Easy Remote vs Arcolis Remote Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Easy Remote
Design a personalized remote control for your smartphone or tablet. This intuitive app lets you add buttons, faders, and color wheels to control compatible lighting software and hardware. Connect via WiFi to discover and manage devices seamlessly.
- Create custom remote layouts
- Add buttons, faders, and color wheels
- Control ESA2 and Sunlite Suite 2
- Support for Ethernet controllers
- WiFi device discovery
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Create an entirely customized remote controller for your tablet or smartphone. Easy Remote is a powerful and intuitive app allowing you to easily add buttons, faders, color wheels and more. The app can control the ESA2 and Sunlite Suite 2 software. It's also capable of controlling our Ethernet enabled stand alone controllers (coming Jan 2014). Connect to a WiFi network and the app will find all compatible devices.
Arcolis Remote Pro
Control Nicolaudie Ethernet/WiFi lighting controllers from your mobile device. Discover compatible controllers on your network and customize your lighting with buttons, faders, and color wheels.
- Control Nicolaudie lighting controllers
- Ethernet/WiFi enabled
- Discover compatible controllers
- Add buttons, faders, color wheels
- Customizable lighting control
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Arcolis Remote Pro allows you to control any Nicolaudie Ethernet/WiFi enabled stand alone lighting controller. Connect to a WiFi network and the app will find all compatible controllers. Easily add buttons, faders, color wheels and more. Visit our website at https://www.nicolaudie.com/arcolis for more information on compatible DMX controllers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Easy Remote at 2.6 against Arcolis Remote Pro's 2.0. Easy Remote also leads on review sentiment (32% vs 0%) and ratings volume (16 vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Easy Remote holds the better App Store score, 2.6 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Easy Remote has 16 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 32% of Easy Remote's written reviews are positive against 0% of Arcolis Remote Pro's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Easy Remote | Arcolis Remote Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (16 ratings) — better | 2.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 32.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 10.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LIGHTINGSOFT AG | Nicolaudie |
Customer experience
Easy Remote
Arcolis Remote Pro
In-app purchases
Easy Remote
No in-app purchases
Arcolis Remote Pro
No in-app purchases
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