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CLUSTER INFRARED-REMOTE-TURNS · 12 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2023-10-08

Remote control mobile apps

The cluster consists of mobile apps that turn a phone into a remote control for various devices, including TVs, vehicle heaters, lighting software, and smart lights, using infrared, SMS, or WebSocket. The dated entries are scattered across a decade, with a gap between 2015 and 2020, then entries in 2020, 2021, 2023, and a denser set of three entries between late 2025 and mid 2026. Traction leaders are Nope Remote, IR Blaster Remote, and Controller for QLC+, though all currently show zero stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUL 2015: 1MAY 2019: 1OCT 2020: 1JUN 2021: 1OCT 2023: 1DEC 2025: 1JAN 2026: 1JUN 2026: 1SEP 2026: 4
JUL 2015SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 3 hand-coded · 8 unlabelled

Operator · 4 hobby · 8 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 12 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Controlix1★10 days—hobbyOffline Android app that turns a phone's infrared blaster into a universal remote for TVs, air conditioners, and projectors.
  2. 02SwiftRemote0★6 dayslivehobbyAndroid app for creating custom infrared remotes from raw hex codes or imported Flipper Zero, LIRC, and IRPLUS files to control devices.
  3. 03WMC-Controller0★1 mo—ai-builthobbyAndroid app that uses phone's infrared blaster to send RC-6 signals controlling Windows Media Center, Kodi, or MythTV receivers.
  4. 04infrared-reverse-engineering-iphone-remote-app0★1 mo—hobbyiOS app that learns infrared codes from physical remotes and sends them through a USB-C IR blaster to control home devices.
  5. 05Nope Remote0★25 daysliveopen sourceAndroid app that turns a phone into an infrared remote control with customizable command macro sequences.
  6. 06IR Blaster Remote0★3 moliveopen sourceMobile app that turns a device into a universal infrared remote to create, import, test, and send IR signals.
  7. 07Controller for QLC+0★3 molivehand-codedopen sourceAndroid remote controller for QLC+ lighting software via WebSocket.
  8. 08HeaterRC0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceAndroid app that allows remote control of vehicle heaters via SMS commands.
  9. 09Osram Remote0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceMobile app that turns a phone's built-in infrared emitter into a remote control for Osram RGB smart lights.
  10. 10IR Remote0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceMobile app that turns a phone into an infrared TV remote control, stripped of ads, tracking, and account requirements.
  11. 11LG0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceMobile app that uses a phone's infrared sensor to remotely control LG televisions.
  12. 12Hue Widgets0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceAndroid app to control Philips Hue lights from home screen shortcuts, widgets, and a quick settings tile.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.