manimpro 0.7.2

High-quality, portable, and user-friendly mathematical animation engine

ManimPro is a high-quality, portable, and user-friendly mathematical animation engine for explanatory math videos. It's used to create precise animations programmatically, as demonstrated in the videos of 3Blue1Brown.

[!NOTE] ManimPro is forked from the Manim Community Edition (ManimCE), which was originally forked from 3b1b/manim, a tool created and open-sourced by Grant Sanderson, creator of the 3Blue1Brown educational math videos. ManimPro focuses on enhanced portability, improved user experience, and professional-grade features for mathematical animation creation. If you would like to study how Grant makes his videos, head over to his repository (3b1b/manim).

Table of Contents:

• Installation
• Usage
• Documentation
• Docker
• Help with ManimPro
• Contributing
• License

Installation

[!CAUTION] These instructions are for ManimPro only. Trying to use these instructions to install other versions of Manim or instructions from other versions to install ManimPro will cause problems. Read this and decide which version you wish to install, then only follow the instructions for your desired version.

ManimPro requires a few dependencies that must be installed prior to using it. If you want to try it out first before installing it locally, you can do so in our online Jupyter environment.

For local installation, please visit the Documentation and follow the appropriate instructions for your operating system.

Usage

ManimPro is an extremely versatile package. The following is an example Scene you can construct:

from manimpro import *
from manimpro.utils.positioning import set_position


class SquareToCircle(Scene):
    def construct(self):
        circle = Circle()
        square = Square()
        square.flip(RIGHT)
        square.rotate(-3 * TAU / 8)
        circle.set_fill(PINK, opacity=0.5)

        # Use global positioning - works anywhere!
        set_position(square, ORIGIN)
        set_position(circle, ORIGIN)

        self.play(Create(square))
        self.play(Transform(square, circle))
        self.play(FadeOut(square))

In order to view the output of this scene, save the code in a file called example.py. Then, run the following in a terminal window:

manimpro -p -ql example.py SquareToCircle

You should see your native video player program pop up and play a simple scene in which a square is transformed into a circle. You may find some more simple examples within this GitHub repository. You can also visit the official gallery for more advanced examples.

ManimPro also ships with a %%manimpro IPython magic which allows to use it conveniently in JupyterLab (as well as classic Jupyter) notebooks. See the corresponding documentation for some guidance and try it out online.

Web Viewer

ManimPro includes a built-in web viewer for previewing your rendered animations directly in your browser:

manimpro preview

This launches a lightweight web server that automatically discovers and displays all your rendered videos with a clean, responsive interface. Perfect for reviewing your work and sharing animations with others!

🎯 Global Positioning System

ManimPro features a powerful global positioning system that allows you to position objects anywhere without needing scene context:

from manimpro import *
from manimpro.utils.positioning import set_position, get_position

# Works anywhere - no self needed!
dot = Dot()
set_position(dot, UP * 2)           # Vector positioning
set_position(dot, "UL")             # String constants (Upper Left)
set_position(dot, [1, 2, 0])        # Coordinate arrays

# Perfect for updaters and always_redraw
def update_dot(mob):
    set_position(mob, tracker.get_value() * RIGHT)  # Global function!

line = always_redraw(
    lambda: Line(get_position(dot1), get_position(dot2))  # Global functions!
)

Key Features:

• 🌐 Global Usage: Call set_position(obj, target) anywhere without scene context
• 🔄 Full Integration: Works seamlessly with ValueTracker, always_redraw, and updaters
• 📍 Multiple Methods: Supports vectors, string constants, and relative positioning
• 🔙 Backward Compatible: All existing code continues to work unchanged

See the Global Positioning Guide for complete documentation and examples.

Command line arguments

The general usage of ManimPro is as follows:

The -p flag in the command above is for previewing, meaning the video file will automatically open when it is done rendering. The -ql flag is for a faster rendering at a lower quality.

Some other useful flags include:

• -s to skip to the end and just show the final frame.
• -n <number> to skip ahead to the n'th animation of a scene.
• -f show the file in the file browser.

For a thorough list of command line arguments, visit the documentation.

Documentation

Documentation is in progress at ReadTheDocs.

Docker

The community also maintains a docker image (manimpro/manimpro), which can be found on DockerHub. Instructions on how to install and use it can be found in our documentation.

Help with ManimPro

If you need help installing or using ManimPro, feel free to reach out to our Discord Server or Reddit Community. If you would like to submit a bug report or feature request, please open an issue.

Contributing

Contributions to ManimPro are always welcome. In particular, there is a dire need for tests and documentation. For contribution guidelines, please see the documentation.

However, please note that ManimPro is currently undergoing active development. In general, contributions implementing new features are welcome but should be discussed first. The contribution guide may become outdated quickly; we highly recommend joining our Discord server to discuss any potential contributions and keep up to date with the latest developments.

Most developers on the project use uv for management. You'll want to have uv installed and available in your environment. Learn more about uv at its documentation and find out how to install manimpro with uv at the manimpro dev-installation guide in the manimpro documentation.

How to Cite ManimPro

We acknowledge the importance of good software to support research, and we note that research becomes more valuable when it is communicated effectively. To demonstrate the value of ManimPro, we ask that you cite ManimPro in your work. Currently, the best way to cite ManimPro is to go to our repository page (if you aren't already) and click the "cite this repository" button on the right sidebar. This will generate a citation in your preferred format, and will also integrate well with citation managers.

Code of Conduct

Our full code of conduct, and how we enforce it, can be read on our website.

License

The software is double-licensed under the MIT license, with copyright by 3blue1brown LLC (see LICENSE), and copyright by ManimPro Developers (see LICENSE.community).