diff --git a/app/globals.css b/app/globals.css
index 53dbf7a5..ac45a87e 100644
--- a/app/globals.css
+++ b/app/globals.css
@@ -687,6 +687,25 @@
   animation: rise-in 240ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.8, 0.2, 1) backwards;
 }
 
+/*
+ * A bot's reply that came in while the chat was open: all of it at once, up from a touch smaller and a soft blur,
+ * settling fast (Grok Bot's message rows: 12px, 94%, opaque by halfway, cubic-bezier(.23, 1, .32, 1)).
+ */
+@keyframes reply-in {
+  from {
+    opacity: 0;
+    filter: blur(4px);
+    transform: translateY(12px) scale(0.94);
+  }
+  55% {
+    opacity: 1;
+  }
+}
+.motion-reply-in {
+  transform-origin: left bottom;
+  animation: reply-in 320ms cubic-bezier(0.23, 1, 0.32, 1) backwards;
+}
+
 /* What you just sent: up from the composer, a touch smaller at first. */
 @keyframes send-in {
   from {
@@ -850,6 +869,7 @@
 
 @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
   .motion-rise-in,
+  .motion-reply-in,
   .motion-send-in,
   .motion-new-item,
   .motion-menu-in,
diff --git a/components/app/chat-view.tsx b/components/app/chat-view.tsx
index 16bef6e9..0d592fc6 100644
--- a/components/app/chat-view.tsx
+++ b/components/app/chat-view.tsx
@@ -1412,7 +1412,12 @@ function MessageRow({ m, state, showSender, continued, sessionById, chipIds, onO
   // Decided once, as the row mounts: a poll or a new tapback draws it again but never replays it.
   // Yours carries on its pending copy's motion (a negative delay starts it partway, or past the end).
   const [enter] = useState(() =>
-    !arrival ? undefined : arrival.kind === "send" ? { className: "motion-send-in", style: arrival.since ? { animationDelay: `${arrival.since - Date.now()}ms` } : undefined } : { className: "motion-rise-in", style: undefined },
+    !arrival
+      ? undefined
+      : arrival.kind === "send"
+        ? { className: "motion-send-in", style: arrival.since ? { animationDelay: `${arrival.since - Date.now()}ms` } : undefined }
+        : // A bot's reply arrives whole, with an entrance of its own; anything else that comes in rises in.
+          { className: m.role === "bot" ? "motion-reply-in" : "motion-rise-in", style: undefined },
   );
   const enterClass = enter?.className ?? "";
   // What was already here when the row mounted sits still: its tapbacks.