RenPyLinter
A Ren'Py Visual Novel Reader.
$3.99 · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad
RenPyLinter: Your Ren'Py Visual Novel Companion
Enjoy your favorite Ren'Py visual novels with ease. RenPyLinter helps you quickly find, organize, and launch games, and brings smart translation
tools so you can play every story in your own language.
Highlights:
- Instantly discover and launch Ren'Py games on your device.
- Translate dialogue and menus on the fly — play in your preferred language.
- A beautifully organized library for all your stories.
- Built-in save editor with iCloud backup — your progress, always safe.
- Asset browser for images, audio, video, scripts, and more.
- Switch between Ren'Py runtime versions (now including 8.5.3) for the best compatibility.
- Clean, modern interface — simple for everyone.
This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by the official Ren'Py project. Feel free to reach out to us directly with any
issues.
Terms of Use (EULA)(Also apply to auto-renewable subscriptions):
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Major updates since 2.0:
Brand-new cloud translation
- Streaming translation (NDJSON) — text appears as it's translated.
- Smart prefetch with dialogue context for much higher cache-hit rates.
- Live request-progress HUD above subtitles.
Asset Library
- Browse images, audio, video, and scripts by category.
- Inline media preview with video thumbnails; ogg / webm / rar / bz2 supported.
- File-browser layout with recursive folder counts.
Save Editor
- Built-in save editor with safe variable-length field editing.
- iCloud backup overview: cross-story management, batch backup, recovery of unlinked backups — now free for everyone.
In-game experience overhauled
- New fan menu with a floating gear button that shrinks and snaps to the edge when idle.
- Draggable, resizable, lockable subtitle overlay.
- Control bar with fast-forward, skip and subtitle toggle, plus two-way commands.
- Launch games multiple times without quitting; faster cold start.
- Smoother text input via a dedicated keyboard controller.
Library & UI
- Story library split into "Recent" and "All games", grouped alphabetically.
- Skeleton placeholders on launch — no more flicker.
- ZIP import can be cancelled mid-way; added "Recent Imports" section.
- iOS 26 Liquid Glass support, new app icon and launch screen.
- Refined iPad sidebar and navigation.
Runtime & stability
- Added Ren'Py 8.5.3 runtime; fixed Live2D on 8.5.3 and later.
- Numerous fixes for subtitles, orientation switches and legacy iOS versions.
- Integrated Sentry crash reporting for faster issue resolution.
The developer, 武汉小强科技有限责任公司, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Wuhan Xiaoqiang Technology Co., Ltd.
- Size
- 360.1 MB
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.2 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.2 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.2 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.2 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 9 more
- English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Translation Lite $2.99
- Pro Membership - 1 Year $29.99
- Pro Membership - 1 Month $2.99
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2026 NURUPO Studio. All rights reserved.