“Perfect. just too much ads”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 457 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
TCL Official TV Remote App
TCL GroupTCL Official Tools：MagiConnect T-Cast Smart TV Remote TCL Android TV and Roku…
4.5 ★164,420 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
TCL Official Tools：MagiConnect T-Cast Smart TV Remote TCL Android TV and Roku TV Remote gives you access to casting online videos and all local videos, music and images to TV, Chromecast, Roku, Amazon Fire Stick and Xbox or Fire TV or other DLNA Devices . Cast to bigger Screen and enjoy movies on TV now!
TCL Home, T-Cast Nscreen ( TV Remote ) are now in MagiConnect. Designed for all TCL Smart TV brands and Internet TV box or Sticks, T-Cast allows you to remote control your TV via your phone.
Features: • Multiple navigation modes, including Button Remote with Direction, Touch Remote and Mouse Remote(only support some specific models)
• Cast your local files(Photos, GIF Pictures, Videos, etc.) from phone to TV • Quick launch TV apps through one click on the phone • Share screen capture when you watch social media or save to phone
All Cast in One.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 2.0.199 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.0.199, updated 2026-09-20.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
From the package we downloaded and read — version 2.0.199, scanned 2026-10-02.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
6 or more requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Privacy disclosure does not match the app
Tracking or advertising SDKs are present in the package that the store's own privacy disclosure does not account for.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (1 entry) names no tracking or advertising use, but the package ships 3 advertising/tracking SDKs: Firebase Analytics, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), Meta Audience Network
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Asks for more sensitive permissions than similar apps
The package requests substantially more of the device's sensitive permissions than the typical app in its category. This is a measurement, not an accusation: a permission is granted because a feature needs it, and a wide request list is a reason to look rather than a finding on its own.
What we saw: Requests 8 sensitive permissions (ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, CAMERA, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, READ_MEDIA_IMAGES, READ_PHONE_STATE, RECORD_AUDIO, SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW); the median for 83 scanned apps in Video Players & Edito…
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 457 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“too many ads ui is good enough”
“Malware, full of ads... Not needed or useful. Shame on you TCL.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.0.199.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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