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Magica vs Skills for Designers and Engineers

Compare Magica and Skills for Designers and Engineers - features, pricing, and which is better for your workflow.

What is Magica?

An AI video super agent that directs your shots end to end — describe what you want and Magica handles the creative.

Price: Freemium

  • AI super agent that directs shots
  • End-to-end creative, start to finish
  • Text-to-video from a single idea
  • No cinematographer, editor, or crew needed
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What is Skills for Designers and Engineers?

Free MIT-licensed agent skills for designers and engineers, covering animation taste, performance, and small interface mistakes.

Price: Free

  • Install with npx skills@latest add emilkowalski/skills
  • Weekend workflow of /remove-animations, then /improve-animations, then /animation-performance
  • emil-design-eng, the main skill, mostly animation plus design advice
  • animate, animate-expo for React Native and Expo, review-animations, and find-animation-opportunities
  • animation-vocabulary, apple-design, write-swift, pick-ui-library, prototype, mobile-native, break-ui, and ask-sonner
  • MIT license, copyright 2026 Emil Kowalski
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