Adobe Flash Player Alternatives for Windows
There are many alternatives to Adobe Flash Player for Windows and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is Lightspark, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Adobe Flash Player and nine of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Adobe Flash Player are Ruffle, BlueMaxima's Flashpoint, Gnash and Newgrounds Player.
Adobe Flash Player alternatives are mainly Flash Players but may also be Media Players. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Adobe Flash Player.Lightspark
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo8 Lightspark alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Flash Player
- Windows
- Linux
- Firefox
An open source Adobe Flash Player implementation, designed from the ground up to be efficient on current and (hopefully) future hardware.
- - Lightspark is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to Adobe Flash Player.
- - Lightspark is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Adobe Flash Player.
Lightspark Features
Comments about Lightspark as a Alternative to Adobe Flash Player
it helps me play my games
0Ruffle
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Flash Player
8 Ruffle alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Google Chrome
- Firefox
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...
- - Ruffle is the most popular Mac alternative to Adobe Flash Player.
Ruffle Features
Comments about Ruffle as a Alternative to Adobe Flash Player
Ruffle can emulate many Flash games. Ruffle doesn't support ActionScript 3 yet, but it's a good program to keep an eye on.
7CreaZyp154Still in developement but already works fine for a lot of games and websites.
3maurosoft391the program keeps giving errors. ruffle is garbage
0Novan Purnamasadly 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....
1Flash player is dead and this one works even better than the old flash
-1BlueMaxima's Flashpoint
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo8 BlueMaxima's Flashpoint alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
The webgame preservation project.
BlueMaxima's Flashpoint Features
Comments about BlueMaxima's Flashpoint as a Alternative to Adobe Flash Player
easy to install and theres alot of games archived. The future of flash!
0AnipeIt isn't an alternative to flash; it's an archival of flash
0maurosoft391the 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
-2Gnash
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Flash Player
8 Gnash alternatives- Windows
- Linux
- Konqueror
- AmigaOS
- Opera
- Firefox
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.
Gnash Features
DiscontinuedThe project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 0.8.10, released in February 2012, can be still downloaded from Git.
Opinions about Gnash as a Alternative to Adobe Flash Player
Newgrounds Player
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo7 Newgrounds Player alternatives- Free • Proprietary
- Flash Player
- Windows
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.
SuperNova Player
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo8 SuperNova Player alternatives- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
SuperNova Player allows systems to play .SWF files in a standalone player launched from any browser.
SuperNova Player Features
SWF Opener
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo2 SWF Opener alternatives- Free • Proprietary
- Flash Player
- Windows
SWF Opener (free) - open and play swf files (flash movies). Very easy to use flash player.
Discontinuedwebsite no longer available
Shubus Viewer
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo15 Shubus Viewer alternatives- Free • Proprietary
- Media Player
- Windows
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.
Shubus Viewer Features
DiscontinuedThe program is no longer updated. Last version, 1.0.0.3, released in June 2015, can be still downloaded from Softpedia
Flash Player 2021
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Flash Player
8 Flash Player 2021 alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
Browser extension with a one-click Flash emulator, making Flash playable in 2021 and beyond.
Comments about Flash Player 2021 as a Alternative to Adobe Flash Player
I need to access files from another app to run on my PC
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