Riview

A dead file,
alive on your Mac.

Someone sends you a .riv file. Finder shows a blank icon. Install Riview, press Space — and it plays. Every artboard, every state machine, every animation, running live in Quick Look before you've opened an app.

Coming to the Mac App Store Free to download · macOS 14+

The problem

Rive animations ship as .riv runtime files, and .riv files can't be opened back in the Rive editor. If you're the developer, the client, or the teammate who only received the .riv, the official route to see or export it is a cloud render queue that needs a $108/yr seat and the original source file — which you don't have. Your file just sits there.

What Riview does

Press Space in Finder — animated Quick Look previews for every .riv on your Mac. The file is alive before the app is open.
Open it, and every state machine input, data-binding property, and event is live in a native inspector. Flip a boolean, watch the transition fire. What your users will see, before you ship it.
Export exactly what's on the canvas — H.264, HEVC, GIF, PNG, up to 4K — with ⌘E. Triggers can fire as the export starts, so the video captures their effect.
Transparent HEVC alpha export. Drop a real overlay into Final Cut, After Effects, or Keynote. No render queue produces this — at any price.
Native SwiftUI and Metal, rendering through Rive's official runtime. What you preview is what your app will draw.

Pricing, entirely

This is the whole model. There's nothing to discover after you install.

Riview Free
  • Everything above — viewing, Quick Look, the full inspector
  • Image export, clean, unlimited
  • 3 watermark-free motion exports to judge the output on your own files
  • After that, video & GIF export keep working free — with a small corner mark
Riview Pro $29.99 once
  • Watermark-free video and GIF exports, forever
  • Transparent HEVC alpha — the export nothing else produces
  • Every 1.x update included · no subscription, no account
The nearest alternative is a $108/yr cloud seat that requires the editor source file and still can't export alpha.

Built like a Mac app

No accounts, no telemetry, no analytics — the privacy policy is three paragraphs because there's nothing to disclose. Sandboxed, sold through the App Store, purchases handled by Apple. Keyboard-first: Space play, ⌘E export, ⌘C copies the current frame clean, free, forever.