In the Fall of 2024, Webflow acquired the industry-leading JavaScript animation library, GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP), to take our Interaction solutions to the next level. We’re honored to be able to partner with GSAP on this journey to give web animation superpowers to everyone — whether you want to bring your ideas to life visually or through code. 

Today, we’re thrilled to share some major updates, made with the broader GSAP community and our shared customers in mind.

‍GSAP is now 100% free

We’re fully committed to investing in GSAP’s future, guided by your feedback and the expertise of the original GSAP team who brought this technology to life. And that investment starts with making GSAP 100% free for all users. 

This means everyone — whether or not you’re a Webflow customer — will be able to leverage all of GSAP’s tools completely free of charge, including the previously paid Club plugins. We’re also expanding the standard license to cover commercial use, so you’re fully empowered to use GSAP anywhere, at no cost to you.

Additionally, we're excited to release a series of improvements for GSAP developers and our shared Webflow customers. Here’s what’s new:

1. Major upgrade to GSAP’s SplitText plugin: As part of our ongoing investment in GSAP, we’ve honed in on making one of GSAP’s most popular plugins even better. SplitText has been completely rewritten from the ground up with exciting improvements that include a 50% reduction in file size, baked-in accessibility for screen readers, easy masking for advanced “reveal” effects, and many more. 
2. Easier GSAP Plugin integration in Webflow: We’ve made it easier to use GSAP Club plugins in Webflow by making them —along with GSAP’s core library— directly available in and hosted by Webflow. Just go to Site Settings, toggle on the GSAP Core library and plugins you want to include on your site, and create your animations with custom code. 
3. Webflow site previews with custom code: In case you missed it, yesterday we launched site previews with custom code —allowing you to preview the effects for any custom code before publishing it on your Webflow site —including animations written with GSAP. 

This is only the beginning! Read our announcement blog penned by Rachel Wolan (Chief Product Officer, Webflow) to learn more about these changes, what’s on the roadmap, our upcoming announcement video, and an exciting Webflow and GSAP community challenge that kicks off today.