“I downloaded this remote and my entire phone layout was different. I had no home screen and I couldn't properly toggle between apps. On top of that, it had nonstop ads when I would try to use the app and the remote itself didn't even…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 676 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
Smart Remote - Easy TV Control
FiguredinSmart Remote - Easy TV Control combines an Android home screen launcher with…
4.3 ★100,530 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Smart Remote - Easy TV Control combines an Android home screen launcher with convenient TV remote features. Connect to a compatible smart TV over Wi-Fi and access supported controls directly from your phone.
📺 CONTROL YOUR TV
• Connect to compatible smart TVs over Wi-Fi • Adjust volume and use power controls when supported by your TV • Navigate menus and control playback from your phone • Launch supported TV apps and navigate available channels • Use a clear remote interface designed for everyday control
Available controls may vary depending on your TV brand, model, network connection, and supported features.
🏠 YOUR HOME SCREEN
Smart Remote - Easy TV Control also includes an Android launcher that can be set as your default Home app.…
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.
This analysis describes version 1.5.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.5.0, updated 2026-07-29.
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 fewer than 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
65–79% 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 1.4.0, scanned 2026-10-05.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
1–2 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
3–9 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.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
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: Raised by 60 distinct reviewers — 8.9% of the 676 reviews scanned on this store leg (Google Play).
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
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“horrible. so many ads you can hardly figure out what your taping, it changes your whole home screen and settings and apps page with no way to change it back. it almost felt like a virus took over my phone.”
“Worthless app. I couldn't do anything except increase and lower my tv volume, so I know it was connected. Nothing else worked and there are SO MANY ADS. I think I saw 8 to 10 ads in the 10 minutes I tried to get the app to work and they…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.5.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.