Beacon Game Launcher v1.8.19
NERDS TAKE OVERAbout this app
Developer Description
Transform your device in a game console
⭐️ Beacon is an Android launcher designed to enhance your classic gaming experience.
⚙️ Add your preferred emulators, curate your retro game collection, and launch games directly from the app.
🎮 Your retro game library is enriched by automatically scraping cover art and metadata.
What's New
Version Information
- Version
- 1.8.19
- Downloads
- 10K+
- Updated on
- Jan 7, 2026
- Released
- Aug 24, 2023
- Requires
- Android 7.0
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Beacon Game Launcher - Google Play Rankings
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#12 in Top Paid Personalization in United States
#10 in Top Paid Personalization in Canada
#17 in Top Paid Personalization in Mexico
#18 in Top Paid Personalization in Philippines
Beacon Game Launcher users say on Google Play
i rarely buy apps but this takes the cake. love the ui and this is perfect paired with emulation. best game launcher, and best purchase I've done for my emulator set up. thank you and hope you keep this up! one tip is, it would be great to add sound effect when clicking through games just like we can add background music!
Fantastic front loader, my only gripe is no way to add game shortcuts created using winlator or gamehub. The ability to add them as games under the android game system would be a fantastic addition
For a paid app, lacks basic things like auto-updating/syncing game library (when I open the app, it should automatically scan my library for changes, and add any new games or remove any that no longer exist), cannot swipe between systems (must tap the system name or use a controller) and no option to delete all scraped data for a game if it scrapes the wrong info (have to edit each line of the metadata one-by-one). Would also like an "All" section where all games across all systems are listed
Truth be told, overall this is a great application. However, I’m rating it poorly because the developer has a bad attitude. I suggested a feature (ability to change nav sounds), and then got either kicked or banned from the discord server because apparently making a duplicate issue breaks a server rule and is grounds for action. As a developer myself, I get the frustration with duplicates… but I’m not going to dig through your backlog to find them. That’s your job as the maintainer. Not ours.
Decided to give some suggestions and the developer handwaved them away based on some arbitrary rules that they made. Just in case the developer replies: You broke rule 69 as described in the ancient texts.
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