Host a Lottie animation and share it as a link
Put a Lottie file at a public address that a page or app can load — vector animation at a fraction of a GIF's size.
Drop your Lottie file here
Any other file works too — up to 25.0 MB, or 100.0 MB for a whole site
Free to use. Your LOTTIE file is live at your-name.99helpers.site in about ten seconds.
What is a .lottie file?
Lottie is a JSON format for vector animation, created at Airbnb. An After Effects animation exported through Bodymovin becomes a Lottie file that renders as real vectors at any size — typically a fraction of the size of an equivalent GIF, and infinitely sharper.
What people use LOTTIE files for
- Animated icons and micro-interactions
- Loading and success animations
- Illustrated animation on a landing page
- Animation shared between designers and developers
What opens a LOTTIE file
- lottie-web and the dotlottie player, in a browser
- lottie-react, lottie-ios and lottie-android
- After Effects with the Bodymovin plugin
- LottieFiles, for previewing and editing
How to host a LOTTIE file
- 1
Drop your LOTTIE file in
Drag it onto the box at the top of this page, or click to choose it. Files up to 25 MB are supported, and nothing is uploaded until you publish.
- 2
Pick an address
Type a name and we'll tell you straight away whether it's free. That becomes the link: loading-animation.99helpers.site
- 3
Publish and share
Create a free account — that step exists so the file is yours to update, replace or delete — and the link is live within seconds.
The same three steps work for any file — see how file hosting works on 99helpers.com.
What happens when someone opens the link
The browser displays it as JSON text, since a Lottie file is JSON underneath. To see it animate, a player has to load it — which it can do straight from the address.
Why host a LOTTIE file instead of emailing it?
A Lottie needs a URL for a player to fetch, and design handoffs stall while someone works out where to put the file. Hosting gives you a link the developer can point a player at immediately.
Worth knowing before you publish
- Cross-origin fetches are subject to CORS, so hosting the animation alongside the page that uses it is the reliable route.
- Images embedded in a Lottie make the file much larger — pure vector animations stay tiny.
- A .lottie file is a zipped bundle; plain .json is the more widely supported form.
LOTTIE hosting questions
- Will the animation play when I open the link?
- No — a Lottie file is JSON, so the browser shows the data. It animates when a Lottie player loads it, either on your page or in a preview tool like LottieFiles.
- Can my page load it from this URL?
- Server-side and same-origin requests work. Browser JavaScript on another domain is subject to CORS, so hosting the animation with your page as one site is the reliable approach.
- Why is my Lottie file so large?
- Almost always embedded raster images. Pure vector animations are usually only a few kilobytes; rasterised assets defeat the point of the format.
Put your LOTTIE file online now
It takes about ten seconds, and you only make an account once the file is ready to go live.
Hosting guides for related formats
LOTTIE is one of over 211 formats you can host — see free file hosting for any file type for the full list, or read the hosting guides for other file types.