OFA Advanced vs Overhead Long Beach
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OFA Advanced
This app facilitates the setup and advanced feature management for specific One For All Smart Control remote models. It allows users to combine devices into activities, learn remote functions, create macros, and manage key assignments for a streamlined home entertainment experience.
- Device setup for URC 7956, 7981, 7985
- Bluetooth communication with remote
- Access to thousands of A/V device brands
- Create and control activities with multiple devices
- Learn functions from original remotes
- Create flexible macros for single-key commands
- Edit keys, macros, and assignments
- Lock volume control to a specific device
- Remote Finder feature
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The One For All Advanced Setup app is used to set up devices and features on the One For All Smart Control models URC 7956, URC 7981 and now URC 7985. The app uses Bluetooth to communicate with the remote control and gives you access to thousands of brands and models of infrared controlled Audio/Video devices. Once the remote is controlling your Home Cinema, the app also gives you access to a wealth of features including: • Combine up to 3 devices into a single Activity and control them from a single mode • Learn any function from your original remote control onto keys on the OFA Smart Control • Create flexible macros to send multiple commands on a single key press; for example power on your TV, Streaming Box and Sound bar, wait for 3 seconds then select the correct input on your TV. • Easily edit keys and macros, changing their functionality, move them to different keys, devices or activities. • Lock the volume control of the remote to a single device, for example a Sound Bar or Audio Video Receiver. • Remote Finder – locate your remote using your phone to activate the speaker in the remote (8 Device remote and Touch remote only)
Overhead Long Beach
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Quieter skies, signed by you. Overhead is a free, neighborhood-built app for residents who live under the Long Beach Airport flight path. One tap captures an overhead plane, the time, your location, your altitude estimate, and the actual decibel level of the noise. Then — when you're ready — Overhead opens your own Mail app with a pre-filled report addressed to the right people. You review it. You hit Send. The complaint goes out from your account, in your name, as constituent correspondence. That last part matters. In January 2026, a court tossed out a neighborhood lawsuit demanding stricter enforcement of LGB's noise ordinance. The judge ruled the city only has to act on noise it can individually prove. One resident, one email, one signed concern is exactly that. Anything an app sent on your behalf would land as "just an app" and get filtered out — yours can't. WHO THIS IS FOR California Heights, Bixby Knolls, Los Cerritos, and the rest of the neighborhoods that hear flight schools doing touch-and-go loops over their backyards from 6:30 AM to 11:45 PM. If that's you, this app was built for you. WHAT YOU GET • Tap to capture: photo or up to 8 seconds of video • Live decibel meter measures the actual noise level on capture • ADS-B + registry lookup pulls the aircraft's tail number, type, and owner/operator when available • Time, location, altitude, and ordinance status are recorded automatically • One-tap dispatch: opens your Mail app with the report pre-addressed • Real map of every report you've sent, color-coded by ordinance status • Compile any month into a single PDF for AAC public comment • Works offline — reports queue locally and send when you're back online PRIVACY THAT'S ACTUALLY PRIVATE Overhead has no visible account, no ads, and no analytics SDKs. Your full reports, photos, videos, decibel readings, coordinates, and notes live on your phone unless you choose to send a report through Mail. The app also sends a tiny anonymous tally row to our Supabase backend so the public observatory can count neighborhood activity. No tracking, no advertising IDs, no third-party analytics. NOT AFFILIATED with the City of Long Beach, Long Beach Airport, the FAA, or any government body. Overhead is an independent civic-tech project built by neighbors who got tired of waiting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Overhead Long Beach at every 2 days against OFA Advanced's every 6 weeks. OFA Advanced's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
OFA Advanced ships an update every 6 weeks, Overhead Long Beach every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OFA Advanced | Overhead Long Beach |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Universal Electronics BV | Alexander Saldivar |
In-app purchases
OFA Advanced
No in-app purchases
Overhead Long Beach
No in-app purchases
Questions
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