Get Zink Tools
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 pluginsOne .zip per plugin · no installer, no runtime to install
macOS
macOS 11+ · Universal (Intel x86_64 + Apple Silicon arm64)
See the macOS plugins347 effects, free with no licence. The rest are still being ported.
Every drop, documented.
The suite ships in numbered releases: new plugins, fixes and rebuilds land together and every release is archived.
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.
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.
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.
The form trio (Still Breathe / Body Sway / Portrait Drift) and seven camera-native 3D reactive orbiters including Ring Halo.
ZT Shade Split decomposes painted art into base, shadow and highlight passes with an exact round-trip: plus six relighting companions.
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.
Full changelog back to release 1 ships inside the installer and in your account area once the store is live.