Anima

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Prashant
Prashant
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great Designing tool

Reviewed on 11/02/2023

Pros

Good design tool to make prototype and work on your project. It's great that It allows converting your design from various apps like XD , Figma directly to usable code.

Cons

Many elements made using this has wrong dimensions in comparison to your display size. And the workspace is quite hectic to use plus it needs to be faster and optimized .

Response from AnimaApp

Thanks Prashant! Taking notes on the workspace feedback

Etienne
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great tool for prototyping frontend apps

Reviewed on 15/02/2022

Experience with Anima was mind-blowing, we have reconsidered our approach to prototyping. We have...

Experience with Anima was mind-blowing, we have reconsidered our approach to prototyping. We have developed new business opportunities with limited cost thanks to this product. We believe more and more coding languages support are to be expected. This is the kind of tool we wish to have internally and possibly choose to customize with machine learning model or even simply a specific framework snippets. Unfortunately even with all the new possibilities offered by Anima, we have experienced resistance to the change. So maybe we didn't communicate well enough to the team how Anima can provide solid time saving value added proposition to our frontend development workflow. We believe this kind of assistive-tech-tool is going to be almost mandatory in the near future.

Pros

Anima integration with Fygma is a very fluid workflow, even we the free product we knew what to expect. Using the paid product was easy and useful. The UI/UX is good.

Cons

Regarding the code language available, we've found it was too limited for our use-case, we have decided to switch to React with TypeScript support, which has a notoriously hard liftoff phase.
At the end we ran out of time partly because of this.
Anima should/could provide a low-code view of the generated code, because sometimes it's too long.
We would have hoped for faster conversion of the anima project (only page/feature per page at the moment of testing )
Anima may/should add unit tests to the generated code (we may have missed it though)
Anima may/should provide a cloud based IDE for peer coding

Alternatives Considered

Balsamiq

Reasons for Choosing Anima

We ran out of time and we needed to have a working prototype asap. Also having an integration with VS code was handy.

Switched From

Dash

Reasons for Switching to Anima

Integration with Fygma

Response from AnimaApp

Hey there Etienne,
We're psyched to see you're getting the most out of Anima and enjoying your experience!
We are constantly working on adding new things and improving Anima. Watch this space we have some cool things coming up!
Team Anima <3

George
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Great idea, didn't work

Reviewed on 20/10/2024

It was horrible you made me look unprofessional qhen im certified as a dev. I cant believe your...

It was horrible you made me look unprofessional qhen im certified as a dev. I cant believe your team is like this and how adobe linked itself to you

Pros

The idea.l was greay, imagine using a tool that can take your design to life.

Cons

The program never worked, it never working and the [sensitive content hidden] was aware of this. I personally told him i lost time investing into his program.

Response from AnimaApp

Dear George,
Thank you for reaching out and sharing your concerns with us. We truly value the feedback and loyalty you have shown over the past 2.5 years as a user of our Anima for Adobe XD plugin.
We understand your frustration regarding the discontinuation of support for Adobe XD, following Adobe’s decision to stop its development. This directly impacts our ability to provide compatible updates and features. Our goal is always to offer our users the best experience and most robust tools, which now increasingly involves focusing our resources on platforms that are actively evolving.
We highly recommend transitioning to Figma, which is fully supported by Anima and offers advanced features. Our team is here to assist with this migration so you can leverage all the capabilities Figma offers.
We are sorry we couldn’t help here and we were happy to refund you for the last few months of your subscription. Thank you again for being a valued member of our community. Warm regards,

Chantelle
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Chanty

Reviewed on 28/03/2022

It is a new platform for me and is working well. Clear to work out. I have had incredible support...

It is a new platform for me and is working well. Clear to work out. I have had incredible support help from Shira, she has been the best support I have received today. Going the extra mile to explain to me and has been patient and exceptionally helpful. First class on her behalf.

Pros

Easy, clear and straight forward. The support help I have received from Shira has been incredible. I like that the code is easy accessible and easily exported.

Cons

I find plugins sometimes dont work especially on the Figma side. I did get stuck in finding my way around the platform.

Alternatives Considered

WorkflowMax

Reasons for Switching to Anima

It was the only platform that seemed to export code in 3 different languages that appeared straight forward to do so. I had looked at Workflow but Anima worked with Figma and that made sense.

Response from AnimaApp

Hey Chantelle thanks for the review! We're super pleased to see that you're finding Anima helpful you and even happier to hear that you're having a great experience with customer support. We're here if you need anything more.
Team Anima <3

Shannon
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Helping to bring our designs to life...

Reviewed on 11/01/2022

We've had a lot of fun learning the software and are continuing to try new things and figure out...

We've had a lot of fun learning the software and are continuing to try new things and figure out how best to integrate it into our workflow. It's also enabling us to challenge our current workflow too. The support team have been particularly reactive and helpful, which is really appreciated!

Pros

The responsive tools are great and the ability to build in certain functions such as text input, interactions, video etc. has helped us bring our designs to life and present them to our clients.

Cons

The comments feature definitely needs improvement and the software has been prone to crashing for us when syncing updates to projects.

Response from AnimaApp

Hi Shannon, thank you so much for taking the time to review us!
The syncing time has been under our radar and we improved it A LOT over the past few weeks. Make sure you get the latest version of the plugin to enjoy the fast syncing!
Happy designing!
Team Anima

Deepak
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10

How we can beat market ?

Reviewed on 17/02/2022

I got to know about the product via Digital Marketing and watch some tutorials on it but it is like...

I got to know about the product via Digital Marketing and watch some tutorials on it but it is like teeth of elephant.

Pros

For a static page, it is cool.
But not working properly, like alignment and all. Which is extremely important.

Cons

It is not responsive like web flow.
As I mentioned above is very important. It is smooth but output is not same.

Alternatives Considered

Webflow

Reasons for Switching to Anima

Whatever you are claiming they are also claiming but in the same situation result is different. We need to buy that product, unfortunately faangx.com

Response from AnimaApp

Hi there Deepak, thanks for the review!
Anima allows you to build responsive code-based prototypes from your design tool. We are sad to hear that you had trouble getting this result.
Can you please reach out to [email protected] or on the chat in the Anima platform? We want to help solve this issue for you.

Happy designing!

Rebekah
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great to publish a website!

Reviewed on 01/04/2022

I really like Anima that enabled me to publish the website really quickly.

I really like Anima that enabled me to publish the website really quickly.

Pros

It was amazing to publish the figma file into website without any coding.

Cons

Sometimes the plugin was too slow to use.

Response from AnimaApp

Hey Rebekah, pleased to see you're enjoying Anima and that it is helping you publish your website easily!
Happy designing!
Team Anima <3

Sri
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  • Industry: Hospitality
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Anima Pro plan

Reviewed on 24/04/2023

Hi I purchased Anima Pro for $49 2 days ago. I want Adobe XD prototype to React code. I am not sure...

Hi I purchased Anima Pro for $49 2 days ago. I want Adobe XD prototype to React code. I am not sure the meaning of 3 projects and 15 screens. I am new to XD as well. I just create one component and want to learn React code for doing the component. If it is only 15 screens then I will run out of the option as I just want to see how individual components created in React. Can you please clarify more on this topic

Muli
Muli
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

This tool is great for a variety of things!

Reviewed on 24/07/2022

Pros

At first, we used it to make responsive prototypes, but we realized that it could be used for many other things, including sales demos, landing pages, and more.
The software is easy to use, helps us get things done faster, and most importantly it doesn't require engineers to be involved!

Cons

It doesn't generate perfect code, but it does save us a lot of time in development

Alternatives Considered

Supernova and InVision App

Response from AnimaApp

Thank you Muli!

Paul
Paul
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Strong

Reviewed on 28/02/2022

Pros

Anima is a very powerful pluggin that combined with adobe XD, figma or others will allow designers who don't know how to code to create their own website

Cons

A bit expensive for my taste and the animations are not always very accurate

Response from AnimaApp

Hey Paul, thanks for the review! It's great to see that you are getting real value from Anima. Be sure to keep an eye out for the new things we have coming up very soon.
Happy designing, team Anima <3

Sandy
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  • Industry: Graphic Design
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

We couldn't do without Anima

Reviewed on 08/08/2022

Honestly I don't think we could have progressed as we have without it. It's been a great journey.

Honestly I don't think we could have progressed as we have without it. It's been a great journey.

Pros

I love being able to make a creative, custom responsive website in Sketch... and then, publishing it with a custom domain and boom it's live and it works. With contact forms, embedded media, and interactive components. Our dev uses the code generated from Anima for more complex sites. Makes our whole process smoother and more flexible.

Cons

I feel like Anima could do more with education on how to use their product, and also have live updates on their site about features that may not work right away after a design software update -- and when they will be ready. Their customer service is great though.

Response from AnimaApp

Sandy thank you so much! It always warms our hearts to hear that Anima became a complete part of the flow for many users! <3

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Good for quick development

Reviewed on 17/01/2023

The customer service is really nice and quick responded.

The customer service is really nice and quick responded.

Pros

You could get your website quickly based on the design. It looks prefect.

Cons

1. Animation is difficult.2. Layout is the absolute position or fixed.If you are going to use it for a complex website, it could save your time but not too much.

Response from AnimaApp

Thanks a lot! About the layout and animation, did you check our YouTube channel? And I assume you already got support given your feedback :)

Leszek
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

I dont know the potential of Anima

Reviewed on 29/12/2021

I started using Sketch and found out that I need Anima to upload my website. Apart from that, I...

I started using Sketch and found out that I need Anima to upload my website. Apart from that, I know that I can use it to collaborate with team (if I had one) other than that I've never really taken the time to learn what else it can do as sometimes the way you try to educate your users is maybe too quick (like a lot of modern programs which show these short videos that bang and whoosh a lot but finding out what I need to do is so difficult or not interesting)

Pros

You press a button and it uploads your website for you.

Cons

I don't really know what it does apart from upload my software.

Response from AnimaApp

Hey Leszek, thanks for the review!

Anima is a design-to-code platform that lets designers create fully responsive prototypes from Figma, Adobe XD and Sketch, and eases the handoff to developers by automatically translating the design into developer-friendly HTML, Vue, and React code.

If you need any support to use Anima you can either reach out to [email protected] or reach out in the chat on the Anima platform. Our support reps should get back to you within 1-2 business days.

Happy designing

Caio
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Anima is a interesting alternative to build websites using figma

Reviewed on 23/03/2022

Anima is great a very interesting tool!

Anima is great a very interesting tool!

Pros

Anima is great for prototyping fast using design tools like figma. It allows you to export the design into working code which makes your process of development faster.

Cons

It still has some limitations so it best for prototypes and not real projects you want to deliver to a lot of clients but it is nice for quick prototyping and building mvps

Response from AnimaApp

Hey Caio, thanks for taking the time to review Anima. We're super pleased to see Anima is helping your development process speed up (that's the goal!). Stay tuned for more neat features coming soon; we're here if you need anything.
Team Anima <3

Matan
Matan
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  • Industry: Photography
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

A great way to convert design to code

Reviewed on 24/07/2022

We use Anima for sales demos, it helps create responsive prototypes, and we don't need to involve...

We use Anima for sales demos, it helps create responsive prototypes, and we don't need to involve engineers

Pros

Anima allowed our marketing team to create custom landing pages way faster.

Cons

Anima app is not perfect but saves us a ton of development time

Response from AnimaApp

Thank you so much for your review Matan!

angga
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Better Design Handoff

Reviewed on 20/02/2022

We were always working with new product that come from great ideas, we need save more time in order...

We were always working with new product that come from great ideas, we need save more time in order to validate the ideas, and it was super great that Anima can help us to achieve that.

Pros

The breakpoint feature was great so that we can easily to customize our responsive design without learning and using media query (manually) like we used to do.

Cons

Everything I need has been covering up with Anima.

Response from AnimaApp

Hey Angga, we're psyched to see you're getting the most out of Anima and enjoying your experience! We are constantly working on adding new things and improving Anima. Watch this space we have some cool things coming up! Team Anima <3

Eden
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Usage of Anima as part of an educational project

Reviewed on 13/01/2022

The overall experience was great. We tried different applications of code generating for UI...

The overall experience was great. We tried different applications of code generating for UI components and Anima was the best one, so that's the application we eventually decided to use for our purposes.

Pros

It's very easy and intuitive to use, even for users that are not part of the high tech industry. The interface is very friendly and explanatory.

Cons

Sometimes the UI stuck and the connection between different components wasn't defined well but it was solved when we tried to connect the components once again.

Response from AnimaApp

Hi Eden,
We're happy to hear you're enjoying Anima and pleased to hear that after trying again you were able to connect the components.
If you need any help or support, our customer success team is here for you. You can reach out either via chat on the Anima platform or by email at [email protected].
Happy coding!
Team Anima

Arsh
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Arsh' Review

Reviewed on 15/02/2022

Pros

The easy integration with Figma because I use figma extensively, The export options react, vue, html with styling

Cons

The UI is sometimes a little bit complicated

Response from AnimaApp

Hi Arsh, thank you so much for taking the time to review us! We're excited to see you're enjoying using Anima. We are constantly working on improving Anima and helping our users get the most out of the platform. We appreciate your feedback! Happy designing! Team Anima <3

David
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great tool

Reviewed on 24/07/2022

Pros

Great tool for fast and easy prototyping, we use it often to build responsive prototypes without our developers & engineers. Saves a lot of time and simple to use

Cons

I’m using anima for over a year now and did not find any major drawback.

Response from AnimaApp

Thank you David!

Itzik
Itzik
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  • Industry: Computer Games
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great Prototype tool

Reviewed on 25/07/2022

Pros

We constantly creating new designs and prototypes, Anima helps us to validate them much faster than any other tool without expanding our development team

Cons

Nothing besides a few complex transitions

Response from AnimaApp

Thank you Itzik!

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Consumer Goods
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Okay if what you need is basic!

Reviewed on 18/02/2022

Found Anima in a pinch and aimed to use this to translate frontend designs. Ultimately, the result...

Found Anima in a pinch and aimed to use this to translate frontend designs. Ultimately, the result needed too much customization.

Pros

Was excited about the prospect of this product but found that it was very rudimentary code that still needed a lot of customizations

Cons

I felt the code could have been better written for a wider use of applications

Response from AnimaApp

Hey there, thanks so much for the feedback, we're constantly working to improve our code quality and stay up to date with the latest trends, so we hope you'll try out Anima again in the future!

Geoffrey
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Figma Design to HTML,CSS Software Review

Reviewed on 15/02/2022

Overall, the product didn't meet my expectations.

Overall, the product didn't meet my expectations.

Pros

The software is easy to use, and it converts Figma Designs to Code.

Cons

I feel, the software is still not intelligent enough to make websites for various displays. Also, active sync is not available.

Response from AnimaApp

Hey Geoffrey, thanks for taking the time to review Anima, and thank you for your feedback! We're constantly working to improve our code quality and stay up to date with the latest trends, so we hope you'll try out Anima again in the future!

Stephen
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  • Industry: Luxury Goods & Jewelry
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Useful but limitations

Reviewed on 15/02/2022

Useful, quick and dirty web mockups but too clumsy and inaccurate to be able to design a full...

Useful, quick and dirty web mockups but too clumsy and inaccurate to be able to design a full website using this software. So a useful process tool but not for the final design.

Pros

It allowed me to show others some quick and rough web design ideas which could be shared on a mockup web page.

Cons

It is does not convert everything and still requires some hand tweaking--but because I did not create the HTML, this is more difficult than if I had started from scratch.

Response from AnimaApp

Hi Stephen, thank you for taking the time to review Anima. We're pleased to see that you are finding our tool useful. We are constantly working on adding new things and improving Anima and we've got some great new things coming up that we're sure you will enjoy! Team Anima <3

Fakaradin
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Great product

Reviewed on 15/02/2022

Pros

Easy to use

Impactful features

Flexible

Effect in the job it does

A jack of all trades type of software

Great user interface

Cons

Some features arent straight forward

User interface can be at sometimes confusing

Need more beginner friendly interface for new users

Response from AnimaApp

Hi Fakaradin, thank you so much for taking the time to review us! We're excited to see you're enjoying using Anima. We are constantly working on improving Anima and helping our users get the most out of the platform.
We appreciate your feedback!
Happy designing! Team Anima <3

Julia
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  • Industry: Sporting Goods
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Overall good but could be even better with some new feature

Reviewed on 25/12/2021

the experience is good even if the product is not mandatory to achieve good prototype

the experience is good even if the product is not mandatory to achieve good prototype

Pros

The fact that you can create a responsive prototype for your project

Cons

The usage is note really intuitive with Figma and the fact that you can't use variant is really to bad it would be a killer feature

Response from AnimaApp

Hey Julia, thank you so much for taking the time to review us.
We are constantly working on improving Anima and helping our users get the most out of the platform. We appreciate your feedback! Happy designing! Team Anima <3