Animation Tool comparison · 2026
Rive vs Lottie
Both turn designed animations into lightweight assets for web and apps. Lottie plays back vector animations exported from After Effects as JSON; Rive is an all-in-one editor whose runtime adds interactive state machines you can drive from code.
A tool for building interactive vector animations driven by state machines.
- Website
- rive.app
- Tags
- Animated
A lightweight, JSON-based format for shipping vector animations to the web.
- Website
- lottiefiles.com
- Tags
- Animated
Rive vs Lottie: which should you pick?
Pick Lottie if your animators already work in After Effects and you mainly need playback. Pick Rive when the animation has to react — hover, drag, game-like states — and you want to author and wire it up in one place.
For reference, on Designeer both are tagged animated. Tags come from each tool’s own description, not a scored benchmark.