Review signals only — 2 user-reported signals — from user reviews, not yet audited by Appworthy.
Reported by users
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.
Aggressive ad load
Works but ad every few seconds — The remote works but every few seconds there’s an add. I’d say get the other remote but not the one with 600k reviews there’s one with 60 to 80k reviews that works flawless with barely any adds where you…
Ad every 4 clicks — There’s a ad every 4 clicks on this app it’s insane constantly making me click and try to make me pay
Very useful but a fair amount of ads — I’ve never actually had a universal remote that works before but this one does, only drawback is that you get ads every few button presses but it’s worth it since it works, and also you need to pay…
Paywall blocks the basics
SUBSCRIPTION MADNESS — you literally have to pay to do anything it’s equivalent to having to pay to even turn your tv on its so stupid God will punish you for your greed.
Pay to use — Need to pay for basic tv controls 🤦🏾♂️Can’t even turn on the tv without paying 8.99 subscription fee.
everything is behind a paywall — i deadass can't even turn up the volume because i need to pay $8.99 per month to use a damn remote
What this app sells
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
Show 4 more purchases we couldn’t categorise
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
How a review signal works
A review signal is produced automatically from public app reviews by a classifier — never by a hands-on Appworthy test, and never by a human analyst. It exists so a real, not-yet-audited app can carry more than a blank “Not yet tested” listing, without ever being mistaken for an assessment.
A theme only appears above once at least 5 distinct reviews corroborate it — one angry review can never tag an app. These thresholds are published settings and may be tuned as coverage grows.
It carries no confirmed findings — reviews are one kind of evidence, and nothing here has been hands-on tested. The moment Appworthy publishes a full assessment of this app, it replaces this signal, permanently.
A human review replaces this review-derived signal with hands-on, recorded measurements.
Hands-on inspections are not yet open.