Smooth scroll
Native scroll is intercepted and replaced with buttery, inertia-based scrolling that feels expensive.
What you're seeing
Scroll and the page glides — momentum carries it slightly past your input, then settles.
Where you'll see it
Almost any site. Combine with ScrollTrigger for full control.
Difficulty
Very low — 1/5
Libraries that build it
LenisLocomotive Scroll
From the toolbox
GSAPThe animation engine behind half this gallery. ScrollTrigger alone explains most scroll-scrubbed sites you've ever saved.→LenisThe open-source smooth scroll everyone actually uses. If a site feels buttery, check the bundle for this first.→
Ready to prompt — paste this into your AI coding tool
"Initialize Lenis smooth scroll with lerp 0.1, sync with GSAP ticker: gsap.ticker.add(time => lenis.raf(time * 1000))"Seen in the wild
Eduard BodakA Cologne freelancer's Y2K-zine of a portfolio — services dealt out as trading cards that unfold on scroll, and a standard-vs-feel demo that sells motion by letting you feel it.→Pacôme PertantA motion & sound designer’s reel as a floating 3D spiral — project cards warp and motion-blur as they orbit past.→ThorgalA 45-year comic saga becomes an explorable world — Rosinski’s art split into parallax layers you walk into, doorway by doorway.→Explore PrimlandA luxury resort sold as a 3D landscape — an immersive Blue Ridge Mountains map you fly through instead of a brochure you scroll past.→Shopify Editions — Winter ’26A product release turned editorial object — golden-ratio construction lines on black, with a dozen scroll-driven feature demos.→OFF+BRANDThe Webflow Enterprise partner's own site — a WebGL line drawing of their "+." mark, scrubbed by scroll and pinned dead-center while the whole agency story assembles around it.→basement.studioThe Mar del Plata studio behind Vercel's Geist typeface — brutalist display type at viewport scale, chrome 3D, and a portfolio that reads like a manifesto.→