# Swish or flash?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swish-or-flash/5968>\
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**Created:** [September 26, 2002, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swish-or-flash/5968 "2002-09-26T17:08:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![pookie65](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@pookie65](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pookie65)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swish-or-flash/5968/1 "2002-09-26T17:08:41Z")

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I was wondering what the difference is. It seems like they both do the same things.

I heard swish was easier. Flash is a bit confusing to me.

Thanks  
Monica

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swish-or-flash/5968/2 "2002-09-26T17:16:52Z")

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Swish produces the effect without all the tweening and actionscripting on your part.

Swish is just an easier version of Flash. Although I have never used Swish, I heard it is easier to do text and image effects, but it is harder to build layouts and functional things.

So basically, from what I have heard, Swish is pretty much best for quick easy animations and effects. You can use Flash for so much more though.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swish-or-flash/5968/3 "2003-01-14T02:24:14Z")

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here is my story…

i started with swish. just to sorta get used to some things. but as i learned pretty quickly, swish cant make some of the good effects that Mx can.

look at a flash site and compare it to a swish site. you can be the judge:beam:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swish-or-flash/5968/4 "2003-02-07T08:50:05Z")

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The learning curve is faster and the terminology is easier to grasp.  
Also there are 150 text effects you can do without tweening.