🆚 GSAP vs. Wow.js

📈 Wow.js is twice as popular as GSAP.
🌎 Wow.js is more popular in the United States, China, and India.
🌍 GSAP is more popular in Korea, Switzerland, and Israel.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Type

JavaScript library

About

GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform) is an open-source JavaScript animation library that enables developers to create high-performance, cross-browser animations for HTML elements, CSS properties, SVG, canvas, and JavaScript objects.

It includes a fast, low-level tweening engine with advanced timeline sequencing, custom easing, motion paths, and optional plugins such as ScrollTrigger and Draggable for scroll-based and interactive effects.

WOW.js is a JavaScript library that reveals CSS animations when you scroll.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

gsap.com #141,490

wowjs.uk #479,960

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Wow.js JavaScript library is 2 times more popular than GSAP.

Total websites

Market share

JavaScript Libraries

Animation

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Wow.js is more popular in the United States, China, and India, while GSAP is more popular in Korea, Switzerland, and Israel.

United States

China

India

Japan

Germany

United Kingdom

Italy

France

Spain

Turkey

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Animation category.
🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Animation category.
🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Animation category.
🥉 Third most popular in Israel in the Animation category.
🥉 Third most popular in Luxembourg in the Animation category.

🥈 Second most popular in China in the Animation category.
🥈 Second most popular in India in the Animation category.
🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Animation category.
🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the Animation category.
🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Animation category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Wow.js is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and Internet services, while GSAP is more commonly used on entertainment, non-profit, advocacy and NGO, and restaurants sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

Travel

Health

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#88

#553

#564

#590

Name

Rank

#17

#110

#126

#272

#299