OpenRive
A local-first, login-free editor for Rive .riv animations.
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Details
- External ID
- 1269533
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- OpenRive
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3252774120744781
- Tags
- Design Tools, Open Source, GitHub, Web Design
- Fetched at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
OpenRive is a local-first, login-free editor for Riveriv animations. Design, animate, build state machines and export files that play in every official Rive runtime.
Enrichment
- Niche
- video editing and media conversion tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- offline animation editor for rive files
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Creating a vector animation editor with complex state machines and a binary format exporter compatible with official Rive runtimes requires deep graphics engineering and proprietary format reverse-engineering.
What it would actually take: This requires implementing a vector design tool, a bezier curve editor, hierarchical bone rigging, inverse kinematics, and an interactive state machine graph engine. Furthermore, it necessitates implementing or reverse-engineering the compiled binary `.riv` runtime format to match Rive's internal specifications and rendering pipeline (e.g., Skia, WebGPU, or Rive Renderer). Building this requires veteran 2D graphics engine programmers and compiler/runtime engineers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 19 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 20 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 273 days after the earliest competitor.
- Dotenv Mask Editor: No more embarrassing screen leaks of your .env · hn · 2026-01-22 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Movavi-Video-Editor-Plus · github · 2026-10-01 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- Openfield · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- OPEN-TOON · github · 2026-09-20 · 88 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- OpenRive · github · 2026-09-22 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- FreeInd · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- Free animated icon library for Vue · hn · 2026-06-04 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- Emacs-riscv · hn · 2026-01-05 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.32
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