# GEKKO C64 — user reviews > 39 indexed App Store user reviews of GEKKO C64 by Gennaro Coda, rated 2.30/5 from 12 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gekko-c64/id6483937851/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gekko-c64/id6483937851.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 6 ## Newest reviews (12 of 39) ### 2/5 — Needs lots of work - buggy *2025-12-24* The user interface is just confusing to navigate. No actual keyboard, some games require a keyboard to play the games so anything requiring keyboard input - bad luck. Technically working and could be great, just needs some ease of use and quality of life features added. Does not even support the iPad keyboard or on screen keyboard. Needs work. ### 1/5 — Kein einziges spiel ist zu Spielen *2024-09-08* Leider Unbrauchbar Kein einziges Spiel ist zum Spielen Schade 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔 ### 1/5 — Tracking data *2024-08-13* Too many forced data track and ability for them to match with other data made me abit skeptical. ### 1/5 — Nasty ad pics show up top bar - deleted app *2024-08-09* Nasty porn photos showed up in top add. Disappointed. Deleted app. ### 1/5 — Doesn‘t work *2024-08-07* It Doesn’t work. If you try to select a title, it just says „for sid press lose sid“, if you try to load a game. ### 1/5 — Data Collector! Be Careful! *2024-06-23* As soon as you start the App it redircts you to somewhere… and you will need 1h hour to deny all Data-Use-Questions!! For your own safety don’t use this just by accepting without reading!!! Do not !!! Accept !!! The Cookies!!! This is the price for downloading a free app! Better way - DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY!!! ### 2/5 — Keyboard? *2024-06-14* There are no instructions and no apparent way to bring up the keyboard. ### 1/5 — "For SID press Load SID" *2024-05-18, version 1.0* All I ever got was "For SID press Load SID". I can work with a real C64 but not this. ### 1/5 — It’s ok but *2024-05-02* Really enjoying this but why do you need the internet to use it. ### 1/5 — Not really that great *2024-05-02* While this shows some promise, the user interface is not so good. For starters, there’s no way to enter commands directly, but only through a command line, which I find awkward. There’s function keys, but not very initiative. Loading things in is a mess, making running things a little more complicate then it has to be. I could run this on my iPad, but without a way to use an actual Bluetooth keyboard and a way to enter the commands directly, is a dealbreaker for me. ### 1/5 — Impossibile giocarci… *2024-04-28, version 1.0* Riesco a caricare il gioco, ma arrivata alla schermata iniziale non riesco a farlo partire….accetto consigli se qualcuno c’è riuscito. ### 1/5 — Good to see a C64 Emulator, but is it working ? *2024-04-27* It’s good to see an iPhone Commodore 64 emulator back on here, there was a brilliant one many years ago, but Apple banned it unfortunately. 😏 It looks like a Commodore 64 screen, but does it do anything ? is there a way to use a keyboard ? Trying to load a game, it says “for Sid press Load Sid” yet when I push Load SID, it just says it again. The ‘Close’ button shows as ‘clos’ so I guess there’s a few problems to iron out ? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Kostenlos noch zu teuer ! *2026-05-24* Hier geht es um Werbung und personenbezogene Daten. Über 300 Werbepartner werden genannt und das Nutzungsverhalten, sowie Inhalte auf dem Gerät sollen ausgewertet werden. Will ich nicht -> gelöscht ! ### 1/5 — most games don’t work on iphone 15 *2025-12-23* only can get bruce lee II to work. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2025-12-04* Very bad ### 1/5 — Can’t play any of the games *2025-06-06* Downloaded the app it loads the games then I’m unable to play any of them? ### 1/5 — Say no to spyware *2025-04-29* Don't track me. ### 1/5 — Flop *2025-04-04, version 1.0* Non funziona ### 1/5 — unuseable *2025-01-26* seems impossible to download a rom and play it on this app ### 1/5 — Useless *2025-01-05, version 1.0* It won’t load games. You must have internet. It has ads. ### 1/5 — Nope! *2024-12-19* Looks good. None of the games are playable though! ### 1/5 — Frustrating *2024-09-20* When you say it’s the best C64 emulator you should back it up. Very frustrating to use and gave up. Shame This isn’t good ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Funktioniert 😄 *2025-08-02* Bei mir läuft der Emulator auf einem IPhone 16 Pro Max. Leider konnte ich unter IOS 18.6 den Xbox Wireless Controller nicht per Bluetooth koppeln, unter 18.5 ging es noch. Kopplung über USB-C Kabel funktioniert. Im Emulator auf Gameport 2 eingestellt und International Karate 2, Bruce Lee 2 gezockt, wie früher auf dem Brotkasten. Die Spiele sind schon im Emulator eingebaut. Ein großes Lob an die Programmierer. ### 5/5 — Works great *2024-04-27* Works great 😀 ### 5/5 — Wow! Nice! *2024-04-18* This is far better than the previous c64 emulator! Great selection of games! Most of your favorites are there. Summer games, winter games, soccer games and karate and much more! Worth it! ### 4/5 — This is the best compatibility for a standalone c64 emu *2024-10-01* This emulator he has equal compatibility too Super C 64 retroarch core but the options are displayed neatly on the sides of the emulator while you're playing that so far is my favorite C 64 emulator without a doubt and I play in test a lot of different emulators and apps ### 4/5 — So far so good *2024-04-27* Downloaded and gave this a go today. Seems to work really well with the games I’ve tried. Would’ve liked a pop up keyboard rather than having to use the command line option. Maybe something for a future update perhaps?? Keep up the good work ### 4/5 — Interessante ma… *2024-04-20, version 1.0* Buon emulatore ma ci sono cose che non capisco, ad es.: 1) Come si attiva la tastiera, necessaria in alcuni giochi o anche solo per iniziare alcuni giochi? 2) Non ho trovato opzioni per cambiare le dimensioni dell’immagine, un pò troppo stretchata ai lati. 3) E’ possibile caricare file personali? Grazie per ogni delucidazione. ### 3/5 — Not user friendly *2026-02-14* You should make it so the iPad can be used with keyboard and arrows to replace joystick. Also the loading is really poorly made ### 3/5 — Lots of potential *2024-09-24* The games that work are very very good. Just played The Last Ninja, Paperboy & Outrun. If Boulderdash and Rambo 3 could get a fix (maybe Ghostbuster too) I’d give it 5 stars. ### 3/5 — Amazing, needs finishing touches *2024-06-24* Loads fast, and the UX is a little cumbersome, but all the pieces are there…almost. Using this on an iPad with keyboard, I’m unable to type characters like “ at all… on the C64, this would be shift+2 but on iPad (and all modern machines), that maps to @. I’d pay $10 for this app if it had full keyboard mapping and the ability to emulate floppy disks for SAVING. Writing and running little BASIC programs would be a lot of nostalgic fun. That said, I kicked the tires for a few minutes and loaded a game that’s provided inside this emulator and it looked like it’ll run great once I hook up my game pad. Nice job - please consider fleshing out the remaining keyboard and file save capabilities. ### 3/5 — Buone potenzialità *2024-04-25, version 1.0* Da amante del biscottone apprezzo l’app ma più delle volte non si riesce ad iniziare il gioco dato che spesso i comandi da tastiera necessari non vengono percepiti… inoltre vorrei capire se è possibile aggiungere rom. --- *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 2026-08-21.*