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 KoolMoves, WebAnimator and Jabaco.

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Microsoft Silverlight alternatives page was last updated Mar 10, 2020
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  1. Adobe Animate icon

    Adobe Animate

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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.

    57 Adobe Animate alternatives

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    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Adobe Animate screenshot 1

    Top Adobe Animate Features

    1.  Keyframe Animation
    2.  Pressure Sensitivity
    3.  Animation Rigging
    4.  Export to SVG
    5.  Support for Layers
    6.  Onion skinning
    7.  Works Offline
    8.  Support for scripting
    9.  Automated Tweening
    10.  Video Maker
    11.  Drawing 2D

    Adobe Animate VS Microsoft Silverlight

     

    • Adobe Animate is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to Microsoft Silverlight.

    • Adobe Animate is the most popular commercial alternative to Microsoft Silverlight.

    • Adobe Animate is Paid and ProprietaryMicrosoft Silverlight is Free and Proprietary
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    OpenSilver

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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 .

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • FR flagFrance
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    OpenSilver screenshot 1

    OpenSilver VS Microsoft Silverlight

     

    • OpenSilver is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Microsoft Silverlight.

    • OpenSilver is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Microsoft Silverlight.

    • OpenSilver is Free and Open SourceMicrosoft Silverlight is Free and Proprietary
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    KoolMoves

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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...

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    • Windows
    KoolMoves screenshot 1

    KoolMoves Features

    1.  Support for Javascript

    KoolMoves VS Microsoft Silverlight

     
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    WebAnimator

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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 W...

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    WebAnimator

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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.

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    Country of Origin

    • IT flagItaly
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    WebAnimator screenshot 1

    WebAnimator Features

    1.  Image Morphing

    WebAnimator VS Microsoft Silverlight

     
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    Ceylon

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    Ceylon is a language designed specifically for writing large programs in teams.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Hotspot JVM
    Eclipse welcome page

    Ceylon Features

    1.  Object-oriented Language
    2.  Functional Language
    3.  Static typing

    Ceylon VS Microsoft Silverlight

     

    • Ceylon is the most popular Linux alternative to Microsoft Silverlight.

    • Ceylon is Free and Open SourceMicrosoft Silverlight is Free and Proprietary
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    Jabaco

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Jabaco screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    Official Website Download page shows :Jabaco BETA 1.5.2 (Release: 2009-09-01)See http://www.jabaco.org/download.html

    Jabaco Features

    1.  Support for scripting

    Jabaco VS Microsoft Silverlight

     
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