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Rive

Rive

Build interactive animations for any platform

Rive creates interactive vector animations with state machines that run on web, iOS, Android, and Flutter. Tiny file sizes and runtime performance that Lottie can't match.

Panel Reviews

The Builder

The Builder

Developer Perspective

Ship

State machines for interactive animations are brilliant. Runtime SDKs for every platform and file sizes are tiny.

The Creator

The Creator

Content & Design

Ship

The animation editor is intuitive and state machines make interactive animations possible without code.

The Skeptic

The Skeptic

Reality Check

Ship

Better than Lottie in every way — smaller files, interactive state machines, and cross-platform consistency.

Community Sentiment

Overall1,790 mentions
72% positive19% neutral9% negative
Hacker News312 mentions
73%19%8%

Rive's state machine approach solves interactive animation in a way After Effects never could

Reddit498 mentions
70%21%9%

Lottie animations at 5x the file size vs Rive — there's no competition for runtime performance

Twitter/X784 mentions
71%20%9%

Rive animations in my Flutter app run at 120fps with a 15KB file — Lottie could never

Product Hunt196 mentions
79%14%7%

The editor is surprisingly approachable for a developer and the web runtime is tiny and fast

Rive — Ship or Skip