CastHero - Cast to TV

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About this app

CastHero turns your television into a receiver for the photos, videos and music you already have. Send them from your phone or computer over your home Wi-Fi and they play on the big screen within seconds. There is no account to create, no pairing code, no sign-in, and nothing to set up on the TV.

WHAT IT IS
CastHero is a casting helper: a tool that connects your phone to your television and shows your own media there. The app contains no video, audio or image material of its own. Everything that appears on the screen is something you chose and sent from your own device.

WHAT YOU CAN SEND
- Photos: JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP and HEIC, shown full screen.
- Videos: MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM and AVI files.
- Music: MP3, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV and Opus, with the album artwork on screen.

ALBUMS
Send a whole list of photos, videos and songs and CastHero plays them back to back, like a photo album on the big screen. Choose fade, slide or zoom transitions and how long each photo stays, or set the timing to zero and move through the album yourself with the remote. A holiday, a birthday, a year of pictures: the moments you already have, at the size they deserve.

A PLAYER MADE FOR THE REMOTE
The title, the time played and the time remaining are one press away. The arrows skip 15 seconds, and 30, 45 and 60 when you keep pressing; hold one down to scrub. Play pauses and resumes. In an album, left and right move between items. Back returns to the home screen.

RECENT
Links you have cast from the internet stay in a Recent row on the home screen, so the same thing is one press away next time. The row lives on the TV, it never includes anything served from a device on your own network, and you can clear it whenever you like.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Install CastHero on your TV and open it once. The home screen shows the TV's name and address.
2. On a phone or computer on the same Wi-Fi, open the CastHero app or the web caster at casthero.app.
3. Choose this TV and press Cast.

WORKS WITH
Android TV and Google TV sets and streaming boxes. The same phone, computer or web caster reaches every television CastHero runs on; see casthero.app for the other platforms.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
CastHero has no account and no sign-in, shows no ads, sells nothing and collects nothing. There is no tracking and no analytics. Your media plays straight from your own device to your TV over your own network and is never uploaded anywhere. The Recent row is the only thing the app keeps, and it keeps it on the TV.

Free, with no ads and no in-app purchases. Visit casthero.app for the apps and tools that send media to CastHero, plus a developer guide for building your own.

Playback depends on the decoders built into your TV or streaming box. Some formats and codecs are not available on every device, and protected or DRM-locked files cannot be played. When something cannot be played, CastHero says so on screen instead of failing quietly.

SAMPLE MEDIA
The screenshots and the in-app demo use openly licensed sample media: Big Buck Bunny and Sintel by the Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0; SoundHelix Song 1 by T. Schürger, from soundhelix.com; and photographs from Unsplash. Full credits are at casthero.app/android-tv.

Android TV and Google TV are trademarks of Google LLC. CastHero is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Google.

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