Comparison

CloudDeck vs TracePort

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

Head to head
About

CloudDeck

Features
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CloudDeck turns a real cloud phone into a remote console on your device. Start a session, stream with low latency, and control every tap — play games, test builds, or demo apps without carrying extra hardware. Highlights • Instant rent & reconnect • Smooth H.264 streaming console • Free play minutes via rewarded ads • VIP / hour packs for longer sessions • Portrait & landscape remote control Perfect for gamers, QA testers, developers, and anyone who needs a spare phone in the cloud. CloudDeck — remote device console. Privacy Policy: https://nexuscloudconsole.ddns.net/privacy Terms: https://nexuscloudconsole.ddns.net/terms

About

TracePort

Access and control your computer remotely with an enhanced keyboard experience. This app provides custom keys, macros, and intelligent screen adjustments for seamless typing and navigation on your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Customizable keyboard with modifiers and function keys
  • Macro pad for launching applications and shortcuts
  • Intelligent screen adjustment to view typing area
  • Support for CJK input methods
  • Multiple display management
  • Fork of Moonlight for robust streaming protocols
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

CloudDeck4 screens
TracePort4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TracePort at none against CloudDeck's 7. TracePort also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). 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. CloudDeck sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. TracePort asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
CloudDeck versus TracePort: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCloudDeckTracePort
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB14 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperXuan ThanhNEXATECH AI EFFICIENCY SERVICES LTD.

In-app purchases

7 purchases

CloudDeck

One-time7
  • 3-Hour Pack$0.99
  • 7x3-Hour Pack$1.49
  • 24-Hour Pack$1.99
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  • Daily Unlimited$1.99
  • Weekly Unlimited$6.99
  • Monthly Pro$14.99
  • Yearly Enterprise$79.99
None

TracePort

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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