No cap: free unlimited personal files for all

As of today, everyone can create unlimited personal Rive files. No longer are free accounts capped at three files. Now every free account has unlimited personal files and a collaborative area with three files and one project.

It’s a big move for our tiny (yet mighty!) startup, so let’s get into why expanding our free tier is the right call. 

Rive is more than a design tool; it’s a better and faster way to build graphics for software. It’s a new format, a cross-platform runtime, a breakthrough renderer, and a purpose-built editor. The end-to-end pipeline crushes development and product-building time. It does so by removing the need for hard-coded design and giving creators more control with production-ready design. 

We believe this new approach to design should be ubiquitous. We want Rive to be everyone’s favorite design tool — developers included. To do that, we’re lowering the barrier of entry, which means limitless Rive files.

Everyone can more easily learn, play, and create for free. Depending on your needs, you could even use Rive for free forever. 

It’s a good practice to be transparent about business strategy. A little peek under the starship’s hood, so to speak. We’re still monetizing the more collaborative features typically used by teams and companies. 

Meet your new Workspace

We’ve reimagined how you interact with your files. Here’s the lowdown.

Your account now has a Workspace. 

Accounts have been reorganized into Workspaces, a new way for individuals, teams, and companies to organize private and collaborative files. You can work solo or invite unlimited users to a Workspace for free. Everyone has their own Workspace, and all teams are given a dedicated Workspace.

You can easily toggle between different Workspaces. 

Switch between your personal Workspace, your company Workspace, or a Workspace you’ve been temporarily invited to as a freelancer.

Personal Files in your Workspace are private.

Each Workspace has an unlimited Personal Files area that is inaccessible to teammates. 

Projects in your Workspace are collaborative.

We’re also introducing Projects — a better way to collaborate with teammates from your Workspace on a collection of files. Free Workspaces come with one Project and three collaborative files. Upgrade to a paid plan if you want to work with unlimited collaborative projects and files.

New payment tier: Voyager

We merged the Pro and Team plans into *drumroll please* the Voyager plan. Now, our three plans are Free, Voyager, and Enterprise. The nod to Star Trek fits our FUI (Future User Interface) creative direction and our optimism for the future of design. 

You don’t have to do anything because of these changes. 

Rive’s UI looks slightly different — those changes are outlined above — but we are not asking you to move any files around. 

We are not charging current users more. 

If you are currently on the Pro plan, you will be grandfathered into a Pro (Legacy) plan with the same pricing and benefits. For those on a Team plan, you are now on the Voyager plan and still paying the same amount. 

You will never be locked out of your files. 

If you use a paid feature — like a custom font or audio clip — and then downgrade, you’ll still have access to that file. If it’s in your Personal Files, you can keep working on the file. If it’s in a collaborative space, aka a Project, then you’ll need to be within the Free tier’s limits: three collaborative files and one Project. Or you can copy the file to your Personal Files to continue working on it. 

How does this affect Pro users?

Pro users are grandfathered in at their current pricing and set of features. Pro users previously had two spaces: a "My Files" area and a Pro space. The "My Files" area is now Personal Files in the Workspace. The Pro space is a Project in the Workspace with unlimited files. You can invite additional users to your Workspace, but you will be bumped up to Voyager pricing.

How does this affect Team users?

Team users previously had two or more spaces, depending on how many teams they joined: "My Files" area and Team space(s). All teams now have their own Workspace. Use the Workspace switcher to toggle between them.

Make it so

We want more people (you, the person still reading) to help champion a better way to build software with Rive. Because without freedom of choice, there is no creativity.

For more info, stop by our updated pricing page.