Questions, answered honestly

Yes. Absolutely. Go for it. It'll cost you more in token burn and time though, ha.

When you are done debugging concave polygon decomposition and centroid offsets at 1am, MatterAE will still be $35 and already work. That is genuinely the whole pitch.

The marketplace thought so. They are both 2D physics, sure, but so is a dropped phone. Newton is a deep, powerful tool with years of polish behind it. MatterAE is the fast, cheap one that lives in a panel and bakes keyframes. Different leagues, very different price. Longer answer here.

"Duplicate functionality." A physics plugin already existed, apparently. I have decided to wear it like a badge. It is even in the hero up top.

Real keyframes, in a brand new comp. Once baked there is no live plugin dependency at all. You can hand-edit every keyframe, render normally, even uninstall the plugin, and the animation stays exactly as it was.

Lite caps the bake at 75 frames (3 seconds) and puts a watermark on the preview canvas. Pro removes both and switches on collision groups, markers, chains and constraints. The engine itself is identical. See the full breakdown.

After Effects 2020 and later (CEP 9+), on both macOS and Windows.

During the beta, yes, it is a quick one-time setting. A signed release is on the roadmap so this step goes away. Install guide here.

No. One-time price. Every 1.x update is included. That is the deal.

No. Once you bake, you have plain keyframes. The plugin is not a render-time dependency, it just generates the animation and steps out of the way.

Yes, on all the client work you like. The only thing you cannot do is resell or redistribute the plugin itself.

Because it does about 90% of daily mograph physics, not 100% of everything. The price matches the scope. The expensive tools earn their price doing the other 10%, and they are worth it when you need it.

Good, that is how it gets better. Send it over on the bugs and requests page.