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Ruffle

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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...

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

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Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Google Chrome
  • Flathub
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Flatpak
4.2 / 5 Avg rating (6)
38likes
5comments
0news articles

Features

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  1.  Emulation
  2.  Based on Flash Player
  3.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  4.  Built-in Adobe Flash Player

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  • xylopire, niksavc and miinty liked Ruffle
    26 days ago
  • tomyan112 reviewed Ruffle  
    6 months ago

    I have a swf that has a movie in it. The Ruffle emulator opens up the browser to play the movie instead of inside the emulator itself.

  • tomyan112 and justarandom liked Ruffle
    6 months ago
  • POX updated Ruffle
    9 months ago
  • braky updated Ruffle
    9 months ago
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Ruffle information

  • Developed by

    US flagRuffle
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.2
  • Alternatives

    8 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

Games

GitHub repository

  •  16,780 Stars
  •  890 Forks
  •  5597 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 19, 2025 
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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Ruffle, and it has gotten 38 likes

Ruffle was added to AlternativeTo by jonnymoon96 on Apr 13, 2020 and this page was last updated Oct 1, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
saint23thomas
Apr 6, 2021
2

Runs pretty well for something that's still in development. Strong contender for the future go to player for flash games.

Top Negative Comment
ghigotrieste
Jan 27, 2021
0

some SWF contains ActionScript 3 which is not yet supported by Ruffle. The movie may not work as intended.

tanicdonotuse
Sep 22, 2023

I mean ruffle now has decent support for actionscript 3

tomyan112
Dec 29, 2024
0

I have a swf that has a movie in it. The Ruffle emulator opens up the browser to play the movie instead of inside the emulator itself.

utahir
Sep 27, 2021
1

User-friendly, devs seem to genuinely care!

rescuezilla
Jan 2, 2021
0

The Ruffle project has an online demo where you can upload an SWF file for playback, through the use of WebAssembly. I uploaded a random flash movie from years ago and it worked perfectly. Here's a direct link to the Ruffle online demo: https://ruffle.rs/demo/

The example I uploaded only had basic mouse interaction, I haven't yet tried interactive flash games yet.

There's actually a project called Flashpoint Archive icon Flashpoint Archive and another called "Flash Games Archive" that have thousands of SWF flash games. Both are dubious seeming executable programs, so be careful.

What is Ruffle?

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 Rust, we can confidently avoid all the security pitfalls that Flash had a reputation for. Ruffle puts Flash back on the web, where it belongs - including iOS and Android!

Designed to be easy to use and install, users or website owners may install the web version of Ruffle and existing flash content will "just work", with no extra configuration required. Ruffle will detect all existing Flash content on a website and automatically "polyfill" it into a Ruffle player, allowing seamless and transparent upgrading of websites that still rely on Flash content.

Ruffle is an entirely open source project maintained by volunteers. We're all passionate about the preservation of internet history, and we were drawn to working on this project to help preserve the many websites and plethora of content that will no longer be accessible when users can no longer run the official Flash Player. If you would like to help support this project, we welcome all contributions of any kind - even if it's just playing some old games and seeing how well they run.