Gideros
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Gideros, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Gideros's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Gideros | Free | No limitations to developing and publishing apps · Free |
The facts
Each one read from Gideros's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Where it runs
- Android export
- Android projects can be exported for Android Studio or directly as APK or AAB once configured, with support for Google Play APIs and other stores.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Apple platforms
- The site lists iOS, Apple TV, and macOS game development, with ads, in-app purchases, and other plugins available.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Device testing
- The site says games can be tested on a real device over Wi-Fi in about one second without an export or deployment step.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Target platforms
- Android,iOS,macOS,tvOS,Windows,HTML5,Linux,UWP,Xbox Onechecked 21 Sep 2026
- Windows export
- Gideros can export a Visual Studio solution for Windows Store apps and a standalone Windows executable.checked 9 Oct 2026
What it does
- Community support
- The Gideros forum invites users to subscribe and ask questions and has categories for general questions, plugins, tutorials, and bug reports.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Console export
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Developer tools
- The included development set has a lightweight IDE, desktop and device players, a texture packer, and a font creator.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The developer guide links to documentation for classes, methods, events, properties, and plugins, with examples.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Download systems
- The download page lists Windows 10, Mac OS X Big Sur or later, and Linux as supported development systems, with at least a 1 GHz processor and 1 GB RAM required.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Mobile export
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Multiplayer tools
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Performance
- Gideros is built on C/C++ and OpenGL and describes its game runtime as running at native speed.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Plugins
- Plugins can extend Gideros, including by binding existing C, C++, Java, or Objective-C code to Lua.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Product
- Gideros is a free, open-source cross-platform technology for creating games with Lua.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Quest export
- The site says Gideros can export an APK suitable for Meta Quest 2 and 3.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Scaling
- Gideros supports automatic screen scaling and selecting the appropriate image resolution across screen sizes.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Scripting languages
- Lua,Luauchecked 21 Sep 2026
- Source code model
- open_sourcechecked 21 Sep 2026
- Web export
- Gideros can create HTML apps using WebGL and WebAssembly.checked 9 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
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