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.

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Lightspark
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Free • Open Source
Flash Player
Windows
Linux
Firefox
8 Lightspark alternatives
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.
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Lightspark Features
Built-in Adobe Flash Player
Based on Flash Player
Windows Compatible
Opera extension
Comments about Lightspark as a Alternative to Adobe Flash Player
Almost everyone thinks Lightspark is a great Adobe Flash Player alternative.
Guest
it helps me play my games
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Ruffle
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Free • Open Source
Flash Player
Mac
Windows
Linux
Google Chrome
Firefox
8 Ruffle alternatives
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.
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Ruffle Features
1. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsRuffle can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
Emulation
Based on Flash Player
Comments about Ruffle as a Alternative to Adobe Flash Player
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Guest
Ruffle can emulate many Flash games. Ruffle doesn't support ActionScript 3 yet, but it's a good program to keep an eye on.
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CreaZyp154
Still in developement but already works fine for a lot of games and websites.
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maurosoft391
the program keeps giving errors. ruffle is garbage
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Novan Purnama
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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Guest
Flash player is dead and this one works even better than the old flash
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BlueMaxima's Flashpoint
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
8 BlueMaxima's Flashpoint alternatives
The webgame preservation project.
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BlueMaxima's Flashpoint Features
Built-in Adobe Flash Player
Comments about BlueMaxima's Flashpoint as a Alternative to Adobe Flash Player
Most users think BlueMaxima's Flashpoint is a great Adobe Flash Player alternative.
Guest
easy to install and theres alot of games archived. The future of flash!
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Anipe
It isn't an alternative to flash; it's an archival of flash
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maurosoft391
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
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Gnash
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Free • Open Source
Flash Player
Windows
Linux
Konqueror
AmigaOS
Opera
Firefox
8 Gnash alternatives
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.
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Gnash Features
Embeddable
Discontinued
The 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
Most users think Gnash is a great Adobe Flash Player alternative.
Newgrounds Player
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Free • Proprietary
Flash Player
Windows
7 Newgrounds Player alternatives
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.
Newgrounds Player has no features, suggest some!
SuperNova Player
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
8 SuperNova Player alternatives
SuperNova Player allows systems to play .SWF files in a standalone player launched from any browser.
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SuperNova Player Features
Standalone
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SWF Opener
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Free • Proprietary
Flash Player
Windows
2 SWF Opener alternatives
SWF Opener (free) - open and play swf files (flash movies). Very easy to use flash player.
SWF Opener has no features, suggest some!
Discontinued
website no longer available
Shubus Viewer
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Free • Proprietary
Media Player
Windows
15 Shubus Viewer alternatives
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.
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Shubus Viewer Features
Text editing
Browser integration
Built-in Adobe Flash Player
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, 1.0.0.3, released in June 2015, can be still downloaded from Softpedia
Flash Player 2021
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Free • Open Source
Flash Player
Mac
Windows
Linux
Microsoft Edge
Firefox
8 Flash Player 2021 alternatives
Browser extension with a one-click Flash emulator, making Flash playable in 2021 and beyond.
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Guest
I need to access files from another app to run on my PC
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