TapRemote
Your iPhone as the remote for your smart TV
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Control Samsung, LG and Roku TVs and Google TV sets from your iPhone over Wi-Fi: power, volume, touchpad, typing and voice search, TV apps and inputs, plus widgets, Control Center, Siri and Apple Watch. No ads.
PH · launched Nov 13, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: screen mirroring and casting software · 76 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Apple
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Could you build this?
Partial The iPhone app and control UI are buildable, but controlling Samsung, LG, Roku, and Google TV over Wi-Fi requires brand-specific network protocols, and the widgets, Control Center, and Apple Watch parts need native iOS expertise.
What it would actually take: The build would be a native Swift/SwiftUI app with WidgetKit, Control Center, and watchOS extensions, plus per-brand network clients. Each TV family speaks a different protocol (e.g., Samsung's SmartThings/WebSocket API, LG's SSAP, Roku's ECP, Google Cast), so some of this needs reverse engineering from existing open-source work and ongoing maintenance as firmware changes.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 476 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #242 of 477 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 364 days after the earliest competitor.
- TV Remote: Smart TV · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.82
- Tuned · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- Screen Mirroring · Smart TV · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Universal TV Remote Control · ph · 2026-11-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- No Subscription Remote · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- EltaCrew TV Remote · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- OpenTV-Remote · github · 2026-10-27 · 76 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Screen Mirroring – Smart TV Cast App · ph · 2026-10-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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