Comparison

Ultimate Remote vs Breadbin

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

Head to head
About

Ultimate Remote

Control your Ultimate-II or Ultimate 64 devices remotely from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Easily manage and run files, import media, create custom layouts, and even use keyboard macros for your Commodore 64.

Highlights
  • Scan and register devices
  • Import and manage storage media
  • Play SID files and run programs
  • Upload and run external files
  • Mount disk images and browse directories
  • Create custom home layouts and shortcuts
  • Create and send keyboard macros
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Ultimate Remote is free and open source remote control application for Ultimate-II and Ultimate 64 devices that are on v3.11 firmware and higher for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. With Ultimate remote; . Register Ultimate devices on local network by scanning them . Import contents of storage media that is used on Ultimate device with a simple text file . Easily access and search imported content and quickly take actions, such as Play SID File or Run a Program/Cartridge on your Commodore 64 . Upload and run external files from your mobile device. . Mount disk images, browse D64 directory contents, select and run arbitrary files on your Commodore 64 from the app. . Create and customize home layouts, arrange functions as you like . Create shortcuts of your favorite games, music or any supported file type on the homescreen and optionally customize them with your custom icons. . Import High Voltage SID Collection, create Jukebox Lists and play them on your Commodore 64. . Create keystorke lists (keyboard macros) and send them to your Commodore 64 remotely, as if typing on physical keyboard. . Perform any other operation that is supported by Ultimate HTTP API

About

Breadbin

Features
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Breadbin is a Commodore 64 emulator for iPhone, iPad and Mac — written from scratch in Swift, every chip built from the original hardware documentation. Not a port, and not a wrapper around somebody else's emulator, original code from the first cycle to the last. YOU BRING THE ROMS Breadbin ships clean — no ROM images and no games, because they are not ours to give away. On first launch the app lists the three system files the machine needs (KERNAL, BASIC, character generator), shows which ones it has found, and imports them with a tap from the Files app. Dump them from hardware you own, or use freely licensed replacement ROMs — either way you are a minute from a READY prompt. Your files stay on your device. ACCURACY YOU CAN CHECK • Cycle-accurate 6510 processor — undocumented opcodes, NMOS decimal mode, per-cycle bus behaviour. Passes Klaus Dormann's 6502 functional test suite, the standard the emulator community measures against. • Cycle-based VIC-II video — bad lines, sprite DMA, the border unit, all eight graphics modes, raster interrupts. Raster-timing demos behave the way they should. • A real 1541 drive — its own processor, its own VIA chips, a rotating GCR bitstream with byte-ready wired exactly as the hardware does it. Fastloaders and copy-protected disks work here instead of hanging. • Both SID sound revisions, 6581 and 8580, built from the datasheet — including the mixer quirk that makes 4-bit sample playback audible on the 6581. DIAL A BULLETIN BOARD Breadbin carries an emulated SwiftLink modem bridged to the internet. Run a terminal program, pick a board from your phone book, and you are logged into a live BBS over TCP — telnet negotiation handled for you, PETSCII intact. The boards are still out there, and still busy. Your phone book is a plain text file you edit yourself. BUILT FOR THE DEVICE IN YOUR HAND • A touch keyboard laid out like the real machine, with national keycaps for Sweden/Finland, Denmark/Norway and Germany • On-screen joystick — analog stick or D-pad, placed where your thumb actually is, with autofire • 1351 proportional mouse — a trackpad on touch screens, a captured pointer on the Mac • Save states with thumbnails, so you can put the machine down mid-level • Display filters from razor-sharp pixels to a softened CRT look, with an adjustable border • Instant loading when you want it, true drive speed when the software demands it • Loads .prg, .d64, .g64, .t64, .p00 and .crt cartridge files • One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac PAY ONCE, PLAY FOREVER No ads. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. No account. And no data collection: no analytics, no tracking — nothing is collected, so there is nothing to sell, share or leak. The only network traffic Breadbin ever makes is the bulletin board you tell it to dial. Breadbin is not affiliated with, authorised by, or endorsed by the owners of the Commodore or Commodore 64 trademarks. It ships no Commodore software.

Screenshots

Ultimate Remote4 screens
Breadbin4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Ultimate Remote at Free against Breadbin's $4.99. Ultimate Remote also leads on iOS requirement (14.2 vs 16.0). 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

Ultimate Remote is free to download; Breadbin costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ultimate Remote ships an update fortnightly, Breadbin every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Ultimate Remote versus Breadbin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUltimate RemoteBreadbin
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS14.2 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOnur BuyukcaglarLASZLO DOBROVOLSZKI

In-app purchases

None

Ultimate Remote

No in-app purchases

None

Breadbin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ultimate Remote free?
Ultimate Remote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Breadbin free?
Breadbin costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ultimate Remote or Breadbin have ads?
Neither Ultimate Remote nor Breadbin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ultimate Remote or Breadbin?
Ultimate Remote ships an update fortnightly, and Breadbin every 3 weeks. Most recently, Ultimate Remote was updated on September 24, 2026 and Breadbin on October 7, 2026.

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