Best Fire TV and Roku Remotes in 2026: Replacement and Backup Remotes Ranked by Owners

This universal Roku remote is the budget pick for anyone with a Roku TV or an older Roku 1, 2, 3 or 4 box, and 44,000 owners rate it 4.4 stars. It is infrared, so there is nothing to pair, and its claim to fame is ten dedicated shortcut keys where the original has four. The brand list it supports is long: TCL, Hisense, Sharp, Insignia, onn, Sanyo, LG, Hitachi, Element, RCA, Philips, Haier and JVC Roku TVs. The listing is honest about its limits: no voice search, no headphone jack for private listening, and it will not control a Roku Streaming Stick because sticks only listen for Bluetooth or Wi-Fi remotes. For a cheap spare in a room where nobody uses voice, this is the one; for glow keys and a backup in the box, the BESIA costs about the same.

For a Fire TV Stick the remote has to pair over Bluetooth, and this replacement does, including the microphone, so Alexa voice search keeps working. It is listed for the Fire TV Stick 4K Max (both generations), the 4K, Plus and Select Sticks, the standard Stick 2nd and 3rd generation and the Stick HD, plus the Fire TV Cube 2nd and 3rd generation and Insignia, Toshiba and Omni Fire TVs. Four shortcut keys sit under the navigation ring and the range is rated at about 40 feet. Pairing is where owners get stuck: power the Stick off for 15 seconds, power it back on, then hold Home until the light flashes; many one-star reviews come from skipping that. Done once, 8,600 owners say it behaves like the original. It will not pair with the first two Stick generations or old Fire TV boxes.

Roku boxes are the one Roku product most third-party remotes refuse to support, so this replacement for the Roku Express, Premiere and the older Roku 1 to 4 boxes is useful, and 13,000 owners at 4.4 stars say it does the job. It is a plain infrared remote: insert batteries and point it at the box, no pairing. Four shortcuts for Netflix, Disney, Hulu and Sling sit at the bottom. The trade-off is in the listing title: there are no TV power or volume keys, so you keep your TV remote for those, and there is no microphone. It also cannot control a Roku Streaming Stick, which has no infrared receiver, or a Roku TV. If your Express remote has died and you do not need voice, this is the cheapest fix.

The Primote is the remote for a household with a Roku TV in one room and a Fire TV Edition set in another, or for anyone who hates fumbling for keys in the dark. Its buttons light up for ten seconds after a press, and seven of them can learn infrared commands from a soundbar or receiver remote, so volume on the TV remote actually controls the speaker you listen through. It works on every built-in Roku TV without setup and on Insignia, Toshiba, Pioneer, Hisense, TCL and Omni Fire TVs after a quick pairing routine. It is infrared, so no microphone, and it controls televisions only, not Sticks or boxes. Within that scope it is the most capable remote here, and 4,600 owners rate it 4.4 stars.

If you want a Fire TV voice remote and want to spend as little as possible, this is the one, and 1,900 owners rate it 4.3 stars. It pairs over Bluetooth with a working microphone and covers almost the whole modern Fire TV family: the Stick 4K in both generations, the 2nd and 3rd generation Stick, the Lite and HD Sticks, the 4K Max, every Fire TV Cube and the 3rd generation Fire TV, plus Insignia Fire TVs that accept voice. Pairing is simpler than on the remote at rank three: hold Home for 10 to 15 seconds until the light flashes and wait up to a minute. It feels lighter than the official remote and its review base is smaller, which is why it sits below the pick above, but as a spare it is hard to argue with.

The Smartby is the highest-rated remote here at 4.6 stars, though from a smaller crowd of 1,700 owners. It is an infrared replacement for every Roku box ever sold: Roku 1, 2, 3 and 4 in all their HD, LT, XD and XS flavours, Express and Express+, Premiere and Premiere+ and the Ultra. Nothing to pair, and a curved-arrow key resets it if it ever misbehaves. Like all infrared remotes it must be pointed at the box, cannot control a Roku Stick and will not run a Roku TV. Its shortcut keys show its age: Netflix is useful, Radio and Sling less so. For a Roku Ultra owner who has lost the fancy voice remote and just wants to change channels again, it is the dependable, cheap answer.