The Best 17 Remote Alternatives

  • HippoRemote icon

    HippoRemote

    HippoRemote Pro turns your iPhone and iPod touch into a wireless keyboard, multi-touch mouse and remote control, giving you complete control of your media center Mac/PC with an intuitive yet deeply powerful interface.

    Freemium iPhone

  • Remote for Apple TV - CiderTV icon

    Remote for Apple TV - CiderTV

    Best alternative for your Apple TV remote! Plus keyboard and Smart TV volume control! Lets you to: - easily navigate Apple TV menus - watch movies, songs or TV...

    Free Mac OS X Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

  • Mobile Air Mouse icon

    Mobile Air Mouse

    Instantly transform your mobile device into a motion-based mouse, trackpad, and wireless remote for your computer.

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows iPhone

  • XBMC Remote icon

    XBMC Remote

    XBMC Remote gives you complete control of XBMC via your iPhone. The XBMC Remote can connect over WiFi or a 3G Network so you can control your XBMC from anywhere in the house - or even anywhere in the world.

    Commercial iPhone

  • Rowmote icon

    Rowmote

    Rowmote brings the simplicity and power of the Apple hardware remote, with perfect control of dozens of applications, to your iPhone or iPod Touch!

    Commercial iPhone

  • Remote Control for VLC icon

    Remote Control for VLC

    The Remote Control for VLC is an iPhone / iPad application that controls the VLC Media Player from VideoLAN remotely over a WiFi connection. The design philosophy was...

    Free iPhone iPad

  • Ultimate Control icon

    Ultimate Control

    Ultimate Control is a set of software tools that allow you to take control of your computer wirelessly.

    Free Android iPhone

  • Boxee Remote icon

    Boxee Remote

    Boxee Remote turns your iPhone into a remote control for the Boxee media center. It connects to Boxee over WiFi and has two modes: Gesture Mode and Buttons Mode. When...

    Free iPhone

  • Salling Clicker icon

    Salling Clicker

    Salling Clicker is our award-winning remote control software. It lets you control popular applications from a mobile phone or handheld computer through a user interface...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • Andromouse icon

    Andromouse

    AndroMouse 3.0 lets you to convert your Android phone into wireless mouse, keyboard, media remote, file browser and much more. Communication with your computer is made...

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux Android

  • Apple TV Remote icon

    Apple TV Remote

    Control Apple TV with the keyboard, a swipe of your finger or use the app along with the Siri Remote.

    Free iPhone iPad

  • tunesremote-se icon

    tunesremote-se

    Java based remote control for DACP-compatible music players such as Apple iTunes, MonkeyTunes for MediaMonkey, and Telescope for Songbird.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Java

  • MultiRemote icon

    MultiRemote

    MultiRemote allows you to control your computer.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Android

  • Touchpad icon

    Touchpad

    Transform your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to remotely control you computer through WiFi. Extended keyboard, Multi-Touch Trackpad and Apple Remote.

    Commercial iPhone

  • Keymote icon

    Keymote

    The only remote youll ever need. Keymote wirelessly controls practically anything on your Mac from your iPhone or iPod Touch using shortcuts. The possibilities are...

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