Pill Stepper
A quantity picker in a pill. Press plus or minus and the digits roll to the new number, up for more and down for less, while the line total beside it rolls along. Hold a button and it keeps stepping, faster the longer you hold.
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Where this component came from.
We built it for annnimate.com, our own site, and kept it in the library once it earned its place. The same code runs in production today.
How it's built.
The first version I built was a normal stepper, a minus, a number and a plus, and only the digits moved. It worked but nothing about it told you how full it was. So the pill itself became the gauge: the ink half slides across as you press plus and draws back as you press minus, and the two buttons live inside those halves. The one you can't use anymore gets pushed to the edge and mostly out of view, so you feel the limit from the shape before anything is greyed out. The minus and plus also change size with the room they have, small when squeezed against the edge and bigger when they own most of the pill, and every press lands with a soft bounce instead of a hard stop.
The number beside it rolls the way you'd expect, up when you add and down when you take away, and the line total rolls with it. Hold a button and it keeps counting, faster the longer you hold. Past that it's yours: set the range and the step, the price behind the total, and how springy the slide is.
What you'll need.
Install
- GSAP
- CustomEase
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Frequently asked
- Does Pill Stepper work with React and Vue?
- Pill Stepper ships as React (Next.js included), Vue 3 (Nuxt included), plain HTML/CSS/JS - the same animation in each format. The React version uses the official useGSAP hook with cleanup handled; the Vue version is a real single-file component with <script setup>.
- Do I need GSAP to use Pill Stepper?
- Yes. Pill Stepper is built on GSAP directly, and GSAP has been 100% free for commercial use, including every plugin, since version 3.13. The component page lists exactly what to install.
- Can I customize Pill Stepper without editing code?
- Pill Stepper exposes 9 tunable controls in the Customize panel on this page - drag the values, watch the live preview respond, and the code you copy carries your exact settings.
- Is Pill Stepper free?
- Pill Stepper is part of the Annnimate Library, a paid subscription (from EUR 20/month billed quarterly, or EUR 199/year). The live preview and customization run free on this page; the paste-ready code is for members.
- What if Pill Stepper is not right for my project?
- Annnimate comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee. If Pill Stepper or the library does not fit your project, reply to your receipt within 14 days for a full refund, no questions asked.
- Can I use Pill Stepper in client projects?
- Yes. The Annnimate license covers commercial and client work - ship Pill Stepper on as many projects as you build, with no attribution required.
- Does Pill Stepper respect prefers-reduced-motion?
- Yes. Every Annnimate component handles prefers-reduced-motion via gsap.matchMedia, so users who opt out of motion get an effectively instant, readable state.
