Fidelia Remote vs iPulsaret
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- Real-time granular synthesis
- Live input manipulation
- Grain control and shaping
- Post FX chain (Echo, Reverb, Filters)
- Snapshot presets morphing pad
- AUv3 support
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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...
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Verdict
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
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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fidelia Remote | iPulsaret |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | — | 4.8 (31 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.5% of reviews | 79.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 31 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Audiofile Engineering, LLC | apeSoft |
Customer experience
Fidelia Remote
iPulsaret
In-app purchases
Fidelia Remote
No in-app purchases
iPulsaret
No in-app purchases









