Your phone finds the Fire TV on your Wi-Fi, pairs with a four-digit PIN shown on the screen, and takes over from there.
The free version is a whole remote, not a preview of one.
No setup ritual, no cables, no developer settings — and nothing between you and the buttons.
Open the app, pick your Fire TV, and type the four digits it puts on your screen. That is the entire setup, and you only do it once.
D-pad and OK, back, home, menu, playback and sleep. Volume and power are there too — they reach your television wherever it accepts them.
No ads, no banners, no popup asking you to rate the app while you are trying to pause. One screen, one job.
Press and hold anywhere and every button starts to wiggle, exactly like your home screen. Drag them to where your thumb already is, drop the ones you never press into the tray, pull out the ones you miss.
The D-pad takes whatever space is left over, so the layout stays usable no matter what you move. One tap puts everything back.
The list comes from the Fire TV itself, with the real artwork — not a hand-kept list that goes stale the moment you install something. Tap once and the app opens on the television.
The touchpad turns the whole screen into a trackpad — swipe to move, tap to select. Better than five presses of the down arrow.
And when a search box appears on the television, use your phone keyboard instead of picking letters off a grid one at a time.
The Apple Watch app is a remote of its own, not a mirror of the phone. Swipe between the device page, a full-screen D-pad and the buttons, and turn the Digital Crown for volume.
It pairs with the television itself, so it keeps working while your phone stays in the other room.
Unlock Pro once for €4.99 and it stays unlocked.
No subscription. No expiring trial. No ads in either version.
Everything in Pro is something you start to miss once the app is part of your evening — none of it stands between you and a television you need to pause right now.
The one thing loaded from the internet is app artwork, fetched once from the address your Fire TV names — and you can clear it in the settings.