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24 alternatives to Love2D Game Maker

develop and run Love2D games on your iPhone/iPad

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Love2D Game Maker launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1

    Run Love2D games natively on iPad, no PC needed

    May 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2
    Play▲415

    The first native iOS design tool

    2022 · its alternatives →

  3. 3
    LÖVE▲7

    Free 2D Game Engine

    2024 · love2d.org · its alternatives →

  4. 4

    Drag and drop 3D mockups

    2019 · its alternatives →

  5. 5
    THINGS 2▲342

    Generate 3D device mockups in a quick & engaging way

    2021 · morflax.com · its alternatives →

  6. 6

    Turn Figma designs into full stack apps with AI

    2025 · figma.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7
    threed.io▲238

    Generate custom 3D device mockups in your browser.

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Xogot▲131

    Godot-powered game dev for iPad

    2025 · xogot.com · its alternatives →

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    RBD▲360

    Celebrate indie makers & their best apps

    Nov 2025 · rarebigdeal.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10MF

    2013 · joannecdyer.com · its alternatives →

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    Some time ago, I was implementing saves for my LOVE2D game. I wanted to do a full dump of the game state -- which included closures (AI), complex graphs, sets with tables as keys and also fundamentally non-serializable data (coroutines and userdata), that require user-defined serialization/deserialization logic. I went through every Lua serialization library -- none covered all data types/cases. So I wrote my own. It is a polished version, thoroughly annotated, tested and documented. It is made to be as functional and customizable as possible (or at least I did everything I could…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  12. 12
    Luade▲69

    Run Lua scripts from iOS

    2018 · its alternatives →

  13. 13
    Superapp▲498

    Hi HN We're Vitalik (Ex-Bolt) and Stas (Ex-Grammarly, Wix) We build a MacOS vibecoding tool for native Swift iOS apps, that replaces Xcode for non-developers. Features: - Project Creation agent makes a real Xcode project in the background. - Design Agent creates design system using SwiftUI (supports glassmorphism ) - Coding Agent is quite efficient with caching and parallel tool calls. - The app gets build on your mac using iOS simulator and runtime, any bugs are passed back to coding agent. Requirements: - You still need an Xcode on your machine, but don't need to open it. Website:…

    Nov 2025 · superappp.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14

    Open-source game making software for everyone

    2018 · gdevelop.io · its alternatives →

  15. 15
    Makers▲115

    Beautiful goal browsing and creation iOS app

    2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    hyperPad▲233

    A no-code game making tool for iPad

    2024 · hyperpad.com · its alternatives →

  17. 17

    Build interactive ads from your games to attract more users

    2024 · its alternatives →

  18. 18

    Custom apps to run your business.

    2018 · zoho.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19

    Social media design made simple

    2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20

    Make a platformer iPhone game from scratch in Swift 4.

    2018 · designcode.io · its alternatives →

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    BuildBox▲135

    Make amazing Mobile games and publish them everywhere.

    2015 · signup.buildbox.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    Rapid design and prototyping for the iPhone and iPad

    2016 · marvelapp.com · its alternatives →

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  24. 24H0

    Hello, Hacker News! My name is Lillian (see: http://about.lillian.link/), and I just released version 0.2 of my MIT-licensed game engine, Hypatia(http://lillian-lemmer.github.io/hypatia/). Hypatia is a game engine for single player 2D action adventure games. You can use it to make a game like Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons. Hypatia is aimed at non-programmers and programmers alike. I'm seeking any sort of feedback. Hypatia supports FreeBSD first, but has great support for just about any platform…

    2015 · its alternatives →

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