Web Flash Design Software Reviews and Downloads

CoffeeCup Form Builder

CoffeeCup Form Builder enables webmasters to create forms in Flash format. In addition to beeing cross-browser compatible, the forms can be easily created, using a drag and drop interface to design the form from scratch and without the need for any HTML coding. The program supports all common form elements (text boxes, drop downs, radio buttons etc.) as well as required fields, background images and custom colors. After the form is submitted, the user can be redirected to a specified page. The form results can be send via email or saved to a (public) file on the server.

Amara Flash Intro and Banner Builder

Amara Flash Intro and Banner Builder allows you to create text based Flash banners and intros. You can add multiple text items, each with individual effect, timing and text style, and also link them to URL links and Target Frames. The program includes ready-to-use text effects that can be customized in some parameters, and easily used for your designs. Amara Flash Intro and Banner Builder provides 3 step WYSIWYG interface with built-in preview. Does not require any Flash skills.

SWiSHmax

This program allows you to create animated text effects, Flash intros, pop-up menu systems, roll-over buttons, interactive presentations and complete Web sites. It includes 150 effects such as explode, vortex and 3D spin. It has a timeline for coordinating effects and drawing tools for creating shapes, lines and Bezier curves.

CoffeeCup FireStarter

CoffeeCup Firestarter is a fast and easy way to create Flash Effects for your web site. It quickly creates complex text and image effects with just a few clicks of the mouse. You can make Flash Intro pages, navigation systems, graphic logos, or whatever you want. Firestarter has over 50 built in ready to use effects like Assemble, Explode, Fade, and more, a collection of cool mp3 Sounds, a built in Sound Editor for fades, echo, and reverse, plus it s all in an attractive, easy to use interface. Firestarter is extremely easy to use, it allows you to create an combine an unlimited number of effects. Since you can customize almost every aspect, you are not in any way limited to the included presets, but can create completely original animations. Also supports Movie Transparency and provides an ActionScript timeline for excellenter movie control.

Flash Decompiler

Flash Decompiler enables you to easily extract sounds, images, videos, shapes, frames, morphs, fonts, texts, buttons, sprites and ActionScripts from any Flash (SWF). It offers an item-by-item preview, user-friendly interface and integrated player to view the original Flash file, as well as individual components. Additional features include general resource and file statistics, customizable interface layouts and more.

3D Flash Animator

Create Flash animations for web pages. Includes vector painting with feathering, gradients, textures, text effects, 3D effects, shadows, bitmaps, sounds, morphing, and buttons. A very powerful and easy to use animation tool. Has many advanced features such as transformable layers within layers, keyframe based animation and morphing, and a programmable Javascript interface Flash animations are the new interactive animation standard for web pages. Perfect for animated web buttons.

Amara Flash News Ticker

Amara Flash News Ticker allows you to create smooth scrolling news combined with text effects, using an easy to use interface, that lets you customize the appearance, add headlines and generates the HTML code and .SWF Flash file for you. The ticker can be customized in size, color, scrolling speed and font, and you can save your settings as templates. The output can be previewed with the built-in viewer or launched in your browser.

SWFKit

SWFKit lets you create 32-bit Windows applications from Flash, using a step-by-step interface and FFish script (an easy to learn scripting language). With a little bit of practice and some script learning, you can create applications that can access databases, perform realtime communication by socket, send and receive email, read and write files, access the system registry, play and record multimedia, embed ActiveX controls and more. Furthermore, you can make the interface of just about any shape and design, add animations and use other features supported by Flash. Most of the interface base features and options, as well as the installer are configured from the step-by-step wizard, the actual program actions however need to be written in FFish script. There are several examples available as well as detailed documentation. Additional features include optional shareware expiration, complete installer, screen saver creation and more. If you always wanted to write a program, but didn`t want to go through the trouble of learning a full-blown programming language, give this one a try!

Flash Fluid Effect

Flash Fluid Effect enables you to convert an image (e.g a logo or photo) to SWF format and apply one of 12 Macromedia flash animation effect such as melt, vaporize, warp, blur, chaos and others. You can customize the effect by adjusting some parameters, preview the animation, and publish the result as SWF file with optional HTML code. No Flash scripting required.

Eltima SWF Video Converter

Eltima SWF Video Converter enables you to convert your video files to Flash SWF format. It supports most of the codecs installed on user systems and allows you to customize settings for video quality, audio properties and Flash output format. You can add optional text or image watermarks, replace the original soundtrack, generate a HTML output file, choose to include audio and video controls and more. Eltima SWF Video Converter can output to Flash MX, Flash 3+ and Flash Video (FLV) format.

A4Desk Flash WebSite and Menu Builder

This software is template-based, WYSIWYG Flash site builder software. Create Flash menu headers and Flash Web sites on your desktop in minutes. You can import MP3, JPG and SWF files directly; no Flash programming experience is required.

Flashpoint

Convert all your MP3 or WAV files to the Flash 5 or Flash MX format. The program lets you create presentations with streaming audio for playback

Sothink Glanda

Sothink Glanda is an easy and fast way to create Flash effects with no need for Flash design experience and art design skills. You can easily create a wide variety of Flash animations such as Flash buttons with mouseover sound, navigation panels, graphic logos and splash pages for your web pages with a few mouse clicks. The WYSIWYG design window and build-in Flash player help you to create Flash movies from pre-made effects that are included with the software. All effects can be customized by replacing shapes, adding text, link, sound (*.wav or *.mp3) or a background image (*.jpg), etc. Glanda supplies up to 199 ready-to-use flash buttons and abundant shapes, images and audios.

PJ Components

PJ Components are text effect plugins used directly in Flash 6,7 or 8 .fla files. Containing 400+ predefined text effect variations, meant for users of any skill-level. It offers advanced customization, different start-directions, alignment options, automatic positioning, dynamic input, quick preview and the unique features of multiple fonts and color per effect, optimization for pixelfonts and adding Flash 8 filters to text.

SWFText

This software is a Flash text animation tool. It offers over 160 text effects and over 30 background effects, and users may also customize all the properties, including font, text color, and layout.

A4 Flash Menu Builder

A4Menu Builder is an all-in-one, easy-to-use, flash templates-based Flash Menu Building software. It helps you to create professional looking Flash menus in minutes. No Flash programming, scripting, or design skills required.

Alligator Flash Designer

Selteco Flash Designer enables you to create interactive Flash animations for your Web site with minimum skills required. You cannimate images, texts or shapes and create a Flash movie with added sound and transition effects. The program provides more than 130 built-in animation effects including Fade, Zoom, Rotate, Fly and more. It also offers basic editing tools to modify any image, resize it, add objects etc. A preview browser allows you to display your animation exactly as it will appear on the web before saving it. The program can export all the HTML code necessary to integrate the Flash file with your web page.

Wildform Wild FX Flash Text Animator

Make stunning digital video titles & text animations with ease. With Wild FX everything from complex effects to complete title crawls can be generated in a matter of minutes. It outputs .swf Flash files. Wild FX comes with 400+ effects, including 40+ customizable effects templates. Wild FX is ideal for generating titles for your video and is excellent for making animated text, buttons, banners, and animated names and signatures.

Sothink SWF Quicker

Sothink SWF Quicker lets you author Flash (*.swf) with a friendly user interface and plenty of useful features. It supports shape design, motion tween creation , guideline, mask layer, stream and event sound, frame label, setting movieclip instance name and more. The program includes more than 80 ready-to-use animation effects, which can be further customized and saved as new effects. Additionally, multibytes language (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.) text is supported perfectly. Sothink SWF Quicker also offers the capability to import SWF files, using an intelligent motion analysis system and full action support. The imported movie can be modified and generated back to a new SWF movie without losing any functions of the original one. Additional features include an ActionScript generator, symbol library and more.

Mix-FX Flash Text Effects

Mix-FX is a Flash text Effects and Flash Button creator that lets you create fast loading, stunning text effects and buttons in just minutes. With Mix-FX, you can create hundreds of different effect combinations by using the supplied templates and combine them to your preference and further customize color and appearance. The finished animation is ready to use on your web site or can also be loaded into Flash, PowerPoint, or into your video editing software. Mix-FX offers a full preview, allowing you to see the results of your changes immediately as you combine foreground effects with background effects, movements etc. The program is very easy to use and requires no experience with Flash or graphics design.

MotionArtist

Create Flash animation with MotionArtist 3.0. The program is script-free and includes a library of ready-to-use Flash content.

FlashyEffects

Designed to let you be productive and get results in minutes, FlashyEffects (a lite version of KoolMoves) focuses on text and image effects. FlashyEffects is ideal for non-professional web designers who do not require the advanced features of KoolMoves. Featuring a wizard-driven user interface, no knowledge of Flash is required to create your animations.

Openworld FlashPresenter

Create user-navigable Flash presentations, featuring audio/video, slides and hyperlinks. Presentation combines audio or video files of a speaker with graphic images, Flash animation effects and Powerpoint slides. A video, showing your speaker can be synchronized with this visual material. You can also synchronize a scrolling transcript and context-sensitive hyperlinks for your audience to access web resources about the information presented. Flash Video Encoder, MP3 Audio Recorder let you easily create your video/audio track for the presentation. You can easily import your Powerpoint presentation into FlashPresenter.

123 Flash Menu

123 Flash Menu enables you to create professional looking Flash menus for web sites, using ready-to-use template designs that can be customized to your preference. The program supports vertical and horizontal designs and includes dynamic effects like animations, sounds, gradient and transparency. An integrated preview shows your menu as you design it, and lets you test the links in a browser window. Additional features include support for CSS scripting, Flash compression and custom templates. 123 Flash Menu is easy to use and does not require any Flash skills. The trial version includes about 20 or so templates, the registered version adds an additional 100 templates.

4D FlashWebKit - Flash Website Builder - Home Edition

Flash4D Professional Edition

Look like you spent hours designing an awesome Flash intro when in fact you only spent 3 minutes with Flash4D. Simply select one of the professional intro templates included in the software, customize it with your own text, and then click build to have your personalized Flash intro created for you. With Flash4D, you save time by using the professional designed templates that are included and can create your own Flash intros today without Flash.

TurboDemo

TurboDemo allows you to create java based software demos that can be played in every modern browser. The product works by capturing screenshots of your desktop (or an area) and then allows you to add comments and sound. TurboDemo does not only capture static screenshots, but also the movement of your mouse. Once you have completed a series of screenshots, they are seamlessly converted into an animated demo, that you can edit as you wish. Great for software demonstrations, online tutorials and more. Trial version creates demos that expire after 2 days.

Flash4D Home Edition

FlasherShop

FlasherShop is a quick and easy way to create Flash animations using several predefined templates. You use text, pictures and sound in your Flash animation and preview your animation without launching a browser or external player.

IntroWizard Flash Website Builder

IntroWizard Flash Website Builder enables you to create a complete website, based on Flash technology. It provides a collection of templates to choose from and a step-by-step wizard to fill in the blanks with your custom content. In addition to the Flash file, it also creates a simple text-only version, which can help with search engine indexing of your site. The program allows you to create a fancy looking website in very little time and without the use of any HTML, however it is also very limited in what it can do, and mostly useful for pages with very basic text content.

Astro Components

Astro Components are text effect plugins used directly in Flash 6,7 or 8 .fla files. Containing 400+ predefined text effect variations, meant for users of any skill-level. It offers advanced customization, different start-directions, alignment options, automatic positioning, dynamic input, quick preview and the unique features of multiple fonts and color per effect, optimization for pixelfonts and adding Flash 8 filters to text.

Supreme4 Components

Supreme 4 Components are text effect plugins used directly in Flash 6,7 or 8 .fla files. Containing 400+ predefined text effect variations, meant for users of any skill-level. It offers advanced customization, different start-directions, alignment options, automatic positioning, dynamic input, quick preview and the unique features of multiple fonts and color per effect, optimization for pixelfonts and adding Flash 8 filters to text.

Meet the Flash

This e-book is intended for Flash newcomers. To speed-up the learning every lesson is packed with a movie clip, showing some practical usage of the wordy lesson. The tutorials cover the program essentials - creating still graphics, animations, and text. Also, the book offers several scripting tutorials showing how to add simple interactivity without actually learning ActionScript language. The e-book itself is a Flash movie, so it can be played on different platforms. The book available in several languages. Moreover it can be translated or edited by users.

IncrediFlash Intro and Banner Studio

IncrediFlash Intro and Banner Studio enables you to create custom Flash banners and intros without the need for any Flash programing or experience. The program offers a WYSIWYG interface that allows you to select backgrounds, arrange text and select from more than 100 animated text effects to make your banner come alive. You can fully customize the text font, color and sizes, add multiple text segments with individual delays and effects and choose from a variety of customizable background styles to get you started (or use your own images). The finished animation can be previewed and saved as project for future modifications. You can also add background music, even with special effects, along with a small button that allows the user to turn it off. Other features include optional preloader animation, click actions for background and text, real-time preview and more. The trial version does not allow you to publish your creation, but you can preview it for testing.

Anim-FX

Anim-FX allows you to create animated text effects, such as intros, splash screens and banners. It includes a wide range of animation templates that enable you to quickly create cool effects. You can include text and background animation with up to 5 lines of text. You can customize text and background colors, positioning of the text, specify URLs to link to and more.

Rich Chart Server

This program generates dynamic Flash charts from ASP.NET and Windows forms applications. Use the included authoring software to visually design a rich chart template that can include animation effects, audio narration, text and image elements, links and tooltips, and any other type of visual customization.

SwiftMP3

This program converts MP3 files into Flash files containing pure streaming audio data and spectrum value. You can batch convert all your MP3 files into Flash movies, automatically extract title, artist name and album to be displayed in the player, and publish music on your Web site. You can also generate playlist files and build a Flash juke box.

CoffeeCup Button Factory

CoffeeCup Button Factory Factory enables you to create Flash button or navigation menus for your website. It includes a collection of button designs, and you can also use your own .gif or .jpg images to create custom buttons. In addition to image buttons, the program also supports 3 simple shape designs that can be enhanced with a color fade effect. The button can be animated with a slide-in effect, an optional background sound and linked to an URL.

Vectorian Giotto

Quickly and easily create professional Flash animations for websites. Vectorian Giotto has total of 15 vector drawing tools selection, subselection, line, lasso, insert bitmap, text, oval, rectangle, pencil, brush, free transform, ink bottle, paint bucket, eyedropper and eraser. In addition, it supports layers and gradient fills as well as intersection, union and difference operations on objects. Combine and manipulate text, images and shapes to create Flash movies. Animation is based on simple motion tween concept: set-up start and end look of objects and Giotto does the rest by itself. You can preview your animation inside Vectorian Giotto without launching a browser or external player. Absolutely no programming or scripting required. Complete animation in several minutes. You can very easily add amazing effects to your animation objects can translate, rotate, change size, change color or gradient fill, stretch, skew or do at the same time any combination of those effects.

Presto Web FX

Combine Flash effects and animations into animated panels and banners. Publish to Flash format. Presto allows you to create Flash effects for your Web site or multimedia project.There 325 preset effects for you to use or customize, or you can create your own from over 25 different foundation styles.

All-into-One FLASH Mixer

This software is a Flash combination tool to integrate multiple Flash files into a single Flash file. You can change scaling, rotating and switching the depth of the file. You can crop, scale and rotate the picture.

Flash Jigsaw Producer

Flash Jigsaw Producer lets you create a custom online Flash puzzle using any JPG image as a base. You can customize the size of the puzzle, the pieces as well as the shapes. The user can drag and drop the pieces in the browser to solve the puzzle; and once solved, he will be sent to an URL you specify. The program is easy ti use, just select the JPG image and use sliders to preview the puzzle, then generate the Flash and HTML code.

Astro

Astro enables you to create cool Flash text effects, without the need for any Flash authoring experience. It comes with more than 350 ready-to-use and categorized effects, that can be combined with background effects or pictures, sound effects (included), as well as pre-designed animations. Astro goes way beyond simple text effects and lets you create complete text effect movies that can be used standalone or imported into other Flash projects.

Banner Maker Pro for Flash

Banner Maker Pro for Flash enables you to create Flash banner ads of various sizes. It offers a step-by-step interface and real-time preview of your design. You can add text, shapes and images, and then animate the entire banners from a selection of pre-defined animation effects. The program supports all installed system font types as well as drop shadow effects and transparency. The elements can be arranged on the banner by dragging them into place. Once you have finished the design, you can save the banner as .swf file, generate the HTML code to include it in your pages, and use the included FTP tool to upload it to your server.

InstantFX SE Navigation Maker

Create Flash button navigation bars. Use custom fonts, MP3 sounds, text color, button color tinting, text position and alignment, horizontal or vertical navigation. Output direct to any Web pages, direct to MS Frontpage, Windows EXEs or Windows screen savers.

123 Flash Compressor

123 Flash Compressor is an easy to use tool to reduce the size of Flash (.swf) files by up to 70%, without losing quality. The program requires no technical knowledge, all you have to do is select the files to be compressed (a backup of the original is kept) and click a button. We did not encounter any 70% savings during our review but several 30% reductions, which can be significant with larger files. 123 Flash Compressor works with Flash 3, 4, 5 and Flash MX.

SWF Sound Automation Tool

Convert MP3, WAV and AIF files to streaming or event-based SWF sound files with SWF Sound Automation Tool v2.7. The most recent version includes AIF format support, volume scaling, ATH masking, proxy server support for built-in FTP client integrated Flash player.

Xtivity

Create Macromedia Flash SWF projects. The work flow environment in Xtivity allows you to build interactive projects. You are not bound to a timeline, you do not have to use symbols, movie clips or write and debug any action-script code. Xtivity is a visual authoring program for generating Internet experiences.

Flash/SWF to GIF/AVI

This program facilitates Flash capture to JPEG and Flash/SWF to animtion GIF/AVI conversion.

Dream FlashSee

Use this tool to browse, find, convert and manage Flash movies. You can browse Flash movies in your computer, view them in list, detail or thumbnail form, and preview them. You don't need to load Flash movies one by one in your browser any more. You can search Flash movies with filename, version, rate and size, and preview them in thumbnail form. You can convert a Flash movie into a stand alone player as well. You can also convert a stand alone player into a Flash movie. You can play Flash movies in full screen mode and zoom in or out as you wish, and also can save your favorite Flash movie as a screen saver, capture your favorite frames to wallpaper or set up Flash to wallpaper directly.

FXWitz SWF Editor

This program helps you build animated and professional Flash slideshows and photo galleries. You can modify color and style, add music and click sound, and insert links on the images and in the text fields.

TrendyFlash Website Builder

This software is a utility for creating professional quality Flash Web sites. No knowledge of Flash designing or programming is needed. The builder supports creation of Flash Web sites of up to 100 pages with the ability to add your own logo, JPG images, and MP3 music; editable image size, image position and transparency; and editable text size and positioning. The program supports rich text editing for the text. It includes 150 themes covering different categories and 50 animated designs making 7,500 distinct Flash Web site lay-outs possible. It has a built-in gallery of 200 stock images and 50 music clips included. Single click publishing generates all the required files ready to be uploaded.

TrendyFlash Intro Builder

This program allows you to professional quality Flash intros. No knowledge of Flash designing or programming is needed for creating the intros. The builder supports creation of Flash intros of up to 100 screens with the ability to add JPG images and MP3 music. TrendyFlash Intro Builder also allows you to edit image size, image position and transparency, text size and positioning, redirection link and play types. It includes 100 themes covering different categories and 40 animated designs making 4000 distinct intro layouts possible. A gallery of 100 stock images and 50 music clips is included. Single click publishing generates all the required files ready to be uploaded.

Liveswif

This allows you to create Flash movies, buttons and banners. It provides several vector drawing tools, including freehand, curve, shape, spline and contour. It also has an in-place text editor. It is a keyframe-based animation system with path motion and transform motion tools. By setting a new position, angle, size or color in keyframes, the program will blend the in-between frames automatically.

Screen 2 WebFlash

With this program you can record screen action and save it as a Flash movie for your Web site. Create online

Easytemplates

This allows you to create your own Web site using Flash templates.

In A Flash Pro

This program allows you to create Flash compatible movies that run as Web site intros, e-mail campaigns and stand alone presentations. You can choose from prepackaged templates or design your own visual elements. The program guides you through creating each scene, selecting from animation effects including rotate, sweep, dissolve and enlarge.

Flashation Flash Menu builder

This software is a Flash button and menu builder. You can create animated Flash Web menus and buttons for your site. You can match the color scheme to that of your Web site, and the program displays the exact colors of buttons, text and animation.

Flash-Creator

This program allows you to add text and graphics to create Web site Flash animations. You set the color, transparency and rotations, and the program renders the movie for you.

SnapCharts

This program allows you to create animated Flash-compatible charts that can be displayed in any browser.