Sonymote : Remote for Sony TV 4+

We misplaced our Sony remote about a week ago. Looked everywhere. Downloaded this app and we were like super excited to finally be able to watch our tv again. Godsend! But.. haha hella ads. It gets the job done for sure as in on/off but if you’re trying to scroll, or fast forward/rewind it will get interrupted with ads!! Haha I rewound and entire episode of Loki trying to get through an ad. Worth it if you’re desperate I suppose. Definitely gives incentive to find the lost one.

I downloaded this to use on my Sony Bravia TV. It did indeed connect and I think it was able to access most of the features on the original remote. The problem is that there were ads within just a few minutes of using the app. And one of those ads was a phishing scam app that pretended to be a message from iOS about my phone storage being full. And there is a choice to clean your iPhone. I did not click it because I knew that my storage is not full and I’ve never seen a message like this in years of iPhone use. I can only imagine if someone who is less savvy would have seen this ad and ended up installing some kind of bug or data opening. So because of that I deleted the app immediately. It’s one thing to see an advertisement from a sponsor it’s another to see scams embedded into an app.

I get having a banner across the bottom, but every so many button clicks (as far as I can tell), a big ad fills the screen forcing you to stop and begging you to buy. Renders this app unusable for me - at least the free version - since so many functions on a Sony TV require a sequence of many button pushes. Maybe that’s the developer’s intent (of course it is). Something about this design just seems wrong so I’m on the fence about whether to buy even though the price is reasonable. Otherwise it seems to work fine. Agree with other reviewer, though...Sony should have its own factory app.