HiSense Smart TV Remote

Review by eFreeware

The most distinctive thing about HiSense Smart TV Remote is that it covers both network-connected sets and older infrared ones. Most phone remote apps pick a side: they either talk to a smart TV over Wi-Fi or they lean on an IR blaster, and the developer here has built for both. That breadth is the reason this app has collected more than 500,000 installs and a 4.6 average from 16,962 ratings since its release in June 2022.

It is an unofficial app, and the developer says so plainly: there is no affiliation with HiSense Electronics. If you own a HiSense television and the plastic remote has died, gone missing or is sitting in the other room with dead batteries, this is the gap it fills. You install it on your phone, pair it with the TV and use the screen in place of the handset.

Wi-Fi pairing is the main event

For modern sets, the app works over your home network. Your phone and the HiSense TV have to be on the same Wi-Fi network, which is the sort of requirement that sounds trivial until you are on a guest network or a separate band and nothing shows up. Once the app detects the television, it asks you to enter the PIN displayed on the TV screen. That confirmation step is worth having.

The developer lists support for HiSense televisions running Android OS, Android TV and Roku OS, plus Android Chromecast OS. That is a wider net than the app's name suggests, and it is the part I would check first if you are unsure whether your particular model is covered. The pairing flow itself is described as detection followed by the PIN.

The app is free and ad-supported, with no in-app purchases offered. So the cost of entry is your attention during the ads rather than your wallet, and there is nothing to buy once you are inside.

What you can actually control

The button set covers the everyday essentials: power on and off, volume, channel changes, mute and directional navigation. That is enough for the majority of evenings, when you are flipping between channels or nudging the volume during a quiet scene.

Beyond the basics, the developer includes a home button, a touch pad and multimedia controls. The touch pad is the piece I would expect to matter most in practice, because entering a title in a search box with directional buttons is tedious on any remote, physical or otherwise. Multimedia controls suggest playback buttons for whatever you are watching through the TV's own apps.

The developer rounds the list off with a catch-all promise of more functions, which is the kind of line that tells you little until you have the app in front of you. The listed controls are the ones worth judging it on.

The infrared side and its catch

For older televisions that rely on traditional infrared rather than a network connection, the app takes a different route. It supports those traditional IR devices, but only if your phone has an IR blaster built in. That is a hardware requirement, not something the app can work around, and it is the single most important thing to check before installing if your TV predates the smart era.

IR blasters have become rare on phones, so this half of the app is likely to be useful only to people who deliberately bought a handset with one. The developer says the traditional remote mode supports all the functions found on the original remote, which would make it a full replacement rather than a partial one if your phone qualifies.

Getting connected without frustration

Two requirements decide whether this app works for you at all: the same Wi-Fi network for smart sets, and an IR blaster for traditional ones. Sorting those out before you start saves the usual round of confusion.

The PIN step is the other place to pay attention. The code appears on the television, so you type it into your phone. With the pairing done, the phone becomes the remote for that set, and a recent update increased the heap size and fixed an out-of-memory issue, which points to housekeeping rather than new buttons.

If pairing does not go through, the developer provides a support address, [email protected], and asks users to write in with connection problems. That is a reasonable fallback for a free utility, though it obviously depends on someone answering.

A practical stand-in for a lost handset

I would treat this as a backup remote rather than a permanent replacement for a working one. It is at its best in the moment your handset goes missing, the batteries run out at an awkward time, or you want to control the TV from the couch without hunting for the plastic remote.

Anyone with an older IR-only set needs to confirm the blaster first. The app's free, ad-supported model keeps the barrier low, and the developer's own disclaimer about being unaffiliated with HiSense is worth remembering if you are looking for something official.

For a straightforward job like this, the numbers speak reasonably well: a 4.6 average across a large pool of ratings suggests most people who install it get their TV responding. It is a narrow tool, built for HiSense owners, and within that scope it covers the ground you would want.

Who gets the most from it

The Wi-Fi pairing covers Android, Android TV, Roku OS and Chromecast OS models, while the IR mode reaches older sets provided your phone carries an IR blaster. Between those two paths, most HiSense owners will find their model somewhere in the list.

The free, ad-supported model means you can try it without spending anything, and the absence of in-app purchases keeps the experience simple. The trade-offs are the requirements: a shared Wi-Fi network, a PIN entry from the TV screen, and that IR blaster for older hardware. None of them are unreasonable, but each one decides whether the app is useful to you.

My recommendation is to install it as insurance. It will not replace a good physical remote for daily channel surfing, and the ad-supported format is the price of a free tool. As a fallback for a lost or broken handset, though, it does exactly what it promises, and it has been kept current with fixes as recently as August 2025.

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