Comparison

Ultimate Gamepad vs V

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

Head to head
About

Ultimate Gamepad

Transform your iPhone into a multitouch joystick for your computer. Connect wirelessly by installing a receiver program on your PC, Mac, or Linux. Enjoy real button emulation for a gaming experience designed by gamers.

Highlights
  • iPhone to PC/Mac/Linux controller
  • Wireless Wi-Fi connection
  • Multitouch joystick
  • Real button emulation
  • Simple setup with receiver program
Features
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Turn you iPhone into a multitouch joystick! Connect through wifi in the most simple way. Install the Ultimate Control Receiver program on your computer (PC, Mac or Linux) and select it from the list displayed on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Ultimate Gamepad provides a real button emulation, press several buttons with your thumb as you would on a regular controller. The gamepad designed by real gamers! *download the agent program from "www.negusoft.com/ucontrol"

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V

Features
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V-Pad turns your iPhone into a game controller for the computer in front of you. Twin analog sticks, a D-pad, four face buttons, shoulders and analog triggers — on a layout you can rearrange, resize and recolour until it fits your thumbs. BEFORE YOU START V-Pad needs a small free program running on your computer: V-Pad Helper, for Windows and macOS, from vpadcontroller.com. Your phone reaches it over your own Wi-Fi — both devices on the same network, nothing in the cloud, no account, no sign-in. Why not Bluetooth? iOS does not let a third-party app present itself as a Bluetooth gamepad. That is a platform rule, not a missing feature, and it is why every iPhone app in this category ships a desktop companion. ON WINDOWS The helper creates a real virtual Xbox 360 controller. Games and Steam see an ordinary XInput pad — no key mapping, sticks and triggers stay analog. ON macOS Apple grants no third-party app a virtual gamepad, so the pad is mapped to keyboard and mouse instead: left stick to WASD, D-pad to the arrows, right stick to the mouse, triggers to clicks. Games that insist on a real controller will not find one on a Mac. 22 LAYOUTS, READY TO PLAY Classic, Pro, Edge and Compact for the shape of your hands. Football, Tactical and Sci-Fi for the kind of game. Crimson Dragon and Gold Dragon for their own illustrated worlds. Plus a metal and neon set: Chrome, Gold, Rose Gold, Gunmetal, Obsidian, Sapphire, Emerald, Copper, Volt, Neon, Plasma, Circuit, Prism. MAKE IT YOURS Drag any control where you want it. Pinch to resize. Change its colour and shape. Pick a backdrop for the app and a separate surface for the pad. Save your own layouts and open them straight from the home grid. SHORTCUTS Bind a sequence of presses to a single control, with the timing recorded as you tap — up to five seconds per shortcut. One thumb, several inputs. TILT TO STEER Racing Gyro turns the phone itself into a wheel: hold it in landscape and tilt. It drives the left stick, so any game that steers with a stick steers with your hands. VOLUME KEYS AS BUTTONS Assign the physical volume keys to gamepad buttons. They only act as buttons on the gamepad screen and behave normally everywhere else. TUNE THE FEEL Stick deadzone and response curve. Haptics set per group — face buttons, shoulders, triggers, system buttons, D-pad, sticks — each with its own strength. Triggers as analog drags or single presses. Press glow on or off. TWELVE LANGUAGES English, Turkish, German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Arabic. FREE, WITH ONE OPTIONAL PURCHASE Every layout and every setting is free, with ads. V-Pad Premium is a single one-time purchase — not a subscription, nothing recurring: it removes every ad and unlocks saving your own custom layouts. Privacy: no accounts, no servers of ours, and nothing you do in the app is reported back to us. Full policy at vpadcontroller.com/privacy.

Screenshots

Ultimate Gamepad3 screens
V4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ultimate Gamepad at none against V's 1. Ultimate Gamepad also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). V's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 23 months). On price 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

Both are free to download. V sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ultimate Gamepad asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ultimate Gamepad ships an update every 23 months, V every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Ultimate Gamepad versus V: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUltimate GamepadV
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.7 (86 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews40.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings86 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 23 monthsEvery 5 days — better
Ads—Yes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB41 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperNEGU Soft .SAMET VOLKAN CAVUSOGLU

Bugs and requests

Ultimate Gamepad

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • Telling me wifi connected while my wifi is literally off
  • Can’t connect to my WiFi
  • Untimate control doesn‘t work on mac
  • Buttons are getting stuck often
  • App loses connection with the computer frequently
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  • When I lost connection and reconnected, there are 2 devices showed on the driver
  • Can't move my mouse in game
  • Does not work with OpenEmu
  • Not connecting
  • Receiver doesn't show
  • Cannot establish connection to receiver
  • Receiver won't always launch on my PC
  • Sometimes it disconnects a lot
  • When I press a d-pad button, it won't detect that I let go of it

Requested features

11 requests
  • Add analog sticks
  • Add mouse support/mousepad
  • More key configuration options
  • Save button presets in profiles
  • Support sending buttons as xinput device
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  • Haptic feedback
  • Joystick option
  • Make buttons larger
  • Playstation controller layout
  • Accelerometer support
  • Bluetooth connectivity

V

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Ultimate Gamepad

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

V

One-time1
  • V-Pad Premium Lifetime$4.99

Questions

Is Ultimate Gamepad free?
Ultimate Gamepad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is V free?
V is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which is updated more often, Ultimate Gamepad or V?
Ultimate Gamepad ships an update every 23 months, and V every 5 days. Most recently, Ultimate Gamepad was updated on November 13, 2026 and V on November 6, 2026.

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