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TV Cast Pte. Ltd. · Utilities

We analyzed this app across 3 independent signals and corroborated nothing unfair. That is a signal, not an audit.

Nothing unfair corroborated · unauditedConfidence: High3 signal sources352 reviews scannedNot human-reviewedas of 2026-10-05
 Which version this describes

This analysis describes version 2.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 2.0, updated 2025-02-19.

What the analysis found

Each finding shows what agreed and how strongly. Automated analysis

One source only — shown, not confirmed 6

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.

From the store listing: Usable without an account
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is the store privacy disclosure.view evidence
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (6 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
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 34 distinct reviewers (9.7% of 352 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall with no way past it
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
A paywall screen ships with no dismiss, skip or 'maybe later' affordance anywhere in the package, so the app's own text offers no way in without paying.
What we saw: Paywall with no way past it: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 352 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 352 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 11 distinct reviewers (3.1% of 352 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
What we saw: Constant upsell pressure: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 352 reviews scanned)

What reviewers said

Verbatim excerpts from public store reviews, shown as corroborating user reports. They are not Appworthy audit evidence, and a quotation is not proof of the finding it sits under.

Aggressive ad load

Less than mediocre — The remote doesn’t work and has so many adds it feels useless. I’d rather use my physical remote instead of this app. I’m not saying no adds for free I’m just saying less adds and more useful would be nice. I don’t…

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-29

ADS — Way too many ads, you can hardly use the remote without a AD popping up every 2 seconds. You practically have to pay to use the app.

1★ · App Store · 2026-06-14

To much ads — I hate this app it force you to buy a subscription it’s annoying

1★ · App Store · 2025-04-11

Paywall with no way past it

Horrible — Can’t even use the app without paying

1★ · App Store · 2024-12-16

Evil app — I can not use the app for 5 seconds without an ad, I couldn’t even use the remote after a bit without buying premium I wwasn’t even able to pick a show, evil.

1★ · App Store · 2024-06-01

SO BAD!!! NEVER GET THIS APP!! — Can’t even use the remote without paying them 19.99 PER MONTH FOR A REMOTE!! This is robbery at its finest!!

1★ · App Store · 2023-05-19

Hard to cancel

You can’t unsubscribe. It’s a scam. — Scam.

1★ · App Store · 2024-07-22

Unable to cancel subscription — Unable to cancel free subscription. Cancel subscription tab takes you to an error page. 🙁

1★ · App Store · 2023-12-16

Cant cancel — I tried to cancel but the feature won’t allow it. Trying to contact them but no response.

1★ · App Store · 2023-11-21

Paywall blocks the basics

ADS — Way too many ads, you can hardly use the remote without a AD popping up every 2 seconds. You practically have to pay to use the app.

1★ · App Store · 2026-06-14

Blocks functions — I get the ads being required if you’re not paying for it. But to not allow the keyword function after a while keeping it behind the paywall after you’ve already viewed adds is weak

1★ · App Store · 2026-01-11

Misleading - don’t bother — The app lets you use it for a couple minutes but then locks it down behind a paywall. Ridiculous that you need to pay to control a tv you already paid for. Not worth the download.

1★ · App Store · 2024-10-23

Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording

Won’t let me do anything… — Any button I click just leads to a pop up telling me to upgrade to premium to unlock all features… literally can’t even press the power button without this happening. Completely useless.

1★ · App Store · 2024-11-15

Ineffective and confusing — This app allowed me to cast a video to my tv one time and then no longer allows me to use it. It keeps giving me a pop up saying I need to subscribe to premium without describing what premium does or why it…

1★ · App Store · 2023-04-05

Don’t bother……. — I tried the app and at every turn I’m being asked to buy the premium version or having to put up with useless ads. Trying to tune to OTA channel 48.4 only gets me to a list of the the six sub channels on 48 then I have…

1★ · App Store · 2023-01-27

What this app sells

Every purchase the store discloses. Store listing
 What this app sells

From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.

Subscriptions3
Weekly PremiymWeekly$1.99
Monthly PremiumMonthly$4.99
Yearly PremiumYearly$24.99
Buy once1
Lifetime PremiumLifetime$19.99

How the automated analysis works

Automated, corroborated, and never human-reviewed without a person.

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

 Not yet human-reviewed

Several measurements above say “Not assessed” because no artefact we hold can answer them. A human review is what resolves those — and it can remove a favourable band as easily as add one.

Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

 How this page was produced
Analyzed 2026-10-05 Version analyzed: 2.03 independent signals352 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.