Sam Smart TV Remote- Things TV Reviews

by Qioneu

You’re better off just buying a new remote! It does work with my Samsung Q7 -BUT- you still have to have a Samsung remote available to “allow” SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV to connect in the first place. Which defeats the purpose of me downloading and paying $20 for SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV. I only bought it because I lost my remote and figured I’d download SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV to replace it. Unfortunately, it was useless until I got a hold of a real Samsung remote from a friend, to allow SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV to connect to my tv. Then I found out that SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV doesn’t even stay connected to the TV even after the “allow” step. I have to constantly allow connection for SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV to work. Which means you need a real remote on hand... to allow a digital remote to control your TV but why would anyone need to download SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV if they already had a real remote?! They wouldn’t. And SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV itself doesn’t stay connected to the TV despite not needing the “allow” process. I find my self continuously having to close SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV and then reopening it and then going through the process of searching and selecting my TV every time I exit that app to do something else on my phone or just close my screen. It’s too much of a hassle to use for $20. Worth more like 0.99 TOPS! A real legitimate Samsung remote costs even less than $20, with no constant fuss of reconnections needed. UGH!

by Xnightwingxx

I bought a Westinghouse tv with Roku on it. I found out there was a remote app. It’s free and does so much! It’s honestly a great app. So I then figured let me check to see if Samsung has an app for my living room Samsung. I found this gave it a download and then found out I can’t use this for free. I have to pay 20 bucks for something that has an interior design to something else that’s free. So why should I pay 20 bucks when my Roku has a free app that does more then SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV. I’m very disappointed in this cash grab of an app. 20 bucks is way too high and thank you but I’ll pass

by Yshtys72539

SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV allows you to use the directional pad and access the basic buttons on any normal remote. However, without paying for a membership, you’re only allowed a certain number of clicks before you’re locked out and the “pay for a lifetime membership” screen pops up and the remote won’t work. Couldn’t even use SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV to connect my TV to the internet. I understand ads for a free app, but not allowing your customers to use the remote for more than about 10 clicks is ridiculous.

by Stirrups

You know you have gone down the wrong road with choosing an app when, after SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV has demonstrated that it doesn’t work at all, and after discovering that the only things on the “Settings” menu have nothing to do with setting any functionality of SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV itself, you use SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV ’s function to send an email to support and when you touch send to submit your message SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV locks up completely, blocking you from reaching any such support.

Some things might not be worth a few dollars, but not being worth free is a total fail.

by AtackCLam

I should have known something was up when SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV said I tap the search for tv a “few” times. I bought SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV because it came up when I searched specifically Samsung remote. However I can’t connect to my tv at all even after paying for pro.
So I did what any reasonable person would. I emailed them directly through the the faq on there own page... that was ... 5 days ago...I would like a refund for you product that not only doesn’t work it would seem you support team is too busy?

by Joesgirljeri

We’ve gotten used to having phone remotes with our Roku so it seems to work fine. But for $20 this doesn’t work half as well as the free Roku remote. if you can’t click into the search bars and type on the keyboard from your phone, what is the point!?

Update: after several days of trying to use SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV, it’s completely worthless. It won’t connect or stay connected. It doesn’t see the TV most of the time. It needs to be authorized FROM THE PHYSICAL REMOTE which makes having a secondary remote useless. The functionality is poor. And on top of it, the section of your webpage to report problems or questions is broken, which means you know it’s a bad app.

Have requested refund.

by Jbobo2079

Bought a brand new Samsung 7series a few weeks ago and was directed by the setup to download SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV for convenience. Did so and then saw that there was $20 price tag. Not wanting to deal with ads every time I clicked a button in SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV , I paid the $20.

SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV has had extreme difficulty connecting to, or even finding my tv from the start (again... thought it was an issue that the paid version would fix). Now with the latest update, the screen just goes black.

Feel like I was scammed. I’ll never download/pay for an app like this again.

TO THE DEVS:
I paid my $20 for your service and your app is failing to deliver the promoted result. You need better fixes for problems other than “uninstall and reinstall SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV ” or anything else along those lines. When you update, it’s a pretty good practice to test things before releasing your update. Fix the problem immediately. As I see it, YOU/YOUR COMPANY/YOUR APP has breached the Apple store terms of service by failing to appropriately rectify customer issues as well as falsely advertising your product’s end result (and it’s obvious I’m not the only one). FIX THE D*MN APP I PAID TO HAVE AND MAKE SURE IT REMAINS OPERATIONAL HENCEFORTH!!!

by Fnarrly

My kids (presumably) lost the remote for my TV yesterday. We have torn the house apart looking for it, no joy. After several hours of this, I went looking for an app that I could use until it is found or until the quarantine is lifted and I can go buy a decent universal one to replace it. Tried a couple others that did not work with my TV or had limited functionality, then stumbled across SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV. It worked GREAT!

That is, until 24 hours later, when it would no longer do ANYTHING except try to make me pay $20 to continue using it. Thanks, but no thanks, I'll find another app.

by SDKing823

My stock remote carked out so I downloaded the free version of SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV. Eventually it just completely blocked me out behind a paywall so I spent the $20 to unlock unlimited use with no ads thinking I wouldn’t need to spend the money a new remote so why not. Little did I know that switching to any other app on my phone would completely disconnect my TV to SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV and not only would I need to reconnect but I have to completely shut SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV down and open it again, refresh search a few times until it (hopefully) detects my TV and then reconnect. Don’t waste your money, just get a new remote

by MCMaki65

After tearing the house apart looking for our Samsung remote, downloaded SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV out of desperation. I guess I wasn’t paying close attention because I paid $20 and thought it was free. Anyway...it has some cool features and it might be worth $20 if I didn’t have to keep reconnecting every time I wanted to adjust the volume or something.

Tip for Samsung Smart TV- did you know there is a button on the back of your TV that works like a joystick? You can press to turn TV on or use as enter button (which you will need to connect SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV) and press the edges to navigate. Press and hold to exit back to home.

If I had known this I probably could have just used the button until I could find my remote and save $20.

by Sunny.mana

Hi there... I’m trying to connect my phone to my smart Samsung tv. It’s worked at first but when I clicked accept it didn’t do anything. SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV looks helpful at first but things won’t work for me. I turn on my tv and my phone didn’t connect so is there any suggestion to make SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV find your tv? I was lucky it worked at first but it won’t accept. I was trying to do my homeschool with this and was trying to find a way to connect to my phone so it would be easier. SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV may be useful but it won’t work for me. Thank you.

by Preciosalv

I am disappointed because when you want to cast your photos you can only choose once and then you must restart SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV to be able to choose another photo or video and also you do not have the option of being able to delete the photos that you have already seen and it is too late for me because I already bought the membership. 😞

by Littlemissbrave

It’s okay if you wish to skip a physical remote, but it’s nothing special in my opinion. Especially for $20. A number of improvements could be made to make it worth the cost. My biggest requests:

- change the screencasting feature to mirror the screen, not just videos from your personally recorded videos
- a KEYBOARD for typing stuff like passwords or internet searches (you can only use a mousepad type feature or the hunt and click arrows, just like the regular remote)

by Jrath1967

I downloaded the smart remote app for my Samsung Q90 in order to use the photo background function of the ambient mode on my TV. Once I paired the remote with my TV, there was no ambient mode button to choose from within SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV . I was able to download photos to the TV cast tab within SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV , but that doesn’t give me the full functionality of displaying multiple pictures when I access the ambient mode on my TV through my actual TV remote.

by Neuhenrnd

Works fairly well, two things that I would love to see though,
First, a fix for SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV disconnecting from tv after a while of idle time during watching show or movie.
Second, a keyboard feature for typing in search boxes etc. would make life sooooooo much better.

by Lexy@home

Seemed like a good idea since I lost my remote SO I BOUGHT IT and then AFTER I BUY IT the tv says I need to remote to approve my phone using this. Here’s the issue, I LOST THE REMOTE. No I still have no way of using my tv and theory less dollars than to begin with. Restoring purchases button doesn’t work. Help me get my money back.🙁
Update: I searched for super long time and found my remote . I still want a refund tho. Help? 😅

by IPhone6DK

SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV is almost perfect. Works on all 3 of my Samsung TVs. Bought lifetime access. Yes, it does unpair when you’re out of SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV for a while but the reconnection process is automatic and takes 5 seconds max. I would recommend SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV to anyone who wants to be able to control their TV from their phone. Only one request — please add a keyboard so we can type instead of just using the touch pad to spell out words on the TV.

by BZdaddy

I purchased SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV for 20 usd, and it seem to be buggy. It seem to freeze when I switch from SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV to another. I need to then kill SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV and restart, not convenient.
I also cannot find the 123 button so I can type in a channel and go direct instead of having to scroll down a pile of channels.
Please advise if there will be a fix for this.

by ShooterJake

I tried a lot of these for my smart TV I like this one best of all. It has a awesome fresh look I love the option between a track pad and arrow interface. The trackpad is a bit sensitive I like the arrow pad best. All of these the remote apps have constant ads making them all near useless. So if you’re going to need to pay for it so you can get rid of the ads this one is well worth the money!

by Mmjk78787

Hey,
Out of frustration, I bought SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV when I lost my real remote. SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV is promising and could even replace the real remote. The main problem for this is that SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV doesn’t seem to stay connected when switching apps. I hope that this problem will be solved. Otherwise it’s a great app and everyone should buy it.

by Nettajulle

Simply: SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV does not detect any TVs in my home and they are all connected via WiFi as well as this phone. So it doesn't work. More beta testing needed for Smart Remote to be a viable app on IOS 13.3.

by Vogler39

Says it’s connected to my tv, but no buttons work. $30 for nothing

by Zombie1987gurl

Recognizes it and SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV does say you may have to tap multiple times but I’ve been tapping on it and nothing is happening.

by Disappointed3272728

My Tv doesn’t ask the Allow step so I can’t connect. Waste

by Dajjan97

It doesn’t find my new Samsung tv and both devices are on the same network. Also FAQ says error in database.

by ARG$

so I get to pay a tv and to use it I have to use my phone download an app and pay again
This is my last samsung

by Unclebeary

Horrible Experience. Called support just to waste over an hour of my time being insulted by support staff. Rep told me that I had to have something plugged into the optical plug which I didn’t! After remote login and repeating the exact same steps multiple times, the remote still doesn’t connect! So much for a “Smart” TV! Just paid $2800 for a piece of junk! Q60R 82”. I understand pairing technologies can have issues, but treating your customer poorly is unacceptable!

by The Dreaming Fish

I just purchased my new Samsung M4500 TV. SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV was working fine and I liked SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV ’s performance so I purchased the lifetime to get the bells and whistles and SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV never connect to the tv again....DO NOT BUY!!!!

by Inevitable159

Maybe the premium app is better but for a tv app for connecting to tv this is pretty bad. Delay in connecting each time and ads makes not worth using.

by Sethbranch

Want you to pay money for something that doesn’t work most of the time if it would work all the time I might pay for the upgrade version of it

by JustxxJ

Basically the option to upgrade to the premium service prevents me from even using SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV when I can get it to connect... if you’re going to make something for free that requires a payment to use it’s not really free

by Definitive-X

Doesn’t work on any of my Samsung or LG TVs although SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV detects them. Don’t even have it working on a single TV and was asked 10-12 times to write a review or to pay $20. Seems to me, since very few of these apps actually work reliably, that paying $20 is about as useless as SamSmartTVRemoteThingsTV itself. So I helped them out by writing a review.

by My Consideration

App says it only works on Samsung and LG TVs, but it could not detect my brand new Samsung TV. It’s a shame I liked the way the interface looked

by Desnoft

Hard to navigate!

by Bjcmgz

Good so far!!