Design, motion, interaction, and logic live in one Rive file. Your agent writes it, your designers shape it, and open-source runtimes play that same file on web, mobile, desktop, consoles, smart TVs, and cars.

Runtime docs

All runtimes

No translation

Developers and agents don’t rebuild your design in code. They load the file and bind data to it.

No handoff

Agents, designers, and developers all work on the same file.

No drift

Change the file, and every platform gets the same change.

Open-source runtimes

Web

iOS

macOS

Android

Flutter

React

React Native

Unity

Unreal

Defold

C++

Framer

Webflow

Wix Studio

MIT-licensed runtimes. No royalties, no revenue share, no runtime fees. Also runs on consoles, smart TVs, cars, and custom hardware.

Rive or HTML?

Use the right tool for the job

Coding agents reach for HTML by default. Rive has features HTML doesn’t have natively, and runs them fast on every platform. Here is when to use each.

Rive vs HTML

Use it whenRiveHTML

Your whole team needs one source of truth: agents, designers, and developers open the same production file, as text with the Rive CLI or visually in the Rive Editor.

It has to run smoothly everywhere you ship: one file plays natively on web, iOS, Android, desktop, game engines, consoles, TVs, and cars, drawn by the same runtime.

You don't want a rewrite per platform: your agent edits one file, not separate web, Swift, and Kotlin code that drift apart.

A lot moves at once: characters, layered vector animation, and interactive scenes that get heavy as DOM or SVG animation.

It's a game that should reach more than the browser: consoles, native mobile apps, and desktop, from the same file.

Designers and animators will refine it by hand, with professional motion tools built for the format: a graph editor, timelines, bones and constraints, animation joysticks, and state machines.

It's mostly text, documents, or forms on the web.

It needs to be found through search, like articles and docs.

It's a simple web-only effect your agent can write in a few lines of CSS.

Most products use both. Rive drops into any web page, app, or game as one component.

Why teams choose Rive

Ship faster, spend less, build better

One Rive file holds the design, code, and motion, and that’s the file that ships. That one change cuts time to market and cost, and raises the bar on quality.

Faster time to market

Designers, animators, developers, and agents all work on the same file, so there’s no handoff and nothing to rebuild for each platform.

Agent speed, artist control

Your agent builds with the Rive CLI in Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor, in hours instead of weeks. Then designers and animators refine it by hand in the Rive Editor, with professional tools for rigging, timelines, state machines, and data binding.

Lower cost

No revenue share, no runtime fees, no royalties, and MIT open-source runtimes. One file covers every screen, from the car dashboard to the phone app, so there’s one thing to build, review, and maintain.

Higher quality

Vector, raster, and 3D in one scene, drawn by the Rive Renderer. It’s light enough for an underpowered car GPU, so you can build experiences where you wouldn’t run HTML or a full game engine.

In production

Products built with Rive reach over 2 billion users

Teams at Spotify, Duolingo, Disney, and Riot Games ship with Rive. Here’s what they and independent builders say about it.

Alex Norström

Co-CEO, Spotify

More than 300 million users engaged, which was up 20%, and we saw more than 630 million shares across social media, which is up 42%. Even more, day 1 of Wrapped marked the highest single day of subscriber intake in Spotify history.

Kurt Hartfelder

Duolingo

Rive's State Machine is a game changer. We here at Duolingo have an ever-growing library of animated assets across our app. The State Machine helps us scale our work and bridge the animator-developer gap in ways that were previously inaccessible.

Theo

@theo

I’m super impressed. Can’t recommend Rive highly enough!

Frederik List

@kueiniu

I'm here to tell you Rive is now the most insane 2D game engine out there. … It rescales thousands of vector graphics at 120 fps on a 5 year old MacBook with hundreds of enemies and destructible assets on screen.

Spotify

@Spotify

Our creative team started w/ a basic bar-graph concept, used dummy data to prototype newer ideas and nail the motion, then built the final animation in Rive.

Marshall Gould

@MarshallJGould

made this animation in one hour with the new Rive CLI man i love Rive

Praha

lander.studio

The only tool we use for animation is @rive_app. Our agency relies entirely on Rive for its features, and we believe it's the #1 solution for this type of animation. Rive animations are lightweight and high-performance too.

Lucas Teixeira

@lucastex_ai

The Rive CLI + GPU canvas is a surprisingly powerful combo: Luau scripting, WGSL shaders, data binding and state machines, all in a single Rive file.

José Gonçalves

Design Lead, Phantom

Spotify Wrapped being made with @rive_app feels like the confirmation that the app design industry was looking for (even though @duolingo @phantom etc were already on it)

Hayden Bleasel

@haydenbleasel

Built with @rive_app WebGL2, it provides smooth, high-performance animations for various AI interaction states including idle, listening, thinking, speaking, and asleep.

Dushyant Dubey

Sr. Motion Designer, CARS24

By switching to Rive, we achieved up to 90% smaller animation file sizes (from ~150KB to ~15KB), leading to a 10% reduction in app launch times, and a 50% faster design-to-development handoff.

Jared Gay

Sr. Motion Designer, Intercom

Before Rive, I would think in terms of technical limitations. Now there's a lot more freedom to iterate and test.

Joey Korenman

@jkorenman

I think it's the greatest new tool for motion designers of the past 10 years probably … what Rive lets you do is what Flash used to let you do but in a much more powerful way.

Dan Fessler

@DanFessler

Greatest thing since scaleform for UI design in game engines… but like actually built from the ground up end to end and 1000x better

Michael Chiu

Dropbox

Rive unlocked a completely new mode of interactivity for us that just wouldn’t have been possible without it.

hansonerere

@hansonerere2

My most complex @rive_app scripting experiment so far: custom particle generating a custom 3D form … Still amazed by how powerful Rive is.

wab.eth

@wabdoteth

@rive_app is the best lightweight animation software out there; going to be the most addictive health app on the market

FitzChivalry

@boredpxnda

figured out how to use @rive_app events with SwiftUI and I dont think the world understands just how much is about to change.

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