ProPresenter Remote 4+

Standard features work good. Need to add audio control for starting and stopping music pre and post service. Ease of use is excellent. Layout good. I highly recommend it!

This app works well for the limited things it does. As sated with other reviews you can only play what is in a playlist or your library excluding audio. This is a app I haven't used much as it is too limited. For future updates more control for clocks, messages ect would be nice and worth the money. For now I would say unless you has a reason to be away from your computer and need to change the slides this app won't be much help for you at this time.

From the outset let me say all credit to the team at RV for their awesome product & courage to create the iPhone app. The remote control is ok, good if all you want to do is change within a current playlist, but beyond that some of the core reasons for having a remote have been omitted. In our scenario we use PP to control all of our media for our Children's Church - everything from entry, the main service, games etc - so we push it probably to the limits.

Here is an outline of things you can't do:

- You cannot access your audio library or backgrounds. You cannot trigger an audo clip, or a background. As you can't get audio tracks into the playlist you basically cannot access this area of the application - so if this is something you want to drive think again.

- There is no search functionality - if you have a large library watch out! You cannot trigger a count down - something that would be fantastic to trigger remotely, and also announcements cannot be controlled.

- When controlling Media, you are only informed if a frame is an image or video, so if you want to control a number of foregrounds in one media sequence you really need to know what was what because you aren't given a filename, only numbers. This is a little fraught with peril - imagine hitting the wrong item and triggering the wrong media piece! oops (in front of 2000 people).. At a minimum it needs the file names so that you can at least identify what the media piece is.

- There is no access to 'logo' or 'camera' feeds either, so if 'in an emergency' a service coordinator needed to throw to a logo - you can't (and this is one of the obvious reasons why a remote is so handy!).

- Logging in isn't fantastic - I can understand why they have done it the way they have, but having to enter the password every time (on an iPhone..) is not fun. The apple remote has worked it out - registering once with a system so that there is no requirement in future to enter information.

On the positives - it's fast (no serious lag), fairly intuitive and usable. Would I recommend buying it? Absolutely. I've commented above so that you know what you are getting - don't missunderstand this as bagging it out. Many points made above are certainly not being sold by RV as 'included' - so the app does what the vendor says it will do! It is a GREAT app and one I certainly hope RV develops further in the future (stage clocks tied to your play list would be nice :-). If you own and run PP, you would be nuts not to buy this.