Comparison

TV Remote vs Sill

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

Head to head
About

TV Remote

Control your television with a modern, intuitive interface. This app connects via WiFi to manage popular TV brands, offering smooth and reliable operation without clutter.

Highlights
  • WiFi network connection
  • Supports popular TV brands
  • Intuitive liquid-glass controls
  • Fast and reliable operation
  • Modern user interface
Features
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Clicker is a fast, intuitive TV remote built with fluid, liquid-glass controls for a modern feel.  It connects instantly over your local network (WiFi) and works with popular brands including Samsung, Google TV, Android TV, Panasonic, Sony, Roku, Philips, LG, Fire TV, and Vizio.  Designed for reliability and simplicity, it gives you smooth control of your TV without the clutter. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mileafy.com/privacy-policy-tv-remote-control-clicker Terms & Conditions: https://mileafy.com/terms-conditions-tv-remote-control-clicker

About

Sill

Stream your Mac's desktop or individual windows to your iPhone or iPad. Control your computer remotely using touch, keyboard, or Apple Pencil with encrypted connections. Offers flexible streaming quality and connection options.

Highlights
  • Stream Mac windows or desktop to iPhone/iPad
  • Remote control with touch, keyboard, Apple Pencil
  • Encrypted connections with TLS 1.3
  • Adjustable streaming quality and frame rate
  • Virtual display option for continuous updates
  • Multiple connection modes (Wired, Wi-Fi, Direct, Remote)
Features
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Sill puts your Mac on your iPhone and iPad. Pick any window, or the whole desktop, and use it with touch, a trackpad, a keyboard or Apple Pencil. Your apps keep running on your Mac. Sill shows them and sends back what you do. Sill needs the free Sill for Mac on the Mac you want to use. Get it at getsill.app. It runs on a Mac with macOS 14 or later. Get started • Open Sill for Mac and allow Screen Recording and Accessibility. • Open Sill on your iPhone or iPad. Your Mac shows up. Tap it. The first time, scan the code your Mac shows. • Pick a window from the Apps list, or tap Desktop to see the whole screen. • The first time, a short tour shows you the controls. Made for touch • Tap to click. Touch and hold to right-click. Drag to scroll. • Apple Pencil works as a mouse, with hover on iPad models that support it. • Hold your device upright for a laptop layout: the picture on top, a trackpad and a row of keys below. On iPhone, turn on Larger Picture to give a window’s picture more of the screen. • On iPhone Duo, open it flat and your Mac fills the inner display. Half open, it’s a laptop: the picture above the fold, a trackpad and keys below. Closed, Sill runs on the cover display. • Type with the on-screen keyboard, or on a hardware keyboard as soon as you connect, with shortcuts and Esc. A trackpad or a mouse scrolls the window under the pointer. • Copy text on your Mac and paste it on your iPhone or iPad. To paste on your Mac what you copied on your device, tap Paste in Sill: it goes where your Mac’s cursor is. • Swipe and pinch with three fingers for Mission Control, App Exposé, Spaces, Apps and Show Desktop. • Use the menus of the app you’re in: tap Menus in the bar, or on iPad with iPadOS 26 or later, use the menu bar at the top of the screen. • Switch windows from live thumbnails in the bar. Touch and hold one to close, minimize or go full screen. Drag it to reorder. • When the mouse moves on your Mac, its pointer shows on your iPhone or iPad too. • Aa makes text larger or smaller. Smooth and sharp • Up to 120 frames per second on displays that support it. • Set quality, resolution and frame rate from your iPhone or iPad. • Hear sound from your Mac in step with the picture, a beta feature that is on unless you turn off Send Audio in Sill’s settings, on your Mac or your iPhone or iPad. Mute it on any device in Sill’s settings. Your Mac, your network • Connect over Wi-Fi, or over a USB cable. • Mac nearby but on another network? Turn on Direct Wireless Connection on the Mac and connect straight to it. • Pair each device with your Mac once by scanning a code. Over a USB cable it pairs by itself. By default your Mac lets in only the devices you paired, and every connection is encrypted. • Away from home, reach your Mac through your own VPN. Sill starts at a quality a slower connection can carry, tells you when the connection can’t keep up, and moves back to your home network by itself when you get home. Private • No account, no ads, no tracking. • Sill has no servers and collects no data. The picture and what you type go between your devices and your Mac, and to no one else. • Sill is free and open source (Apache 2.0): https://github.com/Saffsanity/sill Good to know • Sill shows one window, or the whole desktop, at a time. • Sill for Mac comes from getsill.app, not the Mac App Store.

Screenshots

TV Remote4 screens
Sill4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sill at none against TV Remote's 2. Sill also leads on ratings volume (52 vs 15). TV Remote's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TV Remote sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Sill asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TV Remote against 4.9 for Sill. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 52 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of TV Remote's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sill's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TV Remote ships an update every 3 days, Sill every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
TV Remote versus Sill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTV RemoteSill
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (15 ratings) — better4.9 (52 ratings)
Positive reviews92.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1552 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKostiantyn NevinchanyiNOAH WILLIAM SAFFER

Customer experience

TV Remote

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive92.3%
Neutral7.7%
Negative0.0%

Sill

All ratings52 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

TV Remote

Subscriptions1
  • Clicker Pro Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Clicker Pro Lifetime$19.99
None

Sill

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TV Remote free?
TV Remote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sill free?
Sill is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TV Remote or Sill?
TV Remote is rated higher. TV Remote averages 5.0 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Sill averages 4.9 from 52 ratings.
Do TV Remote or Sill have ads?
Neither TV Remote nor Sill shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TV Remote or Sill?
TV Remote ships an update every 3 days, and Sill every 2 weeks. Most recently, TV Remote was updated on November 5, 2026 and Sill on November 6, 2026.

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