Griddy puts a layout grid on an After Effects comp in one click

Davey released Griddy, a free After Effects tool that puts a full layout grid on your comp in one click. Columns, rows, a gutter and margins land as real After Effects guides, so your layers snap to them and the guides lock and hide like any others.

You shape the grid by dragging the margins and gutter in the panel's preview, or by adding and removing columns and rows. The grid is live, so each change rewrites its guides on the comp at once. Guides you dragged out yourself are left alone.

Thirds adds rule of thirds guides, with the golden ratio on Shift-click. Bounds adds guides along the edges and centers of the layers you have selected. Griddy only places guides and never moves a layer.

Griddy isn't a separate download. It lives inside Motion Dock, Motion Fun's free panel, which installs as a ZXP extension and needs After Effects 2022 or newer. Motion Fun says Griddy is free forever, with no trial, no watermark and no locked features. It's the fourth free tool in Davey's run of one a day, a day after Synapse.