Game · Consoles, homebrew & emulation

SameBoy

SameBoy is a console and retro computer emulator, available on macOS, Linux and iOS.

Completely free
macOS, Linux and iOS
Open source

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Flathub
License: MIT — Open source (permissive)confirmed by Flathub
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Flathub
Account required: not documented
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Flathub
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: not documented
Platforms: macOS, Linux and iOSEstablished by iOS: Unspecified source · Linux: Flathub · macOS: Unspecified source
Publisher: Lior Halphon
Latest version: 1.0.3 (4 March 2026)
Latest activity: 5 April 2026

At a glance

All of SameBoy is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

Open source code
Commercial use allowed

About

SameBoy is an open source Game Boy (DMG) and Game Boy Color (CGB) emulator, written in portable C. It has an SDL frontend and a libretro core. It also includes a text-based debugger with an expression evaluator.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 9 November 2026
Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) — 9 November 2026
Last technical check: 6 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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