Open a .riv file online
Drop the .riv file onto the Rive Asset Exporter and it plays immediately on a canvas in your browser. You can switch artboards, browse animations and state machines, and see every embedded asset. No Rive account, no download, and no plugin.
Step by step
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Open the viewer
Load the Rive Asset Exporter home page. It runs in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge.
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Drop the file in
Drag the .riv file onto the drop zone. Parsing takes a second or two for a typical file.
- 3
Play and inspect
Watch it on the preview canvas, switch artboards from the dropdown, and expand the structure tree to see animations, state machines, and inputs.
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Unpack the assets if you need them
Download individual images, fonts, or audio clips, or take the whole set as a ZIP.
Why a .riv will not open on your desktop
Double-clicking a .riv file does nothing useful, because it is not a document format. It is a compiled binary built for Rive's runtime libraries, the same way a .wasm module is built for a browser rather than for a person. Your operating system has no application registered to render it, so it needs a runtime to be loaded into. That is what this page gives you.
What you can see
- The animation itself, playing live, with the artboard switcher for files that contain more than one.
- The structure tree: artboards, their animations, their state machines, and each state machine's inputs with the input types.
- Every embedded asset: images, fonts, and audio, each with its format and byte size.
- The file's own name and total size, which is useful when you are checking whether a file has been optimised.
What you cannot do here
This is a viewer and an unpacker, not an editor. You cannot retime an animation, change a colour, or re-export a modified file. A .riv is a runtime export, so if you need to make changes you need the original Rive project. Keep a .rev backup of anything you care about.
Note. The file is read by the Rive runtime inside your own browser tab. Nothing is uploaded to a server, so it also works on files you cannot share.
Questions
Can I open a .riv file without a Rive account?
Yes. This viewer needs nothing but the file and a browser. There is no sign-up and no paid tier.
Can I edit a .riv file here?
No. Editing requires the original project in the Rive editor. A .riv is the compiled runtime export, comparable to a built binary rather than source code.
Is it safe to open a .riv file I was sent?
The file is parsed by the Rive runtime inside your browser tab's sandbox and is never uploaded anywhere. That said, apply the same judgement you would to any file from someone you do not know.
Does it work offline?
The page has to load once over the network. After that the parsing and extraction are entirely local, because no server is involved in the work itself.
Try it on your own file
Free, no sign-up, and the file is processed in your browser rather than uploaded to a server.
Open the exporter