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How to remove the Jitter watermark

By Harsh Pal 4 min read, updated 21 August 2026

In this article

Export your Jitter animation as Lottie, not MP4. The watermark comes through as an ordinary layer you can select and delete, and you convert to video afterwards. Do it the other way round and the mark is pixels, at which point nothing will fix it properly.

Jitter's free plan marks everything

Jitter's free tier exports to GIF, MP4 and Lottie, and it marks all three. The official route to a clean file is a paid plan, which is fair enough. It is their product.

I am not going to quote you a price. I checked four sources and got four different numbers, ranging from $8.25 to $19 a month, so go and look at jitter.video yourself rather than trusting a figure I cannot stand behind.

What matters here is that one of those three export formats behaves completely differently from the other two.

The order you export in decides everything

GIF and MP4 are pixels. When Jitter renders the mark into those, it is painted into every single frame alongside your artwork, sharing the same pixels. Removing it then means inpainting or cropping. Inpainting invents content that was never there and it shows. Cropping throws away part of your artwork.

Lottie is not pixels. It is a JSON file listing vector shapes and keyframes, so the mark arrives as its own layer sitting next to yours. Select it, delete it, done.

So the whole trick is doing it in the right sequence.

Why you export Lottie before video, not after THE WAY THAT TRAPS YOU Jitter free plan Export MP4 mark becomes pixels No way back inpainting or cropping, both look worse THE WAY THAT WORKS Jitter free plan Export Lottie mark stays a layer Delete it one keypress Clean MP4 convert after
Same starting file, same finished MP4. Only the middle step is different, and it is the one that decides whether this is possible at all.

Doing it

Five steps, and none of them need a Jitter subscription or an account anywhere else.

  • In Jitter, export as Lottie rather than GIF or MP4.
  • Open the .json in a browser Lottie editor.
  • Click the mark on the canvas. Its layer highlights in the layer list.
  • Press Delete. Every other layer, keyframe and timing value is untouched.
  • Export. Take Lottie if you are shipping to an app or a site, or convert to MP4 or GIF from the clean file if you need video.

Only do this on your own work

A mark on an animation you designed and exported yourself is a nudge to upgrade, and the file is yours. Taking it off is normal.

A mark on somebody else's animation is usually the attribution their licence asks for, and removing it breaks that licence. The fact that it takes one keypress does not change what it is.

What Jitter's Lottie export actually supports

Worth knowing before you commit to this route, because a Lottie export that drops half your animation is not a win.

Jitter's own docs say text effects are fully supported in Lottie export, mask animations are 100% compatible, and exported files are automatically checked against the editor preview. That is a stronger claim than most tools in this space make, and it means the Lottie you get should match what you designed.

If something does come through wrong, it is nearly always a feature the Lottie runtimes do not implement rather than a broken export. Test in whatever runtime is actually going to render it.

If Delete does not do it

Two things go wrong occasionally.

The mark exported as several layers, one per letter or one per shape. Marquee select the group and delete them together.

The mark is inside a precomp. Open the precomp and delete it in there. A precomp is just another layers array, so it behaves the same once you have found it.

The case you cannot fix is a mark baked into a raster image inside the file's assets. That shares pixels with the artwork under it, same as the MP4 problem, and no editor can separate them.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Quick answers about Lottie files and how Lotiqlab works.

How do I remove the Jitter watermark for free?

Export your animation from Jitter as Lottie rather than GIF or MP4. The mark comes through as an ordinary layer in the JSON, so you open the file in a Lottie editor, select that layer, delete it and export. No Jitter subscription is needed, and no account elsewhere either.

Can I remove the Jitter watermark from an MP4 or GIF?

Not cleanly. In a video or GIF the mark is pixels in every frame, sharing space with your artwork, so removing it means inpainting or cropping and both visibly damage the result. Go back to Jitter, export the same animation as Lottie, remove the layer there, and convert to video from the clean file.

Does Jitter's free plan let me export Lottie?

Yes. The free tier exports to GIF, MP4 and Lottie. All three carry the watermark, but only the Lottie export keeps it as a separate layer you can delete.

Is it legal to remove the Jitter watermark?

On an animation you created yourself, yes. It is your work and the mark is a free-plan upgrade nudge. On someone else's animation the mark is normally the attribution their licence requires, and stripping it is a licence violation regardless of how easy it is.

Will the animation still look right after deleting the layer?

Yes. Lottie layers are siblings in one array, so removing one leaves everything else alone. The only thing worth checking is whether another layer was parented to the one you deleted, which you will spot by playing the animation through once.