TV Remote: Smart TV
Turn your iPhone into a remote for almost any smart TV
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TV Remote turns your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch into a remote for Google TV, Samsung, LG, Roku, Vizio, Philips, Hisense and Panasonic over Wi-Fi. Finds your TV by itself, with widgets and a keyboard. No account, no ads, no tracking.
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PH · launched Oct 19, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Media & entertainment
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Apple Watch
- TV
Similar launches
See all 191 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial While an iOS app wrapper is straightforward, reverse-engineering and maintaining network protocol handshakes (SSDP/mDNS discovery, WebSocket auth, proprietary encryption) across a dozen TV OEM protocols is technically intricate.
What it would actually take: The app requires implementing local network device discovery (SSDP, mDNS/Bonjour) and handling proprietary communication protocols for each manufacturer: LG webOS (WebSockets with pairing keys), Samsung Tizen (encrypted WebSocket tokens), Roku (ECP REST API), Sony/Android TV (custom SSL/TLS handshakes and pairing PIN exchanges). The hard part is acquiring test hardware across all manufacturers, dealing with firmware updates breaking protocol specs, and managing iOS local network permission constraints.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 191 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #94 of 192 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 339 days after the earliest competitor.
- Tuned · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.78
- EltaCrew TV Remote · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- aTV RC · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Screen Mirroring – Smart TV Cast App · ph · 2026-10-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Music Remote Control · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- LGwebOS-menubar · github · 2026-10-13 · 97 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Vibote · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- 3d-home-tv-os · github · 2026-10-19 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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More details
- External ID
- 1284276
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- TV Remote: Smart TV
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- All tags
- iOS, Apple Watch, TV
- AI summary
- iphone remote control for smart tvs
- Manually corrected
- No