Squall 2

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Convert After Effects animations to iOS code. Preview them live on your phone. With one click.

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Description

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UI

Squall is a set of tools to help you bridge the gap from After Effects to native code for iOS. It allows you to output animations to production-ready code and to preview those animations live on your device. With one click and right in After Effects.

With the SDK you can then take those animations and integrate them with your apps. The clipboard functionality can generate simple code even right in After Effects. Give it a spin!

Overview

  • Convert animations to code
  • Preview animations live on your device
  • SDK to integrate animations with your app
  • APIs to adapt animations on the fly
  • Generate Core animation code to copy & paste right in After Effects

Clipboard

Quick Core Animation Code

clipboard
For select properties Squall can also generate code right in AE.

In Swift and Objective-C.

Example

Transition

Example

Spinner

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Version History

2.55 -

Jun 23, 2019

Supporting latest version of AE

2.54 -

May 12, 2018

Small enhancements

2.48 -

Feb 6, 2018

Fixed for latest AE version. Mac installer will only work on High Sierra and above.

2.46 -

Jul 17, 2017

Various SDK-related fixes. Repeater and shape layer fixes.

2.45 -

Jul 17, 2017

Crash fix for animated masks in Core Animations, expression evaluation fix, trim path animation fix, core animations 3D layer rotation fix

2.3 -

Apr 3, 2017

crash fix in text animators,

toggle for sending animation with crash reports

2.211 -

Mar 8, 2017

installer fix (mac)

2.21 -

Mar 7, 2017

Adds support for subtractive masks, is better at resolving expressions, can replace layers with the iOS camera, can use 3D Touch input, bug fixes

2.02 -

Dec 5, 2016

Feature - Repeater layers are now supported

Fix - Performance degradation in shape layers

Fix - crash for malformed text layers

Fix - sometimes images would not appear in the companion app, esp. under windows

2.0 -

Sep 22, 2016

- expressions can be evaluated on the device (dynamic expressions)

- expression tools for the Squall companion app

- support for polystar shape layers

- composition analyzer to help resolve conversion problems

- Build preset compositions for iOS devices

- Choose to render hidden properties

- Choose to render hidden layers

- AE extension can be updated right from AE

- AE extension can automatically update itself

- create static code snapshots of your comp right in AE

1.13 -

Jun 26, 2016

SDK contains bitcode.

Updated installer for AECC 2015.3

1.12 -

May 16, 2016

Trail period change.

Bug fix related to multiline text labels

1.11 -

May 16, 2016

Initial public release

Compatibility

After Effects

2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014

EULA

This license agreement is made by and between Forge and Form GmbH (the "Company") and the
person (the "Licensee") who downloads and/ or uses the Squall App, SDK or After Effects
extension (the "Software"). By installing or using the Software, the Licensee agrees to have
read and understood this license agreement as well as adhere to its terms and conditions.
1. License
The Licensee is granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to install, run
and use the Software for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.
The Licensee understands that in order to use the Software the Licensee may need to
purchase additional licenses such as the iOS SDK from Apple Inc. or Adobe After Effects CC
2015 (or higher) from Adobe Systems Inc., or hardware such as the iPhone by Apple Inc. The
Licensee is granted the right to include the software development tools provided as part of the
Software ("SDK") into their development environment and to link the SDK to applications to be
developed, provided, redistributed or sold by the Licensee in a binary form as a part of an
application by the Licensee to the Licensee’s end users in the form of compiled binary files
provided the following conditions are met:
a. The SDK may only be distributed as part of compiled software developed by or for
the Licensee. The software application must be compiled to binary object code and the
SDK must be embedded into the binary program code as an inseparable part.
b. The SDK may only be distributed as part of a derived work and incorporated into an
application of the Licensee. Any other redistribution such as in the form of relinkable
libraries or similar forms is prohibited.
c. The SDK is the only part of the Software that may be redistributed in the above
mentioned manner and only in the above mentioned manner.
d. The Licensee may not assign, sublicense, copy, sell or otherwise distribute the
Software or any parts thereof to any third party.
e. The Licensee may not modify, decompile, reuse, reverse engineer or otherwise
translate the Software or any portion thereof.
2. Usage Information
In addition to information that the Licensee provides the Company directly, the Software may
gather data such as but not limited to error reports, crash statistics and usage patterns to be
used by the Company as it deems fit..
3. Rights of Output
The Licensee is free to use, sublicense, sell or otherwise distribute the code and output
generated by the Licensee's use of the Software for any purpose, commercial or noncommercial.
4. Intellectual Property Rights
The Licensee is granted all right and title to code and other output created in the course of the
Licensee's use of the Software. The Company retains all other rights, title and interest, moral
or otherwise, including but not limited to the intellectual property rights, to the Software and
any parts thereof, and nothing in this agreement shall be construed to mean a transferal or
assignment of such rights. .
5. Maintenance and Support
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Software, such as but not limited to updates, upgrades, bug fixes and notifications of potential
shortcomings and vulnerabilities. Any updates, upgrades, improvements, bug fixes or other
modifications are made at the sole discretion of the Company. The Licensee's use thereof shall
not be subject to any separate license agreement. The Licensee's use of any such update,
upgrade, improvement, bug fix or modifications shall be deemed part of the Software and is
subject to this license agreement.
6. Warranty
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including warranties of merchantability, fitness for any particular purpose or freedom from
infringement. .
7. Limitation of Liability
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connection with the use of the Software, including but not limited to any indirect and
consequential damages, loss of revenues, loss of profits or loss of data, even if the Company
has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall the Company's
maximum aggregate liability exceed the total feeds paid by the Licensee to license the
Software. .
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license(s). Upon the Company's request the Licensee must destroy or cause the destruction of
all copies of the Software.
9. Governing Law
This license agreement shall be governed, construed and enforced in accordance with the
laws of Norway.
If any provision of this agreement shall be found void by a court, invalid or unenforceable, it
shall be reformed to comply with applicable law or excluded if not so conformable, so as not
to affect the validity or enforceability of this agreement.

Updated: Oct 21, 2025 1:35 AM