Want to create awesome content for your brand or small business? Here’s how to create animated Canva designs with the LottieFiles Mobile App for free. You don’t need graphic design skills – or even a laptop – to get started.

What is Canva?

Canva is a free-to-use graphic design tool. But unlike tools like Adobe Photoshop, you don’t have to be a graphic designer to use it – it offers tons of ready-made templates for you to create presentations, posters, greeting cards, social media posts and more.

If you already use Canva, you probably know that it has a web and desktop version (check out our guide on creating animated Canva designs with the web version). But did you know that it has a mobile app too? That’s right, you can create designs on the go. And better yet, you can add Lottie animations to your designs, without ever leaving your phone.

How to add animations to Canva on mobile

Assumes you have the Canva for mobile app for Android or iOS already installed!

  • Create a new project, whether it be a whiteboard, presentation, social media post, video, or website or any other area that you desire. [Note: LottieFiles supports all the Canva Visual Worksuite options other than Docs]
  • Or open one of your existing Canva creations that you want to edit further
  • Tap the app button and search for LottieFiles.
  • The LottieFiles app will appear in your button navigation bar. If you don’t have an account with us, just sign up for a whole new LottieFiles account to enjoy the full experience.
  • Once you install the LottieFiles for Canva app, you can proceed to click the LottieFiles you can explore over 400,000, ready-to-use Lottie animations within the Discover tab. Here you can find featured, popular, and recently used categories animation or use the search feature to narrow down your search.
  • The Workspace tab is where your private team animations will be living, this is useful for teams who may have customized brand animations that they want to use such as logos, mascots or any other private animations in hand.

To change the colors of your Lottie animation to match your brand identity or aesthetics you can:

  • Click on the color palette icon.
  • Choose from existing color palettes or create a new custom one.
  • Select the desired animation and use it on your designs

If you have an SVG file or a Lottie animation stored on your mobile, and you would like to use them on your Canva project, you can import them as well using the Import tab. Simply important and use the available animation presets to create your own customized animation.

What else can you do with Lottie animations on Mobile?

Besides creating awesome Canva content, you might be more familiar with other design took or social media apps that you can use to create content straight away. If that is the case, you can use the LottieFiles Mobile app to extract animation and use it on applications such as Adobe Express, TikTok and Instagram. You can also do other cool things with the app, including:

  • Creating animations with the SVG to Lottie feature.
  • Downloading animated sticker packs for Telegram and WhatsApp.
  • Sending free animations in messaging apps with the LottieFiles keyboard extension for iOS.

Prefer to create content on the desktop instead? Check out our guide to adding Lottie animations to your favorite tools – with no-code tools or with HTML. Or if you’re looking for inspiration, check out how industry leaders like Disney, Headspace and Gojek are building apps with Lottie. With that, we’ll leave you to explore the wonderful world of motion – happy animating!