Open Source Adobe Flash Player AlternativesFlash Players and other similar apps like Adobe Flash Player

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   Ruffle

    52 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...

   10 Ruffle alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Flash Player

   Origin

   • United States

   Since

   • Since 2020

   Platforms

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

   • United States

   

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   Positive comment by SkyKuker · Oct 31, 2026

   Cross-platform, cross-architecture, libre, and open-source. Vibrant maintainer community; features a demo website and even an Android app.

   Positive comment by ahmednasser293 · Jun 9, 2024

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

   Negative comment by Novan Purnama · Nov 21, 2022

   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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   Flashpoint Archive

    36 likes

   The webgame preservation project.

   10 Flashpoint Archive alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Flash Player

   Since

   • Since 2020

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

   

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   Positive comment by ahmednasser293 · Jun 9, 2024

   It has extensive library of Games and plugins including Flash.

   Negative comment by maurosoft391 · Aug 25, 2022

   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

   Negative comment by Anipe · Apr 14, 2022

   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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   Lightspark

    40 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

   Since

   • Since 2010

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Mozilla Firefox

   

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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

   Since

   • Since 2020

   Platforms

   • Self-Hosted

   • France
   • EU

   

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   Negative comment by Guest · Oct 19, 2020

   alternative to silverlight instead of flash

   Negative comment by JergenRoss · Apr 7, 2022

   IT'S silverlight apps, not flash apps

   Negative comment by Guest · Oct 5, 2020

   OpenSilver is an re-implementation of Microsoft Silverlight, and therefore won't be able to play Flash games or videos.

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

    2 likes

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

   9 Flash Player 2021 alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Flash Player

   Since

   • Since 2021

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Microsoft Edge
   • Firefox

   

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   Positive comment by Guest · Jun 26, 2022

   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
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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

   Since

   • Since 2009

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

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

   • Italy
   • EU

   

   

   

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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

   Since

   • Since 2009

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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