Integrations & Ecosystem

RomM has a sizeable ecosystem of companion apps and integration patterns.

First-party apps

Maintained by the team:

Argosy Launcher: Android launcher that browses and launches your library on mobile
Grout: Linux handheld companion for muOS/NextUI devices
Playnite Plugin: Windows desktop, imports your library into Playnite

RomM exposes several URL feed endpoints for external homebrew/custom firmware apps that already know how to consume them.

Maintained by individuals in the community, not the team, so support quality varies.

See the Community section in the README for the full list with status flags (active/maintenance-mode/abandoned) and links.

Highlights:

For developers building something new on top of RomM:

Client API Tokens: how to authenticate your app, how the device-pairing flow works
Device Sync Protocol: wire-level reference for save/state/play-session sync
SSH Sync: server-side SSH config for push/pull sync to handhelds
API Reference: every REST endpoint
WebSockets: live-update channels and Netplay coordination
Consuming OpenAPI: codegen patterns

Not a companion app but useful:

Igir Collection Manager: ROM sorting/verifying tool that cleans up library layout

Built something adjacent? Open a PR on rommapp/romm adding it to the Community section in the README, or drop a link in the Discord #community-projects channel.

We list active, maintained projects, with no gate on code quality, but we do flag abandoned projects so users know what's current.