About Rive
Rive is a platform for building interactive graphics and animation. It combines a design editor, a stateful graphics file format, lightweight multi-platform runtimes and a fast renderer, so motion designed in the editor looks and behaves the same in production on the web, in apps and in games.
The company describes an end-to-end pipeline that serves designers and developers alike, and says it is used to bring interfaces to life across apps, games, websites, products and vehicles. Recent announcements include a free Rive AI agent, scripting, libraries, components with nested artboards, and an updated Rive runtime for Unity that is available in the Unity Asset Store.
Rive is a proprietary commercial product with a pricing page and downloads for its editor, plus documentation and a community area.
Key features
- Interactive design editor for animation
- Stateful graphics file format
- Lightweight multi-platform runtimes
- Scripting inside the editor
- Libraries and nested artboard components
- Runtime for Unity
Good fit for
- →Adding interactive animation to a mobile app
- →Creating game UI that responds to input
- →Sharing motion assets between design and engineering
- Tags
- animation
- interactive-graphics
- motion-design
- runtime
- ui-animation
- game-ui
- design-tools
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