Sock Finder vs Remote Buddy Display
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sock Finder
This app is designed for entertainment, humorously claiming to use advanced algorithms to locate lost socks. It playfully suggests its powerful processing can solve the mystery of missing hosiery, though it explicitly states it does not offer real-world functionality.
- Entertainment purposes only
- Advanced sock-finding algorithms
- Humorous take on lost socks
- Leverages smartphone processing power
- Limitations noted for tights
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This app is intended for entertainment purposes only and does not provide true Sock Finding functionality. It is often said that the modern smartphone is orders of magnitude more powerful than the computer systems that flew the Apollo astronauts to the moon in the sixties. With Sock Finder, we’re finally beginning to leverage that power. With millions of transistors running in parallel, on a modern quad core system that pushes vast pools of DRAM to the limits, our sock finding algorithms have finally found expression. We’ve been refining these routines ever since Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov in 1997, proving once and for all that emergent AI systems could match or better the complexity of the human mind. Sometimes socks go missing and 100 billion organic neurons just can’t cut it. This is where we step in. Take the plunge – see what next generation software can do. What do you have to lose? (Not your socks, you’ve already lost those) Purpose : Helping you find your socks. Limitations : Does not work on tights. Warning : Current heuristics follow a complex mutable deterministic pseudo-pattern that may obviate successful hoof furnishing location and retrieval under certain inexpressible circumstances.
Remote Buddy Display
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Stream your Mac's screen and use your Siri Remote as trackpad, remote & keyboard for your Mac apps. Lean back, connect to your Mac right from your Apple TV and control it with the remote in your hand. Skip the cloud and beam all the photos, presentations, documents and other content on your Mac directly onto the big screen. Turn your Siri Remote into an awesome presentation tool with Mouse Spot. Connect your Apple TV to a projector in your conference room and use it as a shared Mac display with an integrated remote control solution for the whole team. Remote Buddy Display is the tvOS companion app of the "Remote Buddy" Mac app. KEY FEATURES • Screen Sharing Beam your Mac's screen right onto your TV. Remote Buddy Display uses our high-performance screen sharing technology, developed from ground-up for tvOS and iOS, with a focus on high framerates and low latency. • Audio The built-in Audio Output switcher and volume controls give you control over where your Mac should send audio. By default, Remote Buddy Display selects your Apple TV as System Audio Output when you connect to a Mac - and switches back when you disconnect or switch away from Remote Buddy Display (requires macOS 10.8 or later on the Mac). • Remote Control Turn the remote of your Apple TV into a remote for over 100+ popular Mac apps, for which Remote Buddy provides tailor-made plugins. • Trackpad Turn the touchpad of your Apple TV Remote into a mini-trackpad for your Mac. Provides support for clicking, dragging and scrolling. • Keyboard Use Remote Buddy's full on-screen keyboard to type text or control apps. Complete with character previews, modifier and cursor keys. Remote Buddy Display also supports Bluetooth keyboards paired to your Apple TV. • Mouse Spot While in trackpad mode, rest a finger on the remote's touchpad for two seconds to highlight the area around the mouse cursor. When you're done, just lift the finger for two seconds and the highlight effect disappears. An awesome tool to bring more life and expression to presentations - or just locate the mouse cursor on screen. • Actions and App Control Pick from Remote Buddy's huge library of app-specific actions, launch, switch and quit apps right from your Apple TV. Mark frequently used items as favorites for quick access. • Power Control Sleep, Reboot or Shut down actions are easily accessible. Using Wake-On-LAN, Remote Buddy Display can also wake your Mac from sleep again. SUPPORTED APPS Some of the Mac apps that Remote Buddy for Mac and – henceforth – Remote Buddy Display can control out of the box: Acrobat Pro, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Reader, AirFoil, Aperture, Audio Hijack (Pro), Broadcasts, ComicBookLover, Capture One (Pro) 5, DVD Player, EyeTV, FlexTime, Firefox, Front Row, GarageBand, Google Earth, Google Chrome, GraphicConverter, iPhoto, iTunes, Keynote, Kodi, Lightroom 1/2/3/4/5, Music.app, Mac Blu-Ray Player, Movist, MPlayer X, OpenOffice.org Impress, Podcasts.app, Photos, PhotoBooth, Plex, PowerPoint, Preview, QuickTime Player, Rdio, Roxio Video Player, Safari, Skim, Soundcloud, Spotify, Toast Video Player, TV.app, VoodooPad, VLC, XBMC, Yojimbo A complete list is available at the Remote Buddy website. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS • Requires a Mac with macOS running Remote Buddy 1.28.1 or later. Some features require Remote Buddy 2.0 or later. Licenses for Remote Buddy for the Mac are sold separately and are not included with this app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Sock Finder at 3 against Remote Buddy Display's 1. 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.
Sock Finder ships an update every 25 months, Remote Buddy Display every 34 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sock Finder | Remote Buddy Display |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 25 months — better | Every 34 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicholas Dean | IOSPIRIT GmbH |
In-app purchases
Sock Finder
No in-app purchases
Remote Buddy Display
No in-app purchases
Questions
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