Changing my review to say the app works much better now. Went from not working at all to working consistently. only took them a long while lol. Im very thankful for it (when it's working properly) because evidently my household can keep track of a single remote. I can't even find the remote I just bought. It's still in the box🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️. So I, and other family members can use the app as a remote when needed! Thank you roku😘

the TV and movie experience isn't bad, lots of ads. as far as their new Howdy goes, paying the 2.99 gets those ads removed, but don't think its completely ad free as howdy advertised. movie & TV shows still have plenty of Roku's ads. all ads for roku based programming. if you want to run roku ads at the beginning or the end that's fine. but once the show or movie starts it should be 100% ad free as described. in a 90 min movie there were 5 to 6 roku ads. that is NOT ad free!!!

useless at worst, unoptimal at best. I tried connecting to my TV and it didn't show up. Then Itried to do it manually by IP address—nothing. It took 20-30 minutes of restarting my phone and my TV, unpliggimg my router, reconnecting everything, then searching for devices again. eventually it worked for a while, but had a couple seconds of latency for every input. then it disconnected and I couldn't find my device again. I spent more time trying to use the app than actually using it.