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

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   Lightspark

    39 likes

   An open source Adobe Flash Player implementation, designed from the ground up to be efficient on current and (hopefully) future hardware.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (LGPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Flash Player

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Mozilla Firefox

   

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   Ruffle

    51 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

   • Flash Player

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Microsoft Edge
   • Google Chrome
   • Flathub
   • Flatpak
   • Mozilla Firefox
   • Android
   • F-Droid

   

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   Top Positive Comment

   ahmednasser293

   Jun 9, 2024

   0

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

   Top Negative Comment

   maurosoft391

   Aug 25, 2022

   0

   the program keeps giving errors. ruffle is garbage

   Novan Purnama

   Negative comment•Nov 21, 2022

   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....

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   • Ruffle is Free and Open SourceAdobe Flash Player is Free and Proprietary
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   Gnash

    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

   • Flash Player

   Origin

   • Italy
   • EU

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Konqueror
   • AmigaOS
   • Opera
   • Firefox

   

   

   

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   Flashpoint Archive

    32 likes

   The webgame preservation project.

   9 Flashpoint Archive alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Flash Player

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

   

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   ahmednasser293

   Positive comment•Jun 9, 2024

   0

   It has extensive library of Games and plugins including Flash.

   maurosoft391

   Negative comment•Aug 25, 2022

   -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 comment•Apr 14, 2022

   1

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

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   • Flashpoint Archive is Free and Open SourceAdobe Flash Player is Free and Proprietary
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   Swfdec

    11 likes

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Flash Player

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   OpenSilver

    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 .

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Self-Hosted

   

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   Guest

   Negative comment•Oct 19, 2020

   4

   alternative to silverlight instead of flash

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   JergenRoss

   Negative comment•Apr 7, 2022

   1

   IT'S silverlight apps, not flash apps

   Guest

   Negative comment•Aug 22, 2021

   1

   It's for Silverlight apps, not Flash apps.

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   • OpenSilver is Free and Open SourceAdobe Flash Player is Free and Proprietary
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   Flash Player 2021

    1 like

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Flash Player

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Microsoft Edge
   • Firefox

   

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   Guest

   Positive comment•Jun 26, 2022

   0

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

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   • Flash Player 2021 is Free and Open SourceAdobe Flash Player is Free and Proprietary