PadLink Remote vs V
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
PadLink Remote
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PadLink Remote turns your phone into a wireless game controller for your computer. Play with an on-screen gamepad, a full racing cockpit, or a touchpad mouse โ over your local Wi-Fi, with no cables and no account. HOW IT WORKS 1. Install the free PadLink desktop app on your computer. 2. Open PadLink Remote and pair in seconds โ scan the QR code or type the pairing code. 3. Start playing. PadLink presents your phone as a standard gamepad your games already recognize (or as keyboard & mouse). CONTROL SURFACES โข Gamepad โ dual thumbsticks, D-pad, face buttons, shoulder buttons, analog triggers, and menu buttons, laid out like a real controller. โข Car Driving cockpit โ a steering wheel with tilt (gyro) steering, gas and brake pedals with cruise-lock, a sequential gear shifter, and a handbrake. Built for racing games. โข Touchpad mouse โ use your phone as a trackpad whenever you need a pointer. FEATURES โข Low-latency input over your local network โ no internet connection needed for gameplay. โข Easy pairing by QR code, manual code, or one-tap reconnect to a known computer. โข Customizable layout โ move, resize, and set the opacity of every control to fit your hands and your screen. Free for everyone. โข Haptic feedback on button presses and triggers. โข Automatic reconnect if your Wi-Fi drops mid-session. โข Designed for landscape play. REQUIREMENTS โข The free PadLink desktop app, available for Windows and macOS. โข Your phone and computer on the same Wi-Fi / local network. โข No sign-in and no account โ your controller input goes only to your own computer. FREE & PRO PadLink Remote is free to download and play. The Car Driving cockpit becomes available when the computer you connect to is running PadLink Pro or its free trial โ it is a capability of the desktop app. While connected to a computer on the free plan, a small banner ad appears during play. PRIVACY Your controller input is sent only to your own computer over your local network. The camera is used solely to scan the pairing QR code, on your device. Turn the phone in your pocket into the controller your games have been waiting for.
V
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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 โ 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 โ 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 โ 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 โ 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 โ face buttons, shoulders, triggers, system buttons, D-pad, sticks โ 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 โ 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PadLink Remote at none against V's 1. V's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. V sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PadLink Remote asks for nothing beyond the download.
PadLink Remote ships an update every 2 weeks, V every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PadLink Remote | V |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days โ better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Socheat Rath | SAMET VOLKAN CAVUSOGLU |
In-app purchases
PadLink Remote
No in-app purchases
V
- V-Pad Premium Lifetime$4.99








