Pixel a Go-Go!

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Insert coin · iPhone

Level up your
retro screenshots.

Pixel a Go-Go! rescues your Game Boy Camera photos, plus Game Boy, NES, SNES, and modern handheld captures, from blurry stretching — and gives them the crisp, oversized, gloriously retro glow-up they deserve.

  • ✦ 100% on-device
  • ✦ No account
  • ✦ Pixel-perfect

Pixel a Go-Go! logo art — a dithered GO!

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See it in action.

Straight from the App Store — swipe through the real thing.

Say cheese · 128 × 112

See the world through Game Boy Camera.

Those tiny dithered snapshots deserve better than a blurry stretch. Pixel a Go-Go! pulls them in — straight off the hardware or out of your files — and treats every pixel with respect.

Real Game Boy Camera shots, upscaled 32× to 5,120 × 4,608 in Pixel a Go-Go!

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Print straight over USB-C

Plug a Game Boy Camera Adapter Duo into your iPhone's USB-C port and print a photo straight from the Game Boy Camera. Running the open-source pico-gb-printer firmware, it shows up as a local connection — tap Import and every waiting picture drops into your library. No computer, no file juggling.

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True printer decoding

A faithful decoder reads the raw Game Boy Printer command stream — tiles, palette, exposure and all — into bit-exact grayscale. Zero interpolation, zero invention.

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Enrich Contrast

Direct prints often arrive washed-out, every shade crammed into a narrow gray band. One tap stretches the tones back to true black-and-white for a punchy, high-contrast look.

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Import from your files too

Prefer to move photos as files first? Drop exported Game Boy Camera shots in from Files or Photos — capture dates are recovered straight from the filenames.

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Auto-tagged, every time

Any 128×112 frame is recognized as a Game Boy Camera shot automatically — however it reached your phone, even if it arrived rotated.

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Group a whole roll

Bringing in a stack of prints? File them into a tidy collection like "Game Boy Camera · Jul 3" in one move, or import them individually — your call.

The cartridge contents

Everything a pixel needs.

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Import from anywhere

Pull captures straight from Analogue Pocket, Nintendo Switch 2, Game Boy Camera, your Photos, or Files.

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Knows your console

Reads each capture's native resolution and auto-tags it — Game Boy, NES, SNES, Genesis, Neo Geo and more.

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Three ways to upscale

Pixel Perfect nearest-neighbor for true squares, AI Up-Res super-resolution that reimagines detail, and smooth Lanczos resampling — pick the look per image.

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Retro filters & CRT

DMG green, amber phosphor, cyberpunk, rainbow, glow — plus scanline overlays for that cabinet feel.

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Game Boy Printer

Decode classic Game Boy Printer data and Game Boy Camera shots back into shareable images.

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Background remover

Lift a sprite clean off its scene and drop it onto a transparent canvas in a tap.

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iMessage stickers

Turn favorite frames into stickers and pepper them through every group chat.

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Shortcuts & Share

Upscale from the share sheet or fire it off with Siri and the Shortcuts app — no app-switching.

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Private by design

Every pixel is processed on your device. No uploads, no accounts, nothing leaves your iPhone.

Choose your fighter

Three upscalers, one tap apart.

Free

Pixel Perfect

Nearest-neighbor · true pixel-accurate

Integer scaling only. Every original pixel becomes a clean block — zero blur, zero invention. The honest classic.

Pro

AI Up-Res

Machine-learning super-resolution

A Core ML model trained on illustration art rebuilds edges and shading at 4×. Bigger, smoother, ready to print.

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Lanczos

Smooth high-quality resampling

Classic Lanczos resampling for a softened, photographic enlargement when you want clean curves over hard squares.

Cartridge compatible

It speaks every resolution.

Drop in a capture and Pixel a Go-Go! recognizes the machine it came from.

Game Boy / Color160 × 144

Game Boy Camera128 × 112

Game Boy Advance240 × 160

NES256 × 240

Super Nintendo256 × 224

Genesis / Mega Drive320 × 224

Neo Geo320 × 224

Analogue Pocketmulti-system

Nintendo Switch 2album import

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Free to play. Pro to flex.

Free

$0

The honest core, forever.

  • Pixel-perfect upscaling
  • Import from every supported system
  • Automatic console detection
  • 5 imports & 2 upscales to try
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Go-Go! Pro

Pro

Unlock it all

Everything in Free, plus the good stuff.

  • Unlimited imports & upscales
  • AI Up-Res super-resolution
  • Lanczos smooth resampling
  • Every retro filter & CRT scanlines
  • Background remover & stickers
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Ready, player one?

Pixel a Go-Go! is out now on the App Store. Grab it and start snapping.

Free on iPhone · Go-Go! Pro unlocks everything