ATV Desktop Remote

While the name might be a tad misleading, ATV Desktop Remote or AppleTV Desktop Remote, in its longer full-fledged form, is an application designed to help control your Apple smart TV from any Windows device with this application running on it. It's a virtual remote that will help you control your TV from the comfort of your Windows or macOS device.

The biggest question, before thinking about how it looks, how it has various settings grouped within its interface, and so on, is why use it in the first place? If you've forgotten the TV open in the other room, having this on your PC might spare you a short trip next door, for example.

There are very few apps that manage to successfully use a simplistic approach to the way an interface looks and avoid making the app seem underdeveloped. In this case, the said simplicity fits well with the concept used by Apple on its products because it is synonymous with refinement.

ATV Desktop Remote, despite having a name that simply doesn't ring a suitable bell, manages itself to be helpful and also a great way to integrate your household items with your tablet or other Windows device. If you're going to use the macOS version, instead, it's even better if you see this action as a way to interconnect your Apple products.