Spatial Phone vs PortalVR Controller
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spatial Phone
Stream your phone's screen and audio directly into your VR headset. Enjoy high-quality video and audio passthrough for activities like reading, watching videos, and listening to music without leaving your virtual environment.
- Phone mirroring in VR
- High-quality video passthrough
- High-quality audio passthrough
- Read PDFs in VR
- Watch videos in VR
- Listen to music in VR
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You can mirror your phone directly in your VR headset. Which offers high quality video and audio passthrough. You can use this to read pdf, watch videos and listen to music without leaving the VR headset.
PortalVR Controller
Transform your smartphone into a virtual reality controller for an immersive VR experience. Seamlessly connect and navigate your VR environment with intuitive touch controls.
- Turns phone into VR controller
- Use with PortalVR
- Intuitive touch controls
- Seamless connection
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PortalVR Controller turns your phone into a VR controller, for use with PortalVR.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PortalVR Controller at 5.0 against Spatial Phone's 2.4. PortalVR Controller also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). Spatial Phone's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PortalVR Controller holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spatial Phone has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Spatial Phone's written reviews are positive against 100% of PortalVR Controller's.
Spatial Phone ships an update every 2 months, PortalVR Controller every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spatial Phone | PortalVR Controller |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gulzar Ahmed | Portal VR, Inc. |
Customer experience
Spatial Phone
PortalVR Controller
In-app purchases
Spatial Phone
No in-app purchases
PortalVR Controller
No in-app purchases
Questions
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