Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to BlueStacks

BlueStacks

BlueStacks is a website designed to format mobile apps to be compatible to desktop computers, opening up mobile gaming to laptops and other computers. Read more about BlueStacks.

Product categories

Advance Users Android Emulators Emulators Gaming Gaming Software Gaming Tools Linux Linux Distribution Mobile OS Mobile SDK Open Source Operating Systems

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to BlueStacks are Anbox, LDPlayer.net, and Citra. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Anbox Landing Page
1

Anbox

Anbox puts Android into a container and every Android application will be integrated with your...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Gaming #Emulators #Android Emulators 64 social mentions
LDPlayer.net Landing Page
2

LDPlayer.net

LDPlayer is the perfect Android emulator to play mobile games on PC and performs better any other emulators in terms of gaming. LDPlayer makes use of your Virtualization Technology to bring the best experience for users to play mobile games on PC.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
- Free Trial
#Android Emulators #Virtual Machine #Mobile Games On Pc 6 social mentions
Citra Landing Page
3

Citra

Citra is a work-in-progress emulator for the Nintendo 3DS.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Gaming #Emulators #Gaming Tools 57 social mentions
IDOS Emulator Landing Page
4

IDO

IDOS Emulator

IDOS Emulator is free to download and use an emulator that works seamlessly to gives you iOS experience on your desktop.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Gaming #Emulators #Android Emulators 4 social mentions
Android Landing Page
5

Android

Android is an open source mobile operating system initially released by Google in 2008 and has since become of the most widely used operating systems on any platform.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Mobile OS #Mobile SDK #Operating Systems 11 social mentions
Ubuntu Landing Page
6

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a Debian Linux-based open source operating system for desktop computers.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Linux #Operating Systems #Linux Distribution 229 social mentions
GrapheneOS Landing Page
7

GrapheneOS

GrapheneOS is an open source privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Mobile OS #Mobile SDK #Roms 388 social mentions
Linux Mint Landing Page
8

Linux Mint

Linux Mint is one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions and used by millions of people.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Linux Distribution #Linux #Operating Systems 423 social mentions
Cheat Engine Landing Page
9

Cheat Engine

Cheat Engine is an open source memory scanner/hex editor/debugger for Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Gaming #Hack Game #Debugging 49 social mentions
mGBA Landing Page
10

mGBA

mGBA is an open source emulator of the Game Boy Advance. The goals are speed and accuracy.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Gaming #Emulators #Gaming Tools 70 social mentions
DeSmuME Landing Page
11

DeSmuME

DeSmuME is a freeware emulator for the NDS roms & Nintendo DS Lite games created by YopYop156.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Gaming #Emulators #Gaming Tools 32 social mentions
Arch Linux Landing Page
12

Arch Linux

You've reached the website for Arch Linux, a lightweight and flexible Linux® distribution that tries to Keep It Simple. Currently we have official packages optimized for the x86-64 architecture.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Linux #Linux Distribution #Operating Systems 256 social mentions