Figma plugin: MotionUI vs MotionUI Agent

MotionUI comes with two Figma plugins. Both send your designs to After Effects as editable layers. The difference is that MotionUI Agent also lets Claude or Codex work inside your Figma file.

At a glance

Which one should I use?

Take MotionUI if you design yourself and want to animate in After Effects. It installs from the Figma Community with one click.

Take MotionUI Agent if you want Claude or Codex to create or change designs in Figma, such as a new screen, a variation or a cleanup, before you send them to After Effects. It does everything the Community plugin does, so this one is all you need.

You can install both. Figma runs one plugin at a time, so open the one you need in the file you are working on.

Why are there two plugins?

The Figma Community does not list plugins that let an assistant work inside a file. That is why MotionUI Agent comes with the MotionUI app and is installed from files on your computer. It takes about two minutes, and only once.

MotionUI Agent talks to the MotionUI app, which connects Claude or Codex through the MotionUI MCP server. It works independently of Figma’s own MCP server.

Install

• MotionUI: open MotionUI in the Figma Community and click Open in Figma.

• MotionUI Agent: in the MotionUI app, open the Figma tab and click Copy plugin files. Then import the plugin in the Figma desktop app. Every step is in Install the Figma plugin.