Rive
Real-time interactive animation tool for creating state machine-driven graphics for apps and games.
About Rive
Rive is a real-time interactive animation design tool that enables designers and developers to create animations with built-in state machines, making it possible to build interactive, responsive animated graphics that react to user input, game events, or application state—all without writing animation code. Rive's state machine editor lets designers define transitions, blend modes, and trigger conditions graphically, producing animations that adapt dynamically to runtime conditions like a character responding to movement inputs or a UI element reacting to user interaction. The Rive runtime is extremely lightweight and available for Flutter, iOS, Android, React, Vue, Unity, Unreal Engine, and WebGL, making it practical for shipping animations to production apps and games. AI assistance in Rive helps generate initial animation states and suggests interaction patterns. Companies including Duolingo, Robinhood, and Google use Rive to ship engaging, interactive animations that were previously only achievable through custom engineering.
Pros
- State machine animations react to runtime inputs without code
- Lightweight runtime works across all major platforms and game engines
- Eliminates need for separate animation and engineering work
Cons
- Advanced state machine logic has a significant learning curve
- Community and template library smaller than mature tools like Adobe Animate