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→About PlayCover/PlayCover
PlayCover/PlayCover is an open-source project on GitHub, mainly written in Swift. Community fork of PlayCover It currently holds 11,903 stars and 1,003 forks with 429 open issues, and was last pushed on 2026-10-07 (repository created 2022-07-08).
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PlayCover
Run iOS apps and games on Apple Silicon Macs with mouse, keyboard and controller support.
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About The Project
Welcome to PlayCover! This software is all about allowing you to run iOS apps and games on Apple Silicon devices running macOS 12.0 or newer.
PlayCover works by putting applications through a wrapper which imitates an iPad. This allows the apps to run natively and perform very well.
PlayCover also allows you to map custom touch controls to keyboard, which is not possible in alternative sideloading methods such as Sideloadly.
These controls include all the essentials, from WASD, camera movement, left and right clicks, and individual keymapping, similar to a popular Android emulator’s keymapping system called Bluestacks.
This software was originally designed to run Genshin Impact on your Apple Silicon device, but it can now run a wide range of applications. Unfortunately, not all games are supported, and some may have bugs.
Localisations handled in Weblate.
Getting Started
Follow the instructions below to get Genshin Impact, and many other games, up and running in no time.
Prerequisites
At the moment, PlayCover can only run on Apple Silicon Macs. This means that only devices with M-series SoCs (eg. M1) are supported.
If you have an Intel Mac, you can explore alternatives like Bootcamp or emulators.
Download
You can download stable releases here, or build from source by following the instructions in the Documentation.
Documentation
To learn how to setup and use PlayCover, visit the documentation here.
Homebrew Cask
We host a Homebrew tap with the PlayCover cask. To install from it run:brew install --cask PlayCover/playcover/playcover-community
To uninstall:
1. Remove PlayCover using brew uninstall --cask playcover-community;
2. Untap PlayCover/playcover with brew untap PlayCover/playcover.
License
Distributed under the GPLv3 License. See LICENSE for more information.
Contact
Lucas Lee - [email protected]
Depal - [email protected]
Libraries Used
These open source libraries were used to create this project.
- inject
- PTFakeTouch
- DownloadManager
- DataCache
- SwiftUI CachedAsyncImage
- Thanks to @iVoider for creating such a great project!
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GitHub Stars & Activity
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GitHub Popularity
GitHub stars11,903
Forks1,003
Open issues429
Primary languageSwift
LicenseGPL-3.0
Stars gained today11
Created2022-07-08
Last pushed2026-10-07
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Daily boardrank #68 · ▲ 11 stars
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