Galplay: Visual Novel Player
Zhaoyu ZHONG Utilities iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Galplay: Visual Novel Player is a free Utilities app for iPhone and iPad by Zhaoyu ZHONG. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 18, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 997 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 18
- 2026 · v1.106.0
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About Galplay: Visual Novel Player
Galplay is a multi-engine visual novel player for iPhone and iPad. Download, import and organize your games, manage saves and enjoy your favorite stories in one app. ■ Multi-Engine Support, with Continually Improving Commercial Game Compatibility Galplay supports multiple mainstream visual novel game engines, including Ren’Py, Kirikiri, ONScripter, RPG Maker, TyranoScript, CatSystem2, Artemis and SiglusEngine. Most known commercial game compatibility issues have been resolved for Ren’Py and Kirikiri. Commercial games for ONScripter, RPG Maker, TyranoScript, CatSystem2, Artemis and SiglusEngine continue to undergo testing and compatibility improvements. Includes 17 Ren’Py runtimes covering versions 7.4.11 through 8.5.3, bringing older and newer titles together. ■ Game Imports Bring games from across your collection into Galplay. Connect directly to Baidu Netdisk or WebDAV to browse and download cloud-stored titles, import existing games from the Files app or external storage, or transfer them from your computer through Web uploads. Wherever you keep your games, bring them together in a portable library on iPhone and iPad. Import ZIP, 7z, RAR and LZ4 archives, Ren’Py APK game packages or complete game folders. Split and password-protected archives can also be extracted and imported within the app. Galplay checks project structure and prepares the required runtime, reducing file-management work. Queue multiple cloud-stored games together to get your next adventures ready, with downloading, importing, organizing and playing connected in one app. ■ Dynamic Island, Lock Screen Progress and Notifications Track download status with Dynamic Island and Lock Screen progress, with notifications when downloads finish. Downloads continue in the background when you switch apps or lock your screen, so you can return to play with a seamless transition. ■ Designed for Touchscreens The quick toolbar brings together common Galgame features such as fast-forward, rollback, autoplay and quick save/load. A customizable special-key panel makes touch play more convenient. Expand it when needed and fold it away when not, giving your favorite games more screen space. Virtual mouse controls, long-press skip and convenient keyboard input make touch play easier. Adjust landscape lock, brightness, screen wake and gestures to find the setup that feels right for you. ■ Games and Saves Keep your collection and progress organized. Games, covers, details and local saves share one library, with clear storage usage for games and downloads to make tidying up easier. Import, export, back up and restore saves. AirDrop, local-network transfers, iCloud Drive and external folders give you flexible ways to move titles and preserve progress, keeping your favorite stories ready to continue. ■ On-Device Apple Translation Enjoy character names, dialogue and choices through on-device Apple Translation in supported Ren’Py games. Original text is preserved, and translation can be turned off whenever you prefer. Choose real-time translation, in-place text translation (Beta), or pretranslation. Translate as you play or prepare translated text ahead for a smoother reading experience. Translation runs on your Apple device without sending game text to third-party translation services. Note: Only one open-source game is included as a sample. Users must provide their own game content. Galplay does not provide or distribute third-party game content.
What’s new
Version 1.106.0 · Updated October 18, 2026
[Save Management] • Compare duplicate and new progress before importing saves, then merge or replace. Clear warnings explain insufficient slot capacity. • Improved save detection and slot matching, with stronger protection when importing, swapping, or copying saves fails. • Toolbar save/load screens now use paged cards that adapt to portrait and landscape, with clearer progress and timestamps. [Virtual Controller and Controls] • Added an on-screen controller for RPG Maker, with per-game button mapping, layout, and opacity settings. • Improved MV/MZ controller input so games and plugins can read buttons and sticks through the standard gamepad channel. • The floating toolbar remembers its position by engine and orientation. Virtual mouse clicks now show a ripple. [File Import] • Added a batch reception entry for sharing multiple files, including split archives. • Improved detection of nested archives, disguised extensions, and archives attached to video containers. Recognized archive formats open directly. • Reduced repeated password checks for RAR, 7z, ZIP, and other formats to reduce waiting before extraction. • Preparation appears immediately after file selection. Cancellation responds promptly, and selecting the same split archive again lets you retry. [Game Compatibility] • ONScripter: fixed script parsing, loop, and legacy-encoded string issues; improved text sprite opacity; preserved text being entered when the app goes into the background. • CatSystem2: fixed looping sounds playing only once and some volume fade issues. • Artemis: added support for additional special glyphs. • Ren'Py: fixed hold-to-skip for some movies while respecting the game's own skip restrictions. • Improved startup and resource loading in some Kirikiri games, and recognition of legacy-encoded RPG Maker resource names.
App privacy
The developer, Zhaoyu ZHONG, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Purchases: Purchase History
- User Content: Other User Content
- Identifiers: User ID
- Diagnostics: Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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