Rive

Rive is a design and animation platform for building interactive graphics that ship directly into products. Its editor lets designers, animators, and developers design, animate, and code in a single tool, and the file produced in the editor is the asset that runs in the final app, game, website, or device — removing separate mockup, prototype, and handoff steps. Rive positions its pipeline as end-to-end: the editor, the file format, and the runtimes are designed to work together so that behavior in the editor matches behavior in production.

The product's central interactivity concept is the State Machine, which represents animations as states connected by transitions with conditions, layered across concurrent state machine layers, and driven by inputs, listeners (hover, click, tap), events, and joysticks. Other capabilities include data binding, responsive layouts, reusable components and libraries, variable dynamic text with multi-language support, scrolling with physics, audio, and dynamic loading of fonts, images, and audio at runtime. Animation features cover a timeline with interpolation and a graph editor, animation mixing, skeletal animation with bones, weighting and inverse kinematics, meshes, constraints, trim paths, clipping, draw order animation, solos, N-slicing, and vector feathering. Content can be authored with vector tools or imported from SVG, PSD, PNG/JPEG/WebP, Lottie JSON, or pasted from Figma.

Output is either interactive — played back by open-source runtimes — or rendered to traditional formats such as MP4, GIF, WebM, and PNG sequences via a Cloud Renderer. Collaboration and distribution features include team workspaces, share links for client presentation and embedding, and a community section for sharing and remixing files. More recent additions include Luau scripting inside the editor and an AI coding agent, both in early access.

Business model

Rive sells access to its editor and collaboration features on a subscription basis, including a $9 per month plan and a Voyager team plan that provides a shared workspace for storing and organizing files and for real-time collaboration. The runtimes that play back Rive files on each platform are open source, and the editor is available both as a web application and as native macOS and Windows desktop apps, with production and early-access release channels.