TV Cast for LG webOS Reviews

The number of annoying things about TVCast is too high to cover them all. You have to use the browser within TVCast to get to your video. If you have a long URL that you can’t copy (eg, in subscription sites) you have to retype into TVCast ’s browser. It will not work with live streams. The popup that asks you to choose video quality makes the video stop playing, which prevents TVCast from connecting. Then another popup appears immediately (before you can get the video restarted) asking if it’s working, which again overrides video controls. The “Is it working” popup tells you to wait at least 30 sec before hitting retry; why not wait the 30 seconds before popping up?? If you chose the “free” version, ads will pop up that REQUIRE you to sign up with credit card for something before you can close them. I went for the premium version and the best I can say is that I got it to work once. Spend your money on a TV streaming device that allows you to mirror your small screen instead.

Update, I can't believe how low you can go but LG found a way. This updated version bypasses me ad block and managed to download a ad payload that bricked my iPad. What a greedy stupid ad on to a troubled app. I spend a fortune for a TV installed a app for my personal device I paid for and now I get forced ads I don't want and need.

I can't tell what's worst, the ads pop up on the iPad or the insanity of the TV app that fights you at every turn. When you select casting, it will throw up updates or pictures on how to do it. Just about anything other than what you wanted to do. Then asking you press OK. There isn't an OK on the remote. Brilliant. Then after dealing with the poor TV app, TVCast asks you every time, mind you, if TVCast worked. Really? Every time? Just not very well put together. But it does have more ads. Yea, more ads.

TVCast is great but it’s not self explanatory. The negative reviews are from users that likely did not get it to work to its full potential (the casting is not just limited to the web browser within TVCast , you can cast any sort of streaming app to the TV). I wanted to provide advice for how I was able to use it. To cast an app (ie HBO, Netflix, etc.):

- connect phone to TV using the IP address instructions
- exit TVCast and go to TVCast you want to watch a show on
- launch video within that app
- click on the casting symbol (usually in the top right corner when the video is launched)
- click view Airplay devices, and select your TV from the list

The video should launch on your TV, and you should be free to use your phone for other things. Hopefully this is helpful, don’t give up on TVCast too early! As long as you don’t mind an ad or two before your video connects, the free version works just fine.

I’d give less than one star, but..., not available. A 1,000th of a star would be TOO much. Every time I try TVCast before watching a program it jumps to selling stuf (actually another 4 letter word with the same first letter). It just recycles ad after ad after ad and never launches program.

THEN - if it does “start to cast” the TV then infinitely buffers. Oh is it the TV ? Right - you work with LG to lock up the service, so it is expected that this is a tech integration that should would - no?

I get it it’s free and they want to make money. However, the people behind TVCast should be embarrassed to tell anyone what they do. I bet you only hire the dumb bunny engineers. Or, you are - like - fake? How could one trust buying the paid version, when the trial just so completely lame!

When it’s good, it’s good! But boy has it been troublesome lately. It starts, buffers, plays, rinse and repeat and a 22 minute episode becomes 30-40’minutes - not efficient. Also too it stops playing suddenly around the same mark no matter what for certain episodes. Not sure why channel apps in this day and age do not yet have tv cast [TBS does] capability —- sad and frustrating.

Note to developers: make the ads pop up elsewhere on screen instead of on the video.

It’s not particularly easy to start with the wall of text when you open TVCast , but once you get through that, set up is simple enough. And although it works I do have to re-try casting at least twice with each video to get it to initially start. Plus if the show has a commercial break I have to recast after each one. It’s just frustrating when you’re trying to do something around the house to keep having to come back and restart. But you get what you pay for. This does the job and in the end, that’s the most important thing....

I have to use arrows to enter an IP address and then still can’t mirror without paying? Garbage, get a real TV like a Vizio that is so much easier to use...

And now support lies. On my Vizio I just type a 4 digit number on my phone’s keypad... (way easier than arrows to type an IP address) and I can do EVERYTHING TVCast offers and more for free. Complete integration, no charges no ads, no headaches. And the Visio was cheaper. And the Visio has gained features over time... all free. LG CAN provide a full feature app without ads for free and develop new features for it... they choose not to because they don’t care about customers as much as they care about $$$.

I don’t know why this only has star rating of 3.3?! Y’all have to give this guys some excellent credit for connecting wirelessly. I love TVCast and I use it 24/7 cuz my kids love watching movie so it makes it super easy for me. And on top of that, I can play her movie and still watch my own movie or just simply using other apps. TVCast is certainly a life saver, and if I could rate this a 10 I would do so. Thank you for making an awesome app that does what it’s supposed to do.

Title pretty much sums it up. They claim to have an ad blocker but you have to pay $7 for premium to turn it on. As it is there’s way too many ads. It will work to stream a video from phone to smart tv, but it’s just too time consuming to consistently do so. Want to fast forward or rewind? Well there’s a playbar that may allow you to do that but you have to pay for that feature too. If TVCast was better designed I’d gladly pay $7, but having to type in different IP addresses every time you open/close app is just idiotic. I would give app 3 stars based on it doing what it claims, but ads and inconvenience drop it 1 star. Do better!

TVCast is the only one that actually works on a LG TV this is like my 4th time looking for one and TVCast was the first one to BE THE BEST! I give this a 3 stars because I kinda want like apps that you have installed in your device already so you can click on there not search on web but it’s still good anyways I get to watch PBS KIDS Wild Kratts on my TV Again it was not working before on my LG TV in the web. And if that was fix I would give 4 stars. Last ONE is for 5 STARS: I want TVCast to work on every TV not just LG TV. God bless you. <3

All the features do work. Sometimes the instructions aren’t 100% clear but after some trial and error it’s easy to understand TVCast . It does feel pretty dated though and I feel that’s where its not quite as user friendly as it could be. Unfortunately it’s pretty much the only option out there on TVCast Store. Shame LG doesn’t make an up to date app with all the same abilities. LG does make an app but it’s also not very user friendly, a little dated and lacks some of the key capabilities TVCast has.

TVCast does a five star job casting videos to your compatible smart TV. I am downgrading it to four stars because of two deficiencies. It requires you to manually enter your iPhone or iPad IP address every time you use a different device. It's a small but annoying deficiency. The TV app needs to be updated to remember several device IP's, and scan for the active device on launch. It also doesn't display stills from the device photo library, a major omission.

The screen mirror feature is something that should be included with your tv for free. After all, you pay for a smart tv for these features. TVCast only lets you play videos from web browser links (but once you play it you have to buy the play bar so you can't rewind or anything like that, you also can't change the volume.) For the screen mirror you have to pay 4.00 more dollars. I am incredibly disappointed and frustrated by the fact that I can't use my tv for what I bought it for.

Only gripe I have is the directional pad on the remote changes the IP address fields both during video playback and setup for the LG TV WebOS app. This causes you to reconfigure after video playback. A minor annoyance. It would be great if the dpad would rewind and fast forward during playback.

So this isn’t the correct forum to complain, but the LG App Store doesn’t allow reviews.
And TVCast developer didn’t ask for reviews to improve TVCast .

TVCast works but not very well. It’s riddled with ads and slow. When the video finally does show up on screen it’s cloudy and hard to make out. It’s like TVCast literally took your small video and expanded it keeping the terrible quality on a large screen. I’ve heard the paid version isn’t much better either. TVCast needs extreme improvement before I’ll even bother giving it a second shot. It’s easier to just use your phone or even the TV itself, since both are fully capable of using browsers and watching videos. The connection is a hassle and I don’t recommend it.

First, after the $9 you get 8 more “pro version” ones each cost additional. Never enable WiFi on a smartTV and LG in particular, it has telemetry that reports everything and so does this. What location you watch what show and access to discover and identify other things?

So while apple is pretty good about things I do this stuff all day and since 30y ago so I can sniff Bluetooth and inspect what it sends to who just fine. It’s too much and I’ll call them out on it later because I care about your privacy even if you don’t care

It’s so simple to use, NO ADS during the show (there may be only 1 or two before an episode starts) and great picture quality with a full screen option! And you can still use other apps on your phone while it still plays on screen! I’ll definitely be using TVCast as my sole screen mirroring app! 😁

I’m using this to stream all my favorite anime shows straight from the Funimation website and works perfectly fine.I’ve quickly learned that you don’t have to pause from the casting app, you can do it from the remote! I just wish I was able to cast a playlist w/o having to re cast/re connect to play another episode.

But then TVCast began making it difficult for me to even make it to the page I was attempting to mirror from. Pop ups taking me to pages I didn’t ask it to and what’s worse!? If I actually make it to the player, it either won’t play or plays for a little while and then it abruptly stops! And they want you to pay for it!??? Lmmfao that will NEVER happen playboy. Why would I ever pay for something that barely works for free!? What sense does that make? You haven’t given me a single reason to be confident enough in your little app to spend a dime.

A little more testing, I will buy the full version to make it a 5. Better than pay cable, as you can watch any and around the world.
Update: very much improved! From 4 to 5 stars! Because of continuous updates of my own smart tv and TVCast, they became friends and gave me a great source of entertainment! Now how do I get its premium?

A little more testing, I will buy the full version to make it a 5. Better than pay cable, as you can watch any and around the world.
Update: very much improved! From 4 to 5 stars! Because of continuous updates of my own smart tv and TVCast, they became friends and gave me a great source of entertainment! Now how do I get its premium?

Very easy to install and the upgrade for popup blocker is worth it! Some things stream better on my iPhone than my laptop but was having trouble streaming with iPhone 6+. It was later I learned that iPhones only stream to appletv products easily. TVCast closes that gap and now can stream anything on my LGTV!

My tv was top of the line 5 years ago. Has features that are still not in some TVs now. All the apps started to fail due to no more updates. TVCast makes it work better than it has in years. I bought the premium which is well worth it.

TVCast works well. Nothing to fear in downloading it and using. The user interface is cumbersome, particularly on the TV. But once you figure it out, it's super simple. I'm writing this review to make two suggestions: 1) add a history cache so you can easily find old links 2) the TV portion should be able to display timecode for videos.