https://github.com/itchio/itch

🎮 The best way to play your itch.io games
https://github.com/itchio/itch

electron game-development itchio typescript

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🎮 The best way to play your itch.io games

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/itchio/itch
• Owner: itchio
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-05-07T23:58:36.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-19T15:05:20.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-26T13:02:40.396Z (17 days ago)
• Topics: electron, game-development, itchio, typescript
• Language: TypeScript
• Homepage: https://itch.io/app
• Size: 34.1 MB
• Stars: 2,379
• Watchers: 67
• Forks: 211
• Open Issues: 665
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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README

        
# itch

![MIT licensed](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg)

![Built with love](https://img.shields.io/badge/built%20with-%E2%9D%A4-FF8080.svg)

[![build](https://github.com/itchio/itch/actions/workflows/build.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/itchio/itch/actions/workflows/build.yml)

[![Translation status](https://weblate.itch.zone/widgets/itchio/-/itch/svg-badge.svg)](https://weblate.itch.zone/engage/itchio/?utm_source=widget)

The goal of this project is to give you a desktop application that you can

download and run games from [itch.io](http://itch.io) with. Additionally you

should be able to update games and get notified when games are updated. The

goal is not to replace the itch.io website.

## Screenshots

![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/7998310/16583085/7702c448-42b3-11e6-949a-c5b45e906807.png)

![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/7998310/16583086/770c632c-42b3-11e6-80e3-6173b2151cfe.png)

![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/7998310/16583088/771717ea-42b3-11e6-8081-6192b329d21c.png)

## Downloads

You can download it from , see [Installing the app](https://itch.io/docs/itch/installing/) for

detailed instructions.

If you'd like to develop the app instead, read the [Getting Started][developing] page of the developer guide.

[developing]: https://itch.io/docs/itch/developing/getting-started.html

## About itch-setup

[itch-setup](https://github.com/itchio/itch-setup) is the installer program for the itch app.

It's a Go executable that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and downloads the latest

version of the app directly from .

Although itch-setup is normally served from , the canonical

source to download it (e.g. for packaging purposes), is the following download server:

  * 

broth is maintained by itch.io employees, and serves various packages related to the

itch app.

## License

itch is released under the MIT License, see the [LICENSE][] file for details.

[LICENSE]: LICENSE

## Other relevant projects

Here are some other apps people have started:

### Android

* [Mitch](https://sr.ht/~gardenapple/mitch)

### iOS

* [Cantaloupe](https://github.com/khwang/cantaloupe)