romm

A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted ROM manager and player.

⭐ 12,418 stars on GitHub · 🍴 686 forks · 📜 License: agpl-3.0 · 💻 Language: Python

What is romm?

Managing a massive retro game collection usually means dealing with messy folders and disjointed emulators, but centralizing your library behind a polished, web-based frontend changes the entire experience. By combining automated metadata enrichment with in-browser emulation, this

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ emulation
• 🏷️ open-source
• 🏷️ retrogaming
• 🏷️ rommapp
• 🏷️ self-hosted

📸 Screenshots

Quick install

The project supports Docker Compose:

git clone https://github.com/rommapp/romm.git
cd romm
docker compose up -d

Check the README in the repo for required env variables.

Minimum system requirements

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: rommapp/romm
• 🌐 Homepage: https://romm.app
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 29/08/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.