Rive

What is Rive?

Rive is a real-time interactive design and animation engine used by Spotify, Duolingo, Disney, Google, and Fortune 500 companies to build interactive experiences reaching 2 billion users. The platform combines design, animation, and coding in one tool, eliminating the need for mockups, prototypes, and handoff. What designers build in the Rive Editor ships directly in production across iOS, Android, web, Unity, Unreal, and more. Compared to traditional workflows using After Effects, Figma, and Lottie, teams report 4x faster production, file sizes up to 90% smaller, and measurably higher user engagement.

Key Features

• State Machine-Driven Animation

  Visual state machine lets designers connect animations and define transition logic without code, creating complex interactive components that respond to user input at runtime.

• Build Once, Ship Anywhere

  Open-source runtimes enable native rendering on iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native, Web, Unity, Unreal, Defold, and C++ with a single .riv file.

• GPU-Accelerated Renderer

  The Rive Renderer delivers vector graphics at 120fps with perfect anti-aliasing and quality across all platforms.

• Designer-Developer Single Source of Truth

  What you see in the Editor is what ships in production, eliminating silos and reducing design-to-development handoff time by 50%.

• Ultra-Compact File Sizes

  Stateful graphics format produces files up to 90% smaller than Lottie, reducing app launch times by 10% and saving bandwidth.

Use Cases

• Game UI & HUD : Build menus, heads-up displays, and 2D graphics for Unity, Unreal, and Defold with rich interactivity and state-driven animation.
• Mobile App Interfaces : Create animated icons, buttons, onboarding screens, pull-to-refresh animations, loading states, and micro-interactions for iOS and Android apps.
• Interactive Web Experiences : Design hero animations, interactive illustrations, form validations, error messages, and animated logos for websites built with React, Webflow, or Framer.
• Brand Characters & Mascots : Bring brands to life with animated mascots, emojis, stickers, and lip-synched graphics that respond to audio or user interaction.
• Data Visualization : Create animated charts, graphs, and dashboards that tell stories with motion, including vehicle UI dashboards for automotive applications.

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