“Doesn’t work try another one — Impossible to use without signing up and giving your credit card number for a trial. Too many ads. Didn’t work. Use another app. This one isn’t worth it.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 502 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.5 ★20,426 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
203 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Can't find your TV remote control? This app will let you use your iPhone or iPad as a Remote TV Control!
Advantagers: - Support all popular smart TV OS. Apple TV, Roku TV, WebOS, Tizen etc. - Work with 100+ Brands. Samsung, LG, Sony, TCL, Roku, Panasonic, Philips, Toshiba, Hisense etc. - Auto Detect smart TV - All TV Remote commands you need - Easy to use
All common commands available: Change Volume, Switch Channel, Navigation, Power Off, Menu, Info, Tools etc. You don't have to stay close to TV to make it works because our app works through Wi-Fi
1. Make sure your TV is on since at least 30 sec 2. Phone and TV are connect to the same Wi-Fi (Local) network 3. Your phone is connected to Wi-Fi network…
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 1.5.10 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.5.10, updated 2026-06-09.
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 a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes 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
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
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.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 4
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.
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (6 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
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 8 distinct reviewers (1.6% of 502 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 502 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
What we saw: Constant upsell pressure: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (1.6% of 502 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“I take it back!!!! — Right after reviewing the ads are so constant you can't move from one app to another without it prompting you to pay. Greedy Jerks...”
“Worst remote app on the app store — It works but you cant use it because they just spam u with ads so DONT DOWNLOAD DONT WASTE UR TIME”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.5.10.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$3.99
Highest$29.99
1 Week Premium Access$5.99
1 Week Premium with Trial$5.99
1 Week Premium with Trial$4.99
1 Month Premium Access$9.99
1 Month Premium with Trial$9.99
Show 4 more purchases
1 Year Premium$24.99
1 Year Premium with Trial$24.99
1 Year Premium$29.99
Universal Remote Control Pro$3.99