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.
Download on theApp Store
iPhone · iOS 17 or later
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.