Afterplay User Reviews

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The GameCube and Wii

I thought the app works for GameCube and Wii games as Google said that but I cannot have Luigi’s Mansion

Unfortunate downfall of this app

This emulator had seen a rise in popularity a year ago but has unfortunately been on a steady decline since. The reviews speak for themselves.

This Emulator Stands Out

There’s really no better emulator option on iOS. The features and ease of use being Afterplay above the rest, and compare favorably to PC emulation, at least for the unique polish and presentation. It’s worth the price of the subscription, and even then the amount of features you can access for free is incredibly generous. The amount of negative reviews here is unfortunately the consequence of the insane number of people who think everything should be free. Ignore them and reward the good work and polish this developer has put in.
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Great, until bugs kept me from doing anything.

I was having the best of times, literally the best emulator app I’ve ever had on my phone. I even ended up paying the subscription. Then, one day I try to add another game to my files, and I realize everything I press just brings me to the Recently Played tab. When I try to link my account, straight to the Recently Played tab. I try all sorts of options and most buttons don’t even work anymore. For me, the app is effectively broken and I am so disappointed such a major bug has no fix. Even though it went through bug fixes three days ago. I was intending to keep this app for a long time, now I’m afraid I’ve wasted my money and will have to move on. Developers, this is a MASSIVE issue and needs to be addressed immediately. It’s extremely sad, I was so satisfied to feeling beyond frustrated.
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THIS IS AMAZING

I really love this and this is one of my favorite ways to play retro games. The only thing I would like to ask is if you could add the PSP

smaller screen

why would you make the screen smaller?!

Hmmm

Don’t like the new update,can no longer full screen, just some crumby letterbox screen now, please fix

Disingenuous Marketing Practices

App has made more features paid services and in the log, it only says, “bug fixes”.

A paid service should be in customizing an experience and not holding key features in an emulator held hostage. It’s only a matter of time before another app will offer these features for free and the app will lose popularity.

However, what bothered me the most is its recent control scheme overhaul on certain emulators; like the GBA.
It recently was “updated” to have too much customization, leading to bugs in the layout maker.

I see why the app is choosing to withhold functions like slo-mo, Frame-rate manipulation, and cheats for free. The customization features aren’t polished.
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Most recent update broke the app

Sucks that the most recent update broke the app. Can’t even try reinstalling because I didn’t want to lose save file. Sad.

Great app

Played Pokémon emerald on it and worked perfectly

Recently disappointed me

I loved this app due to its free features and letting me be able to play my emulators with free reign. It’s hard to find emulators that aren’t pay to play and allow me to do other features for free. So when I found this app it was so cool how it let me go really fast with its fast forward feature and it doesn’t make me pay. It also allows for cheat codes and it’s easier than ever. The when I recently logged in I had to pay a premium subscription for features that were previously free. This is so disappointing and just showed me how money hungry people are.
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It won’t let me get games

When I try downloading a game it just loads for nine years and won’t stop can someone tell me what’s wrong

Great way to play retro games but

Every time I try to import a sega cd game my app crashes

Ps vita

I love the app but I was wondering if you can add ps vita I really want to play PlayStation all stars

Incredible Emulator

If you’re looking for a front end that will basically do all the hard work for you of syncing saves and games across all your devices (including PC and mobile) then this is the one. And it has RetroAchievement support! I’m currently using it to play games across my Mac, iPad, and iPhone and it’s been a smooth experience all around. Totally worth supporting the devs with the premium sub
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R

Fix gg and vb support

It no work

I tried putting a PlayStation game and I waited to load and I waited for a 2 hours and still nothing happened.

Please Add option to select multiple files when adding games

Looks good but selecting games one at a time is too tedious and time consuming. I will stick with delta emulator for now.

Excellent

Perfect for on the go gaming with so many platforms available. Love it enough that I paid for a yearly subscription to support the dev. Keep it up!

Only thing that’s absolutely needed is an offline mode so I can play games without internet access like on an airplane.

Pretty great !

The app is mostly a more simpler UI for RetroArch but still it works great ! Has clouds saves if you have a subscription so you can just jump to phone to pc real easy. The creator is also working on balancing the freee tier and paid tier and he’s very chill on the discord. He has made this a job so that’s the reason there’s a paid tier to keep it alive! It also has filters built in which is awesome ! Try it out I myself don’t mind RetroArch being more complex but the simplicity and accessibility is just so much better feels like a 2025 emulator !
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