Comparison

FrontFace Remote Control vs SVXLink

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

FrontFace Remote Control

Features
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The FrontFace Remote Control App allows to remotely control a FrontFace digital signage player PC with your mobile phone or tablet. To use this app, it is required that you have installed the Remote Control Plugin for FrontFace within your FrontFace project. It is also required that your mobile device is in the same (local) network as the FrontFace player PC that you want to remote control. The Remote Control App can start, pause, and stop playlists or touch menus on a FrontFace player PC, turn playlist pages back and forth, fill in text placeholders when starting a playlist and perform basic system operation tasks such as changing the audio volume level of the player PC and shutting down / rebooting the player PC.

About

SVXLink

Features
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Control your RF.Guru hotspot over Bluetooth, watch the live feed, send DTMF, and explore the live reflector map from iPhone or iPad. HotSpot is the official mobile companion for the Analog HotSpot SVXLink platform. Pair once over Bluetooth Low Energy and the app takes over from there: read live SVXLink state, switch talkgroups, send DTMF, watch the reflector network on a real map, and keep an eye on your 4G uplink. What you can do: โ€ข Live state feed โ€” callsign, frequency, current talkgroup, active and last talker, TX/RX flags, plus 4G signal bars when an LTE modem is fitted. โ€ข DTMF & device commands โ€” full DTMF keypad with quick buttons (status, parrot, IP-announce) and a control menu for SVXLink start / stop / restart, 4G on / off, reboot and power-off. โ€ข Talkgroup quick-dial โ€” buttons highlighted yellow for the talkgroups your hotspot is actively monitoring, grey for switchable ones, with a green "last heard X ago" timer on each when the live feed is on. โ€ข CTCSS info โ€” output tone and the full input-CTCSS โ†’ talkgroup mapping shown on the Hotspot Info screen. โ€ข Live reflector map โ€” OpenStreetMap-based view of every node on your reflector. Spiderfy clustering, colour-coded pins (red transmitting, green ON0 repeaters, orange nodes, blue AI-detected, grey offline), floating callsign labels on active talkers, and a glass info card on every pin tap. โ€ข Home radius โ€” saves your QTH from GPS and frames the map at a configurable radius (default 150 km). One-tap re-center. โ€ข Reflector talker history โ€” live, server-paged list of who's been on the network, sourced from the same WebSocket feed. โ€ข Auto-everything โ€” auto-connect to your last hotspot on launch, auto-detect WSS support per reflector domain, auto-fetch the talkgroup labels from the portal, and fall back to Bluetooth-only mode when there's no internet. โ€ข Keep-screen-on with auto-sleep โ€” optional, slider from 0 (never sleep) to 120 min. โ€ข Just Works pairing โ€” no PIN, no fuss. Open-source hotspot firmware: github.com/Guru-RF/Analog-HotSPOT-SVXLink

Screenshots

FrontFace Remote Control4 screens
SVXLink3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SVXLink at every 5 weeks against FrontFace Remote Control's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FrontFace Remote Control ships an update every 2 months, SVXLink every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
FrontFace Remote Control versus SVXLink: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFrontFace Remote ControlSVXLink
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.013.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size103 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developermirabyte GmbH & Co. KGRF Guru

In-app purchases

None

FrontFace Remote Control

No in-app purchases

None

SVXLink

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FrontFace Remote Control free?
FrontFace Remote Control is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SVXLink free?
SVXLink is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FrontFace Remote Control or SVXLink have ads?
Neither FrontFace Remote Control nor SVXLink shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FrontFace Remote Control or SVXLink?
FrontFace Remote Control ships an update every 2 months, and SVXLink every 5 weeks. Most recently, FrontFace Remote Control was updated on October 14, 2026 and SVXLink on October 17, 2026.

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