AVR Remote

A better remote control for your late-model Denon or Marantz receiver.

Already on

It reconnects as the app opens, so there is no spinner between you and the volume.

Controls that stay put

Power, volume and mute sit in a dock that never moves, whatever screen you are on.

Your inputs, your names

It reads the sources off the receiver — including the ones you renamed, and the ones you hid.

Every zone your receiver has

Pick a zone and every control follows it. No separate mode to remember.

Tuner

FM and AM, seek or step, type a frequency directly, and keep your own presets.

Now playing

Title, artist, artwork and transport for whatever is streaming.

Scenes

One tap for a saved zone, input and volume.

On-screen menu

A D-pad for the dialogs the receiver puts on your TV.

Sound, explained

The room-correction, loudness and tone settings, with a plain answer to why it sounds like this.

It learns your receiver

It asks what your model supports when it connects, and only offers the controls that answered.

It keeps up with the real remote

Pick up the physical one and the app follows.

Six dark faceplates

Because nobody wants a white screen at movie night.

• A Denon or Marantz network receiver from 2016 or later — the generation badged HEOS Built-in.
• Your phone and the receiver on the same Wi-Fi network.
• Network Standby set to On in the receiver’s setup menu. Without it the receiver leaves the network when it sleeps, and nothing can wake it.
• The receiver accepts one control connection at a time, so close the manufacturer’s app first.

Older receivers in these families speak the same control language, and reaching them is a fix we intend rather than a limit of the hardware — the app cannot find them on the network yet, and Now playing needs the newer generation. Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, either manufacturer.