diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index f2a4b6044..f3d4a717e 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -19,3 +19,6 @@
 [submodule "Telegram/ThirdParty/qtlottie"]
 	path = Telegram/ThirdParty/qtlottie
 	url = https://github.com/telegramdesktop/qtlottie.git
+[submodule "Telegram/ThirdParty/rapidjson"]
+	path = Telegram/ThirdParty/rapidjson
+	url = https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson.git
diff --git a/Telegram/SourceFiles/lottie/lottie_animation.cpp b/Telegram/SourceFiles/lottie/lottie_animation.cpp
index 4d93332e0..0ee37c15b 100644
--- a/Telegram/SourceFiles/lottie/lottie_animation.cpp
+++ b/Telegram/SourceFiles/lottie/lottie_animation.cpp
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/master/LEGAL
 #include <QJsonObject>
 #include <QFile>
 
+#include <rapidjson/document.h>
+
 #include "logs.h"
 #include "rasterrenderer/rasterrenderer.h"
 
@@ -55,6 +57,9 @@ Animation::Animation(const QByteArray &content)
 		auto error = QJsonParseError();
 		const auto document = QJsonDocument::fromJson(content, &error);
 		const auto parsed = crl::now();
+		auto test = rapidjson::Document();
+		test.Parse(content.data());
+		const auto second = crl::now();
 		if (error.error != QJsonParseError::NoError) {
 			qWarning()
 				<< "Lottie Error: Parse failed with code "
@@ -70,7 +75,7 @@ Animation::Animation(const QByteArray &content)
 			});
 		}
 		const auto finish = crl::now();
-		LOG(("INIT: %1 (PARSE %2)").arg(finish - now).arg(parsed - now));
+		LOG(("INIT: %1 (PARSE %2, RAPIDJSON %3)").arg(finish - now).arg(parsed - now).arg(second - parsed));
 	});
 }
 
diff --git a/Telegram/ThirdParty/rapidjson b/Telegram/ThirdParty/rapidjson
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..01950eb7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Telegram/ThirdParty/rapidjson
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 01950eb7acec78818d68b762efc869bba2420d82
diff --git a/Telegram/gyp/lib_lottie.gyp b/Telegram/gyp/lib_lottie.gyp
index 98fb9920f..886eb999d 100644
--- a/Telegram/gyp/lib_lottie.gyp
+++ b/Telegram/gyp/lib_lottie.gyp
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
       '<(submodules_loc)/GSL/include',
       '<(submodules_loc)/variant/include',
       '<(submodules_loc)/crl/src',
+      '<(submodules_loc)/rapidjson/include',
     ],
     'sources': [
       # interface for tdesktop