John GBA Lite

Contains ads
4.0
282K reviews
10M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this game

John GBA Lite is GBA emulator for android 6.0+.
This app does not work without your own game files.

Features
- Original GBA engine
- Cheats (Raw/GameShark/CodeBreaker)
- High quality rendering
- Search game files in SDCard & Internal Storage
- Virtual On-screen keypad
- Zipped file support
- Save States (with previews)
- Customizable keys
- Turbo buttons
- Screenshot
- Fast forward / Slow down (x0.25 - x16)
- Bluetooth/MOGA controller support
- Dropbox support (requires John DataSync)

Please purchase John GBA to remove Ads.

Hardware requirements
-CPU: 1.0GHz Dual-core
-RAM: 1GB
Updated on
Feb 27, 2025

Data safety

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Ratings and reviews

4.0
259K reviews
Andrew Burnett
March 23, 2025
this is the hands down the best gba emulator I have messed with. This is the free program you are looking for, I wish I could donate because it's better and and honest app. the adds are extremely minimal compared to other gba emulator apps, it's like night and day. You could play for 10 hours straight and not see an add, no add when you hit the save and load state buttons at the top. the absolute best emulator I have seen.
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Scrote Goblin
April 9, 2025
Love the app overall, but I was playing a game last night and I CONSTANTLY save state. both quick and manual. Went to get back on a game only to see that like 3-4 hours of progress from yesterday is gone. My save states got reverted or something to that effect and that's just infuriating.
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Guy
January 27, 2025
Works great, have almost a full day played time and haven't encountered any issues. Ads are very minimal, I've never had my game interrupted, only when you suspend the application and come back to it will it show you a short ad. Best free mobile emulator I've tried. To the devs; Thank you for making a free emulator that respects the user.
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What’s new

-Added support for Android 15
-Added notifications for Android 14 or later
-Added layout feature for different screen resolutions (For foldable devices)
-Added import file feature (v2.13)
-Improved usability (v2.13)
-Fixed bugs