AirPlay - Cast Tv

Review by eFreeware

Most casting apps on Android pick a side. They handle Google Cast and stop there, which is fine until the screen at the other end of the room speaks a different language. AirPlay - Cast Tv, from developer FastSoft, takes the opposite approach: it works with Google Cast, Apple AirPlay and DLNA, three protocols that between them cover a lot of the televisions, receivers and networked screens people already own.

That breadth is the reason to look at it. If you have ever stood in a living room holding a phone that refused to talk to the TV in front of you because the two sides used different standards, an app that speaks all three is a sensible thing to keep installed. It is free, it carries ads, and it offers in-app purchases, so the cost of trying it is your time rather than your money.

The app has been out since January 6, 2025, and its most recent update landed on October 5, 2026. It sits in the Libraries & Demo category on Google Play, which is a slightly odd shelf for a utility of this sort, and it holds a 4.4 average from 1,127 ratings alongside more than 100,000 installs. Those numbers describe a modest but established audience rather than a breakout hit.

What the app actually does

At its core this is a screen-and-media bridge. You run it on an Android phone, and it sends what is on that phone to a television or another screen that can accept the connection. The developer describes the app as supporting three protocols, and each one has its own natural territory.

Google Cast is the protocol behind Chromecast-compatible televisions, and it is the path most Android users will recognize. AirPlay is Apple's equivalent, used to move content from Apple devices to AirPlay-compatible receivers. DLNA is the older, quieter standard for sharing media between devices sitting on the same local network. An app that handles all three is trying to be the last casting tool you need rather than one more entry in a drawer of half-working options.

The app is not limited to mirroring a single kind of file. The developer lists web videos, music, movies, games and photos as the content it can push to a larger display. That is a wide remit, and it is worth thinking about what each of those categories means in practice before you decide how much you need it.

Video, music and photos on a bigger screen

The most conventional use is video. The developer says you can stream clips from apps or from a browser to a TV, which covers the everyday case of something worth watching that is currently trapped on a phone screen. Watching a movie from the phone on a television is covered as well, which is the same idea stretched over a longer sitting.

Music is the second pillar. Tracks stored on the phone, or being streamed through it, can be sent to the screen rather than played through the phone's own speaker. In a room with a television connected to better audio than a handset can produce, that is a meaningful difference, and it is the sort of thing that turns a casting app from a novelty into part of a routine.

Photos round out the set. Putting a picture on a large display is a small feature in theory and a surprisingly social one in a living room, whether you are showing a set of vacation shots to people sitting around you or leaving an image up on the screen while the room fills up. The three together — video, music, photos — are the ordinary, well-trodden ground of casting.

Games and screen casting

The more interesting item on the list is games. The app also supports playing a game on the phone while the screen is cast to the television. That is not the same as playing on the TV; the phone stays in your hands as the controller and the display, and the television becomes a shared window onto what you are doing.

For a certain kind of game this is genuinely useful. Anything turn-based, anything you would want to show someone else, anything where a second person is watching over your shoulder benefits from a screen everyone can see. It also changes the social shape of a phone game, turning a solitary activity into something a room can follow.

I would treat this as a bonus rather than the main event. Casting a live game tends to be the most demanding thing you can ask of a wireless link, and the value depends heavily on what you are playing and what the receiving screen can do. It is one of the app's capabilities, and a fair one, but it is not the reason most people will install a casting tool.

What it needs from you and your hardware

The app's whole job depends on something at the other end being able to receive. Google Cast needs a Chromecast-compatible television or device. AirPlay needs an AirPlay-compatible receiver. DLNA needs other devices on the same local network that speak the protocol. If your television supports none of these, the app has nothing to talk to, and that is a hardware question rather than a software one.

The app is aimed at people whose screens are not tied to a single ecosystem. That cuts both ways. The flexibility is the selling point, and it also means the app is doing more work than a single-protocol tool: it has to negotiate with whatever it finds. Support for three protocols is the app's answer to that problem, and a reasonable one.

There is also the matter of how the app pays for itself. It is free to install, it contains ads, and it offers in-app purchases. That is the standard shape of a free utility, and it is worth knowing before you start rather than after. The app's rating sits at 4.4 from 1,127 ratings, which suggests the arrangement has not driven people away in large numbers.

The audience this fits

The clearest match is an Android user with a mixed household. One television that works with Chromecast, a speaker or receiver that prefers AirPlay, a laptop or network drive that shares over DLNA — that is not an unusual setup, and it is exactly the situation where a single app covering all three protocols saves you from juggling several. You install one thing and stop thinking about which standard applies.

It also suits people who cast a variety of content rather than one thing. If your only need is to push a video from one app to one television, a simpler tool will do the job. The value here comes from range: video from a browser, music from the phone, photos for a room to see, and games on the big screen are four different habits, and the app is built to handle all of them.

The category listing is worth a mention for anyone browsing. Libraries & Demo is not where most people look for a casting utility, so the app is easy to miss. Its install count, past 100,000, and its rating suggest that the people who do find it tend to keep it.

A flexible casting tool for mixed setups

AirPlay - Cast Tv is worth considering if your problem is compatibility rather than capability. The app's pitch is that it speaks Google Cast, AirPlay and DLNA, and that combination covers a large share of the screens and receivers people already have at home. For a free app with ads and in-app purchases, that is a low-risk thing to try.

It is not the right choice for someone who wants one narrow job done. If you cast from a single app to a single Chromecast, the extra protocol support buys you nothing. If you move between devices and standards, or you want video, music, photos and games all handled by one installation, the breadth is the whole point.

My recommendation is to check what your television and any networked speakers actually support before installing. If the answer involves more than one standard, or you are not sure, this app is built for exactly that uncertainty. If everything you own already speaks the same language, a smaller tool would serve you just as well.