Rive

The new standard for interactive graphics

5.0•28 reviews•

938 followers

The new standard for interactive graphics

5.0•28 reviews•

938 followers

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Graphic design tools

Rive is a new graphics format. It’s a type of graphic that can react, animate, and change itself at any moment. The format and its players are open. As a business, we offer a suite of design and dev tools to support it.

Rive Reviews

The community submitted 28 reviews to tell us what they like about Rive, what Rive can do better, and more.

5.0

Based on 28 reviews

Review Rive?

Rive earns high praise for lightweight, responsive animations, a smooth editor, and state machines that integrate cleanly with React and SwiftUI. Founders behind

Welltory

Sol

, and

Korl

highlight polished tooling and reliable runtimes at scale. The makers of

Tomosu

cite easy, state-driven interactivity in SwiftUI and a tiny runtime. Users report faster workflows than Lottie, compact files, and strong Linux support. Some note a learning curve, but say it pays off with richer, production-ready interactive animations.

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Pros

interactive animations (8)

fast performance (4)

alternative to After Effects (3)

easy to use (3)

compact file size (2)

dynamic and responsive graphics (2)

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used

Rive

to build Tomosu instead of LottieFiles, Figma

•12 reviews

Tomosu's candle animation — the one that flickers, dims, and responds to your touch during focus sessions — is built with Rive. No other tool makes interactive, state-driven animations this easy to integrate into SwiftUI. The runtime is lightweight and the visual editor lets me design complex animation state machines without writing animation code.

Alternatives Considered

LottieFiles Figma

Figma

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3 views11d ago

•1 review

I'm rooting for this product. I'm a web developer and I think they are doing something really cool here. The state-machine based animations play really well with React.

What's great

state machine feature (1)

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35 views3yr ago

used

Rive

to build Dragonfly

•11 reviews

We’re huge fans of Rive! It helped us animate our logo and other brand assets, adding smooth, interactive animations that make Dragonfly feel alive and dynamic.

What's great

interactive animations (8)dynamic and responsive graphics (2)

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33 views12mo ago

•2 reviews

Rive has a bit steep learning curve but it is a game changer. Much faster, lighter and richer than other similar tools.

What's great

fast performance (4)

What needs improvement

steep learning curve (1)

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21 views3yr ago

•1 review

It's fast, it's compact in size, the editor is easy to use. My go-to for future interactive animation projects.

What's great

easy to use (3)fast performance (4)interactive animations (8)compact file size (2)

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7 views2yr ago

used

Rive

to build Quill

•3 reviews

A big shout out to Rive for the ability to add delightful interactions to Quill. It helped make the user experience more engaging and polished.

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4 views1yr ago

used

Rive

to build BananaBin

•3 reviews

We've animated the flies with Rive, it still has some rough edges, but without Rive we don't think the result would've been this great.

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6 views1yr ago

used

Rive

to build Food Holidays

•2 reviews

We used rive for animations inside the app. Great tool, great performance!

What's great

fast performance (4)interactive animations (8)

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2 views2yr ago

Speech Dream

•6 reviews

I recently started using Rive for creating animations in my Flutter projects, and I'm totally loving it! The ability to tweak parameters at runtime is a huge plus, making the animations not just dynamic but also incredibly flexible. Coming from an Adobe After Effects background, I find Rive's approach to animation straightforward and user-friendly. It feels familiar yet innovative, offering a smooth transition for anyone accustomed to traditional animation software. Rive has definitely elevated my Flutter apps with its seamless and powerful animation capabilities. Highly recommend it to anyone looking to spice up their app designs!