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Both are motion design tools that run in a browser and make real Lottie files. Lottielab is the funded, team-shaped one, built around people working on the same animation together. Lotiqlab is the free one, built around getting the whole job done in a single tab with nothing uploaded. The question that decides it is whether you are working alone or with other people.
I build Lotiqlab. Treat this as informed and interested. Lottielab's numbers come from its own pricing page and Crunchbase in August 2026 and are worth re-checking, because this category moves its free tier terms around a lot. Where Lottielab is better I have said so.
Where Lottielab wins
Collaboration, first and clearest. Lotiqlab has no multiplayer editing at all. Lottielab does, and if two people work on one animation there is no argument to have.
Resources, second. Lottielab is LottieLab LTD, founded by Andrew Mayowa Ologunebi and Alistair Thomson, and raised a $4M seed led by Point Nine in April 2022. Lotiqlab is one person. That difference shows up in polish, in edge cases, and in the fact that I offer no uptime commitment and no support desk to escalate to.
Lottielab also has multiple pages in one document, a deeper interactivity story, and templates aimed squarely at product teams. Its own hero calls it the motion design tool for product teams, and that is an accurate description of what it is good at.
Where Lotiqlab wins
It does the whole job in one tab, free. Canvas, keyframe timeline with draggable easing, layer stack, multi-page documents, colour tools, optimizer, and export to Lottie, dotLottie, GIF, MP4, WebM, PNG and SVG. No trial clock and no watermark on anything, because there is no paid tier to push you towards.
Lottielab's free plan marks everything it exports, so a clean file needs Pro at $12 per editor per month on annual billing, $18 monthly.
Nothing is uploaded. A Lottie is JSON and a browser can parse JSON, so the parse, render, edit and export all happen on your machine. Your unreleased product animation never leaves it, there is no queue, and no upload size ceiling.
And AI generation writes a real editable Lottie from a text prompt, which is a genuinely different starting point from a blank canvas. Lottielab has no equivalent.
The honest cost comparison
Free is not automatically better. A funded company with a team has resources a one person project does not, and you are picking which risk you would rather carry.
What you buy from Lottielab is collaboration and somebody to call. What you get from Lotiqlab is the full tool with no bill and no upload. Those are different products that happen to open the same file type.
Using both is reasonable
Make it in Lottielab where the collaboration and editor depth earn their price. Then bring the exported file into Lotiqlab for the cleanup pass. Recolour for a dark theme, optimise, delete a layer, convert to GIF for a Slack message, without spending a seat on someone who only needed that one thing.
That is genuinely how the two fit together, and it is a better recommendation than pretending either replaces the other.