The Best Free Adobe Flash Player AlternativesTop Flash Players and other similar apps like Adobe Flash Player

The best free alternative to Adobe Flash Player is Lightspark, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Adobe Flash Player and 13 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Adobe Flash Player are Ruffle, Gnash, Flashpoint Archive and CheerpX for Flash.

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  1. Ruffle icon
     45 likes

    Ruffle is a Flash Player emulator written in Rust. Ruffle runs natively on all modern operating systems as a standalone application, and on all modern browsers through the use of WebAssembly. Leveraging the safety of the modern browser sandbox and the memory safety guarantees of...

    9 Ruffle alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
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    9
    Ruffle vs Adobe Flash Player Comments
    Top Positive Comment
    ahmednasser293
    0

    Easy to use and integrates with modern Chromium-based and Firefox Browsers.

    Top Negative Comment
    maurosoft391
    0

    the program keeps giving errors. ruffle is garbage

    Novan Purnama
    Negative
    1

    sadly Ruffle doesn't support OPENGL on native desktop so you can't emulate flash on desktop if your hardware doesn't have vulkan support... but you still can open using browser addons..

    it's still big issue on ruffle because you need modern graphic card support only for playing old flash game ? really....

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    3 of 9 comments
    • Ruffle is Free and Open SourceAdobe Flash Player is Free and Proprietary
  2. Gnash icon
     27 likes

    GNU Gnash is the GNU Flash movie player — Flash is an animation file format pioneered by Macromedia which continues to be supported by their successor company, Adobe.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Konqueror
    • AmigaOS
    • Opera
    • Firefox
     
  3. The webgame preservation project.

    9 Flashpoint Archive alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    4
    Flashpoint Archive vs Adobe Flash Player Comments
    ahmednasser293
    Positive
    0

    It has extensive library of Games and plugins including Flash.

    maurosoft391
    Negative
    -1

    the filesize is too big. over 600 GB of storage must be free to install that software. some people can't install that because require too much space in the disk

    Anipe
    Negative
    1

    It isn't an alternative to flash; it's an archival of flash

    3 of 4 comments
    • Flashpoint Archive is Free and Open SourceAdobe Flash Player is Free and Proprietary
  4. CheerpX For Flash is a long-term HTML5 solution for preserving accessibility to Flash applications on modern unmodified browsers.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Firefox
     
  5. Swfdec icon
     11 likes

    Swfdec (pronounced "swiff deck") is a decoder/renderer for Macromedia Flash animations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. OpenSilver icon
     4 likes

    OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplementation of Microsoft Silverlight , that runs on current browsers via WebAssembly. It uses Mono for WebAssembly and Microsoft Blazor. It brings back the power of C#, XAML, and .

    4 OpenSilver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    4
    OpenSilver vs Adobe Flash Player Comments
    Guest
    Negative
    4

    alternative to silverlight instead of flash

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    JergenRoss
    Negative
    1

    IT'S silverlight apps, not flash apps

    Guest
    Negative
    1

    It's for Silverlight apps, not Flash apps.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    3 of 4 comments
    • OpenSilver is Free and Open SourceAdobe Flash Player is Free and Proprietary
  7. XMTV Player icon
     10 likes

    In the beginning was the need for a player. Adobe Flash Player Alternative! Google Cast feature for Android TV.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • SAM - SlideME Application Manager
    • 1Mobile
    • Google Cast
    • Firefox
     
  8. SuperNova Player allows systems to play .SWF files in a standalone player launched from any browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Newgrounds is home to over 20 years of content built using Adobe Flash. Unfortunately, most browser manufacturers will be dropping support for the Flash plugin, and these submissions will no longer play directly in your browser.

    8 Newgrounds Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Browser extension with a one-click Flash emulator, making Flash playable in 2021 and beyond.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Firefox
     
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    1
    Flash Player 2021 vs Adobe Flash Player Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    I need to access files from another app to run on my PC

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Flash Player 2021 is Free and Open SourceAdobe Flash Player is Free and Proprietary
  11. Shubus Viewer is unique of its kind utility which allows create texts and HTML pages, view pictures, play games. Shubus Viewer represents Shubus Corporation's point of view, how user-friendly application should look really.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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