What is a .AFL file?
AFL is an uncommon extension with no single dominant owner - Analyser identifies it from its bytes rather than assuming a particular application.
- Did you know
- Flash defined an era of web games and animation before HTML5 and security worries brought about its official end-of-life.
- Flash began in 1996 as FutureSplash Animator before Macromedia bought it, and Adobe inherited it with its 2005 takeover of Macromedia.
- At its peak Flash Player was installed on the vast majority of desktop browsers, running everything from YouTube's early video player to countless web games.
- What Analyser reads
- A catch-all for rare and niche formats Analyser still identifies from their bytes: 3D caches and scans (Alembic ABC, FARO FLS/FWS), camera and design data (ARRIRAW ARX, Capture One masks, CATIA CGR), JBIG codestreams, firmware dumps (Binwalk), draw.io diagrams, OptimFROG DualStream audio, RTTTL ringtones, LaTeX style and class files, Sun Raster and Truevision TGA images, MPEG-2 streams, PVR/DVB recordings, Tiled tilesets, Windows Prefetch and Reaper project backups.
- Depth of analysis
- .AFL is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .AFL file
- Drag a .AFL file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.