Meh – Remote HD Review

I purchased this app to stream audio from my computer to my iPhone. It is WAY OVER-PRICED for doing that function, but I couldn’t find a lot of other programs that would stream audio, so I bought this app. The only other app I found that had similar functionality was PocketAudio. I decided to purchase this app because the other app didn’t have much in the name of reviews, although the other app was half the cost of this one, so with hindsight, I might have been better off purchasing that one first. Anyway, not too pleased with this app overall. Setup is not very straightforward (it promotes itself to be that way, but unfortunately it doesn’t function quite that easily). It has very little documentation. And if you’re lucky enough to find any information about how a specific function is supposed to work, the information assumes everything works exactly as described, which it does not. I have a 2011 MBP 16GB RAM running OS X Mavericks, trying to stream to my iPhone 5s. I got the audio to stream to work once, but the app kept crashing. I finally got it to connect again, but it took a bit of reset, restart, reconnect, etc. It has latency issues, which is fine, because the whole purpose of this is to not be at the same location as the computer, so that issue becomes somewhat moot. Anyway, many frustrations. An app that costs this much should work a little better than this right out of the box. Oh, and did I mention it was way over-priced?
Review by adjony on Remote HD.