iGBA: GBA & GBC Retro Emulator
Mattia La Spina Entertainment iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
iGBA: GBA & GBC Retro Emulator is a free Entertainment app for iPhone and iPad by Mattia La Spina. Rated 4.4/5 from 2,684 ratings. Requires iOS 15.0.
- Rating
- 4.4
- 2.6K ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 68 MB
- Age 9+
- Updated
- Sep 14
- 2026 · v2.13.0
Screenshots
About iGBA: GBA & GBC Retro Emulator
iGBA runs your own .gba, .gbc and .gb files on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. No account, no cloud, nothing to sign up for: copy a file in and play. I build iGBA on my own, and most of what is in it came from people writing reviews and telling me what was broken. SUPPORTED SYSTEMS - Game Boy - Game Boy Color - Game Boy Advance WHAT YOU GET - Save states anywhere, alongside the game's own save. - Rewind when you fall in the pit, and turbo up to 3x for the grinding. - Cheats: thousands of codes built in, or paste your own. GameShark, Game Genie, Code Breaker and Action Replay formats. - Link cable between two devices over the network, or between two different games on the same one. - On-screen buttons you can move, resize, recolor and hide. 8 skins, a color per button, light and dark theme. - Pick a d-pad, a d-pad with diagonals, or a joystick, and try it before you play. - MFi and Bluetooth controllers, and a keyboard on iPad. - Game volume apart from your phone's, so you can put your own music over it. - Screen filters, frame skip, full screen, and color palettes for monochrome games. - Apple Watch: your library on your wrist and the Digital Crown as buttons. - Back up saves, save states, settings and layouts to a single file. - Play time, favourites, filters and file info in the library. - Works offline. Your game files stay on your device and are never uploaded. - 33 languages. ADS AND PRO iGBA is free, and the ads are what pay for it, so it can stay free for the people who cannot pay. Pro turns them off for good. If you would rather not pay, watching an ad now and then helps just as much. iGBA is not affiliated with Nintendo in any way. All related game console names are trademarks of Nintendo Co. Ltd. and are mentioned here for description purposes only. Privacy Policy: https://igbaapp.wordpress.com/privacy-policy/ Terms & Conditions: https://igbaapp.wordpress.com/terms-conditions/
Ratings & reviews
4.4
2.6K ratings
What’s new
Version 2.13.0 · Updated September 14, 2026
Most of this update came from your reviews. Thank you for writing them. CHEATS • Codes the list offered and the emulator quietly threw away now work. Game Genie codes were reaching the core labelled as GameShark, and codes with a blank where a number goes are gone from the list. • Cheats that were "all over the place" were written for a different revision of the ROM. iGBA now reads your ROM's revision and warns you when the codes were made for another one. • When a code cannot be applied, it says so instead of showing a checkmark and doing nothing. CONTROLS • Buttons land exactly where you put them. The editor, the preview and the game finally agree. • Color, size, transparency and position, all on one page. • D-pad, d-pad with diagonals or joystick, each with a tester right below it. • 8 skins, a color per button, light and dark theme, and the d-pad takes color too. LINK CABLE • The link cable between two devices no longer freezes both players on the waiting screen, and it now runs at full speed. • Trading between two different games on one device no longer writes into the wrong part of the save. APPLE WATCH • Your library shows up, and you can play with the iPhone locked. • The Digital Crown can press A and B. ALSO • Back up saves, save states, settings and layouts to a single file. • Game volume apart from your phone's: turn the game music down, keep the sound effects, play your own. • GB Palette applies while you are playing, and the palette names no longer lie. • Pro is no longer lost when you have no signal. • 33 languages, up from 10.
App privacy
The developer, Mattia La Spina, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers: Device ID
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID
Used for: Third-Party Advertising
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| App | Rating | Price | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| iGBA: GBA & GBC Retro Emulator | 4.4 / 5 (2,684 ratings) | Free | September 14, 2026 |
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| Provenance App | 3.3 / 5 (748) | Free | Jan 29, 2026 |
| Game Emulator - RetroHub | 4.5 / 5 (642) | Free | Jan 24, 2025 |
| Game Emulator - RePlay | 4.7 / 5 (1,091) | Free | Sep 17, 2026 |
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