SofaBaton User Reviews

SofaBaton
SofaBaton
HTT IMPORT AND EXPORT INC

Customer Experience

Positive experience36.4% of reviews
Neutral8.0% of reviews
Negative experience55.7% of reviews

~ Based on 176 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is SofaBaton Safe?

SofaBaton does not appear safe based on available data. AppsHunter Safety Score for SofaBaton is 49/100.

This assessment is based on 289 user ratings, with an App Store average of 2.4/5.

Safety Analysis

32.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.8% of ratings suggest some concerns
62.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 289 App Store ratings for SofaBaton.

Is SofaBaton Legit?

SofaBaton appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for SofaBaton is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

App works great

App works great and the setup is pretty straight forward. No idea why their avg rating is so low, but maybe previous versions didn’t work as well? No idea but the current version (as of July 2026) is 5 stars.

Buggy software hampers experience

I followed the instructions that were provided in the instructions manual. The remote would not connect to the hub. Instead was placed into an infinite loop of installing the firmware. I had to remove the remote in the app, restart the application, for the remote to be recognized. The English translation is also lacking to say the least. For example, the common practice for users to acknowledge a successful installation is to click a button that says OK. Instead, the button says sure. Are you asking am I “sure” this installed successfully. Not a good first impression. The remote now works at least.
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Nice

There’s a manual? Who needs a manual. This remote works great on my Apple TV 4K. The only thing it doesn’t do is voice dictation with Siri, at least I can’t figure out how to do that.

Does'nt worth it

The app for these remotes is pretty bad, and last update made it even worst,can't even connect to the hub

Commandes IP enfin possibles !

Grace au nouveau modèle X2 j'ai pu enfin piloter toute ma domotique Fibaro (éclairage avec variateurs , climatisation, ...). Pour contourner des limites du protocole j'ai publié un article sur Elektor Labs.

5 stars

Very easy to set up and connect. I paired my remote in under 5 minutes with no issues. The app is well designed, intuitive, and works exactly as expected. Great experience so far.

Needs lots of work

As a software developer of 20+ years and longer A/V aficionado and a long time user of Harmony remotes, this app does little to fill the void. I had moderate hopes but it didn’t even meet that. Setting up the hub saw constant connection losses, forced app closes, device restarts. Adding devices take 5-30s between steps doing some sort of syncing. Took hour to get just 3 devices. It was painful. And often times it just fails and you have to start all over. Bugs and slowness everywhere.

All that said, once it finally did manage to wrangle it together it did work. Click latency was better than expected after the slow setup process. If you can fight through the app, it will work. Just painful.

Hardware wise it’s great. If the app can improve, it has great potential. But right now it’s nowhere close.
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Tablet-Modus?

Im Prinzip ganz gute App, hätte ich vor Jahren mit der X1 in Betrieb. Damals war die Hardware der Remote leider noch nicht so prickelnd, knarzende Schalter und auch das Scrollwheel war nicht mehr zuverlässig. Die Konfiguration der Remote über die App war damals auch teilweise noch tricky.
Offenbar hat sich an der Qualität der Hardware aber wohl etwas getan, wenn man den Tests glauben darf. Daher wird demnächst mit der U3 nochmals getestet.

Aber: Tablet-Modus wäre schon gut, ich hoffe, der kommt zeitnah.
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Great university remote

This remote doesn’t need wifi to connect it’s using your bluetooth phone connection.

It’s really interesting that it’s 2026 and a good universal remote is really a hard find. Unless you want to spend hundreds on a programed one that has to be programmed by a authorized dealer.

For the money, the Softbaton a fantastic remote that works really well, also it doesn’t eat batteries either, which many do. My only complaint is you can’t clone them. I have similar setups and would make creating a new one very simple,
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Buggy and constant “phone requires wifi connection” errors despite having functioning wifi

Please for the love of god remove the “phone requires wifi connection” error that pops up constantly. Every few seconds! My phone has 2 or 3 bars of wifi and is fully functional both to browse the web and use your app and connect to my sofabaton x2 hub. It seems you programmed this error to pop up as soon as phone wifi drops from 3 bars down to 2 bars. Your phone can work fine with two bars of wifi. Remove your stupid error alerts please!
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Completely dissatisfied

Lots of bugs. Extremely difficult to set up. Been using Google to find instructions, and they are different than what the actual product and app say. And continuously running into roadblocks. I would never recommend this app to somebody.. And if this is the only app that will work with the universal remote, and hub, then I will return it and go to a different brand.
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🍌 Produkt

Wenn sich die Entwickler*innen doch einfach etwas mmehr Zeit nehmen würden :( - So kommt es einmal mehr, dass ein Bananenprodukt, welches vielleicht beim Kunden reift, auf den Markt geworfen wird. Folge: Krude Übersetzung, instabile Konnektivität, missverständliche Anleitung, unlogische Zuordnung der internen Apps/Display. Mein Tipp: Unedingt auf eine Softwareversionierung warten, die ansatzweise hält was sie verspricht. Ich trauere meiner Logitech-Hub nach.
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Eigentlich top, aber der Bluetooth-Schlafmodus nervt extrem (Fire TV)

Ich nutze die SofaBaton U2 als Ersatz für meine alte Logitech Harmony. Von der Haptik und der Einrichtung per App bin ich eigentlich überzeugt – vor allem die echten Zahlentasten sind heute Gold wert. Aber ein Punkt trübt den täglichen Gebrauch massiv: die Steuerung von Bluetooth-Geräten wie dem Fire TV Stick.
Die Fernbedienung scheint extrem aggressive Stromspareinstellungen zu haben. Sobald man ein paar Minuten keine Taste gedrückt hat, geht sie in einen Tiefschlaf. Das führt dazu, dass man beim Fire TV immer zweimal drücken muss: Der erste Klick weckt die Fernbedienung auf und stellt die Bluetooth-Verbindung wieder her, erst der zweite Klick führt den Befehl aus.
In der Praxis ist das unglaublich frustrierend, wenn man nur mal kurz "Pause" machen oder spulen will. In Foren ist das Problem bekannt, aber ein Firmware-Update, das den Standby-Timer anpassbar macht, lässt auf sich warten. Wer viel über Fire TV oder Apple TV streamt, sollte sich dieses "2-Klick-Verhaltens" bewusst sein.
Für reine Infrarot-Geräte (Receiver, TV) ist sie super, aber die Bluetooth-Umsetzung wirkt leider nicht zu Ende gedacht. Bitte nachbessern, SofaBaton!
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Gute Funktionalität

Die X1S funktioniert soweit gut, alle meine Geräte werden unterstützt. 2 Dinge nerven: das Rollen des Display ist hakelig. Sony Bravia TV lässt sich nicht immer einschalten, sodass leider die Sony Fernbedienung auf dem Tisch liegen muss.

An OK Remote

Main issue is that the navigation buttons (up-down, left-right) are overly sensitive. So, a single push of the button goes past the area you want and then you have to navigate back.

Suggestion

Un éditeur d’icônes serait un plus pour coller à l’évolution des matériels : par exemple une icône Apple TV ; de même la possibilité de renommer un appareil, pour ne pas être obligé de chercher lequel on souhaite activer

X2 Hue Pro prise en charge

Bonne note car la MAJ prend en charge la lumière Hue Pro et LIFT cela permet d’inclure les lumières dans les scénarios. Sinon c’est un bon service globale. Les fonctions Bluetooth Apple TV et Nvidia Sheild sont un vrai plus. Le matériel reste un peu cher dans l’ensemble.

Update: now the app crashes immediately on open. Remote is good, app is buggy trash

If you already have a “complete” home setup, you’ll prob have a better experience as you’ll only need to go through adding devices once and can forget about the app.

Otherwise, updating buttons and adding devices is painful. Adding devices from their database rarely works so get used to manually adding all the IR commands. It feels like an app made by people who stopped caring after making a demo
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Winner of the most stupid app of the year

Not sure this was design for humans

Works Well

App and remote set up great and it works well. Have Harmony but needed another one for a different room. Don’t have the need for macros on this one but used learning function to add some additional buttons from a 20 year old Classe pre and no issues, better than the Harmony learning function.