Version 3.1 · Windows

Beautiful math.
Made by you.

A visual editor for Manim Community Edition. Arrange elements and animations on a timeline, and the editor writes the Manim Python that renders your math animation — no line-by-line coding.

Download for Windows

A scene built in the editor, rendered by Manim. Not a mockup — see the Python it generated.

Code → result

You build the scene.
It writes the Manim.

The project is a JSON document you edit visually. From it the editor compiles readable Manim Python — the same file it renders, and the same file you can export. See how a scene is assembled.

scene.py written by the editor 
element_0 = Axes(x_range=[-1, 4], y_range=[-1, 5], x_length=9, y_length=5, tips=False)
element_0.shift(np.array([-2, -1.5, 0]) - element_0.c2p(0, 0))

element_1 = element_0.plot(lambda x: (0.5 * (x ** 2.0)), x_range=[0, 3], use_smoothing=False)
element_1.set_color('#58C4DD')

element_2 = element_0.get_area(element_1, x_range=[0, 2])
element_2.set_opacity(0.45)

self.play(Create(element_0), run_time=(15 - 1e-6) / 15)
self.play(Create(element_1), run_time=(23 - 1e-6) / 15)
self.play(FadeIn(element_2), run_time=(15 - 1e-6) / 15)
preview.mp4 rendered by Manim

Excerpt from the real compiler output, trimmed for length. The full scene is calculus-area.json; the hero runs integral-story.json.

How it works

Three moves.
No boilerplate.

Pick the elements.

Equations, LaTeX and plain text, matrices, code, shapes from circles to stars, arrows, braces, axes, number planes, function graphs, bar charts, and the area under a graph. Thirty-one kinds in all, each with its own property fields rather than one generated form.

The manim-editor window: a grouped element library on the left, the rendered preview in the centre, the inspector on the right, and a timeline of layers along the bottom.

Give them time.

The timeline works like a video editor's: each object is a clip on a layer, its animations ride inside it, and higher layers draw on top. Drag clips along their layer or onto another, pull their edges, and nudge them with the arrow keys. Thirteen animation kinds — from Create and Write to Rotate, Indicate, and Transform — added at the playhead, and different objects' animations can overlap. Nothing is animated implicitly.

The same editor in its light theme, with each object on its own layer and its animations inside its clip.

Render, and see what Manim saw.

Rendering runs locally through Manim Community Edition. There is no second engine approximating the result in the browser and no cloud queue — the preview you watch is the file Manim wrote, compiled from the Python the editor generated. While you edit, the viewer shows Manim's own frame at the playhead; Play renders the full video. Get it for Windows.

Sixteen seconds.
Entirely yours.

A number plane, a sine wave, a circle, a hexagon, an arc, and a dot riding the crest — created, grown, drawn, rotated, rescaled, recoloured, and emphasised, all from the timeline. See the project file.

Install

One download.
Nothing else to set up.

The installer carries its own Python, Manim Community Edition, TinyTeX, and FFmpeg. That is why it is large, and why it renders math animations offline on a Windows machine with none of them installed. Read what it does not do first.

Installer · EXE · 459 MB

MSI · 579 MB Portable ZIP · 376 MB Release notes

Operating system
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. There is no macOS or Linux build.
Disk space
About 2 GB installed, including the bundled rendering environment.
Prerequisites
None. Python, Manim CE 0.21, TinyTeX, and FFmpeg ship inside the installer.
Internet
Only to download. Installing and rendering work offline.

Or build it from source:

git clone https://github.com/diegormirhan/manim-editor

Requires Node.js 24+, Python 3.14, the Rust toolchain, and a TeX distribution. The README has the full sequence.

Limitations

What it does not do.
Stated plainly.

Version 3.1 is a focused release, and some of these are deliberate rather than unfinished. Everything it does do is three moves up the page.

  • The release is unsigned. Windows SmartScreen will warn on first run, and the build has not yet been validated on a clean machine.
  • The live preview is a frame at a time. It shows Manim's own frame at the playhead within about half a second, but smooth playback needs a render, and Manim's rendering time is not hidden.
  • Python is a one-way export. You can export readable Python and edit it elsewhere, but the editor cannot import Python or open existing Manim projects.
  • It does not cover the whole Manim API. Thirty-one element kinds and thirteen animation kinds — chosen to complete one workflow, not to wrap everything Manim can do.
  • One animation per object at a time. Animations of different objects overlap freely, but an object plays one at a time, and two objects share a layer only when they take turns.
  • Graph expressions are restricted. A closed grammar — x, numbers, + − × ÷ ^, and sin cos tan sqrt abs exp ln log. Arbitrary Python is refused by design.
  • Windows only. The packaging work targets Windows; nothing else is built or tested.