Comparison

Free Roku Remote . vs Verso

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

Head to head
About

Free Roku Remote .

Control your Roku TV directly from your smartphone with a fast and intuitive interface. Easily navigate menus, manage playback, and adjust volume without needing your physical remote. Connects quickly over Wi-Fi for instant control.

Highlights
  • Control Roku TV from phone
  • Simple remote layout
  • Fast device discovery
  • D-pad and playback controls
  • Home, back, and power functions
  • Dark interface design
Features
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This FREE Roku Remote helps you control your Roku TV directly from your phone with a simple, fast, and easy-to-use remote experience. No need to search for the physical remote. Open the app, connect to your Roku device, and start controlling your TV instantly. Use your phone to navigate menus, control playback, adjust volume, go back, return home, and interact with your Roku TV in a familiar remote layout. Key Features Control your Roku TV from your phone Simple remote layout with easy navigation Fast device discovery on the same Wi-Fi network D-pad control for menu navigation Playback buttons for play, pause, rewind, and fast forward Home, back, power, and option controls Clean dark interface designed for comfortable use Quick connection to nearby Roku devices Whether your remote is lost, out of battery, or just across the room, Roku Remote gives you a convenient way to control your TV anytime. How it works Make sure your phone and Roku device are connected to the same Wi-Fi network. Open the app, scan for available Roku devices, select your TV, and start controlling it right away.

About

Verso

This app provides a dedicated space for reading and listening to fanfiction and EPUBs. It offers customizable reading modes, text-to-speech narration with highlighting, and automatic chapter update notifications. Importing content is free and straightforward.

Highlights
  • Text-to-speech narration
  • Word-by-word highlighting
  • Customizable reading modes
  • Automatic chapter updates
  • Import from web links
  • Import EPUB and TXT files
Features
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Verso is a quiet, beautiful home for fan fiction — and it reads to you. Paste a link to a public work on Archive of Our Own or Quotev — or tap Share right in Safari — and the whole story lands on your shelf: title, author, tags, and every chapter. Importing is free, always. LISTEN • Narration reads any story aloud, with word-by-word highlighting that follows along • Keeps reading with your phone locked — play, pause, and skip 15 seconds from the lock screen • Choose your voice and speed; a sleep timer stops when you drift off • Your place is saved to the word, in every story READ • Typography that takes long-form fiction seriously — adjustable size, margins, and line height • Scroll or page-turn mode, whichever your thumbs prefer • Light, sepia, dark, and high-contrast modes, free for everyone NEVER MISS AN UPDATE • Verso Premium watches your works-in-progress and badges them the moment new chapters arrive • Premium also unlocks the Hush and Codex themes, in every mode IMPORT • Fan fiction import — works with Archive of Our Own and Quotev links • Import straight from Safari: tap Share, choose Verso • One-tap import when a story link is on your clipboard • Paste any text — chapters are detected automatically • Open .txt and DRM-free EPUB files QUIET BY DESIGN • No ads. No accounts. No tracking. • Your library lives on your device. Verso Premium is $1.99/month, $19.99/year, or $29.99 once. Reading, narration, and importing are free forever. Unofficial — not affiliated with the OTW (Organization for Transformative Works) or Quotev or AO3.

Screenshots

Free Roku Remote .4 screens
Verso4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Verso at 100% against Free Roku Remote .'s 50%. Verso also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Free Roku Remote .'s advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and ratings volume (958 vs 1). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Verso holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Free Roku Remote . has 958 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Free Roku Remote .'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Verso's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Free Roku Remote . ships an update daily, Verso every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Free Roku Remote . versus Verso: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFree Roku Remote .Verso
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (958 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings958 — better1
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
Best chart rank#191 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB4 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTERMUX LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANYTesoro Industries Apps

Customer experience

Free Roku Remote .

All ratings254 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral2.8%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Verso

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Free Roku Remote .

No in-app purchases

None

Verso

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Free Roku Remote . free?
Free Roku Remote . is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Verso free?
Verso is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Free Roku Remote . or Verso?
Verso is rated higher. Free Roku Remote . averages 4.7 out of 5 from 958 ratings, while Verso averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Free Roku Remote . or Verso have ads?
Neither Free Roku Remote . nor Verso shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Free Roku Remote . or Verso?
Free Roku Remote . ships an update daily, and Verso every 5 days. Most recently, Free Roku Remote . was updated on October 31, 2026 and Verso on October 24, 2026.

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