RetroArch User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience69.1% of reviews
Neutral11.3% of reviews
Negative experience19.5% of reviews

~ Based on 1,454 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is RetroArch Safe?

RetroArch appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for RetroArch is 86/100.

This assessment is based on 1,762 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.3/5.

Safety Analysis

82.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
6.9% of ratings suggest some concerns
10.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,547 App Store ratings for RetroArch.

Is RetroArch Legit?

RetroArch appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for RetroArch is 78/100.

Based on 78 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

It doesn’t work

Everytime I download my games onto this app, it never works and they have stupid puzzle games that are not Nintendo, sega, or Sony

Genuinely why

I just wanted to play super mario bros. special, right? NOPE! NORE SHARP X1 CORE! legitimately all i wanted to do was play that game in specific, BUT APPARENTLY I CANT!

Crashes

Crashes everything when turning on achievements

Add pspp

If pspp app say yes put it in

This is a great emulator!

I love this, i usually use it to play Mega Man games and Rayman and other stuff. Would love to see you guys add GameCube and PS2 emulators and maybe even PS Vita! (Yes a PS VITA emulator exists)

We want PS2!

WE WANT PS2!!!!

My favorite all time iPhone app!!!

This app has become my favorite all time iPhone app!!!!! Thanks to to emulators provided by RetroArch I a now able to play all my favorite games made for consoles such as NES, SNES, sega genesis, sega CD, and N64. I thought I would never be able to play my favorite games made for those consoles ever again but thanks to retro arch I now can and I am very happy for that!!!!! I hope the developers continue to make RetroArch awesome!!!!!!
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Plz do it

We just need Sonic cd to work

Finally a free emulator that works!

I was so worried about losing my game saves but this app loaded all my roms instantly for free with zero setup or configuration, I highly recommend downloading it right now before it gets taken down!

Annoying UI/UX features

Tried the Mac app and the UX was quite atrocious, especially having to install cores and find files through the terrible built-in file browser, with a online guide that is outdated and not hard to use. When I finally got game working and saved it to my favourites so I could replay it easily, it would never boot from there. Wanted to like it but I feel like I wasted my time.
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FINALLY AN EMULATOR WITHOUT SUBSCRIPTIONS

i love retroarch idk why people say it's hard to navigate the menus but i think it's pretty easy. also no weird subscriptions yayayay

Add ps2

L want to play parappa in there but sadly it doesn’t have a ps2 core

Where is the GameCube ???

Bring us the GameCube it’s classic and predates the PSP

Works But Only Just

The main takeaway is that if you want to play old games, it works for that. It isn't fancy and it doesn't need to be.

However, in many other respects Retroarch, especially this mobile version, is clunky and buggy. Taking a screenshot with the phone, for instance, will often cause it to begin stuttering. A phone call will make it crash entirely.

The menu navigation is incredibly un-user-friendly. The specific function you want is often several layers deep where you wouldn't think to look. Rewind straight up doesn't exist despite its claims, and it is nearly impossible to reconfigure the controls for SNES and other consoles.

The universal button layout is neat but typically impractical. The cheat function feels held together with tape and bubble gum, often times Game Genie or Game Shark codes simply don't work. Having to slide the numbers left & right for searches is agonizingly inefficient.

I am grateful to the folks who have made Retroarch and it is, as I said, good for emulating a lot of different platforms via one program... but it lacks a lot of polish, especially for something that's been around as long as it has.
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Absolute disappointment.

Might be cool if it worked. No updates in over half a year and it keeps crashing.

All this modern technology and we haven’t moved an inch forward.

Download a core for moblie

If we had Download a core for moblie then we could play MAME, DREAMCAST and etc but for now we are stuck and confined to pc only which makes me saddd :(

Exited

Im exited to play SA1 or SA2 on it

Can’t play anything

I tried to play sonic championship but it’s says fb neo can’t do it an arcade dice crashis my emulator not that good

Brilliant (with crashes)

This has all you can have without lag. I've tried loads of emulators for the ones you can't get from this, but they include lag. This does have sudden crashes, but that doesn't mean this is bad. Moreover, this has no data collection whatsoever. What next? Extremely customisable? Oh, that's done too.
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Sucks

Barely runs anything, and it’s complicated to load up the bios to make anything work, which ends up not working anyway.