KBar3

Build fun, sleek, customizable, shareable toolbars with a slick and easy UI. For Adobe After Effects CC 2019 and above.

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Description

Custom, sleek, shareable toolbars for After Effects

Create custom toolbars unique to your workflows. Save time and clicks by putting your most used effects, presets and more at your fingertips. Multiple toolbars let you switch between different tasks and keep your productivity up. Focus on creativity, not digging through menus.

Finished Toolbar

What's in KBar3?

Fun and colorful toolbars

Slick and easy to use

Shareable with others (New!)

Toolbar labels (New!)

More button types (New!)

Make up to 4 toolbars (with keyboard modifiers!)

Bulk import and export buttons (New!)

Wider Buttons (New!)

Slick and Easy UI
  • Drag and drop reordering
  • Switch between toolbars
  • Snap to the left or right edge of AE
    for vertical mode
  • Open up to 4 toolbar windows at once
  • Make buttons do more with
    keyboard modifiers
Drag and Drop
Lots of Button Types Resize
Fun Ways to Customize
  • Text labels including emoji's
  • Pick from 600+ Icons
  • Use your own PNG or SVG files
  • Adjust the size and spacing
Fun ways to customize

KBar Integration Guide

If you're an author and want your scripts to work with KBar checkout the integration guide.

Customer Reactions

Upgrade Notice

KBar2 users can upgrade for $20. KBar1 users can upgrade for $30. Simply login to the same account and the discounted price will be automatically added in the shopping cart. If you need assistance please open a support ticket

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Version History

3.1.5 -

Jan 19, 2026

Bug Fixes:
- Addresses the "betaExpirationDate must be a valid Date object" at startup

3.1.4 -

Nov 19, 2025

Improvements
* KBar settings UI loads much faster

3.1.3 -

Nov 15, 2025

Improvements:
* Toolbars load faster

Bug Fixes
* Some users were having licensing issues with KBar
* Path handling on windows would break sometimes

Other changes
* aescripts licensing experience has been updated
* Major internal overhaul. Lots of things were modernized

3.1.2 -

Dec 30, 2022

New Features:

- You can disable showing modifiers in tooltips. This is mostly useful for Mac users that think the tooltips are too big.



BugFixes:

- The toolbar label wasn't being saved upon restarting KBar. This is fixed.

- If you press a modifier key and hover over a button the tooltip was wrong.



3.1.1 -

Nov 24, 2022

BugFixes:

- Effect button “Loading…” issue is fixed.

- Square text buttons sometimes acted like wide button for mouse events.

- Custom png icon buttons in the icon designer had an unbounded width for the preview.

- `kbar.JSON` and `kbar.aeq` were removed by in an earlier build of KBar by accident.

3.1.0 -

Nov 21, 2022

New Features:

- Wider text buttons (up to 16 chars)

- Spacer buttons

- Toolbar label with a dropdown for easy switching



Other Improvements:

- Tooltips include modifier buttons underneath.

- Tooltips can be disabled.

- Extension buttons can have custom arguments.



BugFixes:

- Text buttons with 2 east asian characters shows up on a single line.

- Other minor annoyances

3.0.3 -

Sep 3, 2022

BugFixes:

- Customers on 22.6 or the AE Beta were getting licensing errors.

- Run Shell Script Buttons didn't work correctly when the path had a space in it.

3.0.2 -

Aug 30, 2022

This update fixes 2 issues:



- Some customers on Windows 10 were getting "ReferenceError: url is undefined" at startup.

- Toolbar exports were too large.

3.0.1 -

Aug 15, 2022

KBar was struggling to load toolbar files bigger than 1 MB. This update fixes that.

3.0.0 -

Aug 7, 2022

- Initial release of KBar3


What's in KBar3?
- Shareable toolbars
- More button types
- Make up to 4 toolbars (with keyboard modifiers!)
- Bulk import and export buttons

Compatibility

After Effects

2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022