Changelog

Every version of Riview and what landed in it. Updates are free — one Pro purchase carries across every 1.x release.

1.2

Coming soon

The Assets section becomes a working surface.

Export every asset

Export All writes each of a file's assets into a folder you pick — images as transparent PNGs whatever the file stores inside, fonts and audio exactly as they are. Or drag a single thumbnail straight out of the inspector into Finder or your design tool.

Replace anything, see it live

Drop a file on an asset row, or double-click it. Any image format your Mac can read converts internally with transparency intact, a size mismatch offers one-click Scale to Fit, and the replacement shows on the canvas immediately — and rides into every export.

Round-trip a whole file

Rework the exported images in any editor, point Riview at the folder, and Replace All from Folder matches them back to their assets by exact pixel size — filenames only break ties, and anything ambiguous is left alone with the reason in the console.

An eye on every image

Hide and show any image asset while the preview plays, the way layers work in a design tool. Hidden images stay out of exports too.

Save a swapped copy

Save Swapped Copy writes a new .riv with your replacements baked in — verified against the original before it's kept. The original file is never edited.

Hosted assets, settled

Assets that live on Rive's CDN now download once into a local cache, so what the canvas shows is exactly what exports — offline included.

1.1

30 August 2026

A free update for everyone who already has Riview.

Export every scene at once

File → Export All (⇧⌘E) renders every state machine and animation in a file in one run, into one folder you choose once. Tick the ones you want; Riview works out each item's duration the same way single export does — one loop for an animation, eight seconds for a state machine.

Frame what you export

⇧⌘F turns the canvas into a framing mode. Drag out a region and that region is what exports. Every artboard remembers its own frame, the dialog takes typed numbers and ratio presets, and Esc steps back one level at a time without throwing the region away.

A console for the file

Events moved out of the inspector into a pane of their own (⌥⌘C), and it's a real console: a live stream you can pause, filter, timestamp, and copy — plus commands that answer for the open file. info, artboards, machines, animations, inputs, viewmodels, and assets report what's inside. extract writes the file's embedded images, fonts, and audio back out as ordinary files.

Quick Command

⌘K opens one card that searches every scene in the file and runs any console command. Type part of an artboard name to jump straight to it, or type a verb to run it.

An export dialog that asks less

The dialog now opens on a single decision — the format. Duration comes from the timeline, size from the artboard, and the header names the export the way the sidebar does. The full form is still there behind Advanced, and whichever face you prefer is the one you get next time. Clicking a scene in the sidebar retargets the export live.

Somewhere to land

Launching Riview with no file used to leave you at an Open panel. There's a Home window now: drop a .riv on it, paste a file or a link, or step through to your library and the web importer. It can put Riview in the menu bar too, if you want those doors from anywhere.

Riview's own color picker

Backgrounds and color properties no longer summon the floating system color panel. They open Riview's own picker, right where you clicked: HSB, hex, alpha, an eyedropper, and the colors you reached for last.

A leaner toolbar

Seven trailing controls became four: a Select and Frame pair, one canvas menu carrying zoom, fit, and background, the panes in the order they sit on screen, and Export. The inspector opens with a Canvas section, so fit and background are the first two things under your hand.

1.0

19 August 2026

The first release.

Where Riview started

Quick Look previews that play and answer the pointer. A document window with every artboard, state machine, and animation in the file. The data-binding playground, a library that keeps every file you open, canvas zoom and fit, and export to video, GIF, and PNG — with a transparent background wherever the format allows one.