Universal TV Remote - Power On

No subscription. No in-app purchases. No paid upgrade. The remote is missing. The batteries are dead. Someone left it in another room. When that happens, your phone becomes a universal TV remote for your smart TV, and unlike most TV remote apps, it turns the TV back on, not just off. It was built by someone who had tried a lot of remote control apps and kept hitting the same problems: slow to respond, the useful buttons buried, no way to type a channel number. All of that is fixed. ■ It turns the TV on, not just off This app uses Wake on LAN to wake a TV from standby, so turning the TV on from bed in the morning actually works. * Your TV must have "turn on over network" enabled. See the notes below. ■ No in-app purchases Actions use "points": you start with 100 and each action spends one (press-and-hold and rapid presses count as one). Watching a rewarded video adds 30. "Turn the TV on" never costs a point, so running out can never leave you unable to switch the TV on. Points cannot be bought. ■ The buttons you use, where your thumb already is - A large circular D-pad with OK in the centre, sized for one-handed use - Volume and channel on rockers either side of the D-pad. Hold to repeat - Home, input, back and exit grouped around the D-pad - The four coloured buttons (red, green, yellow, blue) ■ Captions, replay and search Turn subtitles on and off from the app, on LG, Samsung and Android TV sets. On Roku you also get instant replay and the options button (*), as on the physical remote. ■ Pick an input from a list, not by cycling The app asks your TV which inputs it has and shows them by name, including the names you gave your devices. TVs that do not report a list get HDMI 1-4. ■ A keypad for typing channel numbers Enter the number and go straight to it, including sub-channels like 12.1. Save the channels you watch most and reach them in a tap. ■ Launch streaming apps on the TV Open YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+, Apple TV, Spotify and others, whichever are installed on your TV. ■ Type with your phone keyboard Use your phone keyboard to type on the TV, instead of spelling a search out one letter at a time. ■ Supported smart TVs (detected automatically) - LG webOS (NANO, OLED, UHD and others) - Android TV / Google TV (Sony Bravia, Sharp, TCL, Philips and others) - Roku TV (TCL Roku TV and others) and Roku streaming devices - Samsung Tizen (Neo QLED, The Frame and others) Join the same Wi-Fi and the app finds the TV and works out its protocol. One universal TV remote for every brand: no separate remote control app for each. ■ Getting started 1. Connect your phone to the same Wi-Fi network as your smart TV 2. Open the app. It looks for TVs on your network 3. Pick your TV and approve the connection on the TV screen (first time only) ■ Before you buy in - Your phone and TV must share a router. A TV on Ethernet is fine - The first connection needs approval on the TV screen - Turning the TV on requires a setting on the TV. On LG webOS sets, enable "Settings > General > External Devices > Mobile TV On". Some power-saving options prevent it - IR works only on phones with a built-in IR blaster, and only with LG TVs. Everywhere else, the app works over Wi-Fi - The app controls the television, not a cable or satellite set-top box. If you watch through a Sky, Virgin or similar box, it covers power, volume and input, but the channels are handled by the box's own remote - Some buttons are unavailable depending on your TV model and firmware. Buttons that cannot be used are dimmed - The app shows ads - Available in English, Spanish and Japanese, following your device language * Product and service names are trademarks of their respective owners. This app is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them; they are listed as apps that can be opened on your TV.