Your whole retro library,
beautifully shelved.
Bezel is the visuals-first launcher for your collection — scattered ROMs and discs become a gorgeous, browsable shelf with box art, descriptions, cloud-synced saves, and live on-screen translation. One home for every console you love.
Bring your own game files. Bezel is the shelf — you supply the games.
Own the disc? Play the disc.
Slot a real game disc into your PC and Bezel installs it straight into your library — matched to box art and details, ready to play. No subscriptions, no re-buying games you already own.
- Rip & install from your own physical discs
- Play from the disc, or from the installed copy
- Auto-catalogued with box art, descriptions & facts
Everything a collection deserves, nothing it doesn’t.
A clean-room launcher built for people who actually care about their library — fast, private, and beautiful by default.
Offline metadata
Tens of thousands of games come pre-catalogued with box art, descriptions, genres and developers — fully offline. No API keys, no scraping, no waiting.
Browse beyond what you own
See the full catalogue for each system, filter by region (NTSC / PAL / JPN), genre, or developer, and discover what’s missing from your shelf.
Play your way
Launch instantly in-app, or hand off to RetroArch with per-game cores, bezels and patches. Multi-disc games just work.
On-screen translation
A hands-free overlay auto-translates Japanese-only games in real time, so import classics finally make sense.
Patches & fan translations
Apply fan-translation and improvement patches per game, automatically — your originals stay untouched.
Manuals & strategy guides
Attach the original manual or a strategy guide to any game and read it right inside Bezel.
Custom bezels & overlays
Frame every system with authentic bezels and overlays for a true-to-hardware look on a modern screen.
Cloud saves
Point Bezel at a synced folder — Google Drive, Dropbox, anything — and your saves and save-states follow you across devices.
Yours, and private
Free, no account, no telemetry. Your library lives on your machine. Bezel just makes it beautiful.
From folder of files to a real shelf in minutes.
Point it at your games
Drop your ROMs and discs into folders by system. Bezel scans them in seconds.
Watch it come alive
Each game is matched to art, descriptions and details from the built-in offline database.
Press play
Browse, pick a game, and go — in-app or in RetroArch, with saves synced to the cloud.
Designed to be lived in.
Rich details on every game, and a live translation layer that makes Japanese-only imports finally playable.
Coming soon.
Bezel is in active development for Windows — a free, clean-room launcher built for people who love their retro collections. The goal is simple: turn every console you own into one beautiful, modern shelf, with the depth a real collection deserves.
It’s offline-first and private by design — your library lives on your own machine, with no account and no tracking. And it’s strictly clean-room: Bezel ships zero copyrighted games or BIOS. You bring your own files; Bezel makes them shine.
The first Windows release is in the works. If you’d like to help it happen, you can support development on Ko-fi — every bit goes straight into building Bezel.
Good to know.
Is Bezel really free?
Yes. Bezel is free to download and use — no account, no subscription, no telemetry.
Does it come with games?
No. Bezel is the shelf, not the games. You bring your own legally-obtained game files; Bezel organises, decorates and launches them.
Which systems are supported?
Over 20, from NES and Game Boy through PlayStation 2, Saturn and Dreamcast, plus Arcade (MAME), PC Engine CD and Sharp X68000 — with more added over time.
Do I need RetroArch?
Not necessarily — many systems play in-app out of the box. For advanced setups (custom cores, bezels, patches) Bezel can hand off to RetroArch automatically.
How do cloud saves work?
Point Bezel at a folder that’s already synced by a service like Google Drive. Your saves and save-states are written there and stay in sync across every device pointed at the same folder.