Demote: Universal TV Remote

The remote is under a cushion, out of batteries, or in the other room. Your phone isn't.

Open Demote and it has already found the TV you're sitting in front of — it scans your Wi-Fi the moment it launches, so there's nothing to type, no account to make, and no settings menu to go digging through. Tap your set, clear whatever prompt it puts on screen, and that's the last setup you do. From then on the remote is simply there.

BUILT FOR THE COUCH
• Oversized, high-contrast buttons you can hit without looking down
• A trackpad that visibly gives under your thumb, with haptic ticks on every press
• Your phone's keyboard, for typing into TV search boxes instead of pecking at an on-screen grid
• Voice search sent straight to the TV's own assistant
• Full VoiceOver support, Dynamic Type, and Reduce Motion respected throughout

WORKS WITH
• Android TV and Google TV, including Chromecast with Google TV
• Roku TVs and streaming players
• Samsung Tizen (2016 and newer)
• LG webOS
• Vizio SmartCast
• Sony Bravia
• Panasonic Viera (pre-2018 models)
• Sharp Aquos
• Google Cast devices, for volume and playback

Pairing is whatever your TV asks for — a PIN on screen, an Allow prompt, or nothing at all — and Demote remembers it, encrypted, on your device.

SIRI SHORTCUTS
Ask for the remote without unlocking anything: "Open TV Remote," "TV Volume Up," "TV Volume Down," "Mute TV," "TV Play or Pause." Drop them into Shortcuts, automations, or the Action button.

A CONNECTION THAT HOLDS
Most remote apps drop the moment you switch away. Demote keeps the network path to your TV warm, checks the session the instant you come back, and quietly re-establishes it if the socket died while you were elsewhere. On supported TVs it can wake the set from standby instead of asking you to find the real remote.

MAKE IT YOURS
The remote is free, and it's the whole remote — every key, every direction, volume, playback, apps.

A one-time Lifetime Unlock adds the button builder: up to 24 custom buttons across your own panes, in your own colors, mapped to any key, app, or multi-step macro you like. One purchase, no subscription, yours forever.

PRIVACY
No account, no sign-in, no ads. Demote talks to your TV over your own local network — it doesn't route your commands through anyone's servers.

Demote is built by one independent developer. If a TV in your house doesn't behave, write in — that's usually how the next release gets made.