flat icon art in a smaller file. GIF caps at 256 colors and gives you hard-edged transparency, which shows up against a colored background. GIF still earns its place in email and on ad platforms that take an image file.

3. Can I animate my own icons instead of using a stock pack?

Yes. Upload your own SVG icons, paste them in from Figma or Illustrator, or draw them with the Pen tool inside SVGator. Elements keep their IDs and styling through the import, so you animate the paths you drew. The set that you deploy is the set your product already uses.

4. How do you animate an SVG icon?

Upload the SVG or draw it, select the part that moves, and add an animator: rotation for a spinner, stroke offset for a check that draws itself, morph for a hamburger that turns into a close icon. SVGator writes keyframes as you set values on the timeline. On Starter and above, add a hover or click trigger and export one animated SVG file.