I built a Smart Animate preflight prototype — would this be useful at $18 one-time?
I've been looking into recurring Smart Animate failures caused by structural issues such as mismatched layer names, hierarchy/path differences, or ambiguous matching.
I built a small local proof-of-concept that scans Smart Animate transitions before preview and flags common structural matching risks.
What it would do:
- identify Smart Animate transitions automatically
- compare source/destination layer names and hierarchy
- flag duplicate-name / ambiguous matching risks
- show an issue list so you can jump to the suspicious layers
- run locally and read-only, with no file upload
What it would not claim to do:
- fix every Smart Animate problem
- diagnose Figma runtime/rendering bugs
- replace preview/testing
Price I’m testing: $18 one-time.
This is still a concept/prototype validation, not a finished public plugin.
Which best describes you? Please reply with 1, 2, 3, or 4:
- I actively use Smart Animate and would seriously consider buying this for $18 one-time
- I actively use Smart Animate, but $18 feels too high
- I actively use Smart Animate, but I probably wouldn’t need this
- I don’t actively use Smart Animate
If you’ve had a Smart Animate failure you wish a preflight tool had caught, I’d also love to hear what happened.

