Remot Get it free

Control your PC from your phone

Volume, music, monitor inputs, brightness and power — from anywhere in the house. No account, no cloud, nothing leaves your Wi-Fi.

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Free · Windows 10 & 11 · updates itself · nothing to install on your phone

Free, with nothing locked away No account to make Works on your own Wi-Fi No app to install on the phone

On the phone

What it looks like

Six screens from a real setup. Tap any of them to see it full size.

What you can do

Everything you get up for, without getting up

Monitor inputs

HDMI to DisplayPort and back, and brightness with it — without reaching under the bezel for buttons nobody can ever find. The one no other phone remote does.

A slider for every app

Turn one app down without touching the rest. Mute the microphone, or move the sound to a monitor's own output.

Whatever is playing

Play, pause, skip and scrub, with the track and its cover art — from Spotify, YouTube, a video file, or anything else that makes sound.

One-press routines

Build an activity once — drop the brightness, switch the monitor, mute the mic — and it becomes a single button.

Presentation remote

Two buttons the size of your thumb, laid out for someone standing up. They send keystrokes to whatever is in front, so PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides and any PDF viewer all work.

Live system load

Processor, memory, disk and network charted live, down to the load on each core. Useful on the day something is pegged and you are nowhere near the desk.

Power

Lock, sleep, or turn the displays off. Shut down and restart need two taps, deliberately.

Send to PC

Push text to the PC clipboard, or open a link on the big screen. Works the other way too.

Sleep timer

Send the PC to sleep in twenty minutes, or any length you pick.

A way back

Anything Remot changed, it can put back — the brightness, the input, the output device.

Setting it up

Three steps, and none of them is typing an address

  1. Install it from the Store and it opens a QR code.

    Nothing to configure. It picks its own port and opens the firewall for private networks only.

  2. Point your phone's camera at it

    and tap the link that appears. Your phone needs to be on the same Wi-Fi as the PC.

  3. That's it — the controls are already on screen.

    Add it to your home screen and it behaves like any other app. It pairs once and remembers.

Privacy

It stays on your network

There is no server in the middle and no account to make. The PC talks to your phone directly over your own Wi-Fi, and the app only opens the firewall for private networks — so it does nothing on café or airport Wi-Fi. Your phone pairs once by scanning the code; nothing else can connect without it.

Good to know

The honest caveats

Updates arrive on their own

Installed from the Store, so Windows keeps it current. There is nothing to check and no version to watch for.

If your phone can't load the page

Windows marks most networks Public, which blocks other devices. Open Settings › Network & internet › Wi-Fi, click your network, and choose Private network. Remot detects this and offers to fix it.

Monitor controls need DDC/CI

Most desktop monitors support it, though some ship with it switched off — look for DDC/CI in the monitor's own menu. Laptop screens don't support it at all.

Old phones are fine

The dashboard is built to run on Chrome going back to around version 70.

Removing it

Add or remove programs → Remot. It takes the firewall rule with it and asks before deleting your settings.

One PC at a time

Each PC runs its own copy and pairs with your phone separately. There is no fleet view, and that is not what this is for.

Put the remote where your phone already is

Free, on the Microsoft Store. Windows 10 and 11.

Get it from the Microsoft Store