“Stop trying to force me to watch Roku channel or advertisement on the right of Home Screen — I’ve been with Roku for 15 years I think. This newest Roku update on my tv infuriates me. It’s so simple. It’s my TV and I paid for it. How about…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 2,907 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.7 ★10,956,582 ratings
100M+Downloads
12+Age rating
240 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
The official remote app for your Roku® device. Roku Remote (Official) turns your phone into a feature-packed remote control for Roku players and Roku TVs. Enjoy convenient, easy control of your Roku devices, quickly launch your favorite apps and channels, search with your voice, type with your phone’s keyboard, and listen privately with headphones — all from the device already in your pocket. The free Roku Remote app features: * Remote control — a full-featured Roku remote on your phone, with the same buttons as the one you lost in the couch * Keyboard — type search terms, passwords, and Wi-Fi info with your mobile keyboard instead of the on-screen grid * Voice search — say what you want and get to it faster * Private listening — plug headphones into your phone so you can stream without waking the house * Cast photos and video — share what's on your phone to the big screen * Control your…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 14.1.2 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 14.1.2, updated 2026-09-21.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 14.1.2.10730047 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 14.1.2.10730047, updated 2026-09-22.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
From the package we downloaded and read — version 14.1.2.10730047, scanned 2026-09-29.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
3–5 requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 9 distinct reviewers (0.7% of 1255 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Commercials — There is too much advertising on the homepage and to get to the icons that I want it becomes a little convoluted and it’s just not desirable other than that. Roku is great.”
“Getting steadily worse — Very glitchy lately. Too much ad ware and sloppy updates”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 14.1.2.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.