What’s the catch? Trial converts to a charge — reported by 48 users.
Analyzed automatically from 3 independent signals that had to agree — not a hands-on test, and not human-reviewed.
This analysis describes version 2.1.4 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.1.4, updated 2026-09-28.
What the analysis found
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.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 8
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.
What reviewers said
Verbatim excerpts from public store reviews, shown as corroborating user reports. They are not Appworthy audit evidence, and a quotation is not proof of the finding it sits under.
Trial converts to a charge
Charged for the free trial !! — I lost my remote so wanted to try it it said 3 day trial so tried it and it’s charged me 6.99 for an app THAT DIDNT EVEN WORK!!!
Charged me & didn’t work — Tried to use the free trial but it charged me and didn’t even work
DO NOT!! — I did the free trial and cancelled immediately so it would not continue to the paid subscription, and after the free trial day it’s trying to charge me $10!! Even though I cancelled BEDORE the renewal!!! NO NOT USE THE FREE TRIAL
Aggressive ad load
Another free trail app — If I could rate it negative stars I would. Cool Idea and all but the ads are relentless and so is the membership to unlock basic features. I’m done with these apps trying to make you buy the membership by making…
Held for ransom — The app works very well. The problem is that if you try to control your tv you’re bombarded with pop up ads for the premium version. Honestly if they’d just rolled a normal ad every 5 minutes or so it would be more…
Not free — Too much ads, the other app controller is better
Paywall with no way past it
You cannot use this for more than 5 minutes without paying for a subscription. — See above, bad app, intrusive popups
No good — Can’t use without buying subscription
Hard to cancel
Didn’t work and impossible to cancel — Tried to connect it to my tv and couldn’t get it to stay connected. Emailed to have the trial cancelled and apple said they couldn’t cancel it and I keep getting attempted 7.60 charges. Save yourself…
The worst — Does not work and there is literally no way to cancel
Expensive and hard to cancel — Did not work for me. Nightmare trying to cancel it. It’s expensive too.
Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
PAYMENT — Every 5 taps on the remote you’re getting a pop up add telling you to PAY for more taps etc. that’s bs !
Gotta pay to use — Horrible, don’t download this app. It let me use it for free for like two minutes before forcing the pop up window for me to buy.
works but needs a subscription — it paired easily to my tv but after only using a few buttons there's endless popups to subscribe. wouldn't it make more sense to put certain funcrions behind a paywall instead of all of them?? the app is…
Reports of unexpected charges
DO NOT DOWNLOAD — APPLE AND THIS APP SCAMMED ME. I cancelled the trial immediately and was still charged for a week. Avoid this!!!!
Predatory practices — Predatory weekly billing. My child downloaded this free app; the trial converted to $6.99/week without our knowledge. $69.90 in 10 weeks for a remote control app we never used. Apple refused to refund the older…
THIS APP IS A SCAM!! — THIS APP STOLE MY MONEY!! DO NOT DOWNLOAD!! ITS A TOTAL SCAM
Paywall blocks the basics
No Volume Control — You need to pay for a subscription to use basic controls, if you lost your remote and are trying to use this app to adjust the volume try a different app !
are you serious — why should we have to pay for everything
Never again — You have to pay to do anything, and I mean anything other than the arrow buttons and the centre button. Do not download, waste of time
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
False advertisement — It says free and I can’t hit one single button without being free that’s false advertisement that’s ridiculous. Change your app.
Must pay subscription to use — False advertisement of “free to use remote”
How the automated analysis works
This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
Several measurements above say “Not assessed” because no artefact we hold can answer them. A human review is what resolves those — and it can remove a favourable band as easily as add one.
Hands-on inspections are not yet open.