iDOS 3 vs CCC Mobile Backup
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
CCC Mobile Backup
Easily back up your mobile device's photos and files to your Mac, network storage, or external drives. This app integrates with your desktop backup system, handling volume management, encryption, and versioning. It can also help free up space by verifying backups and offering to delete source files.
- Backup photos and files
- Integrates with CCC Desktop
- Supports Mac, network, and external storage
- Handles volume management and encryption
- Verifies backups
- Option to delete source files
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Back up media and files from the Photos and Files applications (that are stored locally on your mobile device) with ease to your Mac, to a network volume, or to storage attached to your iPhone/iPad. Bring your iPhone or iPad files and photos into your CCC Desktop backup ecosystem. Back up files and photos directly from your mobile device to a backup disk attached to your Mac that’s managed by CCC. Just a few taps on your mobile device, then the desktop application handles volume management, encryption, verification, and backup versioning. CCC Mobile can also back up files from your Photos Library and from the Files application (that are stored locally on your mobile device) to an external storage device attached to your iPhone/iPad, or to Network Attached Storage on your local Wi-Fi network. Looking to offload some photos from your mobile device? CCC mobile can verify the files that were backed up, then offer an option to delete those files from the source to free up space.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: CCC Mobile Backup at Free against iDOS 3's $4.99. iDOS 3's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (69% vs 56%). On rating, update cadence, 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
CCC Mobile Backup is free to download; iDOS 3 costs $4.99 up front. CCC Mobile Backup sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. iDOS 3 asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for iDOS 3 against 4.4 for CCC Mobile Backup. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iDOS 3 has 51 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of iDOS 3's written reviews are positive against 56% of CCC Mobile Backup's.
iDOS 3 ships an update every 6 weeks, CCC Mobile Backup monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iDOS 3 | CCC Mobile Backup |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (51 ratings) | 4.4 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.3% of reviews — better | 55.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 51 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #85 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 潮激 李 | Bombich Software, Inc. |
Customer experience
iDOS 3
CCC Mobile Backup
In-app purchases
iDOS 3
No in-app purchases
CCC Mobile Backup
- Unlimited External Storage$2.99
- Unlimited NAS Backups$2.99
- Unlimited CCC Diplomat Backups$2.99
Questions
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