FLW files are associated with Freelance Graphics, a software tool included with IBM Lotus office productivity software suite. Freelance Graphics is available for Microsoft Windows, MS-DOS, and OS/2 systems. FLW files store information describing contents of presentations created with IBM Freelance Graphics.

The last stable version of Freelance Graphics was released in 2002 and its target market was mainly business sectors. Freelance Graphics debuted in 1986 and is considered obsolete by today’s standards, while FLW format was displaced by the popular PPT format.