Rive

Overview

Rive is an interactive design and animation engine that lets designers, animators, and developers build interactive experiences in a single tool, then ship natively across iOS, Android, web, and game engines like Unity and Unreal. What you create in the Rive Editor is what ships directly into production — no mockups, prototypes, or developer handoff required.

The product solves the fundamental inefficiency in animation workflows where teams bounce assets between After Effects, Figma, Lottie, and CSS, losing fidelity and time in each conversion. Rive unifies design and development, powered by the Rive Renderer — a GPU-accelerated vector graphics engine that runs at 120fps with perfect quality across all platforms.

Key Benefits

• Teams report 4x faster production cycles compared to After Effects, Figma, Lottie, and CSS animation workflows.
• File sizes shrink up to 90% smaller, reducing bandwidth and app download footprints.
• Measurably higher user engagement across products built with Rive.
• Single source of truth for animations that run natively across all platforms without re-export or conversion.
• State Machine feature bridges the animator-developer gap by letting complex interactions run across platforms without silos.

How It Works

You design and animate in the Rive Editor, define interactivity using the State Machine (no coding required), then export your Rive file once. The open-source runtimes on iOS, Android, web, Flutter, React, Unity, Unreal, and other platforms consume that same file natively, rendering it via the GPU-accelerated Rive Renderer at full fidelity and 120fps performance.

Use Cases

• Motion designers at agencies and in-house design teams who animate for apps and websites and need to avoid re-doing work for each platform.
• Game UI developers at studios using Unity or Unreal who want interactive menus and overlays without building twice.
• Product teams at consumer apps who need fast, lightweight animations that load quickly and engage users without bloat.
• Design systems teams at Fortune 500 companies managing animation libraries across web and native mobile apps at scale.
• Educational app makers (like Duolingo, Simpleclub) building interactive explanatory animations that improve learning outcomes.

Why Choose This Product

Rive is best for teams that ship animations across multiple platforms and can't afford the time, file size, or quality loss of traditional workflows. It cuts handoff friction between designers and developers and scales animation libraries without duplication. The State Machine eliminates the animator-developer gap by giving both roles a single, visual, platform-agnostic tool.