Citra is a work-in-progress Nintendo 3DS emulator compatible with iOS devices (iPhone and iPad). 

Citra can currently emulate, with varying degrees of success, a wide variety of different 3DS homebrew applications and commercial games.

Citra has an active team of open-source developers.

Over 150 people have worked hard on the project since its founding.

All Pokémon games now work properly. Pokémon X/Y now runs properly with HLE audio as well as LLE audio.

Citra can, ostensibly, “play” many different games now and more will become playable as development progress further.

Some games/apps, however, will not load at all – only showing a black screen.

Others, might only show the title screen and then freeze or crash.

Citra supports networked local WiFi, but does not support connecting to Nintendo’s servers.

Citra is not affiliated with Nintendo in any way.

Citra is an open-source project, licensed under the GPLv2 (or any later version).

This app does not natively run dumps of games that have not been decrypted properly (unless you have dumped your own system keys).

This requires a physical 3DS and the game you own.

Note that many games also require certain files to be dumped from a 3DS console.

You can expect many games to run slowly, though and to exhibit some gameplay and graphical glitches.

This software is also available on the following devices: