LocalCast Overview
What is LocalCast? The app allows users to cast web videos, local videos, music, or pictures to a Chromecast, Apple TV, or Smart TV from their iPhone, iPad, iPod, NAS, DLNA/UPnP, Google Photos, Google Drive, Dropbox, or a webpage. It supports various devices such as AppleTV 4th Gen, Chromecast, Nexus Player, Amazon Fire TV, SmartTV, Sonos, Xbox 360, Xbox One, or other DLNA devices. The app also allows browsing webpages in the app and sending streamable videos to the TV. The pro version of the app can be used fully for 5 casts, and afterward, users need to subscribe or purchase it.
Features
- Cast web videos, local videos, music, or pictures to a Chromecast, Apple TV, or Smart TV
- Supports various devices such as AppleTV 4th Gen, Chromecast, Nexus Player, Amazon Fire TV, SmartTV, Sonos, Xbox 360, Xbox One, or other DLNA devices
- Browse webpages in the app and send streamable videos to the TV
- Pro version can be used fully for 5 casts, and afterward, users need to subscribe or purchase it
- Supports various formats such as mp4, mkv, 3gp, and m4v
- Automatically transcodes videos stored on iPhone, iPad, or iPod
- Integrated Opensubtitles.org search to add a subtitle manually
- Internal subtitles inside the video container don't work yet
- Recommended PC software to convert files: Handbrake
- Terms of Use (EULA) available on the Apple website.
Official Screenshots
Product Details and Description of
Cast webvideos, local videos, music or pictures to a Chromecast, Apple TV or Smart TV. FROM your iPhone, iPad or iPod or NAS, DLNA/UPnP, Google Photos, Google Drive, Dropbox or a webpage TO AppleTV 4th Gen, Chromecast, Nexus Player, Amazon Fire TV, SmartTV, Sonos, Xbox 360, Xbox One or other DLNA devices. // Web Browse webpages in the app. If a streamable video is found on the page you can send it to your TV. // Pro Version The app can be used fully for 5 casts. Afterwards you need to subscribe or purchases // Videos Please be aware that the Chromecast only supports a couple of formats. Videos stored on your iPhone, iPad or iPod will be transcoded automatically. For videos on other sources: The Chromecast can read containers like mp4, mkv, 3gp and m4v, but all these containers can use different codecs. If you can't hear the audio of a video, then the audio codec is not supported. If you can't see the video but hear the audio, then the video codec is not supported. // Subtitles You can use the integrated Opensubtitles.org search to add a subtitle manually. Internal subtitles which are inside the video container don't work, yet. // Follow me on Facebook: https://twitter.com/stefan_pledl // Chromecast & Nexus Player supported formats https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media // Recommended PC software to convert your files: http://sourceforge.net/projects/handbrake/ I am just one independent developer working on my apps whenever I can, without a big budget for testing on various devices. If you find a bug please contact me. I'll try to fix it ASAP. Thanks for your support and happy casting! Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Top Reviews
By Seperry
Local Cast won’t run in iOS 11
I installed iOS 11 on 2 devices: an iPhone 6sPlus and and iPad mini 2, and Local Cast crashes on both devices after about 3 seconds during the app’s startup. I tried deleting and then downloading fresh copies on both devices as well as shutting down each device and restarting. No luck. FYI, 5 stars because I loved the app when it worked. Hopefully a fix is in the works.
By Evan I Am
Works with drive video, scrubbing is broken
5 stars for being the first app I can find to cast Google Drive video. However it's not perfect: video scrubbing doesn't work at all, and I usually have to restart the app after each video. Still worth it imo
By Lundberg02
A Chromecast that actually works!
Four stars because I haven’t found a user guide, and because the app has not been updated for two years. I am amazed it actually works after so many iOS updates. There are some peculiarities, and if there is a user guide I need to read it. I won’t go into the incredible difficulty I have had trying to get iTunes onto my so called smart tv, but it has taken two years and 120 bucks. I hope iPadOS 14 doesn’t blow this app out of the water, because an app not updated for two years has been abandoned by its dev.
