Rive

The interactive experience engine — design, animate, and code interactive graphics that ship everywhere.

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About Rive

Rive is the interactive experience engine behind Spotify Wrapped, Duolingo, and products reaching over 2 billion users. Design vector graphics, create complex animations with a state machine, and ship lightweight interactive experiences to iOS, Android, web, Flutter, React, and more. Unlike Lottie or video, Rive animations are interactive — they respond to user input, data, and code in real time.

The editor combines design, animation, and logic in one tool, eliminating the handoff between designers and developers.

Pricing model: Freemium

Features

Design and animate in one editor
Ship interactive graphics to any platform
Used by Spotify Wrapped, Duolingo, and more

FAQs

Common questions about Rive

Is Rive free?

Rive has a generous free tier for individuals. Team and enterprise plans are available for larger organizations.

How is Rive different from Lottie?

Rive animations are interactive and respond to user input in real time, while Lottie plays pre-rendered animations. Rive also has a built-in state machine for complex logic.

What platforms does Rive support?

iOS, Android, web (React, Vue, vanilla JS), Flutter, Unity, Unreal Engine, and more.

Rive Animation & Motion Oct 19

Rive adds a Brush tool for hand-drawn lines you can animate

Rive’s new Brush tool lets you draw freehand in the editor, then rig your drawings with bones to animate them.

You can reshape strokes with Shape Bend, and erase and fill as you draw.

Rive Animation & Motion Sep 16

Freehand Brush Tools Are Live for Everyone

Rive's freehand drawing tools are available to everyone in Rive Editor 0.8.5879: Brush, Pencil, Eraser, Bucket, and Shape Bend.

You can paint filled shapes with Brush, draw paths with Pencil, fill enclosed areas with Bucket, or drag existing shapes with Shape Bend. Brush includes tips such as Round, Tall Ellipse, Wide Bar, and Diagonal, plus size settings.

Everything stays editable as vector shapes on the artboard, so you can animate the strokes and use them in state machines and Rive…

Rive Animation & Motion Sep 15

Rive CLI 1.0.3

Rive CLI 1.0.3 lets you press keys from the terminal with --key and use readable key names in RML. Tab and Shift+Tab move through focusable items.

The release also adds JSON output for agent workflows, clearer errors, and support for personal files in rive push.

Read the original announcement →

Rive Animation & Motion Sep 10

Introducing the Rive CLI and RML

Rive has introduced a command-line tool and RML, a text format for building Rive files with an AI agent.

Rive says its launch video was built by agents working alongside a person in the Rive CLI.

Read the original announcement →

Rive Animation & Motion Aug 5

Rive Editor 0.8.5376: Clip to Scripted Path Effects

Rive Editor 0.8.5376 lets you clip to scripted path effects. A script-modified shape can act as a mask, with the clipping following its changing outline.

The same build also puts Speed Graph, a tool for controlling animation acceleration and deceleration, into Early Access.

Rive Animation & Motion Jul 31

Rive Editor 0.8.5321

Rive Editor 0.8.5321 adds Global View Models: view models that live at the file level, with properties you can bind from any artboard or component in that file.

To create one, open the Data panel's + menu and choose View Model → Global.

Rive Animation & Motion Jul 25