Alternatives to Lemuroid
An open-source Android app that emulates many retro consoles in a single interface. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Lemuroid
An open-source Android app that emulates many retro consoles in a single interface.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Lemuroid.
RetroArch
One front end for dozens of emulators, with unified settings, shaders and a controller setup you only do once.
RetroArch offers many consoles through cores on Android plus desktops and iOS, with far more settings, shaders and latency options, though its menu is deep and cores are downloaded separately.
Provenance
Multi-system emulator for iOS and tvOS covering more than thirty consoles.
Provenance brings more than thirty systems into one free, open-source app, but it runs on iOS and tvOS instead of Android and may require sideloading.
OpenEmu
macOS emulator front end with a polished library interface.
OpenEmu is a macOS-only multi-system front end with a polished library interface and one controller setup across systems, so it moves play from Android to the Mac.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
PPSSPP
A PSP emulator that needs no BIOS file and runs handheld games in HD on phones and PCs.
Dolphin
The GameCube and Wii emulator, running those games at higher resolutions than the consoles ever managed.
Winlator
An Android app that runs x86_64 Windows applications and games using Wine and Box86/Box64.
RetroArch Web Player
RetroArch compiled to WebAssembly, running in a browser tab.
Flycast
Emulate Dreamcast and related Sega arcade hardware.
NooDS
A fast, portable open-source emulator for the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance.
