Comparison

Fidelia Remote vs iPulsaret

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Fidelia Remote

Control your premium music player remotely from your iPhone or iPod touch. Browse your library, manage playback, and adjust volume wirelessly over your network.

Highlights
  • Browse music library and playlists
  • Adjust playback volume
  • Navigate between and within tracks
  • Artist and track title display
  • Track position slider
  • Sort library by Artist, Album, Songs, Playlists
Features
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Fidelia Remote is the free companion to Fidelia — the audiophile music player for Mac. Fidelia plays your music bit-perfect: no compression, no quality loss, no subscription, and full support for FLAC, DSD, and hi-res formats. Remote puts that player in your hand — browse your library and command playback from anywhere in the house, on iPhone or iPad. Rebuilt from the ground up — now with Audio Unit plugin control. What you can do: - Browse your full Fidelia library — artists, albums, playlists, and songs - Control playback — play, pause, skip, seek, and volume - See what's playing, with full album artwork - Switch shuffle and repeat modes - Toggle Fidelia's three Audio Unit effect slots on or off — set up your plugins on the Mac, then bypass or re-engage them from your phone, mid-session - Play Fidelia's internet radio — browse and start stations, with a live indicator while one's on air Auto-discovers Fidelia on your local network via Bonjour. No accounts, no setup, no configuration — open the app and your Mac appears. Fidelia Remote works with Fidelia 2.x on a Mac on the same Wi-Fi network. New to Fidelia? Find the audiophile player for Mac on the Mac App Store, then reach for your phone.

About

iPulsaret

This app offers a real-time granular synthesis playground for iPad, generating diverse audio effects. It provides extensive control over grain parameters and includes a post-effects chain. Users can shape sounds, manipulate live input, and save presets.

Highlights
  • Real-time granular synthesis
  • Live input manipulation
  • Grain control and shaping
  • Post FX chain (Echo, Reverb, Filters)
  • Snapshot presets morphing pad
  • AUv3 support
Features
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iPulsaret is rated as a Killer App by Apps4iDevices. iPulsaret is a new real-time software capable of all time-domain varieties of granular synthesis. A genuine granular playground able to generate a wide range of usual and not so usual effects: Grainlet, Trainlet, FM, time/pitch shifting, time/pitch jittering, intricate textures, grain fountain/pulverizer, Live Input manipulation and many more. Control and shape grains, anytime, anywhere with iPulsaret for iPad. - Full AUv3 support - 32 Polyphony Voices - Granulation Sources: Wave, Trainlet, Sample, Live and Harmonic - Grain Envelope Deformation - Grain Glisson Sweep - Grainlet Linkage - ADSR Note Envelope - Snapshots Presets Morphing Pad - Sharing common audio files via iTunes, Dropbox AudioCopy etc... - Post FX chain: Echo, Ring Modulation, Lowpass Ladder and High Shelf filters, Reverb FDN and Dynamic Compressor/Expander - Capture Master Audio Output - Keyboard Musical Scales, up to 35 + User Defined Scale - etc...

Screenshots

Fidelia Remote4 screens
iPulsaret4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Fidelia Remote at Free against iPulsaret's $9.99. iPulsaret's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 43%). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Fidelia Remote is free to download; iPulsaret costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Fidelia Remote versus iPulsaret: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFidelia RemoteiPulsaret
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating—4.8 (31 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.5% of reviews79.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—31 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAudiofile Engineering, LLCapeSoft

Customer experience

Fidelia Remote

Written reviews40 reviews
Positive42.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative45.0%

iPulsaret

All ratings31 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive79.6%
Neutral4.1%
Negative16.3%

In-app purchases

None

Fidelia Remote

No in-app purchases

None

iPulsaret

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fidelia Remote free?
Fidelia Remote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is iPulsaret free?
iPulsaret costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fidelia Remote or iPulsaret have ads?
Neither Fidelia Remote nor iPulsaret shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fidelia Remote or iPulsaret?
Fidelia Remote ships an update every 3 weeks, and iPulsaret every 3 weeks. Most recently, Fidelia Remote was updated on October 15, 2026 and iPulsaret on October 21, 2026.

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