# Emu64 XL — user reviews > 52 indexed App Store user reviews of Emu64 XL by Raffaele Amuso, rated 2.29/5 from 28 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/emu64-xl/id6483251916/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/emu64-xl/id6483251916.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 8 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 17 ## Newest reviews (11 of 52) ### 2/5 — Nicht mein Favorit *2025-07-09, version 1.0.3* Leider nur ein paar Sekunden getestet und dann deinstalliert. Gründe: Merkwürdige ultraschmale Tastatur und Position oben. App geht nur im Querformat. Winziger C64-Screen zwischen Tastatur und Werbebanner. Linker Rand der Optionen wird durch die iPhone-Notch abgeschnitten. Werbebanner verkleinert das Bild unnötig. Klar, es ist kostenlos, aber letztlich zahlt man mit seinen Daten und im aktuellen Zustand wäre mir die App auch keine direkte Geldausgabe wert. Dann nehme ich lieber gleich Retroarch oder einen dedizierten Retro-Handheld. ### 3/5 — Impressive but buggy *2025-05-31, version 1.0.3* It was a delight to see the two-tone blue screen again. However, when entering line of BASIC by hand, half the time it doesn’t pick up that the line should be added to the program. Therefore unusable. Still, was great to see the demonstration. ### 2/5 — Half baked *2025-01-17, version 1.0.3* Crashes when sound is enabled. Keyboard input is erratic. SAVE doesn’t work. Virtually no documentation. ### 3/5 — Good attempt *2024-09-24, version 1.0.3* It is a good attempt but without external joystick (PS4 gamepad) or being able to redefine keyboard (magic keyboard) for joystick emulation, it just doesn't work well. ### 2/5 — Play on tape *2024-09-18, version 1.0.3* How to manage the « play on tape » with an ipad/iphone ? Without that, cannot play with games, they all request that action ! Obviously tape were existing on an other time… 30 years before 😬 2 stars that could reach much more with the solution to my question ! Currently only the 8 demo are working. ### 2/5 — Tastatur oben im Bildschirm *2024-09-15, version 1.0.3* Warum ist die Tastatur oben im Bildschirm? Das ist sowas von unkomfortabel, die Tastatur gehört noch unten. So ist das arbeiten sehr unangenehm. ### 4/5 — ****– Ad's BoS ; Forces LSO ; *2024-08-10, version 1.0.3* Emu64 XL v.1.0.3 on iPadOS v17.6.1 ♦︎ 2024.08.10.Sat.08:11.iPm. ### 3/5 — Ignore my previous review *2024-07-25, version 1.0.3* I am writing this review simply to overwrite my previous review, which was unfairly negative. ### 2/5 — Umständlich *2024-07-19, version 1.0.3* Endlich ein C64 Emulator auf IOS und dann ist er nur bedingt brauchbar. Warum kann man nicht einfach d64 Dateien aufrufen und muss die vorher noch umständlich decoden? Eine Option für ein paar Euro und dafür ohne nervige Werbung wäre auch vorteilhaft. ### 1/5 — this app could be better *2024-07-05, version 1.0.3* this app has so few features that is seems like it was published to display ads. ### 1/5 — L’emulatore Funziona *2024-07-02, version 1.0.3* L’unica pecca è il caricamento delle rom è troppo macchinoso. Attendo nuovi aggiornamenti. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — This app stole money from me thru Instant Games. *2026-04-07, version 1.0.3* Somehow this app has ads that link thru to my PayPal account and then thru to my bank account. AVOID USING AT ALL. I can see the banner ad that I accidentally may have touched. It is a THIEF. ### 1/5 — No sound *2025-07-01, version 1.0.3* No sound on iOS18.5 on this emulator ### 1/5 — Buggy, slow, full of ads… simply disappointing *2025-04-13, version 1.0.3* The keyboard appears only at the top of the screen and can't be moved to the bottom of closed. When running the fractal program from the included demo disk, it runs so slowly. It's amazing that this emulator for a 40 year old computer doesn't have an option to run the processor at the speed of a modern one. Finally, there emulator died in the middle of the fractal demo due to some audio error. The demo didn't even use audio. Aside from that demo, the emulator overall is awkward and clumsy. Using an actual Commodore 64 from the 1980s would be a much better experience. ### 1/5 — Installation is full of data mining stuff! *2024-12-08, version 1.0.3* Frankly, I’ve never seen an app with this much add and data mining and tracking permissions, many that you can’t even disable, during the installation process! Holy heck! It feels like you go through 40+questions about permissions or more!! Hopefully someone will come along and give us a better, less intrusive port of the Vice emulator than this. I’d be fine paying for a good app version of the Vice Emulator. Going this extensive add, and tracking rout is NOT the way to go. I’ve dreamed of having a C64 emulator on my iPhone so I can have fun writing and running programs. Sadly, this is not the app for me. ### 1/5 — nur Werbedisplay *2024-12-06, version 1.0.3* die App wurde scheinbar nur in den Appstore gestellt um Werbeeinnahmen zu generieren.... Die Funktion eines Emulators hat die App nicht. Zumindest hat bei mir nichts funkioniert. ### 1/5 — No se pueden cargar .tap *2024-10-19, version 1.0.3* No se pueden cargar archivos tap que son replicas digitales de cinta de cassette. La presentación y adaptación a la pantalla del iphone también es muy mala. ### 1/5 — Mala *2024-10-06, version 1.0.3* Muy mala parece una app del primer iPhone, no cuadran los texto, hay mucho bordes desperdiciado y un montón de anuncios molestos ### 1/5 — Only landscape *2024-08-24, version 1.0.3* The c64 screen is tiny (IPhone 14 Pro Max), the keyboard takes most of the top of it. I don’t get the layout choice, I tried to type a basic program and it was super painful. It should be vertical oriented, screen on top and keyboard/joystick at the bottom, that way the screen woul be much bigger (almost 4x the viewable area) and it would be easier to type holding the phone. ### 1/5 — Doesn‘t work *2024-08-07, version 1.0.3* How sensless to publish an emulator without software. What should I do? Encode what? No. ### 1/5 — I hate this app it not work *2024-07-07, version 1.0.3* It app is the bad app in the world and I don’t know how it works ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Ich finds gut und es läuft…. *2024-11-03, version 1.0.3* Bisher liefen alle einseitigen D64 Spiele. Mehrseitige Spiele sind wohl nicht möglich. Mich stört nicht die etwas umständliche Importvariante. Die Bedienung der Tastatur und Joystick sind gut gelungen und auch der Switch zwischen Port 1 und 2 ist einfach gestaltet. Mir gefällt der Emulator. Danke schön. Für alle Ungeduldigen: kein Speedload…also Ladezeiten wie beim Original C64! So war das damals. ### 5/5 — Ottima emulazione! *2024-10-24, version 1.0.3* Ottima applicazione che emula alla perfezione il C64 consentendo anche di agganciare i propri D64! Sul mio iPadAir2 del 2015 gira un po’ lento, ma è colpa dell’anzianità della mia macchina. Mi piacerebbe molto avere un emulatore analogo per Videopac (o2em) e per C128! ### 5/5 — Funziona *2024-06-25, version 1.0.3* Studiate il tutorial invece di dire che non funziona ### 5/5 — Keeping C64 alive! *2024-06-08, version 1.0.2* Thanks for this app! It works as it should and I like the approach for adding disk images using base64 text. I’d love to see a portrait mode as well but this is a great start! ### 5/5 — Works but its design choices take some getting used to *2024-05-25, version 1.0.2* The virtual keyboard doesn’t reflect every shift key change Example: when colon : and semi colon ; get changed into square brackets [] they are shown changed but it doesn’t represent when asterisk * and at @ are changed into a minus/dash - and backwards L (⅃) ### 5/5 — Great *2024-05-20, version 1.0.2* Funktioniert einwandfrei und hat mich direkt in die 80er/90er geschossen. Danke! Aber seht doch bitte zu, eine Option ohne Werbung hin zubekommen🙏 ### 5/5 — Coooool *2024-05-01, version 1.0.0* This is what I missed from ios, emulators and c64 is my favourite of all, childhood memories came from nowhere as i was using this emulator. One thing that i would mention, the ad line at the bottom is annoying. A small fee wouldn’t harm anybody ;) ### 4/5 — Läuft stabil, auf iPad auch groß genug *2026-01-02, version 1.0.3* Ich habe damit ein Text-Adventure gespielt und es hat sehr gut funktioniert auf einem iPad. Auf einem Smartphone ist der Bildschirm hingegen zu klein. ### 4/5 — Joystick *2025-08-02, version 1.0.3* I couldn’t get the app to use a physical joystick already connected to the iPhone. How do you configure the app to use the physical joystick instead of the virtual on-screen joystick? ### 4/5 — Good emulator just one recommendation *2024-09-04, version 1.0.3* This is a great c64 emulator, however I just have one recommendation could you add support for .prg files and also fix the sound buffer overflow error --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-14.*