“Less than mediocre — The remote doesn’t work and has so many adds it feels useless. I’d rather use my physical remote instead of this app. I’m not saying no adds for free I’m just saying less adds and more useful would be nice. I don’t…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 352 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.3 ★21,873 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
88 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Lost the remote? Control your TV from your smartphone. Remote for Smart ThinQ TV is a remote control app that lets you control your Smart ThinQG TV.
Features: - Fast remote for your Smart ThinQ TV - Easily find your favourite apps - Change app appearance with light & dark mode - Flexible navigation Control Panel
How to set up: Connect the app and the TV with the same wifi and then enter the PIN code shown on the TV screen into the app
Premium Subscription:
TV Cast includes an optional auto-renewable subscription to access current and future premium categories (price may vary depending on location):
- Subscription starts from USD 2.99. - a 1-week subscription - a 1-month subscription - a 1-year subscription…
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 2.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.0, updated 2025-02-19.
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
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
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
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 6
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 34 distinct reviewers (9.7% of 352 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall with no way past it
A paywall screen ships with no dismiss, skip or 'maybe later' affordance anywhere in the package, so the app's own text offers no way in without paying.
What we saw: Paywall with no way past it: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 352 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 (1.4% of 352 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 11 distinct reviewers (3.1% of 352 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 6 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 352 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“ADS — Way too many ads, you can hardly use the remote without a AD popping up every 2 seconds. You practically have to pay to use the app.”
“To much ads — I hate this app it force you to buy a subscription it’s annoying”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown4
Lowest$1.99
Highest$24.99
Weekly Premiym$1.99
Monthly Premium$4.99
Yearly Premium$24.99
Lifetime Premium$19.99