Control! Mac - Remote Control, File Browsing and Video Streaming for Macintosh Reviews

Good companion app to Apple's own Remote App. The Remote App gives you access to your iTunes library so you can play your music to powered speakers or stereo system anywhere in your house connected to an Airport Express in your wi-fi network. But if your Mac is asleep and/or iTunes is not open you're out of luck. The Control! app not only wakes up your Mac remotely but also lets you open iTunes. After you're done you can quit iTunes and put your Mac to sleep again. This functionality probably should have been built-in into the Remote app but Control! works perfectly plus it has other good features as well. Update Does not "work perfectly". After using it for sometime I find it is good enough but the connection is unreliable. Forced to keep iTunes open, otherwise Remote could not access it after waking the computer up. The interface could use a little improvement too. 3 stars for now.

Works wonderfully!

iynque

The previous versions had troubles, but this app is now working perfectly! Where before some functions didn't seem to work at all, not everything works. Before, I could only perform a few actions before everything stopped working, now it works continuously. I have since bought another app to replace this one, but if you want a good remote control for your Mac, this is a very nice one.

Stole my money

Mr.Gone&theIsz

I loved using this app, but when they upgraded it they left out their previous customers that still own a Mac 10.5 so now this app is useless to me. I have no intention of buying a newer Mac when they last forever just because software companies refuse to include us older model users. Wish they would refund my money.

Doesn't work.

Ishthasme

Not working.

Wish it were better and for $5 it SHOULD be

JaegerBob

Very disappointed that version 2.0 is still only iPhone sized. Hey, where's iPad support? Streamed movies crash the app about 5 secs into them. Run, don't walk, away from this app as it is now.

Good app but not perfect!

Artur Fernandes

This is a very good and useful app. I love the option to add apple scripts from my mac. But the app have a few problems. First and the one that most bother me its he's connection. Almost every time that i want to type something, I'm desconected from the mac. And the iTunes integration can be better. But i recommend! Nice app! Keep working and will be perfect!

Awesome!

Des81x

Not sure what the complaints are about but with an iPhone 4S and a Mac Book Air, the results are awesome!

A great idea in theory . . . .

riqiv

I bought this app the same day as I bought HippoRemote, which I gave 5 stars! They do different things, HippoRemote controls my Netflix viewing while on "Mirror Display" from iMac to TV. Controls volume, forward/backward in movie, switching from normal display to mirror using a macro set up in Hippo, putting Mac to sleep and waking and turning up/down the streaming music/news volume I listen to on computer. "Control!" has some other functions not in HippoRemote. Up/down volume (but a slider, not a tap button, sometimes hard to handle as I have an x stand for iPhone, and have to remove iPhone from it to change volume). You can watch streaming movies from iMac to iPhone . . . except every time I I try this with even a small movie it crashes! A great iTunes player . . . but I don't see how to change playlists, and have not received an answer from developers. And a few times I've been thrown off the network . . . usually when viewing the Finder or Sibelius or some other program on my computer. Once, I had to quit Control as the cursor on my computer would jump erratically when I tried to control it from either the iPhone or the computer. A great idea for an app . . . just not ready for prime time!

Doesn't work with Mountain Lion

PO142

This was the perfect app. In 10.7.5 everything just "worked". However after upgrading to Mountain Lion, security preferences prevent this app from pairing with server. It wouldn't be so bad if the developer had any decent answers, but he doesn't respond emails or just answers with vague wording. Such a disappointment.

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Doesn't work

Good companion to Remote app