eSlate vs iDOS 3
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
eSlate
A digital slate app for iOS devices that allows users to tap and edit slate information. It offers a lock feature to prevent accidental edits and provides nine different styling modes to customize the slate's appearance.
- Digital slate functionality
- Tap to edit slate text
- Lockable editing mode
- Nine style modes
- iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch support
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eSlate is a beautiful, useful, advanced digital slate for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.Tap the striped area on the head to clap the board, Tap the text on the board to edit the slate. If you don’t need to edit it temporarily, you can click the lock button, and it will not be editable. When the lock is opened, you can edit it again. You have nine different styles of modes to choose from, and you can choose the one you like.
iDOS 3
Experience classic DOS games and applications on your iPhone and iPad. This app emulates a DOS PC, offering modern controls for enhanced playability. It also supports productivity tasks like word processing and programming.
- On-screen keyboard with custom layouts
- Virtual gamepad with customizable bindings
- Trackpad mouse emulation
- MT-32 emulation and MIDI support
- Bluetooth keyboard and gamepad support
- Bluetooth mouse support
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Play classic DOS games on your iPhone and iPad! iDOS turns your device right into a powerful DOS gaming PC, with modern game control to make your old favorites as playable as possible. You can also use iDOS for non-gaming purposes, such as word processing, casual programming. Apps in the DOS days are often simpler and surprisingly productive. KEYBOARD iDOS provides a PC compatible on-screen keyboard with carefully designed layouts for different devices and orientations. The keyboard has a sliding control in landscape mode so that you can keep it from covering critical part of the screen. Bluetooth keyboard is fully supported on iOS 14+. GAMEPAD iDOS provides a virtual gamepad with key bindings that are fairly common in DOS games. You can customize the bindings. The DPAD works in 8-axis way. It can also be toggled into a joystick. External bluetooth game controllers are supported. Make sure your game controller is connected (System Settings->Bluetooth). To customize button bindings, go to iDOS in landscape mode, tap on bluetooth icon on the auto-hiding top bar. MOUSE The screen area serves as a trackpad for moving mouse pointer. Tap on the screen for left click. If direct touch is enabled, the mouse pointer will move to where you tap. Hold one finger on the screen, and tap with another finger for right click. On-screen mouse buttons are also provided for your convenience. Bluetooth mouse are fully supported on iOS 14+. AUDIO iDOS supports mt32 emulation, MIDI sound fonts, cuesheet based CDimage with compressed audio tracks (ogg/mp3/flac). SUPPORT - Visit https://litchie.com/dospad for more information - Send email to idos@litchie.com - Follow the developer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/litchiedev - iDOS is open source, report issue on https://github.com/litchie/dospad
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iDOS 3 at none against eSlate's 2. iDOS 3 also leads on review sentiment (70% vs 50%) and rating (4.3 vs 4.1). eSlate's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On ads and device support 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
eSlate costs $2.99 and iDOS 3 $4.99 up front. eSlate sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. iDOS 3 asks for nothing beyond the download.
iDOS 3 holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 52 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of eSlate's written reviews are positive against 70% of iDOS 3's.
eSlate ships an update every 3 months, iDOS 3 every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | eSlate | iDOS 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.1 (14 ratings) | 4.3 (52 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 69.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 52 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #79 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 庆猛 邓 | 潮激 李 |
Customer experience
eSlate
iDOS 3
In-app purchases
eSlate
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Unlock all modes$1.99
iDOS 3
No in-app purchases
