- It is free - It is open source - It allows you to program flash components - Preview flash components

Light, fast, clean, and much more intuitive than most IDE's. Flashdevelop streamlines the development of Adobe Air apps (Actionscript 2/3), but also supports syntax highlighting for a wide variety of other languages. Flashdevelop can automatically install the needed SDK's and provides you with a variety of template projects and scripts to make creating multi-platform apps as simple as possible. This is without any doubt the best means of developing iOS apps on Windows (Yes, it is possible!). Flashdevelop is a hidden gem that far too few are aware of. Best of all, it's FREE! You had might as well try it, as it will cost you nothing.

Usablity is the key and this tool is easy to use.