The ports of PPSSPP for mobile devices offer additional features specific to each platform, such as 'immersive mode' for Android devices, support of the multimedia buttons within Symbian devices and screen stretching on BlackBerry 10 devices to support square screens. All ports of PPSSPP for mobile devices support the use of accelerometers, keyboards and gamepads as input devices.
PPSSPP also supports the Vulkan API, which was added in v1.5.4 release and is intended to provide a substantial performance boost on supported devices.[6]
To aid with the portability, two cross-platform development libraries—SDL and Qt—are able to be used in addition to the non-portable Blackberry, Android, and Win32 interfaces.
The Qt frontend was instrumental in adding support for platforms such as Symbian.[11] The Qt frontend is able to support all officially supported platforms and is the suggested alternative if no native interface exists.[12]
As of March 2017, 984 games are playable in PPSSPP, while 67 games load to some frame of in-game state. 4 games can only reach the main menu or introduction sequence.[13] As of July 2020, almost all games are playable in PPSSPP emulator.[14]
In 2024 the iOS version was released on the Apple App Store, following a change in Apple's developer guidelines which now allows the publishing of emulators for legacy video game systems. The App Store release lacks the ability to use just-in-time compilation due to restrictions by Apple, though the developers also noted that contemporary Apple devices should be able to run most games at full speed even on an interpreter.[15]