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MATE for AE

Your AI Agent for After Effects. Automate simple and complex tasks with natural language: stagger and reorganize layers, replace text, add animations. Ask MATE to generate scripts and expressions, and manage your render queue. Powered by OpenAI GPT, Claude, Gemini, or Mistral.

All AI usage included! 

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Description

Your AI Agent for automation,
scripting, and expressions

MATE helps you automate After Effects with plain language. Reorder layers, replace text, write scripts and expressions, add animations, and manage your render queue.

Key Features

Agent Mode

Ask MATE to do the work for you. Great for repeated tasks and longer step-by-step jobs.

Script Mode

Need an expression or script? Describe it, and MATE writes it for you right away.

AI Usage

No API keys, account setup, or extra tools. AI usage is included.

MCP

Bring in text and data from other services like Notion without copy and paste.


Best AI Models. All Usage Included.

AI usage is included. No API key needed. Use it as often as you want.

Latest models, constantly updated.

  • GPT-5.4
  • Claude Sonnet 4.6
  • Gemini 3.1
  • Mistral 3

In "Agent Mode", MATE does the work

It's a new way to automate and batch-process tasks. Tell it “stagger layers” or “show only the translated text layers and add to render queue” and it handles the layer logic, order, and render. No complex UI needed.

Stagger Layers

Ask MATE to stagger selected layers by frames or seconds. Adjusted exactly how you need it.

Stagger Layers

Repetitive Tasks, Gone

MATE handles repetitive actions for you. Apply changes across layers, comps, or entire projects in one go. Fade-ins, font changes, layer adjustments, just describe it once.

Repetitive Tasks, Gone

Chain Multiple Steps

Show/hide content by language, add to render queue, start the queue. One instruction. Done.

Chain Multiple Steps

Scripts & Expressions,
Written for You

Turn on Script Mode to generate scripts, create custom expressions, and build reusable tools without leaving After Effects.

Generate Scripts

Tell MATE what you need and it writes proper ExtendScript. Import existing scripts and ask MATE to fix or extend them.

Generate Scripts interface

Expressions on Demand

Need a wiggle? A loop? A conditional? Just ask. MATE generates a custom expression for your exact need. You apply it with one click.

Expression workflow

Build Your Script Library

Save scripts and expressions, reuse them offline with one click. Drag to reorder, share with your team. No AI needed to run saved scripts.

Script library

Everything Organized.
Always Within Reach.

Save what works. Reuse it. Share it.

One Click to Run

Run a saved script or start a new chat from a prompt instantly.

Run scripts or prompts

Inline Picker

Add saved scripts and prompts from the inline picker.

Inline library picker

Export & Share

Export and share scripts and expressions with your team.

Export and share library items

Stay Organized

Organize everything with stars and drag-and-drop sorting.

Organize with favorites and drag and drop

Auto Metadata

Auto-title and auto-description generation keeps your library tidy for you.

Auto title and description generation

Import Existing Scripts

Drop in existing scripts, then adjust and improve them with MATE.

Import existing scripts

Connect to the World

MCP is an open standard — like an API, but built for AI. It lets MATE connect to external services and pull data directly into your After Effects workflow.

Bring in Content from Anywhere

Pull copy from Notion, pull assets from CI HUB, track tasks from Linear — and use them directly inside After Effects. No copy-pasting between tools.

Popular use case: fetch content from a Notion doc and populate text layers automatically. One command. Done.

MCP workflow

Discussions

Want to talk about it?

Head over to r/aescripts to chat with fellow users about this product.

Need Support?

Please open a support ticket to be connected directly with the author of this product

Version History

1.1.0 -

Apr 18, 2026

Use files with MATE
In your prompt you can now add PDFs, CSV, JSON files and let MATE update texts, project data, or any other setting you need.

Gemini in Agent Mode (beta)
In "Settings" change Gemini Runtime to "interactions". Still beta. Gemini is still unstable. Be careful.

1.0.1 -

Apr 9, 2026

Hello World!
Use Agent Mode and get rid of repetitive tasks and save hours of dumb work.
Generate Expressions and Script on the fly.
Use MCP connectors to connect to other services like Notion.

Compatibility

After Effects

2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, CS3

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Updated: Oct 21, 2025 1:35 AM