iDOS 3 vs Record Crate
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
Record Crate
Identify vinyl records instantly by taking a photo of the album art. This Discogs client helps you discover and catalog your physical music collection with ease.
- Identify vinyl by album art
- Discogs client functionality
- Catalog physical media
- Instant matching
- User-friendly interface
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Record Crate is a Discogs client with the added ability to identify physical media by sight. Snap a picture of the album art and find a match instantly! Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Record Crate at Free against iDOS 3's $4.99. Record Crate also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). iDOS 3's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (51 vs 1). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Record Crate is free to download; iDOS 3 costs $4.99 up front. Record Crate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. iDOS 3 asks for nothing beyond the download.
Record Crate holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iDOS 3 has 51 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
iDOS 3 ships an update every 6 weeks, Record Crate every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iDOS 3 | Record Crate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (51 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 51 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Best chart rank | #200 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 潮激 李 | Olivia's Computer Company, LLC |
In-app purchases
iDOS 3
No in-app purchases
Record Crate
- Crate Vision - Monthly$3.991 Month
- Crate Vision - Yearly$39.991 Year
