Comparison

Shiny Gen vs Retro Cloud Player

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Shiny Gen

Features
Read full description

Shiny Gen turns a sentence into a game you can play. Describe the game you want and the AI writes it, builds the world and hands you something playable in minutes. Then play it, change it with another sentence, and share it with a link. Between ideas, swipe through a feed of dozens of original games, every one playable instantly, right in the app. MAKE Tell the AI what you want. A fishing game on a misty lake. A tower defense with slimes. A platformer where gravity flips. It writes the code, builds the world and hands you something playable in minutes. Change anything with another sentence, or open the code and edit it yourself. No engine to learn, nothing to install. FOUR ENGINES, ONE PROMPT Choose your engine when you start a game. Godot for a modern 2D or 3D game, or one of three cartridge engines we built ourselves: GBA and GBC for handheld era games, and SG64 for 64 bit era 3D. You describe the game the same way on all four. A cartridge game compiles to a real ROM, and on a paid plan you can export it and keep it. CREATE THE ART Generate sprites, characters and animation frames from a prompt. Generate 3D models from a prompt too. Compose music to match. Everything you make lands in your own library, ready to drop into any game. REMIX Every game in the feed can be remixed. Give Shiny Platformer a new hero. Add a new fish to Harbor Lights. Your copy is yours to keep and share. SHARE Every game gets a link. Send it to a friend and they play it in the app or in any browser, no download and no account needed to play. PLAY TOGETHER Multiplayer is built in. If you make a game, adding multiplayer to it costs nothing. If you play, joining a room is free too: open a game that supports it, choose Play Online, and share the room code with your friends. PLAY Dozens of original games and scenes are waiting, cartridge games among them, and the feed keeps growing. Blue Hour Ride: an endless twilight bicycle ride down through a painted lakeside town. Shiny Sword Adventure 2: take up Fenwick's old sword and free the three Wardens. The Stone Colossus: six colossi of stone and fur across eleven lands, and your bow. Harbor Lights: fish off a little pier from dusk into the night. Shiny Skyline: stack a tower one floor at a time with a single tap. Shiny Rapids: paddle a raft down a river that never ends. Sky Courier 64: fly a paraglider courier between floating islands above the clouds. Plus Shiny Platformer, Shiny Pinball, Shiny Swarm, Shiny Crosser, Bramble Knight, Hexhaven, Bloom Beat, Sokoban Shrine, Putt, and quiet scenes like Feeder Cam and Rainlight City for when you just want to watch the world go by. FREE TO PLAY Playing is free, and so is multiplayer. AI generation uses gems: you get 50 when you sign up, and you can buy more or subscribe for a monthly allowance whenever you want to build more. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your Apple ID settings. Sign in with Apple, Google or X. Your games are saved to your account, so you can pick up where you left off on any device. Shiny Gen is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo. Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Color are trademarks of Nintendo Co., Ltd. Terms of Use: https://shinygen.ai/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://shinygen.ai/privacy-policy

About

Retro Cloud Player

Play classic games on your Apple devices with this emulator. It utilizes iCloud for ROM storage and requires a companion app for collection management. A gamepad or keyboard is necessary for gameplay.

Highlights
  • Legacy gaming emulation
  • iCloud ROM storage
  • Libretro cores integration
  • Companion app for ROM management
  • Gamepad/keyboard support
Features
Read full description

The Retro Cloud Player is an emulator for legacy gaming systems. The ROMs are stored in iCloud. The Retro Cloud Companion app is needed in order to manage your collection of ROMs. A gamepad or keyboard is also required. This emulator include cores from the Libretro project.

Screenshots

Shiny Gen4 screens
Retro Cloud Player1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Retro Cloud Player at none against Shiny Gen's 9. Shiny Gen's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Shiny Gen sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $17.49 per month. Retro Cloud Player asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Shiny Gen versus Retro Cloud Player: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShiny GenRetro Cloud Player
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple TV
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size115 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid Porter Walter IiiJulien Eyriès

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Shiny Gen

Subscriptions6
  • Shiny Gen Plus$17.491 Month
  • Shiny Gen Pro$46.001 Month
  • Shiny Gen Max$137.991 Month
Show 3 more
  • Shiny Gen Plus (Yearly)$165.991 Year
  • Shiny Gen Pro (Yearly)$439.991 Year
  • Shiny Gen Max (Yearly)$1000.001 Year
One-time3
  • 600 Gems$17.49
  • 1300 Gems$34.49
  • 2800 Gems$69.00
None

Retro Cloud Player

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shiny Gen free?
Shiny Gen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Retro Cloud Player free?
Retro Cloud Player is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Shiny Gen or Retro Cloud Player have ads?
Neither Shiny Gen nor Retro Cloud Player shows ads.

Other comparisons