Comparison

Remote Trackpad vs Rubato

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

Head to head
About

Remote Trackpad

Transform your phone into a wireless trackpad, media controller, and custom shortcut pad for your PC. Enjoy smooth, low-latency control over Wi-Fi with intuitive gestures and zero-config pairing.

Highlights
  • Wireless trackpad with native gestures
  • Media and browser remote control
  • Customizable shortcut and numeric keypad
  • Haptic feedback for clicks
  • Zero-configuration Wi-Fi pairing
  • Low-latency cursor control
Features
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Turn your phone into a wireless trackpad, media remote, and shortcut pad for your PC. Remote Trackpad delivers smooth, low-latency control over Wi-Fi — no cables, no pairing dialogs, no IP addresses. THREE CORE MODES • Trackpad — A full-screen precision pad for desk work. Two-finger scroll, three-finger drag, pinch-to-zoom — every gesture you already know. • Remote — A couch-friendly layout with pointer plus media, volume, brightness, and browser controls. Perfect for movies, music, and browsing from the sofa. • Studio — A grid of shortcuts, a numeric keypad, and copy/paste keys. A pro left-hand device for video editing, design, and coding. KEY FEATURES • Haptic clicks — Real haptic feedback from your phone. • Zero-config pairing — Auto-discovers your PC on the same Wi-Fi. No IP, no port, no fuss. • Native gestures — Tap, right-click, scroll, drag, and more. • Low-latency — Your finger moves, the cursor moves instantly. A free companion app for your PC is required. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Rubato

Features
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Rubato is a daily planner that stacks your events vertically and lets you clear them from the top. Instead of pinning everything to a time, you stack them in order. • A plan that flows Stack what you want to do and it lines up from the top. Run late and everything after shifts; finish early and it moves up. You always see the whole day. Meetings and appointments become "fixed-time" events, and flowing events split around them. • Stack and clear Tap a frequent event in the History palette to stack it, or drag it into place. Complete it and it bursts away; the next one becomes current. Completion sounds and haptics are designed in-house. • Usual Rubato predicts what usually comes next, based on the time of day, the weekday, and what came before, and puts it first in the palette. It gets smarter as you use it. • Your day ends when you sleep Past midnight, the timeline keeps counting: 25:00, 26:00. Night owls' days stay in one piece. • Live mode The current time stays near the top, with only the current event and the next one shown large. Insert a break or a gap with one tap. Notifications arrive when an event starts, 10 minutes before a fixed-time event, and at the planned end. • Works with your calendar Events from your iPhone calendars (including Google) appear in the header; tap one to place it at a fixed time. Mark an event "Show in Calendar" and it's written to the calendar you choose, follows the flow as it moves, and settles into the actual time when completed. Subscribe to calendars by URL (iCal). • All-day events and to-dos Add all-day events and undated to-dos to any day. Tap a to-do to finish it; unfinished ones carry over to tomorrow. Place them on future days from the month view. • iPhone and Mac On Mac, Rubato lives in the menu bar and can be pinned as a standalone panel. It syncs through iCloud. There's no server: your data stays in your own iCloud. • Pricing Free to download. Try every feature free for 14 days (started by a Ā„0 in-app purchase; it isn't a subscription and you'll never be charged automatically). To keep going, a single one-time purchase (Ā„2,200 in Japan; local price shown in the app) unlocks Rubato on both iPhone and Mac, forever. After the trial, viewing, completing, and syncing keep working.

Screenshots

Remote Trackpad3 screens
Rubato4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Rubato at none against Remote Trackpad's shown. Rubato also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). Remote Trackpad's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Remote Trackpad sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Rubato sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Remote Trackpad ships an update every 5 days, Rubato every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 5 level
Remote Trackpad versus Rubato: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRemote TrackpadRubato
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWarashibe Tech LLCYujiro Yonetsu

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Remote Trackpad

One-time1
  • Remote Trackpad Pro$4.99
2 purchases

Rubato

One-time2
  • 14-Day TrialFree
  • Rubato (One-Time Purchase)$12.99

Questions

Is Remote Trackpad free?
Remote Trackpad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rubato free?
Rubato is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Remote Trackpad or Rubato have ads?
Remote Trackpad shows ads; Rubato does not.
Which is updated more often, Remote Trackpad or Rubato?
Remote Trackpad ships an update every 5 days, and Rubato every 2 days. Most recently, Remote Trackpad was updated on October 10, 2026 and Rubato on October 6, 2026.

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