UiCore Animate – Free Animations, Transitions, and Interactions Addon for Elementor & Gutenberg blocks

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 63% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ webstpro

   8mo ago

   After installing and activation, there was no instructions or documentation on how to use it. In Elementor dashboard nothing showed. In WordPress edit nothing. No shortcodes. No special classes. Website of developer had no Getting Started either. So I had to uninstall it

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2. ★★★★★ nordword

   9mo ago

   Excellent plugin. The animations look clean, and the interface fits perfectly inside Elementor and Gutenberg. Simple to use and lightweight. Highly recommended.

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3. ★★★★★ anwario

   1.5y ago

   I was excited about the text animations, but I quickly became disappointed when I tried to open my website on Firefox! This plugin actually has two major issues: It’s not very compatible with Firefox. When you refresh the page, the button appears for a fraction of a second, which is really annoying. The most serious issue is that it slows down the site. When this plugin is activated, your site gets a low score on PageSpeed Insights. But when you disable it and compare, you’ll see the difference! My site is in the yellow zone with this plugin, and it turns green when I disable it… and there’s no cache plugin to fix this. Conclusion: I understand why it’s free! There’s still a lot of work to be done to make it more interesting.

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4. ★★★★★ saymeak

   1.8y ago

   The plugin is awesome for placing a preloader on the website. Simple – Easy – Efficient This topic was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by saymeak.

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5. ★★★★★ bbbstoked

   1.8y ago

   This is the best plugin out there. Simple and easy to use! The update broke my site but I was able to contact their theme and they made a fix super quick. Kudos to these guys for making the plugin free! This topic was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by bbbstoked. This topic was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by bbbstoked.

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6. ★★★★★ creativewebr

   1.8y ago

   Excellent plugin for time management when applying effects in Elementor! Congratulations to the entire team!

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7. ★★★★★ 1ramyt

   1.8y ago

   Seriously, there’s no point adding in this plugin. From what I can tell, there are only a handful (less than 10) animations that this plugin offers, and most of those are zoom animations. I don’t know why anyone would even bother releasing a plugin that is as devoid of features as this. Utterly pointless. This topic was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by 1ramyt.

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8. ★★★★★ jaydenbtc

   2.2y ago

   I see update 1.0.9 was released “4 hours ago”… yet I cannot download it anywhere. However, the problem is 1.0.8 all of a sudden is broken … all animations stopped working resulting in anything with UICore animations to be hidden on the live site. Nothing has changed other than UICore updating the plugin from 1.0.8 -> 1.0.9The plugin version for download here is still 1.0.8, and WordPress isn’t prompting us to update to 1.0.9So why are all animations broken on 1.0.8 but I can’t access 1.0.9 yet to update and fix my site?

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.2.4 FIX – Animated Backgrounds were overflowing the container’s spaces for Uicore Blocks FIX – The default Animation Style was not working 2.2.4
2. — Version 2.2.3 FIX – Simple Sticky Scroll was not working correctly FIX – Animation styles set through the UiCore Framework had no effect FIX – Smooth Scroll was blocking anchor links to different pages FIX – Entrance Animations were b 2.2.3
3. — Version 2.2.2 FIX – Animated Border Hover glow bugs FIX – ScaleIn animation bug in Uicore Blocks FIX – Elementor editor issue with Intro Words preloader 2.2.2
4. — Version 2.2.1 NEW – Added 20 new Animated Background in Gutenberg FIX – Animated Background Elementor bugs 2.2.1
5. — Version 2.2.0 NEW – Added 20 new Animated Background FIX – Issue with page transitions and OS reduced motion accessibility FIX – Smooth scroll issue with full anchors URLs FIX – Animated borders issue with optmized markup experiment 2.2.0
6. — Version 2.1.10 FIX – Split Text Animation and GTranslate compatibility UPD – Accesibility improvements 2.1.10

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-05-19 30K+ → 40K+ up after 139 days in tier
2. 2024-12-31 20K+ → 30K+ up after 127 days in tier
3. 2024-08-26 10K+ → 20K+ up after 117 days in tier
4. 2024-05-01 9K+ → 10K+ up after 11 days in tier
5. 2024-04-20 8K+ → 9K+ up after 11 days in tier
6. 2024-04-09 7K+ → 8K+ up after 12 days in tier
7. 2024-03-28 6K+ → 7K+ up after 11 days in tier
8. 2024-03-17 5K+ → 6K+ up after 10 days in tier

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