I love that with Rive, it's much easier for motion designers to get their animations into a product on their own, breaking down previous barriers. The joystick + constraint combo is fantastic, allowing control of animations via joystick and letting me keyframe with constraints. I find the timeline blending and state machines great features for smooth transitions between states. Rive makes it easier to place animations on websites, mobile apps, and other products, and its preview is super fast. Installing and setting up Rive was pretty easy. Also, the playback is instant. What I've found out no matter how many bones I have, playback is very smooth. Unlike in After Effects, path animation connected to bones can be very slow on RAM preview. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rive works well in a lot of things like its preview is super fast. But in terms of its UI placements or how you use it as a whole, it's not that efficient. Like let's say in After Effects I can set it up in 2 minutes, in Rive it would probably take about 5-8 minutes, especially for intricate rigging. There's just a lot of QOL features and shortcuts in other programs that aren't present in Rive at the moment. Also, you can't rearrange panels as you can with AE and other programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.