Rive vs Wick Editor

Rive is a tool for designing 2D animations, motion graphics, and rigged characters, with an editor for building animated content. The editor is available as a desktop app, and command-line support is listed for macOS, Linux, and Windows. Rive content can run natively on mobile, desktop, web, consoles, TVs, and vehicles; integrations include Web, iOS, macOS, Android, Flutter, React, React Native, Unity, and Unreal. Export formats are RIV, REV, MP4, GIF, PNG sequence, and WebM. The Editor can be used free to explore, learn, and build. The Free plan is $0 per seat per month and includes three collaborative files, one project, and a 10 MB imported-asset limit. Cadet is $9 a month in the annual view, with up to three seats and unlimited files. Voyager is $32 a month in the annual view, with up to 25 seats and an Agent with advanced models. Free and Cadet include an Agent with limits. Enterprise includes SSO, SOC2 Type II, dedicated support, onboarding, training, custom storage, and custom runtime options.

Wick Editor is a free, open-source tool for making games, animations and other multimedia projects in a web editor. Its drawing tools include a brush, pencil, eraser, shapes, line, path cursor and text. For animation, it provides onion skinning, timeline frames, playback preview and zoom controls; its welcome screen also lists a code editor. Exports include HTML,.wickobj, MP4, GIF, PNG image sequences and SVG. A help post also lists WAV and interactive HTML or ZIP exports. The project documents desktop builds for Mac, Windows and Linux, and downloadable apps have been released for iPhone and Android. The project is licensed under GNU GPL version 3. Tutorials cover animation, interactive scripting and keyboard interactions. Wick Editor is available on web and listed mobile and desktop platforms. Its plan costs nothing, and there is no free trial.