The Roku App (Official)

I love the fact that I can use the Roku remote app on my phone to control all of my Roku TVs. It works well for the most part. What I don't like is the new center area where the arrows that make the cursor move up and down and left and right are gone and now there is a big purple block that I have to tap at the top, bottom, on the left side or the right side of it to move the cursor. It's not as easy to hit the correct area as it was when there was an actual arrow that showed where to tap.

Changing my review to say the app works much better now. Went from not working at all to working consistently. only took them a long while lol. Im very thankful for it (when it's working properly) because evidently my household can keep track of a single remote. I can't even find the remote I just bought. It's still in the box🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️. So I, and other family members can use the app as a remote when needed! Thank you roku😘

useless at worst, unoptimal at best. I tried connecting to my TV and it didn't show up. Then Itried to do it manually by IP address—nothing. It took 20-30 minutes of restarting my phone and my TV, unpliggimg my router, reconnecting everything, then searching for devices again. eventually it worked for a while, but had a couple seconds of latency for every input. then it disconnected and I couldn't find my device again. I spent more time trying to use the app than actually using it.

Used to be a great app ever since the major android update it is hit or miss. Loading the homepage will crash the app... Update February 24th 2026. Working flawlessly again. Although still has that annoying issue whenever an alert comes in to your phone of any kind it will select ok on any option you might be on. If the movie you are watching is paused any alert will unpause it. Very annoying if you want to pause a movie and send a few texts!! If you guys fix this it's 5 stars all around.

I love the concept that our home TVs can sync to each other and to our devices. I love that I can continue my movie from the house, into the car on a road trip. It's extremely versatile and I enjoy using it. That being said; there's intermittent lagging and interruptions between the router and the TVs, and also intermittent buffering on the phones and tablets. So, it's not a perfect system. But it's still a Really cool setup.