Rowmote 4+
Verstaile Remote for Mac
Evan Schoenberg
Designed for iPad
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- $0.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Rowmote lets you seamlessly control audio, video, and presentation applications on your Mac from your iOS device.
You love the remote control which came with your Mac - so simple yet elegant, with easy control of Front Row, iTunes, Quicktime, DVD Player, Keynote, and more.
Or, your Mac didn’t come with a remote control or doesn’t even have an infrared port. Buying a remote control, from Apple or a third party, would carry a significant cost!
You carry your iPhone or iPod Touch wherever you go... so why should you carry a second device just to control your computer? Furthermore, why should you need line-of-sight to do so?
Enter Rowmote! Rowmote is like your Mac’s remote control, but over the wireless network and even better! By tapping the Apps button, you get bonus abilities, switching between controlled programs, toggling the iTunes Visualizer, and more. Rowmote will even wake sleeping Macs.
FEATURES
- Control your Mac over a wireless network. No line of sight necessary.
- Functions just like the hardware Apple Remote Control in:
• Adobe Lightroom
• Airfoil Video
• Amarra
• Aperture
• BBC iPlayer
• Beamer
• Boxee
• Decibel
• DVD Player
• Ecoute
• eyeTV 3.x
• Firefox
• Front Row
• Hulu Desktop
• iPhoto
• iTunes
• Keynote ‘08 & later
• kJams Pro
• Kodi
• Last.fm
• Logic
• Microsoft Powerpoint ‘04 & later
• mPlayer
• Movist
• OpenOffice Impress
• Preview
• PandoraBoy
• PandoraJam
• PandoraOne Desktop
• Photos
• Plex, Plex Home Theater, & Plex Media Player
• Quicktime
• Rdio
• Safari
• Skim
• Songbird
• Spotify
• Squire
• The Tube
• VLC
• xbmc (Xbox Media Center)
- SWITCH: Access your Mac’s Dock, launching & switch between all controllable applications on the Mac, toggle the iTunes visualizer, and more. Order & display customizable.
- Click-and-hold works just like on the physical remote in applications; for example, holding the right button fast-forwards, while a single click is ‘next’. This is a feature no other iPhone remote control I know of does properly!
- Sleep on demand; wake the Mac automatically
- Pause the music or video automatically when you answer a call on your iPhone
- Proximity sensor support to automatically turn the screen off if the device is face-down
- Secure authentication
- Optional dark interface
- Connect via WiFi or Bluetooth (Bluetooth requires Personal Hotspot Bluetooth tethering)
REQUIREMENTS
• Mac OS X 10.4.0 or later.
• Mac: The free Rowmote Helper program must be running on the Mac to be controlled. Download at www.rowmote.com. Some features require later versions of Mac OS X.
Rowmote is a steal! Couple it with Apple’s free Remote app to turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into the ultimate controller for home stereo, mobile presentation, or casual video viewing.
The artwork of Rowmote was designed by Rik Schennink.
What’s New
Version 5.0.1
• Updated interface for all iOS devices
• Redesigned, simplified iPadOS interface
• Added iOS copy & paste functionality for keyboard
• Extensive under-the-hood improvements for improved performance and to serve as a foundation for future work
• Fixed a bug in iPadOS which could lead to a crash on launch in some cases
Ratings and Reviews
Swiss Army Remote Control
This application is terrific, but hasn't reached it's full potential yet. Visual and audible feedback were conspicuously absent from the version I purchased initially. When I `pushed a button' there was no corresponding movement on the Rowmote interface. Audio feedback has been added to the latest update, so when you push a button now, you hear an audible `click'. This was not necessary on the original Apple remote, because when you pressed a physical button it moved. The interface is gorgeous, but is oversimplified for a device capable of doing so much. If visual feedback and possibly a backlit `LCD' display were included in a future release, it would make a terrific application an excellent one.
Not recommended
Most places I do presentations at are educational or commercial locations, and their wifi has firewalls that can't be turned off, so this app won't work there.
Garbage
Doesn't work.
App Privacy
The developer, Evan Schoenberg, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Evan Schoenberg, M.D.
- Size
- 38.9 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.2 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.2 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.2 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2008-2022 Regular Rate and Rhythm Software
- Price
- $0.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Rowmote Pro Upgrade $4.99