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Plugins download one at a time from the Plugins page, each with its own licence code, and all of them are free. A single combined installer is still being put together.

Windows

Windows 10 / 11 · x64 · After Effects 2020 – 2026 & Beta

Download the free plugins

One .zip per plugin · no installer, no runtime to install

macOS

macOS 11+ · Universal (Intel x86_64 + Apple Silicon arm64)

See the macOS plugins

347 effects, free with no licence. The rest are still being ported.

Releases

Every drop, documented.

The suite ships in numbered releases: new plugins, fixes and rebuilds land together and every release is archived.

Release 116: “Catalog Audit”
August 30, 2026 · 614 plugins in the public catalog

Catalog pass rather than a feature drop. Every public entry was checked against its preview: demo clips rebuilt against the staging each effect actually needs, hand-recorded clips restored to full length instead of being cut to six seconds, and private, licensing and duplicate entries taken out of the public list. ZT Tear Flow joins Zink Anime FX.

Release 115: “Chaos Five”
August 18, 2026 · 697 targets in the build

Five new chaos-driven FX led by ZT Chaos Smoke (two-level domain-warped fbm with curl advection: folding silk smoke). Fixes across Fire Plume 3D shape mode, Light Streaks 3D mask paths, and Punch Barrage gains source-art facing + wall/floor/ceiling target surfaces.

Release 110: “Batch Three”
August 18, 2026 · 692 targets in the build

Ten new plugins: Meteor Fall, Drift Fall, and the 3D orbiter line (Twin, Halo Stack, Beacon, Echo, Star Crown) plus character-life riggers Head Tilt, Hair Breeze and Weight Shift.

Release 100: “Orbit Ten”
August 18, 2026 · 682 targets in the build

The form trio (Still Breathe / Body Sway / Portrait Drift) and seven camera-native 3D reactive orbiters including Ring Halo.

Release 90: “Relight Seven”
August 17, 2026 · 672 targets in the build

ZT Shade Split decomposes painted art into base, shadow and highlight passes with an exact round-trip: plus six relighting companions.

Release 76: “2D FX Bases”
August 16, 2026 · 646 targets in the build

Thirty procedural hand-drawn 2D cel FX families on eight shared engines, and twenty camera-native 3D plugins built on the rayGround inverse projection: no depth pass needed.

Earlier releases
2026 archive

Full changelog back to release 1 ships inside the installer and in your account area once the store is live.