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Animated Overlays is a Canva app that generates animated stickers with a transparent background — falling snow, sparkles, bokeh, rain, hearts, bubbles, confetti, fireworks and more — and inserts them straight into your design with one click. No video editor, no downloads, no green screen removal.
Animated snow overlay playing over a photo in Canva Preview mode

Animated Overlays in Canva — snow falling over a photo with a fully transparent background

Each sticker is vector-based, loops seamlessly, and scales without losing quality. It behaves like any animated element in Canva: use it on videos, presentations, social posts, stories, and thumbnails, and the motion plays whenever you preview or export your design as a video.

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What you can do

16 animated effects

Snow, Sparkle, Bokeh, Rain, Hearts, Bubbles, Confetti, and more — plus Pro effects like Fireworks, Film grain, Embers, and Light leak.

True transparent background

Stickers blend into any design with no black box or white edges — the background stays fully transparent.

Custom particle shapes

Pick from 15 built-in particle shapes, or scan a vector shape from your own design and use it as the particle.

Full control over the look

Adjust particle count, size, and speed with three sliders, then pick a preset color palette or set your own custom colors.

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How it works

Open Animated Overlays from the left sidebar in Canva, pick an effect, choose particle shapes, tune the sliders and colors while watching the live preview, then press Add to design. The animated sticker lands on your page as a regular Canva element — drag, resize, and layer it like anything else.
The Animated Overlays panel with the Add to design button and a sticker placed on the page

One click on Add to design places the animated sticker on your page

The animation plays in Canva’s Preview mode and in video (MP4) exports. On the editing canvas the sticker appears as a static element until you press play.

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Free vs Animated Overlays Pro

You can preview and adjust every Pro effect on the free plan before deciding to upgrade. See the Animated Overlays Pro page for current pricing.
Animated Overlays Pro is a separate subscription from Canva Pro — it unlocks the Pro effects inside this app only.

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Next steps

Complete guide

Every effect, shape, slider, and setting explained step by step — with screenshots.

Add a snow effect in Canva

A quick walkthrough of the most popular use case.