Microsoft Silverlight Alternatives

Microsoft Silverlight is described as 'Silverlight is a development platform by Microsoft for creating rich media applications and business applications for the Web, desktop, and mobile devices' and is a popular app in the web browsers category. There are six alternatives to Microsoft Silverlight for Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted and JavaScript. The best Microsoft Silverlight alternative is Adobe Animate. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try OpenSilver or Ceylon. Other great apps like Microsoft Silverlight are WebAnimator, KoolMoves and Jabaco.

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  1. Adobe Animate icon
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    Versatile multimedia tool, Adobe Animate offers 4K video export, HTML5 support, creative illustration tools, colored onion skinning, and seamless Creative Cloud integration. Formerly Flash Professional, it includes a rotatable canvas and vector brushes.

    58 Adobe Animate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  2. OpenSilver icon
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    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

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. WebAnimator icon
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    Use WebAnimator to create fantastic animations that work perfectly on all the main browsers, as well as smartphones and tablets - and all this is without Flash! It's easy and quick. If you can imagine it, you can do it with WebAnimator.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. KoolMoves icon
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    KoolMoves is a web animation authoring tool that creates Flash animations with multimedia slide shows, media players, and action scripting and frames for animated gifs. Create text effects, import vector clipart, attach wav audio, fill shapes with color gradients or bitmaps, add...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Ceylon icon
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    Ceylon is a language designed specifically for writing large programs in teams.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Hotspot JVM
     
  6. Jabaco icon
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    Jabaco is a simple programming language with a Visual Basic like syntax. Jabaco enables you to create powerful software for all Java supported operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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