Alternatives to Adobe Animate CC for all platforms with any license

OpenToonz

OpenToonz is an animation program that is a free software version of Toonz, the animation software used by Studio Ghibli, amongst others.
- very powerful tools under the hood and incredible for a free download Tan4500 • Jan 2018 • 5 agrees and 5 disagrees
- It's just so good and has all the tools you need Guest • Mar 2018 • 3 agrees and 3 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Keyframe animation Frame by frame Schema editor Tweening Add a feature

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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...
- It does not allow for easy frame by frame animation like adobe flash. Guest • Aug 2016 • 19 agrees and 6 disagrees
- Does not allow frame for frame drawing which is the core component of Adobe Animate Guest • Apr 2018 • 9 agrees and 3 disagrees
- Because the timeline is no where near similar to animate cc at least things are actually easy to edit the frames when you made i perfer layer by layer timeline than a timebar Guest • Jul 2018 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Share the same functionality : Animation. Guest • Jul 2016 • 9 agrees and 7 disagrees
- it's free and open-source software,very good for work. Guest • Mar 2017 • 5 agrees and 6 disagrees
- 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 • 3 agrees and 4 disagrees
- It has good features like bones and stuffs. Most of all it's open source. Guest • Jul 2018 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Bones and Layers Frame by frame animation Timeline-based Tweening Add a feature

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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...
- it has a brush tool, smoothing, can do frame by frame, everything i need! d3rpyp1zza • Jan 2017 • 5 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Its veryyy Similar to adobe animate: ui and the most useful an necesary core functions of animate Guest • Sep 2018 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted
Support for Layers Movie clips Frame by frame Frame by frame animation ... HTML5 Support Support for Javascript Keyframe animation Add a feature

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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. ...
- Its like a free copycat. it is EXACTLY like adobe flash professional cc. Just free and with minor differences... Guest • Jun 2015 • 6 agrees and 2 disagrees
- This uses the same tween and layout as Adobe Animate CC Guest • Nov 2017 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
- almost an exact clone! however, the dev team is no longer active. but I'm using it, and it's great! Guest • Mar 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- 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
Free Windows
Better formatting Frame by frame animation No coding required Tweening Add a feature

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- 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.
Tupi

Tupi is a design and authoring tool for digital artists interested in 2D Animation, fork of the KToon project, offering an interface...
- 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 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees
- They have many similar features and are both vector based Mr_Jangoon • Jul 2016 • 6 agrees and 4 disagrees
- Their website plainly states they are not an alternative to Flash Guest • Oct 2015 • 5 agrees and 12 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android BSD
Flash-Like Support for Layers Rotoscoping Vector Frame-To-Frame Animation Add a feature

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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 Windows Linux
Frame by frame animation Keyframe animation Add a feature

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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 Windows
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- 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/
Saola Animate

Easily create engaging HTML5 animations and interactive web content without coding skills.

Commercial Windows
No coding required Responsive design Sprite sheets Add a feature

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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 Windows Linux Android
Frame by frame Add a feature

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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

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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

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- Discontinued Website is gone. you can download the program at Wayback machine.
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
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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...
- 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 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees
- 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 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees
Commercial $ $ $ Web
No features added Add a feature

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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 Windows
No features added Add a feature

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Ella

Ella (an acronym for Elegant Light Linux Animator) is a light animation software intended to achieve a aim of the Linux world : a functionnal and WYSIWYG (What You See...

Free Open Source Linux
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- Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.4.2, released in 2012, can be still downloaded from Launchpad.