TV Remote vs Walkaway
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TV Remote
Control your smart TV and streaming devices directly from your iPhone or iPad. This universal remote app offers a clean interface, fast device discovery, and customizable layouts for a seamless viewing experience. It's a convenient backup or replacement for your physical remote.
- Control smart TVs and streaming devices
- Fast Wi-Fi device discovery
- Clean touch remote interface
- Customizable buttons and layouts
- Ad-free experience
- Convenient phone-based control
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Control your smart TV from your iPhone or iPad. TV Remote: Custom Control is a universal remote app for supported smart TVs and streaming devices. Lost your remote? Need a backup? Want a cleaner remote layout? Open the app, connect to a supported device on your Wi-Fi network, and start controlling your TV in seconds. Features: • Control supported smart TVs from iPhone or iPad • Works with most TVs and streaming devices • Fast device discovery on your local network • Clean touch remote for everyday control • Customize buttons and layouts • Create a remote that fits how you actually watch TV • Ad-free experience Whether your remote is lost, across the room, or just frustrating to use, TV Remote: Custom Control gives you a faster, cleaner way to control your TV. Why use TV Remote: Custom Control? Because sometimes you just need a remote that works — and sometimes you want one that works your way. Whether your remote is lost, out of batteries, across the room, or just annoying to use, this app gives you a convenient remote on your phone. Premium features may include advanced customization, additional layouts, shortcuts, and other enhanced controls. This app requires your iPhone or iPad and your TV or streaming device to be connected to the same Wi-Fi network. Privacy Policy: https://monkeypants-tvremote.web.app/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://monkeypants-tvremote.web.app/terms-of-service.html
Walkaway
This app blocks distracting applications by requiring you to take a walk. Earn access to your chosen apps by meeting a step goal, or use hard blocks and schedules for uninterrupted focus. It's designed to be private and resist attempts to disable it.
- Walk to unlock apps with step goals
- Hard block for no early unlock
- Customizable schedules
- Commitment locks for extended blocking
- Resists early disabling
- Private by design, no account needed
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Walkaway is the app blocker that makes you move. Instead of a timer you can dismiss, it puts a real, physical walk between you and your most distracting apps. THE PROBLEM WITH WILLPOWER Feeds are engineered to be opened on autopilot. By the time you notice, an hour is gone. Walkaway interrupts the reflex with the one thing a feed can't compete with: your own body in motion. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick the apps that pull you in (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube — anything). 2. Walkaway shields them using Apple's Screen Time technology. 3. Want in? Walk. Your steps are counted live, and when you hit your goal the app unlocks for a short session. Moving is the opposite of scrolling. Most of the time, by the end of the walk, you no longer want to open the app at all. WAYS TO BLOCK • Walk to unlock — earn your time with real steps, counted by your iPhone's motion sensor • Hard block — no early unlock, no exceptions • Schedules — block mornings, evenings, or any custom daily window • Commitment locks — seal a block for 3 hours up to 1 week; no way to switch it off early BUILT TO RESIST FUTURE-YOU Deleting the app or flipping blocking off in Settings is the loophole every blocker shares. Walkaway walks you through closing it: lock your settings with a Screen Time passcode you don't memorize, and the block actually sticks. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up • Step counting happens on-device • Apple's Screen Time framework means Walkaway never sees which apps you use or what you do in them • Nothing leaves your iPhone A 1-MINUTE SCROLL CHECK Four quick questions show how much of your scrolling runs on autopilot — then Walkaway sets the right walking goal for you. WHO IT'S FOR • Doomscrollers who lose hours without deciding to • Students and deep workers protecting their focus • Anyone trying a digital detox who wants to move more instead of scrolling Stop negotiating with the feed. Put your shoes on and take your time back — one walk at a time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: TV Remote at 27 against Walkaway's 1. On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for TV Remote against 5.0 for Walkaway. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TV Remote has 27 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | TV Remote | Walkaway |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (27 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 1 |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Monkeypants LLC | ANIELLO DI POLITO |
In-app purchases
TV Remote
No in-app purchases
Walkaway
No in-app purchases








