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Practical guides on Lottie formats, conversion, and optimization — no fluff, written from building the converter.
GIF vs APNG vs WebM: which animation format should you use?
A practical comparison of the three main Lottie export formats — color depth, transparency, file size, and where each one actually works.
How to use a Lottie animation in email
Email clients can't run Lottie. Here's the reliable way to get your animation into inboxes — and the traps to avoid.
How to put a Lottie animation in a GitHub README
GitHub strips scripts and freezes animated SVGs. Here's how to make your Lottie actually move in a README.
What is a .lottie (dotLottie) file?
dotLottie explained: what's inside the container, why it's smaller than JSON, and how to convert to and from it.
How to reduce Lottie file size (without visual loss)
Practical ways to shrink a heavy Lottie: precision reduction, metadata stripping, dotLottie packaging, and design-side fixes.
What is a Lottie file? The JSON animation format, explained
What a Lottie (.json) file actually is, where it comes from, where it plays natively — and what to do when it needs to work somewhere it doesn't.
Lottie vs GIF: which should you actually use?
File size, quality, transparency, and compatibility — when to keep an animation as Lottie, when to ship a GIF, and why the answer is usually both.