Red Thunder Remote
Bluetooth controller
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Bring your Sphero Ultimate Lightning McQueen back to life with full driving controls, 261 animations, game controller support (Pro upgrade), and smart reactions.
Your favorite RC car toy lost its app — Red Thunder brings it back.
Red Thunder is a Bluetooth controller built from the ground up for a certain BLE-enabled RC car toy that has been abandoned by it's original manufacturer. Connect, drive, and interact with your car like never before.
FREE FEATURES
DRIVE
- Intuitive touch controls with separate steering and throttle zones
- Controls anchor to wherever your finger lands — no fighting a fixed joystick
- Flip controls to swap sides with one tap
- Landscape and portrait layouts
- iPad optimized
SMART REACTIONS
The car reacts to what's happening — automatically:
- Welcome animation on connect
- Idle chatter when sitting still, escalating to bored after 2 minutes
- Goodbye animation on disconnect
- Race start callout when you floor it
- Drift commentary when turning hard at speed
- Backup quip when reversing
- Celebration after a 30+ second drive
- Crash reaction on impact (accelerometer-detected)
- Pickup detection when tilted or lifted
- Upside down reaction when flipped
- Night driving lines when you turn on the lights
- Touch response from capacitive sensors
- Low battery warnings that get more urgent as power drops
- Far away alerts when Bluetooth signal weakens
LIGHTS & BATTERY
- Toggle headlights and taillights
- Real-time battery percentage display
- Low battery animation alerts
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RED THUNDER PRO (one-time purchase)
Unlock the full experience:
GAME CONTROLLER
- Full MFi and Bluetooth controller support
- Left/right stick driving with trigger throttle
- Face buttons mapped to emote, rev, lights, and stop
- Shoulder buttons for flip controls and Ka-Chow
- Button hints appear on-screen when controller is connected
- Controller stick input visualized on the touch zones
CUSTOMIZE ANIMATIONS
- Star your favorites for quick access from the Emote button
- Rename any animation with a custom name
- Assign animations to 18 event categories
- Export and import your animation database
- Every animation discovered, named, and ready to play
- Tap to play any animation instantly
- Searchable list with tag filtering
- Emote button for quick favorites
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Built with love for toys that deserve a second life.
The developer, Caleb Jones, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Caleb Jones
- Size
- 3 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 9 more
- English, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Red Thunder Pro $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026
