Zapp / Roku
Roku TV remote, on your iPhone
Lost your Roku remote? Control a Roku TV or player from your iPhone over Wi-Fi, with your TV’s real app icons and real HDMI input names. No subscription.
One payment of $12.99. Never a subscription.
How it connects
Roku publishes an open control protocol on your local network, so Zapp talks to it directly. It is the least fussy of the five: usually there is nothing to set up at all.
What you have to do once
- Put the iPhone and the Roku on the same Wi-Fi network.
- Open Zapp. The Roku normally appears on its own.
- If it does not respond: on the Roku, Settings → System → Advanced system settings → Control by mobile apps → set to Default or Permissive.
What you get on Roku
- The full button remote, in the Roku layout — including the shortcut keys
- Your TV’s real app icons, pulled from the device itself (Pro)
- The real input list — "HDMI 1 — Game Console", as the TV names it
- A keyboard for Roku search (Pro)
- Roku TVs get power and volume; a Roku player only gets them if it reports that it can drive the panel, and Zapp hides the keys when it cannot
What it will not do
- A Roku streaming player cannot control the television’s own volume unless the TV supports HDMI-CEC and the player reports it.
Saying this plainly is the point: a remote app that promises what it cannot deliver wastes your evening and earns a refund. If the answer above is no, it is genuinely no.