Dolphin Connect vs Dolphin Ctrl
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dolphin Connect
Monitor your marine battery charger's performance and receive alerts in real-time from your smartphone or tablet. Track key metrics like charging phase, battery type, voltage, and temperature. The app provides permanent diagnosis with 8 different alerts to ensure your charger and batteries are functioning optimally.
- Live performance monitoring
- 10 key performance metrics
- Permanent diagnosis with 8 alerts
- Supports PROLITE chargers and ALL-in-ONE Gen IV
- Multilingual support (5 languages)
- Real-time dashboard
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The "Dolphin Connect" App allows you to follow the performance of your PROLITE marine battery charger and ALL-in-ONE energy cabinet, live from your smartphone and your tablet. - Free The Dolphin Connect App is free: it works with all PROLITE charger models and with ALL-in-ONE Generation IV models (from Q1-2020) - Complete, live monitoring The "Dolphin Connect" dashboard allows you to monitor, in real time, the 10 main performances of your marine battery charger: 1. Charging phase in progress (Float, Absorbtion, Boost) 2. Battery type 3. Maximum authorized power 4. Charging voltage (output) 5. Input voltage 6. Battery voltage #1 7. Battery voltage #2 8. Battery voltage #3 9. Battery temperature 10. Number of charging cycles - Multilingual Dolphin Connect is available in 5 languages: French, English, Italian, German and Spanish - Permanent diagnosis (8 alerts) Dolphin Connect keeps your charger and batteries under constant surveillance: 1. Output undervoltage 2. Output overvoltage 3. Excessive internal temperature 4. Battery polarity reversal 5. Input undervoltage 6. Excessive battery temperature 7. Hydrogen alarm (based on chargers specifications) 8. Input overvoltage
Dolphin Ctrl
This app transforms your phone into a GameCube controller for the Dolphin emulator. Connect wirelessly to your computer to play games with friends. Performance depends on network and emulator speed.
- Simulates GameCube controller
- Play games on Dolphin emulator
- Use phones as controllers
- Supports multiplayer
- Wireless connectivity
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Dolphin Ctrl simulates a GameCube controller and allows you and your friends to play games on the Dolphin emulator using your phones. Requires running the Dolphin Ctrl Server app on your computer running Dolphin. Download the server and read the instructions at https://github.com/apexskier/dolphin-controller. Note: Dolphin Controller can be slow depending the speed of your WiFi/bluetooth/remote network connect and the speed of the Dolphin emulator itself.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dolphin Connect at 5.0 against Dolphin Ctrl's 3.0. Dolphin Connect also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 14 months). Dolphin Ctrl's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dolphin Connect holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dolphin Ctrl has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Dolphin Connect ships an update every 5 months, Dolphin Ctrl every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dolphin Connect | Dolphin Ctrl |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CATS POWER DESIGN | Cameron Little |
Customer experience
Dolphin Connect
Dolphin Ctrl
In-app purchases
Dolphin Connect
No in-app purchases
Dolphin Ctrl
No in-app purchases
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