Picky
Free After Effects layer selection tool. Select layers by type, name, or pattern with a single click, then use keyboard modifiers to add, subtract, or toggle selections.
Try It Out
Wall of Love
"I was literally looking for a way to select every nth layer last night. This is even better/simpler"
"This is great! Thank you very much!"
"But can it pick my nose"
"good shit!"
Got Any Questions?
Picky works with After Effects 2022 and newer. It's a CEP extension, so any version of AE that supports the Extensions panel will run it.
Yes, completely free with no trial limits or feature gates. Download it and use everything right away.
Install Motion Dock, our free panel for every Motion Fun tool, then add Picky to your dock from Edit Layout. After the first install, restart After Effects and find Motion Dock under Window → Extensions.
Picky now lives inside Motion Dock, alongside every other Motion Fun tool. One free install gets you all of them, updates are handled for you, and you only put the tools you want on screen.
Yes. Hold Shift when clicking a type button to add those layers to your current selection, or hold Cmd/Ctrl to toggle them on and off.
It looks at the type of your currently selected layer (or layers) and selects every other layer in the comp that matches. If you have a text layer selected, it selects all text layers.
By default, locked and shy layers are excluded. You can toggle them on with the lock and eye buttons in the toolbar to include them in selection operations.
Ready to try Picky?
Select layers by type, name, or pattern