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Ruffle

Play Flash games & movies.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, Linux and Android
  • Open source

At a glance

All of Ruffle is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT / Apache-2.0) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Ruffle is a Flash Player emulator written in Rust. Leveraging the 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! This application lets you run Flash content on your computer without a browser in-between, and take full advantage of your GPU and system resources to get those extra frames when playing intense games. 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.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (source code, publisher, platforms, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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