Scratch 2.0 features many new additions to both the program and website. However, projects uploaded from Scratch 1.4 can still be downloaded from the project page in the. Due to the new features and different programming language, Scratch 2.0 projects were saved in the. It was still completely free and without ads.

Scratch was completely rewritten in Adobe Flash for version 2.0 but could run projects from older versions of Scratch. It had few differences from the online editor, most notably, the lack of the Backpack and a different color used when text is selected. The Scratch 2.0 offline editor was released on August 26, 2013. It is available at LLK/scratch-flash on GitHub. On May 13, 2014, the source code for Scratch 2.0 was released. It was available at from then on until its full release, upon which it replaced the previous website. In December 2012, the public beta was announced to begin on January 28, 2013. Some users were also able to infiltrate and use the program due to a glitch. Over the rest of 2012, people were brought in to test this version: community moderators and selected educators Collab Counselors, former curators, Scratch Design Studio curators, TBG moderators, and a group of 500 volunteers. The new website and redesigned project editor, by then in the alpha stage (at ), were premiered for a few days to the public for Scratch Day 2012, a year later. A little while after this, the Scratch Team started posting updates, called Scratch 2.0 Progress Reports, to their blog. In May 2011, the first known version of the project editor, the prealpha, was released to a limited audience at Scratch Day MIT. In 2012, this was replaced by a version of the alpha editor this version was made the default for all users that October. Later, in 2011, a beta Flash Player was released for projects, which logged-in users could choose to use. The first released experiment by the Scratch Team as part of 2.0's development was the Experimental Viewer, in August 2010. Scratch 2.0 was announced by andresmh on the Scratch Forums in January 2010.

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