ILO ANIMATION · ONLINE AND IN ILLUSTRATOR

Make your design
move.

Upload an SVG, an Illustrator .ai or a PNG, or start from one of 23,040 templates. Press Magic and every element gets its own move. Export Lottie, animated SVG, GIF or MP4. Right in your browser, and inside Adobe Illustrator too. Plus Ilo Raw and Color Tools for photos and colour.

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Ilo Animation in the browser: animation library, stage and timeline
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Puffy & Chrome letteringPUFFY & CHROME

↑ a real animation, made and exported in Ilo Animation online. move your mouse to look around. ↑

01 — ILO ANIMATION

Press Magic.
Every element gets its own move.

ilotools.com/app · Good design moves
Mask reveal · letter by letter Drop & squash · physics Exported as MP4 by the app

01 · START

From anything

One of 23,040 templates in every size, your own SVG from Illustrator, or a photo. Or describe it to the AI you already use.

02 · MAGIC

One click, real choreography

Magic reads the design and gives each element its own move: titles mask in, objects drop and bounce, sparkles pulse. Press again for another take.

03 · EXPORT

Yours, then everywhere

Change the words, colours and moves on a real timeline, then export Lottie, animated SVG, GIF, MP4 or WebM.

23,040templates in every size
28,864animations, Lottie-grade
40,431shapes, 3D and characters
1,900+Google Fonts, any script

02 — MADE WITH ILO ANIMATION

Posters that move.
Every piece below was designed, animated and exported in Ilo Animation.

BAUHAUSA poster in primary geometry: the sun, the bar and the type arrive in turn.
EDITORIALA magazine cover: a glossy 3D sphere in front of the masthead, cover lines, a hand-drawn underline.
PLAYFUL 3DPuffy 3D stickers, a smiley and rounded type on a soft gradient.
SWISSInternational Typographic Style: one huge word, a red square, a strict grid.
RISOGRAPHTwo inks, halftone dots and misregistered type, like a riso print.
3D STILL LIFEGlossy spheres, a donut, gems, crystals and ice cream from the shapes library.

Real exports from Ilo Animation, playing as MP4. The shapes, 3D objects and characters come from its 40,431-shape library; the type is set from Google Fonts. Make one in your browser →

03 — IN YOUR BROWSER · NOTHING TO INSTALL

A design studio in a tab.
Templates, your pictures, your own AI.

Ilo Animation in the browser: the template library on the left, an illustrated design on the canvas, its colours and 32 palettes on the right, the timeline below

23,040 templates

Instagram posts, Stories, YouTube thumbnails, presentations, covers, posters and logos. 10,752 of them illustrated from the shapes library.

Colours in one click

Every template knows its colour roles. Pick one of 32 palettes, press Shuffle, or change one colour and the whole design follows.

Your pictures

Drop in a photo or a PNG and it becomes part of the design, ready to animate with everything else.

Your own AI

Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or a model on your computer and describe a design. It is built and animated. Your key stays in your browser.

Works with your assistant

ilo is an MCP server: add https://www.ilotools.com/mcp to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, ask for a poster, and the answer opens here, animated.

Projects that wait for you

Sign in with a free ilo account and Save keeps the project there. Open it again on any computer, right where you stopped.

04 — ILO ANIMATION · INSIDE ILLUSTRATOR

Already in Illustrator?
Your layers are in the timeline.

The Ilo Animation window: library, stage, inspector and timeline

Open a document and your layers are already in the timeline. Pick from 28,864 animations built on real motion-design curves (mask reveals, springs, overshoot), refine them with blocks and keyframes, and export Lottie, animated SVG, GIF or video. Or press Magic and the whole design is choreographed in one click. Add any of 40,431 shapes (3D, characters, nature, UI) and 6,832 Puffy & Chrome looks for your type.

05 — THE LINEUP

Four tools. Pixels, vectors,
faces and type.

Get two or all four in one checkout and save 25% — see the bundles

06 — ILO RAW · THE EDITOR

Every control you know from Camera Raw.
In a window that belongs to Illustrator.

Ilo Raw — fitz.jpg
The Ilo Raw editor window with a developed studio photo, histogram and Basic panel Live histogram & clipping Local tone mapping · no halos Color grading wheels
12panels, from Basic to Calibration
60fps GPU preview while you drag
1:1full-resolution zoom & pan
0pixels lost — every edit stays re-editable

07 — ILO RAW · FROM FLAT TO FINISHED

Straight off the sensor,
then through Ilo Raw.

Fitz Roy at sunrise, developed in Ilo Raw — golden light on the snow, deep shadows, rich sky
The same Fitz Roy photo, flat and unedited as shot
RAW · AS SHOT ILO RAW

08 — ILO RAW · BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO DESIGN

Things Photoshop can’t do,
because it doesn’t know your artboard.

MASKS

Draw a path. It’s a mask.

Any shape, text or compound path you select in Illustrator becomes a local adjustment — exact to the anchor point. Plus linear, radial, brush, luminance, color range, and AI Subject & Sky.

A radial mask over a globe in the Ilo Raw editor

CUT OUT

Photoshop’s Remove Background, called from Illustrator.

The hot-air balloon cut out on a transparent background

Ilo Raw quietly asks Photoshop for its matte and brings it back as real transparency. Export PNG in one click.

RAW

Place a RAW file. Yes, in Illustrator.

CR3CR2NEFARWRAFDNGRW2ORFPEF3FRIIQX3F+1000 cameras

Camera preview in a blink, full demosaic in the background, re-editable forever.

HARMONIZE

Photos that wear your palette.

Pull every photo toward the document swatches — or the colors of the artwork you selected.

PRINT

Spot duotones with real plates.

Trees printed as a black and cyan spot duotone
Black (K)PANTONE 2995 C

Two grayscale plates colorized with your spot swatches, set to overprint. Straight to screen print or offset.

LOOKS

Presets rendered on your photo.

Nineteen looks — film, creative, black & white — previewed as thumbnails of the image you’re editing. Hover to try, click to keep, save your own, export any look as a .cube LUT.

The Ilo Raw presets panel with thumbnails of the current photo

VECTORS TOO

One grade for the whole layout.

Select photos and artwork together. Fills, strokes, gradients and every letter of your text take the same look — live, and always reversible.

NON-DESTRUCTIVE

Nothing is ever baked.

Originals and settings travel with the artwork. Select it next week and every slider is exactly where you left it.

09 — ILO COLOR TOOLS

Photoshop adjustments,
for vectors.

Illustrator can recolor artwork, but it has no Curves, no Levels, no Exposure. Color Tools adds them as a docked panel — and applies them to real vector color, live, while you drag.

SUMMER FESTIVAL · 2026 VECTOR · 7 PATHS · 2 TEXT · 1 GRADIENT
Hue/Saturation
LiveApply

← a working replica of the panel. drag the sliders — every fill, stroke, gradient stop and letter follows →

09 · B — EVERY TOOL, ONE CLICK AWAY

Ten adjustments.
See each one on real artwork.

BEFORE AFTER

01 / 10

Curves

The Color Tools panel
THE REAL PANEL

10 — WHY IT BELONGS IN ILLUSTRATOR

Tone and color for artwork,
without leaving the artboard.

01

Curves & Levels on paths

Shape the tone of an illustration the way photographers do — RGB and per-channel curves, input and output levels with gamma. Illustrator has nothing like it.

02

Every kind of color

Fills, strokes, every stop of a gradient and each character of your text — in groups, compound paths and clipping masks. RGB and CMYK documents.

03

Live on the artboard

Select, move a slider and watch the artwork change. Apply to keep it, Reset to get the exact original colors back, ⌘Z works as usual.

04

Stays vector

No rasterizing, no effects to expand. Color Tools writes new color values into your objects — the file is as editable as before.

05

Hundreds of objects at once

Recolor Artwork works color by color. Color Tools moves the whole selection in one gesture — a full icon set, a pattern, an entire poster.

06

Print Match: CMYK that looks like the screen

Converting to CMYK usually dulls colours and shifts hues. Print Match picks, for every colour, the inks that print closest to what you designed — blues stay blue, oranges stay orange.

07

Riso Match: real Risograph plates

The best 1–3 inks from the official Riso library for your palette, every colour mixed from overprinted tints, one spot plate per ink — straight from your vectors.

ILLUSTRATOR ALONE VS. WITH COLOR TOOLS

FeatureIllustrator+ Color Tools
Curves (RGB & per channel)
Levels with gamma
Exposure · Offset · Gamma
Brightness / Contrast
Temperature / Tint
Hue, Saturation & Lightness in one place
Docked panel — no modal dialogs
Saved adjustment presets
RGB → CMYK that keeps the look (Print Match)
Risograph separations from Riso inks (Riso Match)
Color Balance by shadows, midtones, highlights
Invert · Saturate / Desaturate

11 — ILO RETOUCH · NEW

Portrait retouching,
without leaving the layout.

Portrait after Auto retouch
The same portrait before retouching
BEFORE AUTO RETOUCH

Select the photo, press Auto retouch. Ilo Retouch finds the face, eyes, brows and mouth, heals blemishes from matching skin, smooths while keeping texture, evens redness, fixes red eyes and brightens eyes and teeth. Every step stays editable.

  • Clean up: acne and red bumps gone in one pass
  • Blemish finder + one-click heal brush
  • Skin smoothing with a Keep texture control
  • Automatic red-eye — only where it’s needed
  • All on your computer — photos are never uploaded

12 — BUY

Pick your tool.
Every plan is the full product.

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Ilo Animation $19 a month or $199 a year · Ilo Resize $19 a month or $199 a year · Ilo Raw $9 a month or $49 a year · Color Tools $7 a month or $29 a year · Retouch $7 a month or $35 a year · prices in USD

13 — QUESTIONS

Good to know.

Which tool do I need?

If you work with photos — placed images, RAW files, cut-outs — get Ilo Raw. If you recolor and tone vector artwork, get Color Tools. Ilo Raw can also grade vectors together with photos, but Color Tools has the dedicated Curves, Levels and Color Balance for vector art. If you retouch portraits in your layouts, add Ilo Retouch; for puffy, chrome or animated lettering, Ilo Animation. Many designers take more than one — bundles save up to 25%.

What does Ilo Retouch do?

It retouches portraits on your artboard: finds faces, removes blemishes, smooths skin while keeping texture, evens redness, fixes red eyes and brightens eyes and teeth — in one click, then every slider is yours. It runs entirely on your computer.

What does Ilo Animation do?

It animates the artwork you made in Illustrator, inside Illustrator. Your layers come in by themselves, you pick from 28,864 animations — mask reveals, springs, loops, 3D flips, text choreography — and fine-tune them on a timeline with keyframes, or press Magic and it animates the whole design for you, element by element. Export Lottie for websites and apps, animated SVG, GIF or video. It also includes 40,431 shapes (3D, characters, nature, interface, celebration) and 6,832 Puffy & Chrome looks for vector type.

Can I use Ilo Animation without Illustrator?

Yes. Ilo Animation runs in your browser too: 23,040 templates in every size, 1,900+ Google Fonts, colours in one click, Magic, and export to Lottie, animated SVG, GIF, MP4 or WebM. Designing is free; exporting uses the same 5-day free trial or license as the Illustrator version.

Can I use my own AI with ilo?

Yes — the one you already have. In the online app, Connect your AI takes a key from ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Gemini, OpenRouter, Groq, Mistral or DeepSeek, or a model running on your computer (Ollama, LM Studio). Describe a design and it is built from the templates and animated. ilo adds no credits and no costs. Assistants that speak MCP — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor — can also design with ilo through https://www.ilotools.com/mcp.

Is my AI key safe?

Your key stays in your browser and is sent only to your AI provider, never to ilo’s servers. Choose “Remember on this device” to keep it, or leave it off and it is gone when you close the tab. Disconnect removes it at once.

Can I get print colors that match my RGB design?

Yes — Print Match in Color Tools 1.2 converts RGB artwork to CMYK by choosing, for every colour, the inks that print closest to what you see, within your ink limit and with greys in black only.

Do I need Photoshop?

No. All four tools run entirely inside Illustrator. If Photoshop is installed, Ilo Raw’s Cut Out can use Photoshop’s Remove Background for the very best edges — it handles that for you in the background.

Which Illustrator versions work?

Illustrator 2023 and newer on macOS and Windows. Ilo Raw and Ilo Retouch open in their own windows from Window › Extensions; Color Tools docks like any Illustrator panel from Window › Extensions › Ilo Color Tools.

Does Color Tools rasterize my artwork?

No. It changes the actual color values of your paths, strokes, gradient stops and text. The result is still normal, editable vector artwork — no effects to expand, nothing flattened.

Does it change my original files?

Never. Linked images stay linked to a developed copy, embedded images keep their original safely, and every setting can be reopened and changed later.

Do my photos get uploaded anywhere?

No. Developing, masks, retouching, face detection and the AI subject detection all run on your computer. The only thing that goes online is the license check.

Can I use it on two computers?

Yes — one key activates two computers. Move it anytime from the menu inside the app.

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