Releases, insights, and company announcements

Brilliant is an interactive learning platform used by millions of people to develop math and coding skills through hands-on problem solving. A guest blog post from Brilliant.

Starting today, the Rive Agent is available to everyone, including Free users. AI should make it easier for anyone to learn and build in Rive, regardless of plan.

Strava brought Year in Sport in-house and built it entirely in Rive, delivering personalized animated recaps to 5.87M athletes across 14 languages.

BUCK partnered with LinkedIn to create their first-ever Year in Review, a data-driven, personalized experience built entirely in Rive, supporting 207,360 possible user journeys across three languages.

Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode. Rive brings back what Flash got right: design, animation, and code in one tool. And it now imports your .fla files.

What a self-serve team learned in production.

Production-ready, interactive UI built in Rive, shipped in Unity.

Great news: you don’t have to be a developer.

A professional programming environment inside a professional design tool.

Answers about the AI Coding Agent in the Rive Editor: what it does, how it writes Luau code for Scripting, who can use it, and how AI credits are billed.

The technical pattern behind Wrapped experiences: design ships the interaction in Rive, and code drives it with data.

Build a 1-bit painting editor in Rive: a 16x16 grid of paintable cells and a light and dark toggle, driven by Data Binding. Part 3 of the learn-by-doing series.

Build an interactive holiday spinning loader in Rive with Solos, Lists, Property Groups, and the List Follow Path constraint. A Data Binding tutorial.

Lottie imports were meant to help teams migrate to Rive, not stay dependent on outdated pipelines.

Building a scripting layer that’s performant, debugs cleanly, and fits in your runtime.

Build distance-based collision detection in Rive with Data Binding: one draggable circle, one moving circle, and a snap back on collision. Part 2 of the series.

Learn Rive Data Binding by building small projects. Part 1 of the learn-by-doing series covers Property Groups and core techniques, with files to follow.

How to make Rive animations more visually accessible: practical tips from motion designer Daire O Suilleabhain for designing motion that works for more people.

The Editor stays free. Exports moved to paid plans. Here’s what’s changing and why.

Rive Ambassador Leo Mazzei shares his personal workflow and tips for building reusable components in Rive.

Voyager and Enterprise customers can build scalable, consistent design languages in Rive.

Inside Megadeth Digital's Easter egg-packed map, and what you can learn from it.

Components give you more control, less clutter, and are built for what’s next: Libraries.

Rive Motion Designer Sanu Sagar on his lucky break on Twitter, plus his take on interactive design’s future.

Together we’re rethinking how interfaces get built.

140 hours of live charity streaming. Millions of viewers. One on-screen graphic that can’t fail even for a second.

Understand each option’s strengths and learn when to combine them for scalable, interactive motion in Rive.

Part 1: Rive Ambassador Mayte breaks down the core concepts and helps you build a mental model.

Error pages don’t have to be boring. Make your brand stand out by building them with Rive.

Build dynamic, data-driven UI in Rive with three new features that make your files smarter, leaner, and more performant.

Most bugs aren’t in the code; they’re in how the file is wired.

How banking company Trade Republic designed interactive animations with Rive and Play.

Why they’re simpler (and more powerful) than they sound.

Behind the scenes of Magic Sort: Interactive Rive animations, modular design, and a 43% Day 1 retention rate.

Rive vs After Effects: After Effects is built for linear video. Rive is the interactive engine for apps, games, and UI. Here's when to pick each one.

CARS24 saved time with their in-app launch and design-to-development handoff.

Kredivo launched its first in-app game campaign in just eight weeks.

Learn how to streamline your Rive projects from a Rive Ambassador.

Designer Nolan Perkins used Rive to create a system that's more like a game and less like a guilt machine

Complex systems deserve considered thought. A guest blog post from With Love.

BYOB (Bring Your Own Bucket) lets you store your Rive files at rest in your own AWS S3 bucket, including encryption, region selections, and access policies.

Tamango traded templates for interactivity by building an handcrafted, scroll-driven music video experience.

Think of Data Binding as a contract between engineering and design. Engineers push data to the contract — designers connect their UI to it.

How two creative teams used Rive to build live, responsive art experiences that connect with audiences.

The unfiltered story behind breaking free from rigid, outdated specs and building the first true vector feather.

Designers took full control of gameplay, logic, and visuals delivering 3,500+ interactions across UK airports in just three weeks.

How Duolingo turned its most unimpressed character into an AI-powered conversation partner with Rive.

Empowering players to change the world one interaction at a time.

Cadet, Voyager, and Enterprise customers can test Rive’s newest features before they launch.

How Rive helps Melodics turn practice into play with animations that sync to every beat.

Rive vs Lottie compared: interactivity, Data Binding, file size, runtimes, and workflow. When to pick Lottie, when to pick Rive, and when to use both.

HLabs used Rive to create high-impact animations for The Economist’s IBM campaign.

A new way to create vector glow and shadow effects. Available today in the Rive Editor.

Slice your way to more dynamic UI designs.

How a small digital agency stands out from bigger competition in the pitch process.

A sci-fi dream come true, this full-scale Stargate is set to spin, glow, and engage fans in a fully interactive experience.

An inside look at how Dropbox’s Brand Studio and Daybreak Studio combined storytelling, design, and technology.

How Hiber uses Rive to optimize its powerful game engine and reimagine how browser-based games are made.

Peer into the crystal ball with Joey Korenman to stay ahead of the competition.

Our 2024 recap video is packed with highlights, including a sneak peek at what’s next in 2025. 👀

Hero Assistant’s Year Wrapped gives fun insights based on your calendars. Animations powered by Rive.

Hard-coded graphics are history.

From fixed corners to fluid borders, design smarter with full control over your UI's responsiveness.

Whimsical learning app Yeti Confetti Kids shows the power of play for refugee education. Powered by Rive.

Online-first creative tools strike the perfect balance between security and innovation.

A guest blog post from design agency HLabs.

Make your production-ready Rive graphics responsive and adaptable… with a twist.

Hero used design-first thinking with a single, scrollable feed and voice control.

Fewer people, faster results — how Rive helped a small game studio achieve polished, interactive UI.

Your Rive graphics inside Unreal just got a whole lot more powerful.

A match made in no-code heaven. Easily add Rive’s production-ready graphics to Webflow's websites.

We're also introducing Workspaces, where individuals, teams, and companies can organize private and collaborative files.

Transitioning from Lottie to Rive enhanced workflow, performance, and creativity.

How a murky phase in app development became a competitive new profession

"We want users to feel a little dopamine hit whenever they see the 'this is fine' flames moving."

Interactive product demos push animation from passive to playful.

Learn how an education company streamlined and customized their animation strategy using Rive.

Free access to Soundly's library of 3,000+ sounds.

GDC photos of the Rive booth, team, and gamedev community.

Made for Rive and dedicated to our runtimes.

Supports D3D11, WebGL, out-of-band assets, procedural rendering, text runs, and more.

Rive brought the collaboration between design and engineering to a new level.

Build better game UI with Rive's Unreal Engine plugin

The 12 best Rive Community designs of 2023, picked by the Rive team, from characters rigged with Bones and Joysticks to menus built with the State Machine.

Designers and developers can ship interactive UI directly to the game engine

Lottie was born in 2015 when Hernan built Bodymovin; now he's bringing his talents to Rive

New pricing goes live September 1, 2023. Sign up now to get Rive at the lowest price it will ever be.

Figma launched a new website with interactive Rive animations.

The Rive GameKit for Flutter is the first product to take advantage of the Rive Renderer. It's available now as a technical preview.

Import After Effects and Lottie files into Rive

Easily import your Figma graphics into Rive

Animation mixing in Rive lets you create rich layered interactions that look complex but are actually pretty simple under the hood.

Rive’s State Machine makes it easy for designers to iterate without requiring devs to re-implement each version.

Rive has innovative interactive features that are not typically found in other design tools.

Easily create a copy of any Rive Community file.

Use Rive’s State Machine to design an animated interactive component that is ready to ship.

Use interactive Rive content in Framer's flexible website builder without code.

Deform graphics to create realistic organic motion and volume.

Deform raster graphics with meshes and import PSDs to improve your workflow.

Why we’re introducing a three-file limit

Make your graphics fully interactive in the Rive editor with Listeners.

Implement accessibility features with dynamically changing content

Design and code an iOS app with Rive animated assets, icon animations, custom layouts, and interactions.

An easy no-code way to get your Rive animation running anywhere.

Part 1: Design and animate a login experience using Rive's State Machine.