Synfig Studio Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Optimized for fast boot High Dynamic-Range Imaging (HDRI) Timeline-based Tweening Add a feature 82 Like It does not allow for easy frame by frame animation like adobe flash. Guest • Aug 2016 • 13 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree Share the same functionality : Animation. Guest • Jul 2016 • 3 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree Does not allow frame for frame drawing which is the core component of Adobe Animate Guest • Apr 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree it's free and open-source software,very good for work. Guest • Mar 2017 • 4 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree The primary application of Animate/Flash is web. Synfig uses vector graphics, but is for bitmap exporting (movies) which can't be easily transferred by web like Canvas/HTML5/JS, except you have a powerful hosting and bandwidth to share users with huge and CPU-demanding videos. Total lack of interactivity in animations is another problem. Guest • May 2017 • 2 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree
OpenToonz OpenToonz is an animation program that is a free software version of Toonz, the animation software used by Studio Ghibli, amongst others. Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Keyframe animation Add a feature 40 Like It's just so good and has all the tools you need Guest • Mar 2018 Disagree Agree very powerful tools under the hood and incredible for a free download Tan4500 • Jan 2018 • 2 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree
Vectorian Giotto Vectorian Giotto is a simple flash animation software that allows you to create professional quality Flash animations for websites and other projects without coding. ... Free Windows No coding required Tweening Add a feature 18 Like Discontinued The official website is no longer available, but last version, 3.0.0, released on April 2011, can be still downloaded from Wayback Machine. Its like a free copycat. it is EXACTLY like adobe flash professional cc. Just free and with minor differences... Guest • Jun 2015 • 5 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree This uses the same tween and layout as Adobe Animate CC Guest • Nov 2017 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree almost an exact clone! however, the dev team is no longer active. but I'm using it, and it's great! Guest • Mar 2018 Disagree Agree It's identical; a little bit buggy but if you're willing to put up with the occasional glitch/crash then it's pretty much perfect Guest • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
Tupi Tupi is a design and authoring tool for digital artists interested in 2D Animation, fork of the KToon project, offering an interface... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android BSD Flash-Like Layers support Rotoscoping Vector art ... Vector Frame-To-Frame Animation Add a feature 29 Like It has mostly all the essential Flash features for animation and it doesn't cut corners for anything. Its an overall good program to use. I have seen many amazing Flash level animations made with this program and it can still be used for simple low quality animations. It can also be used for teaching students. Guest • Aug 2017 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree They have many similar features and are both vector based Mr_Jangoon • Jul 2016 • 5 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree Their website plainly states they are not an alternative to Flash Guest • Oct 2015 • 4 agrees and 7 disagrees Disagree Agree
Wick Editor Wick is a free Flash-like browser-based toolkit for creating small interactive things for the Internet. With Wick, you can create games, animations, and everything in... Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted HTML5 Support Support for Javascript Keyframe animation Add a feature 10 Like it has a brush tool, smoothing, can do frame by frame, everything i need! d3rpyp1zza • Jan 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
Toon Boom Harmony Toon Boom Harmony Network is the industrial animation software for studios worldwide. BRUSH ENGINE Brushes in Harmony are now better than ever for creative drawing.... Commercial Mac OS X Windows Keyframe animation Add a feature 7 Like
Saola Animate Easily create engaging HTML5 animations and interactive web content without coding skills. Commercial Windows No coding required Sprite sheets Add a feature 5 Like
Adobe Edge Animate Adobe Edge is a tool for creating standards-based animation with ease; allowing designers to create content, using standards like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. An early... Commercial Mac OS X Windows No features added Add a feature 15 Like Discontinued Since November 2015 Edge Reflow (preview), Edge Inspect and Edge Animate are no longer being actively developed: https://blogs.adobe.com/edge/2015/11/30/update-about-edge-tools-services/
Moovly Enable anyone to create animated videos and other multimedia content without expertise or graphical talent, using a huge media library of over 500,000 royalty-free... Commercial $ $ $ Web No features added Add a feature 19 Like Animate CC is for artists and animators who create an actual animation with frames. Moovly is basically an alternative to PowerPoint that uses pre-made animation for presentations. Guest • Jul 2016 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Moovely doesn't support any kind of frame by frame animation, it is designed for flat indie ads with ukulele music in the background, not actual animation. Guest • Jul 2017 Disagree Agree
Stickman & Elemento Create 2D cartoons and web animations in minutes It is unique: Create your own style of animation, or combine multiple! It is deep: Scales from beginner to... Free Windows No features added Add a feature 2 Like
TVPaint Animation TVP Animation is the leading paperless drawing and animation tool, able to imitate traditional techniques such as Pen Brush, Gouache, Watercolour, Pencil, Felt-tip and... Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Android No features added Add a feature 9 Like
NanoFL Editor Create banners/games and publish its to HTML5. CreateJS for 2D and Blender/ThreeJS for 3D objects. Coding on Haxe is supported. Free Personal Windows No features added Add a feature 7 Like
KoolMoves KoolMoves is a web animation authoring tool that creates Flash animations with multimedia slide shows, media players, and action scripting and frames for animated gifs.... Commercial Windows No features added Add a feature 5 Like
EasyToy EasyToy is a 3D modeling software. It uses a sketch-based modeling method and a 3D painting method. The user interface is very friendly, and operations are very simple.... Commercial Windows No features added Add a feature 3 Like
FlaExporter FlaExporter converts FLA files to HTML5 and Native, allowing you to expand the reach of Adobe Flash or Animate content beyond the Flash player. 60 FPS on mobile and... Freemium Mac OS X Windows No features added Add a feature 3 Like
