PyPad: Python Pygame IDE

Anatory Software

About this app

Write and run real Python on your phone, and play the games you make, entirely offline.

PyPad is a complete Python programming environment. It bundles a real CPython 3.14 interpreter with the standard library and a game engine that draws fullscreen at a steady 60 frames per second. Write a script, tap Run, and watch it print to the console or take over the screen as a game.

Everything happens on your device. PyPad does not hold the Internet permission, so it cannot make a network connection even in principle. There is no account, no advertising, no analytics, and no data collection: not as a policy promise, but as how the app is built. The one permission it ever asks for is notifications, used only to show that a script is still running, and everything works if you decline.

REAL PYTHON, NOT A TOY SUBSET
Full CPython 3.14 lives inside the app. If your code runs on desktop Python, the language behaves the same way here: the real interpreter, the real standard library, real error messages.

GAMES AT FULL SPEED
Graphics and sound are powered by pygame-ce (pygame Community Edition), the same library that runs on desktops, ported to Android. Your games draw to a fullscreen surface at 60 frames per second and respond to touch.

AN EDITOR BUILT FOR PHONES
Syntax highlighting, semantic autocomplete, find and replace, a row of programming keys above the keyboard, and errors highlighted at the exact line and column. Your code runs in a separate process, so an infinite loop or a crash never takes down the editor, and Stop always works.

LEARN BY DOING
35 built-in lessons take you from your first line of Python to orbital mechanics, one short step at a time, each checked as you go. Five samples, from "Hello, world" to a multi-file game with sprites, sound and a score, open as your own editable copies: change anything and run it.

REAL PROJECTS, NOT SINGLE FILES
Nested folders, images and sounds, import and export through Android's own file picker, and checkpoint-and-restore history for any file. Your work lives in the app's private storage and goes only where you send it.

OPEN ABOUT WHAT'S INSIDE
PyPad bundles a number of open-source components and credits every one of them on its attribution screen. Anatory's patches and build scripts are published at anatory.com/source/.

What’s new

Editor and script network hardening; updated terms of use.