TV Cast Chromecast Ratings and Reviews

The more updates the worse

I’m going to cut to the chase, it’s a very convenient app to use. But it seems the farther they go along the more things you need to purchase. You used to be able to pause, play, rewind, and fast forward. Now that is a payed feature. I have bought the premium 4 times but it goes off of your apple ID and not your google account. I’m refusing to make any more in-app purchases until there is a better way to link payments across devices. There should either be a family plan or a linking across emails. Because when you have a family, which ever device has premium is now rendered disabled for any other use. Chrome Casting while using this app can cause lag or packet loss( packet loss is not necessarily lag it’s when the wifi is smooth but for some reason all the data is not getting received. ) So it should be linked through email and have the option to have a family plan just like google home.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for taking time to review our app. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Unfortunately, purchases on iOS (Apple) and Android (Google) are not interchangeable due to restrictions by the platforms. If you would like to use upgrades or purchased apps on both platforms, please consider purchasing them separately on each platform.

If you buy a new device with the same platform like your old device (either iOS or Android), you can restore your purchases on the new device. In fact, you can restore your previous purchases on as many devices as you like, as long as they share the same platform (either iOS or Android).

If you have issues restoring the app on your iOS device, please try the following steps which are recommended by Apple: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT6322. The Restore button can be found in the Shop in the top right corner.

(a) Make sure you're signed in with the same Apple ID you used to make the purchase. Sign in with a different Apple ID if you need to.
(b) Check the restrictions on your device to make sure in-app purchases are allowed (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204396).
(c) Check your purchase history in iTunes on your computer to make sure you were charged for the purchase.
(d) Make sure that you restore the app edition which you previously bought (Chromecast, Google Cast, Samsung, LG, Sony, Roku, Fire TV or DLNA).
(e) Delete and re-install the app.
(f) Restart your device.

If all that does not help, please try a 'hard reset' of your iPhone/iPad and try the restore again. (If you do not know how that is done, please check the tutorial at https://youtu.be/8-jBN0-ntcw ).


Please note that all basic features which are needed to get video casting running are for free. To maintain support and to fund the further development we apologize that we cannot give all advanced features like scrubbing and the Ad-Blocker for free.
Please let us know if any of this solutions work for you. Thank you very much in advance.

We'd love to hear from you.

Your life will change for the better

If you are reading this review looking for an app that will stream video from any website - look no further! For the price of a couple of coffees, you will not be limited to watching browser videos on your small devices. Definitely pay the nominal fee for the premium service. It is totally worth it. Most video sites that provide video content for free have annoying pop-up ads, but with the premium version you can turn off those ads which makes navigating through sites so much easier. Is the app perfect? No of course not, but it's pretty close for it's intended purpose. This app takes casting to your TV beyond the limits of the mainstream casting devices. I am not a fake reviewer. I am an average middle-aged mother of five who is very happy to have found this app a year ago!

Developer Response ,

Thank you for taking time to review our app. We are glad that you like our app.

Terrible

I used to love this app but now recently I realize more than half of the video's aren't supported and now there's this stupid banner that pops up during a video or movie asking that I upgrade to get rid of the banner. If your app is free awesome but once you start putting annoying things in the app to force to pay for a service that you don't want and as result ruins the experience than that's just business. I may have one day decided I wanted the full premium package but now that's never going to happen because I have no desire to pay for something that's being forced on me if I want to enjoy the app. That's not how you get one someone to pay for full features you don't force down their throats and then that they give in and buy what you want them to get. Everyone behind this app that was okay with this business model of forcing people to become customers should be ashamed of yourselves. If you wanted to make money in the first place you shouldn't have made the app free at all it's completely disgraceful and dishonest.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for taking time to review our app. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Please note that you can remove the banner by purchasing even just one premium feature (example: adblocker, playbar, unlimited bookmarks) or the full premium edition from the shop inside the app.

As a company we need to have a source of income to be able to still develop and work on the app. That is why we offer features like the ad-blocker or the playbar for sale.

About the casting issue: which website/video is effected? Does the videoload fail? Or is there no link to cast? Thank you for your cooperation and answering our questions in advance. We'd love to hear from you.

Getting worse and worse

I used to love this app. I have chromecast built into my Toshiba tv, and 2 years ago, after trying multiple apps I discovered this one and it worked great for casting. I bought the full version soon after and it worked great as well for about a year and half. Then about 6 months ago it started crashing here and there but not bad. I could deal with it, nothings perfect. With each update, I keep expecting a fix, but instead it gets worse and worse. Now, on iOS 12.1, newest version of this app, and an iPhone XR, it’s barely usable. If I leave the app even for a second and come back, it crashes every time, and even if I leave it in the forefront, it crashes every 5-10 minutes. It never did that before whatsoever. I could cast and forget about it, not anymore. Im going to see if there is a firmware upgrade for my TV, and if there is and it helps I’ll edit this review. Because the app is doing the same on this phone and my old iPhone 7, it leads me to believe its the app, but I suppose I’ll see soon. I’m gonna go look for a new chromecast app now.....

Developer Response ,

Thank you for taking time to review our app. We are very sorry for the issue and apologize for the inconvenience. Does the app or the video playback crash? If the app crashes please let us know which website makes the app crash. Please also try to uninstall and reinstall the app. Please let us know if this solution works for you. We'd love to hear from you.

Worked great for about 15 minutes or so... then pop-ups/ads made the stream unwatchable.

This app, although slightly clunky, worked perfectly at first and allowed me to begin streaming a concert from my phone to the TV.

Before the stream began, the app displayed an ad, which was understandable... especially since it’s a free app. The ad was trying to sell me ad space within the app, which did seem a little strange.

After that, everything worked perfectly (although there was an in-app notice stating that, if I wanted to pause/fast-forward/rewind, there would be an additional charge). My wife and I settled in, ready to watch that evening’s concert. As I mentioned earlier, it worked perfectly at first. However, after about 15 minutes or so, it displayed a HUGE banner at the top of the screen, cutting off about the top third of the stream or so, informing me that it would go away if I paid for the premium version of the app. We waited it out for a few minutes, hoping the banner would disappear, but nope... it just started slowly moving around the screen.

It was at that point that I gave up, and just began casting the livestream from a Chrome tab on my PC. This worked perfectly, didn’t cause any issues for the rest of the night, and didn’t interfere with normal usage of the PC (my son was able to play games on it while we used it to stream the concert to the living room TV). Skip this app, and just use Chrome on your desktop PC if at all possible.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for taking time to review our app. We apologize for the inconvenience.

All basic features which are needed to get video casting running are for free. To maintain support and to fund further development we apologize that we cannot give all advanced features like scrubbing and the Ad-Blocker for free.

Please note that you can remove the banner by purchasing even just one premium feature (example: adblocker, playbar, unlimited bookmarks) or the full premium edition from the shop inside the app. All of our services and apps are one-time purchases only, so there are no subscription models involved.

To take advantage of our support, please write us via e-mail (info@video-tv-cast.com). We'd love to hear from you.

I don't normally do this but..

Wow. This just solved so many problems. If you're skimming through reviews skeptically wondering if this is for real, kind of like I was about 10 minutes before I wrote this, you can rest easy.

I just tried a few different movie streaming sites and they casted to my TV faster than I was even ready for. In fact, immediately upon opening the app, it overrode my wife's chrome cast netflix show and she got mad at me. Until I casted the new J-Law movie Joy to demonstrate. Then she turned all smiles.

This app turns your Chromecast into what you THOUGHT it would be before you bought it and sadly realized your soul belonged to Google. Break free like I did. Watch EVERYTHING. Tell your friends. Then come back here and 5 star the hell out of this app.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for taking time to review our app. We are glad that you like our app.

Lots of Quirks

As other reviews have said, you have to complete an in-app purchase to be able to pause, rewind and fast forward. Months ago, I didn’t mind making the purchase because the app worked pretty well other than that. Now, it’s kinda slow and takes several attempts of casting the video before it actually sends it to the chromecast. A lot of reloading the page, disconnecting and reconnecting to the chromecast, and even closing the app and opening it again.

I think my biggest complaint currently is that it recognizes ads on websites as videos, so it’s common that it casts the ad to my chromecast instead of the video I actually want to watch. In addition, the button that you use to cast the video is the bar that you use pause or scrub the video. Even if you do cast the correct video to your chromecast, if it recognizes the ad as a new video and you can no longer use the functionality of the in-app purchase that you made.

To be blunt and concise: it works but not great.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for taking time to review our app. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Some websites require an ad video to be played before the main video will play (so called pre-roll ad videos). In this case Video & TV Cast may detect the ad video while playing in the browser. To solve this, please wait until the ad video is finished playing in the browser. When the main video begins to play the app will detect the new videolink after a few seconds. Please wait until the new videolink is found before you cast. If multiple videolinks are detected, it may be necessary to try all of them to find the one thats working best on your TV or streaming device.

Please let us know if any of this helps you. We'd love to hear from you.

Works great!

Thought it was just "ok" until I realized you could buy an add on to fast forward, pause, rewind for $1.99, now I think it's great! (Without the add on, it still works, but you have to play a video from beginning to end, with no way to control it) The add on makes all the difference in the world & it only cost 2 bucks! I can deal with that! Good job!! :)

Also, after reading other reviews, I will ad- Yes, it is a bit of a process to start a video, but it's a very small & easy process. I'm not very tech savvy at all, but even I find this pretty simple. And besides that, what better option do you have to cast videos that don't have a cast button? I don't know of any! I'd say this app works very well, especially for free + a $2 add on!!

Developer Response ,

Thank you for taking time to review our app. We are glad that you like our app.

Constant Adult Ads

I used to rave about this app before this latest update. I remember having to allow an adult ad or 2 play on my device before casting my movie...Now, every time I want to cast, I have to ask my children to leave the room bc for whatever reason, I now have to CAST the adult ads on my TV; and 8 times out of 10, it doesn’t work. Tonight, I watched the same adult website ad 4 times and still wasn’t able to cast bc every time I tried, I would get that same pop-up inviting me to buy premium or watch an ad. I COMPLETELY understand that they have to make money, but I’m not paying for premium as there are too many issues with it not playing when it should and I have already paid for 2 add-on features.

Best Video Streaming App Available

I've tried and tested a wide variety of streaming apps over the years and this one is easily the best I've found by far. I used to have to use an HDMI solution to stream my anime/movies to my HDTVs but now I just sync with my Chromecast and I'm set! I use this app almost daily, and the people who are complaining and/or giving it anything less than five stars simply didn't put more than 2-3 minutes' worth of effort to figure out the basics; didn't purchase to ad-free version (it's still very much useable without making any purchase(s)), or are too ignorant with software to do much of anything on their own. I highly recommend this app to anyone who's even remotely interested in video streaming.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for taking time to review our app. We are glad that you like our app.