diff --git a/app/(tabs)/index.tsx b/app/(tabs)/index.tsx
index 7a23f81..7e46697 100644
--- a/app/(tabs)/index.tsx
+++ b/app/(tabs)/index.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { View, Text, ScrollView, Pressable, RefreshControl } from "react-native";
 import { SafeAreaView } from "react-native-safe-area-context";
+import Animated, { FadeInDown } from "react-native-reanimated";
 import { useColorScheme } from "nativewind";
 import { webContentMaxWidth } from "~/lib/responsive";
 import {
@@ -152,29 +153,31 @@ export default function HomeScreen() {
 
         {/* AI Assistant quick entry — surfaces the assistant on the home screen
             instead of burying it two levels deep under More. */}
-        <PressableCard
-          className="mb-5 flex-row items-center p-4"
-          onPress={() => router.push("/ai")}
-          accessibilityRole="button"
-          accessibilityLabel={t("home.assistantTitle")}
-        >
-          <View className="rounded-xl bg-primary/10 p-3">
-            <Sparkles size={24} color={accent} />
-          </View>
-          <View className="ms-4 flex-1">
-            <Text className="text-base font-semibold text-card-foreground">
-              {t("home.assistantTitle")}
-            </Text>
-            <Text className="mt-0.5 text-sm text-muted-foreground">
-              {t("home.assistantSubtitle")}
-            </Text>
-          </View>
-          <ChevronRight size={20} color="#94a3b8" />
-        </PressableCard>
+        <Animated.View entering={FadeInDown.duration(380)}>
+          <PressableCard
+            className="mb-5 flex-row items-center p-4"
+            onPress={() => router.push("/ai")}
+            accessibilityRole="button"
+            accessibilityLabel={t("home.assistantTitle")}
+          >
+            <View className="rounded-xl bg-primary/10 p-3">
+              <Sparkles size={24} color={accent} />
+            </View>
+            <View className="ms-4 flex-1">
+              <Text className="text-base font-semibold text-card-foreground">
+                {t("home.assistantTitle")}
+              </Text>
+              <Text className="mt-0.5 text-sm text-muted-foreground">
+                {t("home.assistantSubtitle")}
+              </Text>
+            </View>
+            <ChevronRight size={20} color="#94a3b8" />
+          </PressableCard>
+        </Animated.View>
 
         {/* Recently viewed records — quick re-entry to what you were working on. */}
         {recents.length > 0 && (
-          <View className="mb-5">
+          <Animated.View entering={FadeInDown.delay(70).duration(380)} className="mb-5">
             <View className="mb-2 flex-row items-center justify-between">
               <Text className="text-xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-wide text-muted-foreground">
                 {t("home.recentTitle")}
@@ -223,7 +226,7 @@ export default function HomeScreen() {
                 </PressableCard>
               ))}
             </View>
-          </View>
+          </Animated.View>
         )}
 
         {loading ? (
@@ -252,9 +255,12 @@ export default function HomeScreen() {
             <Text className="mb-1 text-xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-wide text-muted-foreground">
               {t("home.dashboardsTitle")}
             </Text>
-            {dashboards.map((d) => (
-              <PressableCard
+            {dashboards.map((d, i) => (
+              <Animated.View
                 key={`${d.appId}:${d.name}`}
+                entering={FadeInDown.delay(140 + i * 60).duration(380)}
+              >
+              <PressableCard
                 className="flex-row items-center p-4"
                 onPress={() =>
                   router.push(`/(app)/${d.appId}/dashboard/${d.name}`)
@@ -283,6 +289,7 @@ export default function HomeScreen() {
                 </View>
                 <ChevronRight size={20} color="#94a3b8" />
               </PressableCard>
+              </Animated.View>
             ))}
           </View>
         )}
diff --git a/components/renderers/DetailViewRenderer.tsx b/components/renderers/DetailViewRenderer.tsx
index d13c5bc..3bf0736 100644
--- a/components/renderers/DetailViewRenderer.tsx
+++ b/components/renderers/DetailViewRenderer.tsx
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import React, { useMemo, useState } from "react";
 import { View, Text, ScrollView, Pressable, ActivityIndicator } from "react-native";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import { useColorScheme } from "nativewind";
+import Animated, { FadeInDown } from "react-native-reanimated";
 import { webContentMaxWidth } from "~/lib/responsive";
 import {
   Edit,
@@ -709,8 +710,9 @@ export function DetailViewRenderer({
           // Conditional section visibility (spec `FormSection.visibleOn`).
           if (!isSectionVisible(section.visibleOn, record)) return null;
           return (
-          <View
+          <Animated.View
             key={section.label ?? `section-${idx}`}
+            entering={FadeInDown.delay(idx * 60).duration(360)}
             className="mb-4 rounded-xl border border-border bg-card overflow-hidden"
           >
             {section.label && (
@@ -776,7 +778,7 @@ export function DetailViewRenderer({
                 );
               })}
             </View>
-          </View>
+          </Animated.View>
           );
         })}
 
diff --git a/jest.setup.ts b/jest.setup.ts
index 039558f..1415fc2 100644
--- a/jest.setup.ts
+++ b/jest.setup.ts
@@ -197,6 +197,68 @@ jest.mock("@sentry/react-native", () => ({
   ),
 }));
 
+/* ---- react-native-reanimated ---- */
+// Reanimated v4 pulls in react-native-worklets, whose native half throws
+// "Worklets isn't initialized" when imported under Node — and the package's
+// own bundled mock re-imports the real entrypoint, so it throws too. This
+// hand-rolled mock renders Animated.* as plain host components and turns the
+// layout-animation builders (FadeInDown.delay().duration()...) into chainable
+// no-ops, so screens that use entrance animations mount in tests.
+jest.mock("react-native-reanimated", () => {
+  const React = require("react");
+  const RN = require("react-native");
+  // A layout-animation builder: every method returns the same chainable stub,
+  // and it's usable both as `FadeInDown` and `FadeInDown.duration(380)`.
+  const makeBuilder = () => {
+    const builder: Record<string, unknown> = {};
+    const chain = () => builder;
+    for (const m of ["delay", "duration", "springify", "damping", "stiffness",
+      "mass", "easing", "withInitialValues", "build", "randomDelay", "reduceMotion"]) {
+      builder[m] = chain;
+    }
+    return builder;
+  };
+  const animations = new Proxy(
+    {},
+    { get: () => new Proxy(makeBuilder(), { get: (t, p) => (t as any)[p] ?? (() => t) }) },
+  );
+  const createAnimatedComponent = (Component: unknown) => Component;
+  const Animated = {
+    View: RN.View,
+    Text: RN.Text,
+    ScrollView: RN.ScrollView,
+    Image: RN.Image,
+    FlatList: RN.FlatList,
+    createAnimatedComponent,
+  };
+  return new Proxy(
+    {
+      __esModule: true,
+      default: Animated,
+      createAnimatedComponent,
+      useSharedValue: (v: unknown) => ({ value: v }),
+      useAnimatedStyle: () => ({}),
+      useDerivedValue: (fn: () => unknown) => ({ value: fn() }),
+      withTiming: (v: unknown) => v,
+      withSpring: (v: unknown) => v,
+      withDelay: (_d: unknown, v: unknown) => v,
+      withRepeat: (v: unknown) => v,
+      withSequence: (v: unknown) => v,
+      cancelAnimation: () => {},
+      runOnJS: (fn: (...a: unknown[]) => unknown) => fn,
+      runOnUI: (fn: (...a: unknown[]) => unknown) => fn,
+      Easing: new Proxy({}, { get: () => () => 0 }),
+    },
+    {
+      get: (target: Record<string, unknown>, prop: string) => {
+        if (prop in target) return target[prop];
+        // FadeInDown, FadeIn, SlideInRight, Layout, etc. → chainable builder.
+        return (animations as any)[prop];
+      },
+    },
+  );
+});
+
 /* ---- react-native AppState ---- */
 const mockAppState = {
   currentState: "active" as string,