BTAir vs ProPresenter Remote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BTAir
Control CHAUVET DJ Bluetooth™ enabled lights directly from your phone or tablet. This app offers wireless lighting control without requiring any additional hardware, leveraging Bluetooth™ technology for seamless operation.
- Bluetooth™ wireless control
- Control CHAUVET DJ lights
- No additional hardware needed
- Direct phone/tablet control
- Cutting-edge lighting technology
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CHAUVET DJ has a long history of developing cutting-edge lighting technologies. Once again CHAUVET DJ ushers in a new era of wireless lighting control with the introduction of BTAir, an app that uses Bluetooth™ wireless technology to control CHUAVET DJ Bluetooth™ enabled lights directly from a phone or tablet without any additional hardware needed.
ProPresenter Remote
Control your live production presentations remotely from your mobile device. Manage slides, trigger macros, switch scenes, and access media libraries to lead any event seamlessly.
- Control Slides
- Trigger Macros
- Switch Looks/Scenes
- Access Media Libraries
- Control Timers
- Send Stage Messages
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ProPresenter Remote is your pass to total control. Whether you're calling cues at a concert, running visuals at a conference, supporting a speaker from side stage, or getting lyrics up just in time for the next worship song, the ProPresenter Remote app gives you everything you need to lead the moment. Get full control of Slides, Macros, Props, Timers and more—directly from your mobile device and from anywhere in the room. Built for live production: • Control Slides, trigger Macros, fire Props • Switch Looks for different scenes • Access your Libraries, Playlists and Collections • Start and control Timers and show Stage Messages • Use custom remote views that fit your workflow • ...and more! Requires ProPresenter and a local network connection to the presentation computer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ProPresenter Remote at every 3 months against BTAir's every 7 months. BTAir's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.5 for BTAir against 2.5 for ProPresenter Remote. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 82 and 71 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 18% and 17% positive.
BTAir ships an update every 7 months, ProPresenter Remote every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BTAir | ProPresenter Remote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (82 ratings) | 2.5 (71 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 17.6% of reviews — better | 17.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 82 — better | 71 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chauvet Professional | Renewed Vision LLC |
Customer experience
BTAir
ProPresenter Remote
Bugs and requests
BTAir
Reported bugs
63 issues- Playback organizer is buggy
- App doesn't pair properly
- App doesn't work with latest OS
- App crashes 80% of the time
- Zone chase option not working
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- App doesn't run in background
- Fade option doesn't work
- Cannot rename or delete saved scenes
- Latency in scene changes
- White text on white background for editing
- Bluetooth has weak signal
- App keeps shutting down or refreshing
- Sometimes doesn't find fixtures
- App freezes during pairing
- Will not pair at all
- App drops out often
- Has to be rebooted every service
- Always have to repair lights
- Takes a long time to connect to each light
- App consistently crashes
- Unreliable app
- App shuts down at times
- Controls rarely work correctly
- Can't erase colors and start fresh
- App shuts down or refreshes
- Doesn't find fixtures
- App freezes during pairing
- Will not pair at all
- App drops out often
- Has to be rebooted every service
- Always have to repair lights
- Takes a long time to connect to each light
- App consistently crashes
- Unreliable app
- App shuts down at times
- Controls rarely work correctly
- Can't erase colors and start fresh
- Latest update is buggy
- App drops out randomly
- Struggles to find lights
- Does not work on Android devices
- Non-responsive design on iPhone
- Crops buttons at the bottom on iPhone
- Not intuitive that long presses allow more info
- Broke with iOS 13
- Cannot pair with any fixtures after iOS 13 update
- App is not compatible with iOS 13
- App is not compatible with new iPad iOS
- App crashes when opening
- Sound activated crashes
- App crashes when selecting sound activated
- App keeps crashing
- App immediately shuts down
- Color picker does not work on iPhone 5s
- Zone chases do not work
- Cannot choose certain sections and mix colors
- Sound activated is delayed
- Three-zone functionality not working
- App closes out immediately on sound activated
- Zonechase selection serves no purpose
- Stuck on previous selected function
- App crashes when opening
- App crashes on sound activated setting
Requested features
27 requests- Control EZPar-56s, Par-56s, moving heads
- Slower fade speed
- Save fixed colors
- Back button for prior color
- Crossfade between fixed colors
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- Allow app to run in background
- Type in BPM for speed control
- Landscape mode for iPad
- Edit, rename, and delete scenes
- Split screen functionality
- Improve playback mode for rearranging scenes
- Allow scenes to be edited instead of delete or rename
- Color code scene icons
- Improve color picker
- Add preset colors
- Improve color accuracy
- Add tempo tap for effects
- Three-zone functionality
- Display three different colors simultaneously
- Fade between color combinations
- Access to onboard light programs
- Live color wheel reaction
- Fade option for fixed tab and scene playback
- Fade between function selection
- Improve sound activated feature
- Add fade between function selection
- Video tutorial for instructions
ProPresenter Remote
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BTAir
No in-app purchases
ProPresenter Remote
No in-app purchases
Questions
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