Smart TV Remote Control Reviews

UPDATE: got a message from the developer that most of the issues were fixed and was asked to reinstall. I did so and I couldn’t get past the connection screen, it kept asking me to make sure the Roku streaming stick is within the same network. Now, it’s possible that SmartTVRemoteControl won’t connect to a Samsung TV with a Roku device, but I am not willing to disconnect my Roku every time I want to control my television, and SmartTVRemoteControl didn’t give me the option otherwise to connect to the television only (though I think that’s stupid that I’d have to do so). Took a star away for my pain and suffering and added a thumbs down 🤷🏻‍♀️👎👎👎👎

This remote worked great... until it stopped working. After about a month, I would try to turn the tv on or off or mess with the volume, and it wouldn’t connect. I tried resetting my WiFi, deleting and reinstalling SmartTVRemoteControl , disconnecting my device and reconnecting. I even bought the upgrade that allowed multiple TVs, even though I shouldn’t have had to do so (when I deleted the tv I was using via SmartTVRemoteControl and tried to reconnect, SmartTVRemoteControl told me I had to upgrade to use multiple TVs... even though there wasn’t a tv connected).

SmartTVRemoteControl turned out to be crap and a waste of money 👎👎👎

I downloaded SmartTVRemoteControl because I cannot find my TV remote. First of all, when selecting my TV, it says please wait until the search is complete. This is when I found the first problem, it would NOT stop searching. Therefore, I could NOT select a tv. Clearly, all of the eligible televisions appeared on the screen but because it was still “searching” it would not allow me to click the tv I wanted to connect to. Second, they had spelling errors. I don’t know about you but I don’t trust anyone who can’t spell. Especially not with my money. The screen where it had me waiting FOREVER to search for eligible TV’s said “please wait until your smart tv SEACH within the network ends.” SEACH...? Where is the R? And this is supposed to be a Samsung app??? Like, what?

SmartTVRemoteControl has more ads than is acceptable for a TV remote app. Period. The $9.99 price to remove ads and let you add a little more customization to SmartTVRemoteControl is way too high. I think a lot of people would be much more interested in buying premium if the price was either $.99 or $1.99. The developer would make much more from the higher volume of purchases than they are now with ads subsidizing the fewer people buying the $9.99 package. This is basic economics that they still don’t understand even with all of the negative reviews saying exactly the same thing.

SmartTVRemoteControl works I will give that but I just hate that everyone who makes something great has to be so money hungry because the fact is you could’ve released a free app that controls your TV but no you wanted to create a premium version and I thought to myself who the hell is going to buy a premium version of a TV remote when you could just go by the remote from LG itself but I’ve seen a lot of people in the comments by it and it’s actually stupid but what made me give SmartTVRemoteControl a one star is like I stated before a premium that is totally unnecessary I pressed the home button to try to change to HDMI one so that I could play Warframe and immediately I get a pop-up talking about upgrade to premium and I’m just sitting there speechless like why should I have to pay premium to use arrows on the remote for my phone this whole money hungry thing is very stupid you can just as easily ask for donations everybody who makes apps is so money hungry I remember when I was a child there were free apps you could play apps free and there was no hassle but this is truly ridiculous do not buy the premium and do not download SmartTVRemoteControl

Legitimately connects to Samsung television using WiFi and it is simple to connect. However it is not useful at all; I went to click the first button and instead of sending a command I got an add. Then the button I was pushing didn’t even end up working after the add, it said command unavailable on the tv. I moved tabs in SmartTVRemoteControl to attempt a different command, this is now three clicks on the screen, so SmartTVRemoteControl sent another add. Now a pop up would be one thing, full fledged video adds though with a countdown on the skip button? Really not worth the users time to struggle with using SmartTVRemoteControl simply to grease the programmers pockets with add revenue.

For me whenever a button is pressed an advertisement will play for about 15 seconds, I think thats strange since this a remote control. Though the TV does have unremovable adds to begin with when trying to go to apps... Anyway on my Tv it will ask to give my phone permission, I click yes then it disappears. Then when I attempt to click a button on the remote an ad plays. Nothing changes for the TV and it becomes a loop. Im just annoyed how when the ad appears you cant use the remote for a couple seconds, it should be on some place maybe at the tops or sides of the screen? That would be more convenient.

A subpar app from a money hungry company. I don’t mind a few ads on a free app. But to have an ad every single time you touch the screen is absolutely ridiculous. I was trying to type my Netflix password and it took me over 15 minutes! Literally every single time I pressed anything, an ad pops up. I deleted SmartTVRemoteControl and went spend the $10 on an actual remote. Never again. Their goal is to annoy you with ads so much that you’ll buy premium or make the same amount of money (maybe more) off of you if you don’t get premium. Waste of time. I have better things to do than to spend over 15 minutes typing an email address.

So when I downloaded SmartTVRemoteControl it was telling about how it works and what it does and stuff. It goes to a connecting system so I can connect my TV to the remote. Something shows up on my tv and it says something like “Do you want to connect Tv Remote?” I press yes and on my phone it says it’s not connected bc the WiFi it probably not the same. I check if the WiFi is connected on my tv. It wasn’t connected to I fixed it and when I tried it again it still wasn’t working. I have tried these a couple of times or like a few and it wasn’t working at all. And every time I tried to click on one of the buttons like right, left, up, down, etc. the same ad shows up and it way too many that I have to delete SmartTVRemoteControl . I know what you are thinking. Why couldn’t you just have used your actual remote. It’s broken and just in case if we get a new one and we break it again. Therefore, I would not recommend getting SmartTVRemoteControl I may work for you but I didn’t work for me. I would rather use another app than this one.

Connecting couldn’t even be accomplished. Tv kept asking to pair yet SmartTVRemoteControl just never did then I think I’m good to go and after hitting the volume button boom! Download the premium version for such luxuries. No. I can even try it to see if I would even find it useful I’m not paying anything especially something so sneaky about it. If you want to sell a $10 app fine, that’s honorable enough to create a app and except money no problems there but to have a free version that does absolutely nothing? You and every app like you is a drain on the entire system and for that reason alone I deleted it as fast as I downloaded it and I’ll find one alittle more honest. It’s 2020 people are tired of scams

It keeps disconnecting every now and then! Before updating to the latest version, it used to be OK, I used to just search the TV again and it would be fine. But since the recent update, I can’t get it connected at all. DO NOT UPDATE IT! Not only many features that were available before are now available to premium users (even though I have purchased SmartTVRemoteControl but they have managed to define other premium accounts to take more money!), it is absolutely useless right now since it does not get connected to the TV at all. TV and router are the same, but the stupid update has ruined the connection.

At first set up, it worked fine. Now, it continually says it can’t connect to the TV. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled more times than I can count to eek out a few clicks of the remote before it drops the connection. I really liked that it had Apple Watch support since I always know that is, and the kids love to hide the remote.

I have good internet, so the constant drop out is beyond annoying. I haven’t been able to fix it or figure out what’s causing it. If it would just STAY CONNECTED it would be a great app. But, for now, I’m looking for an alternative.

When I first got SmartTVRemoteControl it worked fairly well but there was a ton of ads. Every 5-7 clicks an ad would appear so I decided to purchase it for the five dollars. Honestly it only made SmartTVRemoteControl worse it’s constantly glitching and at times won’t even connect to my tv. I thought the purchase would unlock special features but there isn’t even a fast forward option. Often times SmartTVRemoteControl closes itself without warning it’s extremely frustrating. I would not recommend purchasing or even keeping it. I found another remote app that works without all the nonsense this one brings.

I like the Apple Watch integration and Siri
Functionality, but sadly the trackpad tab doesn’t function (what I would have used as my default), the widget I paid extra for can’t locate my tv, thus doesn’t function, and the Apple Watch app works but is slow. It would be great if Samsung just made SmartTVRemoteControl but I realize that won’t happen. It the developer worked out the bugs and dropped the all inclusive price to $6, did away with the confusing and unnecessary premium vs custom they could sweep the whole market and I would give it 5 stars.

I was able to connect to my TV with no problem. The tour was a bit annoying and you cannot skip it. However what turns me away from SmartTVRemoteControl is the fact that there is an ad on every three button prices. Imagine if I have to type something. Because of this it doesn’t make me want to pay either. If there are so many ads within the free version, what data am I giving away in the paid version. The idea is that when you pay is supposed to be better. However, the free version has so many ads, I’m afraid I’m going to lose my money paying for it and it is not worth it. For now I’ll Take out my good old HTC phone and use the infrared through there And remove SmartTVRemoteControl immediately.

It connect to my tv in the matter of seconds, but after about five or six taps on the screen you have an add. This gets really annoying especially when your trying to type something using the little arrows and okay button. I do know that you can buy the premium pack, but five dollars is a bit much for a normal remote. I do also wish that it came with a keyboard outside of the premium pack (I only got this for a keyboard), but they don’t have that so you still will have to pay 5 dollars. I was debating if I should give this 2 or 3 stars and I decided to give this a three since it worked perfect but I really only had a problem with the adds and the absence of a keyboard.

I’m struggling with a rating on SmartTVRemoteControl because every app I’ve ever used can’t find my tv after a day or two of use. This one has lasted about a week and it does work! However, the ads... my god the ads. By far the most annoying ad disruptions of any app ever created. About every 6-10 clicks you get an ad pop up. Typing on a keyboard? Ad every 6-10 clicks. Searching through Netflix? Ad every 6-10 clicks. I’ve only had SmartTVRemoteControl for a week and will not pay $5 for ad removal until I know SmartTVRemoteControl works for at least a month.

This is a great app that serves its purpose. It is also perfect for pulling pranks on whoever is using the TV by turning it off or on and watching the person watching TV being confused and thinking their TV is hacked.
I gave it 4/5 stars because it does exactly what it is made to do. It would of been 5/5 if there were no ads.
There are not a lot of ads but there are some and some of the ads shown are the ones that are really hard to get out of so you have to exit out of SmartTVRemoteControl so you can make the ad go away and continue to use the remote.
I think this is a great app overall though.
So All in all I would recommend downloading SmartTVRemoteControl if you lose your remote often and are unable to watch TV until you find it.
SmartTVRemoteControl is mostly used by me for just doing pranks because I haven’t lost the remote yet.
But you should download SmartTVRemoteControl it’s fun to use easy to use and perfect for a lot of situations.

Very good app. Needs one thing more to be great. Need a button for close captions (CC). I have a Samsung 65” curved screen tv and everything so far works for me. So easy to use that I’m putting it on my wife’s phone. Will use this as my remote and save the original remote as a back up. SmartTVRemoteControl is easier to use

When I first got the remote it all worked fine. After a couple updates certain features stopped working until it didn’t work at all. Stopped using it for a while after that. Decided to try again at a certain point and it worked fine. Was mostly just upset that I had paid for the upgraded premium-version of SmartTVRemoteControl at the time which had none of the ads, and after updates I’m the bottom of the “tier’d” list and can’t even do things like use the Netflix button anymore, just the basic buttons on the first screen.

I felt compelled to give SmartTVRemoteControl a five star review because of all the idiots complaining about paying for an app when they could just use the remote instead. That being said, I like how modern SmartTVRemoteControl feels and the BIG feature of being able to use Siri Shortcuts.

However...I haven’t been able to get SmartTVRemoteControl to connect to my TV yet. It sees all the devices on the network so I’m chalking it up to user error. Once I’m able to test and see if SmartTVRemoteControl meets my needs I’ll gladly pay.

At first I thought SmartTVRemoteControl was pretty slick. But then, after paying for the upgrade, all the shortcomings began showing. For starters SmartTVRemoteControl won’t turn the tv on. You need to use your regular remote for that, which kind of defeats the purpose of paying for a remote. The watch app has no way of getting the tv to go to it’s home screen, moreover, pressing on any button other than the channel or volume results in the message that I upgrade to the premium version, which I’ve already done. And as far as “support” for this application... good luck. There is none. $5 bucks flushed down the toilet.

This is a really great app except that there’s an add every 5-10 seconds. Really wish I was exaggerating, here. There were no less than 3 Final Fantasy adds in the time it took me to navigate through my input sources and scroll over to SmartTVRemoteControl on the TV that I wanted to launch.

While I appreciate that the developers need to earn money for their work and that equates to ads, I’d like to be able to actually experience the functionality of SmartTVRemoteControl before deciding whether to pay for premium.

SmartTVRemoteControl is amazing when it wants to work would give it all five stars but recently it’s been having problems finding my Samsung tv both the tv and SmartTVRemoteControl are updated used to always work now it’s more times not working than it is working

I wanted to give it a 3 but I just can’t . The amount of ads that pop up is ridiculous. Literally every 3-5 clicks, you can’t even adjust your volume without running into 2.
Remote functions great, this would be a 5 star app without all the ads . They don’t have to be eliminate them but they need to change how frequent they appear.