Comparison

Haptics Simulator vs TracePort

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

Head to head
About

Haptics Simulator

Design and simulate custom haptic feedback patterns for iOS devices. Visualize, create, and export haptic experiences with fine-grained control over parameters and motion effects. Includes tutorials and presets for easy integration.

Highlights
  • Visual haptic preview
  • Real-time haptic simulation
  • Custom haptic pattern editor
  • Motion effects integration
  • Haptic pattern templates
  • Export as AHAP or Swift code
  • CoreHaptics tutorials
Features
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Haptics Simulator is aimed at helping iOS developers to have a smooth haptics design experience based on CoreHaptics. - Visualization: Preview the haptics visually without playing. - Simulation: Play haptics in real-time on the physical phone. - Creator: Design your own haptic patterns with powerful editor, where you have fine-grained control on haptic event parameters and apply transformation to achieve magic effects. - Motion Effects: Import custom motion effects to assist in creating haptics and achieve precise matching between motion and haptics. - Template: Multiple commonly-used haptic templates for usage and recreation. - Presets: Rich predefined haptic patterns available for direct usage, including system-provided ones. - Interoperability: You are able to export haptic patterns as AHAP files or Swift code and import existing AHAP files into haptic patterns. - Tutorial: Comprehensive tutorials and guides on basics of CoreHaptics and Haptics Simulator. - SDK: Seamless SDK integration into your own project and get access to all presets and templates. ================== Don't worry if you are not an iOS developer. Just have some fun and you are very likely to be astonished by iPhone's haptic feedback!

About

TracePort

Features
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TracePort streams your computer to your iPhone or iPad — and, unlike most remote desktop clients, it lets you actually type once you get there. The stock iOS keyboard has no modifiers, no arrows and no function keys, and it covers the field you are typing into. TracePort rebuilds that part. A KEYBOARD LINE WITH THE KEYS A KEYBOARD HAS Modifiers, esc, tab, return, delete, arrows, home, end, page up, page down, insert and F1-F12, in one scrolling row above the system keyboard. No paging, no hunting. BUILD YOUR OWN KEYS Long-press any key to move it closer or take it off. Add new ones from a menu that walks you through the modifier combination and the key it fires. Group them, tick the ones you want on screen, and they stay put per host. A MACRO PAD IN THE BLACK MARGINS The letterbox either side of a 16:9 stream on a phone is dead space. TracePort puts a short column of your own macros there, out of the picture. LAUNCH APPLICATIONS A macro can open Spotlight, type an application's name and press return — faster than aiming at a dock icon over a video stream. THE PICTURE MOVES SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT YOU ARE TYPING The keyboard covers half the screen, and the field you are typing into is usually in the covered half. TracePort asks the host where its caret is and lifts the picture just far enough to clear it. When the focused application will not report one, it uses the pointer instead. When the host has nothing to offer, the picture stays where it is rather than guessing. CHINESE, JAPANESE AND KOREAN INPUT THAT WORKS An input method offers numbered candidates and the on-screen keyboard cannot reach them, so CJK input never worked properly from a phone. Digits 1-9 sit in front of the arrows. Now it works. MULTIPLE DISPLAYS Switch the host between displays from a key, and pinch to zoom so you can read a corner of a 4K desktop on a phone. EVERYTHING MOONLIGHT DOES, IT STILL DOES This is a fork of Moonlight, not a rewrite. The protocol, the decoder and the streaming path are Moonlight's: H.264, HEVC and AV1, up to 4K120, HDR, low latency, game controllers, and hosts running Sunshine or NVIDIA GameStream. WHAT YOU NEED A computer on your network — or reachable over your own VPN or Tailscale — running Sunshine (free and open source) or NVIDIA GameStream. TracePort talks to that machine directly. Nothing passes through any server of ours, because there isn't one. PRIVACY No analytics, no crash reporting, no account, no telemetry. Nothing leaves your device. FREE SOFTWARE TracePort is GPL v3. The complete source is at github.com/harrison001/traceport — you can read every line and build it yourself.

Screenshots

Haptics Simulator4 screens
TracePort4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TracePort at none against Haptics Simulator's 1. TracePort also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads 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. Haptics Simulator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TracePort asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Haptics Simulator versus TracePort: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHaptics SimulatorTracePort
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer旭 冯NEXATECH AI EFFICIENCY SERVICES LTD.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Haptics Simulator

One-time1
  • Pro Plan$19.99
None

TracePort

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Haptics Simulator free?
Haptics Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TracePort free?
TracePort is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Haptics Simulator or TracePort have ads?
Neither Haptics Simulator nor TracePort shows ads.

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