Over the summer, RivloTools moved from a long-standing idea to a fully formed product suite — complete with a new brand, a new website, and the first set of tools ready for the Umbraco community.
RivloTools exists for a simple reason: Umbraco developers, editors, and digital teams deserve tools that make everyday work faster, cleaner, and more enjoyable.
That sounds like sales patter I know, but many of us rebuild the same components, utilities, and workflows over and over again. RivloTools is about fixing that — creating reliable, editor-friendly packages that “just work” and help teams focus on the meaningful parts of their projects.
What We Built This Summer
Behind the scenes, a lot has come together:
- A clear brand direction and visual identity
- A flexible RivloTools Umbraco website
- A fully integrated licensing system
- Documentation for our first released tools
- And of course, the packages themselves: shaped, tested, refined, and published to NuGet
It’s been a hectic few months, but we’re now in a position where RivloTools can grow with confidence.
Current Products
Here’s what’s available today:
Friendly Media — Full Release
A faster way to explore and work with the Umbraco media library. Search, filters, badge tagging, friendly URLs, CSV exports, delete prevention — all designed to help teams handle media with confidence and clarity.
Rivlo Licensing — Full Release
A solid, consistent licensing foundation used across all RivloTools products. Supports domain-based licences, version targeting, trials, encrypted payloads, UI integration, and more.
Friendly Members — Full Release
A streamlined dashboard for managing Umbraco members. Cleaner searching, sorting, viewing, and editing — built to help teams handle membership-heavy sites with less friction.
Content Migration Manager — Public Beta
A flexible import/export engine for Umbraco content. Ideal for editors, integrators, and developers who need to move content between environments or automate migration tasks. Available as a pre-release for people who want to try it early.
Content Exporter – Umbraco 8 — Public Beta
A simple, practical way to export content from Umbraco 8 sites. Created to support long-running projects and migrations, especially when moving toward newer Umbraco versions.
Documentation
Documentation is already available for:
- Friendly Media
- Rivlo Licensing
Guides for Friendly Members and Content Migration Manager will follow soon.
We’re aiming for documentation that’s clear, friendly, and genuinely useful — covering installation, configuration, practical examples, and version-specific notes where relevant.
What We’re Working On Next
A few areas are currently in active development:
- Publishing documentation for all remaining products
- Preparing the first full release of Content Migration Manager
- Continuing refinements to Friendly Media based on real-world use
- Finalising the initial e-commerce setup for the RivloTools website
- Publishing more examples, how-tos, and developer-focused articles
There’s plenty on the roadmap, and we’ll share more as new features and tools become available.
Join Us on the Journey
RivloTools is still young, but it’s built on years of hands-on Umbraco experience and a real desire to make the platform even better for the people who use it every day.
If you’re working with any of the tools - or thinking about trying them - we’d love to hear from you. Your feedback shapes the roadmap, and helps us build tools that genuinely improve the Umbraco experience.