PadLink Remote vs Lazy Mouse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PadLink Remote
Transform your phone into a wireless gamepad for your computer. Enjoy low-latency input over Wi-Fi with various control surfaces like a standard gamepad, a racing cockpit, or a touchpad mouse. No account or internet connection is required for gameplay.
- Wireless gamepad for PC
- On-screen gamepad, racing cockpit, touchpad mouse
- Low-latency Wi-Fi input
- QR code pairing
- Customizable control layout
- Haptic feedback
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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 — 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 — 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 • Gamepad — dual thumbsticks, D-pad, face buttons, shoulder buttons, analog triggers, and menu buttons, laid out like a real controller. • Car Driving cockpit — 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. • Touchpad mouse — use your phone as a trackpad whenever you need a pointer. FEATURES • Low-latency input over your local network — no internet connection needed for gameplay. • Easy pairing by QR code, manual code, or one-tap reconnect to a known computer. • Customizable layout — move, resize, and set the opacity of every control to fit your hands and your screen. Free for everyone. • Haptic feedback on button presses and triggers. • Automatic reconnect if your Wi-Fi drops mid-session. • Designed for landscape play. REQUIREMENTS • The free PadLink desktop app, available for Windows and macOS. • Your phone and computer on the same Wi-Fi / local network. • No sign-in and no account — 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 — 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.
Lazy Mouse
Transform your phone into a wireless trackpad and keyboard for your computer. Control your cursor, type, manage volume, and even view your computer's screen remotely. It offers seamless file transfer and clipboard sharing, all within your local network for maximum privacy.
- Wireless trackpad and keyboard
- Remote screen viewing and control
- File and clipboard sharing
- Volume and mute controls
- Local network connectivity
- Smoothed cursor movement
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LazyMouse turns your iPhone into a trackpad for the computer next to you. Pair once by scanning a code. After that, the pad reconnects on its own whenever you are on the same Wi-Fi. It has no account, and nothing goes through the cloud: your phone talks straight to your computer. THE PAD Drag to move the cursor. Tap to click, two-finger tap to right-click, two-finger drag to scroll. Double-tap and drag, or hold, to select and move things. Movement is smoothed so a slow Wi-Fi moment does not make the cursor stutter. KEYBOARD AND VOLUME Type on the phone and it appears on the computer, with shortcuts for copy, paste, undo, arrows and the modifier keys. Volume and mute are under your thumb on the edge of the pad. SEE THE SCREEN Watch your computer's screen on your phone, zoom in, and expand it to full screen sideways, with the computer's sound. Switch on touch mode to click on the picture directly, and pinch and drag to move around it. FILES AND CLIPBOARD Send photos, videos and files to the computer, fetch files it offers, and move copied text between the two. Nothing is copied unless you press the button. PRIVATE No account, no analytics, no ads. Everything stays on your network. REQUIRES the LazyMouse app on your Windows 10 or later computer, on the same Wi-Fi network. Try the demo on the first screen to see the pad without a computer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Lazy Mouse at 5.0 against PadLink Remote's 1.0. Lazy Mouse also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lazy Mouse holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
PadLink Remote ships an update every 2 weeks, Lazy Mouse every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PadLink Remote | Lazy Mouse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Socheat Rath | Sohaib Boulaich |
In-app purchases
PadLink Remote
No in-app purchases
Lazy Mouse
No in-app purchases









