AE Doctor scans your machine, your plugins and your projects — finds exactly what's slowing down or crashing After Effects, and fixes it in one click.
The smartest way to diagnose optimize repair supercharge your After Effects.
Runs locally · No data leaves your machine · Free tier forever
Stop guessing. AE Doctor finds the exact cause — and fixes it for you.
This is the real panel UI, rebuilt with its own code. Click around, run a scan, fix the issues, fire up ICU Mode — exactly like you would inside After Effects.
The smartest way to diagnose optimize repair supercharge your After Effects.
Ready to check your setup
Press Scan below to inspect your AE version, GPU, memory, disk cache, and installed plug-ins.
Your RAM reservation is too low for the current resolution…
Optimize your current project
Press Scan Open Project to flag resolution, layer, codec and memory risks — with fixes tuned to your hardware.
Tip: press Scan, then fix the two warnings. Or open Live Hardware and hit ICU Mode.
From one-click diagnosis to ring-0 hardware telemetry — AE Doctor covers the whole stack, inside the app you already work in.
One switch frees RAM from Chrome, Spotify and Discord and hands After Effects CPU priority. Nothing gets closed, everything is reversible — your machine just stops fighting your render.
A native C# service reads your motherboard's SuperIO sensors directly — power draw, fan RPMs, CPU/GPU/VRM/NVMe temperatures — streamed into the panel every second. The same data Fan Control sees, inside AE.
One click inspects your OS, RAM, GPU, AE version, disk cache and preferences — then grades everything green, yellow or red, with a "since your last scan" diff.
Every plug-in and script on your machine, inventoried and graded — duplicates, 32-bit relics and version conflicts flagged before they crash you.
Scans your open comp for crash risks — 8K precomps, fragile codecs, layer bombs — with fixes tuned to your actual hardware.
Paste any cryptic AE error — fuzzy search matches it against 150+ documented issues and shows the exact cause. Then press "Fix it for me" and AE Doctor applies the repair itself. A live watcher even catches error popups via OCR the moment they appear.
Hit an error nobody has seen before? One button sends it — with a screenshot and your full hardware spec attached automatically — straight to the support Discord as a tracked forum thread. No forms, no log hunting, no "please attach your specs".
AE Doctor remembers every scan and diffs them — so when something breaks, you know exactly what changed.
Purge RAM + disk cache, raise memory reservation, relocate cache drives, disable a broken plugin — every fix is a single button, applied through AE's own scripting engine.
Most panels can only see what After Effects shows them. AE Doctor goes three layers deep.
Talks directly to After Effects' internal engine — versions, GPU acceleration state, disk-cache preferences, and the scripting hooks that apply one-click fixes.
Sweeps your file system at native speed — inventories every plug-in and script, reads system specs, and keeps local scan history for the diff engine.
A Windows service with sensor-level access reads raw SuperIO data — watts, fans, VRM temps — and streams it over local WebSockets every second. Its OCR watcher catches AE error popups the instant they appear.
// broadcast every 1,000 ms — never leaves localhost { "power_w": 312.4, "cpu": { "temp_c": 62, "fan_rpm": 1240 }, "gpu": { "temp_c": 71, "fan_rpm": 1860, "name": "NVIDIA RTX 4080" }, "vrm_c": 54, "nvme_c": 47, "ram": { "free_gb": 41.2, "ae_gb": 18.6 }, "icu_mode": true, "source": "AEDoctorCompanion v2" }
Every scan, every sensor read, every fix runs 100% on your machine. No cloud, no accounts required for scanning, no telemetry phoning home. Your client work stays yours.
"My renders were dying at 90% for two weeks. AE Doctor found a 32-bit plugin from 2019 in ninety seconds. I had been blaming After Effects the whole time."
"ICU Mode is stupidly good. Same comp, same machine — preview went from stuttering to smooth because Chrome finally let go of 9 gigs of RAM."
"We put it on all 14 workstations. The 'since your last scan' diff ended the 'it worked yesterday' mystery forever — it always shows what changed."
Scan and diagnose forever, free. Upgrade when you want AE Doctor to do the fixing — and the boosting — for you.
One crashed render costs you more than a year of Pro.
Know exactly what's wrong. Forever free.
The full doctor — fixes, telemetry, boost.
Pay once. Healthy forever.
Window → Extensions → AE Doctor.localhost. The only thing that ever leaves your computer is a bug report, and only when you press the button yourself.Download free, press Scan, and see exactly what's been slowing you down. No account, no credit card, no data collection.
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