Love2D Launcher: Lua Game IDE
Mercurio Solutions Developer Tools iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Love2D Launcher: Lua Game IDE is a free Developer Tools app for iPhone and iPad by Mercurio Solutions. Rated 3.0/5 from 3 ratings. Requires iOS 18.6.
- Rating
- 3.0
- 3 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 40 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 15
- 2026 · v1.3.0
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About Love2D Launcher: Lua Game IDE
Love2D Launcher runs real LÖVE 2D projects on iPhone and iPad. Import your Lua game from the Files app or clone it from Git, edit it in a proper code editor, and ask an AI assistant about it — one that runs on your device, with the network off. REAL LÖVE 2D, NOT AN EMULATION The LÖVE 11.x engine, compiled natively for iOS. Physics, audio, graphics, shaders, fonts — what you wrote on desktop runs here, and when it doesn't you get the full Lua stack trace instead of a shrug. AN AI ASSISTANT THAT NEVER LEAVES YOUR DEVICE Ask about your own code and get answers from a model running on your device. Where Apple Intelligence is available it works straight away, with nothing to download. Or pick from a curated catalog of open models — Qwen, Llama, Gemma, Phi, SmolLM and more — sized for your device and run locally through Apple MLX, or import your own. On a plane, on the subway, with Wi-Fi off — it still answers. No account, no subscription, no token counter, nothing uploaded and nothing logged. Free for 14 days. A LUA EDITOR THAT KEEPS UP Syntax highlighting, LÖVE API autocomplete, real-time syntax checking through the Lua C API, multiple tabs, find and replace across the whole project, and a code toolbar that puts brackets and indentation a tap away. Five editor themes, light and dark. GIT, WHEREVER YOUR CODE LIVES GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Codeberg, and any self-hosted Forgejo instance. Clone, switch branch, pull, commit and push without leaving the app. Access tokens stay in the Keychain and never leave your device. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO SHIP • Full Lua stack traces, with the failing line marked in the editor • Console output from print() while the game is running • Record your gameplay and share the clip • Export any project as a ZIP • Import from Files, iCloud Drive, or any document provider • iPhone and iPad, portrait and landscape WHAT'S FREE Importing and running your projects is free, with no limits and no ads. The editor, Git and the AI assistant are one-off purchases — take only the one you need, or the bundle. The editor and the AI assistant are free for 14 days, and the countdown only starts the first time you open a project in the editor. Git gives you one free clone from a public repository before you decide. LÖVE 2D is an open-source framework (love2d.org). Love2D Launcher is an independent app, not affiliated with or endorsed by the LÖVE Development Team.
What’s new
Version 1.3.0 · Updated October 15, 2026
Made for iPhone Duo • Unfold it and the editor puts your files and your code side by side, with the toolbar along the edge. Home and Settings open in two columns, and nothing lands on the fold. • Virtual game pad: a direction pad with A and B over your game, which LÖVE sees as a real game controller. It stays off until you turn it on in Settings › Gameplay. • Fold iPhone Duo like a laptop: the game plays above the fold, the pad sits below. • A Console button next to Stop shows what your game prints while it runs.
App privacy
The developer, Mercurio Solutions, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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