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Highball vs Ruffle

Highball vs Ruffle

Two tools side by side on stored numbers and facts. No verdict of ours: every number (stars, gains, last commit, contributors) carries the time it was checked, licence and platform are copied from each entry, and a missing value reads [unconfirmed].

Both in GAMES →

As of 11-01 21:00 UTC

AI chooses the lists under the owner’s delegation. No human review is running in September 2026. Total stars, increases, cross-source signals, last updates and licences are shown as evidence. How ranks work →

Highball

Windows games for Mac gamers

Ruffle

Play old Flash files again

FACT	Highball	Ruffle
GitHub stars	★ 2,096checked on GitHub 11-02 02:16 UTC	★ 18,787checked on GitHub 11-02 02:15 UTC
7-day gain	no data	no data
30-day gain	no data	no data
Licence	GPL-3.0Use freely. Release your source if you redistribute (copyleft).	Licence unconfirmedUnconfirmed — check before use.
Platform	macos · cli	web · windows · macos · linux
Last commit	2026-11-01within 24 h · As of 11-02 02:16 UTC	2026-11-02within 24 h · As of 11-02 02:15 UTC
Contributors	20 contributorsAs of 11-02 02:16 UTC	240 contributorsAs of 11-02 02:15 UTC
How to start	Install to use	Use in the browser

Star totals are the last GitHub check plus increases observed via GH Archive since; the 7- and 30-day gains are GH Archive observations to the reference time. The same snapshot as the rankings — a comparison, not a recommendation. As of 11-01 21:00 UTC

WHICH FOR WHOM

The roles are copied from each entry’s "who uses it" lines. Nothing here is a new judgement.

Highball: Mac gamer · Former Whisky user · Mac user
Ruffle: Anyone with old Flash teaching material or promos to revive, and people who want to play the games again.