AV CONTROLLER User Reviews
Customer Experience
~ Based on 113 written reviews from the US App Store.
What users say
Summarized from real user reviews of AV CONTROLLER. Based on 760 reviews and a 2.5/5 average, it highlights the 5 positives and 5 negatives reviewers mention most about this Music app.
Positive things
- 🚀Phenomenal internet radio and USB audio playback
- 👍Intuitive and easy to use
- 🚀Flawless receiver control
- 👍Excellent range of setup and ease of use
- 👍Convenient remote control
Negative things
- 🐛Frequent connection issues and app crashes
- 🐛Lack of support for newer receivers
- 🐛Unreliable performance, often fails to connect
- 🐛Buggy updates break functionality
- 👎Cluttered and unintuitive user interface
Is AV CONTROLLER Safe?
AV CONTROLLER - US has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for AV CONTROLLER is 51/100.
This assessment is based on 760 user ratings, with an App Store average of 2.5/5.
Safety Analysis
~ Based on 760 App Store ratings for AV CONTROLLER.
Is AV CONTROLLER Legit?
AV CONTROLLER - US appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for AV CONTROLLER is 85/100.
Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.
Top reviews
Please fix. It cannot detect my receiver but airplay still work over network.
Took it for granted until I didn’t have it. Thanks for continuing to support this app Yamaha!
I loved this app however it is not supported by Yamaha’s newest flagship RX-A8A. I had an older flagship from 2008 the RX-Z7 but sadly it died. This app if supported by the receiver is simple and straightforward to use. I wish they would allow it to be used with Yamaha’s newest models.
This stupid guide will only open upside down in landscape mode on my M4 iPad Pro (iPadOS 26.3). I have never seen anything like this before. When I open the guide in normal landscape mode (volume buttons on top), it immediately inverts the screen and Wii not change to any other orientation. Come on Yamaha! This is such a juvenile mistake. FIX IT!
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Does the job of the physical remote, only better. Simple UI.
Love the internet radio and usb audio file playback! This app has exceeded all of my expectations! Thank you Yamaha! Your stereo receivers are just as awesome as your street bikes! Mahalo!
Love the AV receiver, however this app is terribly non cooperative too often and not supported and are plenty of updates and bug fixes that should be supporting our investment.
I used this app in the past and it was good for controlling my receiver. No longer. It won’t recognize my device and the support list does not include my the RX-V677. Yamaha just moved down on my list of future purchases if this is the way they treat customers.
it’s a shame that Yamaha doesn’t keep this app up-to-date. It still supports my RXV775 AVR and adapts wonderfully to iPhone and iPad screen resolutions. I use this app every day.
This app used to work so you could just open it up and turn your receiver volume up and down, now it only gives you a choice for music cast. 10 years ago it worked great, now it doesn’t work worth a crapz. Who authorized this app change.
Worked great, but suddenly stopped working for zone B. App crashes when zone B selected.
Please update the app! Love it except for one small, yet really annoying thing. When streaming music from my phone you cannot listen to Apple Music songs that have been added and downloaded for offline play.. pardon my choice of phrases but what the…?!
Worked great until July 30, 2025. Application update broke link with A/V receiver. Now it will not reconnect. Thanks Yamaha.
It’s unfathomable that Yamaha would produce such substandard software as this “AV Controller” can’t even find its own hardware on the same network! The only solution to listening to music my phone is to hard wire it directly to the receiver. Obviously Yamaha doesn’t care since this train wreck of an app hasn’t even been updated in over three years! …I’m certainly going to be keeping this in mind when / if ever purchasing other Yamaha products.
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The App used to work and it no longer does. I have a “current” receiver as it’s still being sold with RX-V4A and the app doesn’t work. Now only the music cast app works which doesn’t help as I don’t have music cast speakers. Why bother with an app if it won’t support your products?
Not often in the audio world a company continues with software updates so your receiver works with the latest technology. Always amazed my $800 10 year old Yamaha receiver works as well today with incredible range of setup and ease of use as it did when it was first used. This app to control zones and listening features has always worked with ease - even after all these years.
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The Yamaha AV Controller works great once mastered. However, the learning curve is longer than most other apps. That said, I still prefer it over the remote control. It is important to note that the full functionality is not readily apparent so plan on exploring the application using all your phone’s control tricks. I am still finding features years later. Overall, good job Yamaha.
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It’s great to be able to control my stereo remotely, but the organization of controls on this all doesn’t make a lot of sense, particularly with regard to adjusting volume, which you might have to do fairly often. There’s a lot of switching of screens necessary even though there’s plenty of space on a single iPhone screen (and certainly an iPad) to display (and control) volume for each individual zone and even a master control too. There’s no need to have a special “knob” interaction when we are all familiar with the classic iOS slider for volume that both displays and allows you to interact; all the knob does is force more clicks into the user flow. Really, if there were a simple page that had all volumes controllable simultaneously without paging around the app, I’d have rated this app much higher. Hopefully we’ll see that in a future version!
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Will not connect to my receiver.
IOS18 works with app
