All Screen Receiver

Review by eFreeware

Getting a video from a phone onto a television usually means cables, dongles or a streaming stick that insists on its own account. All Screen Receiver takes a different route: it turns an Android TV or TV box into the destination for media sent from a phone running a separate sender app. The receiver is published by Swastek and is free, with no ads and no in-app purchases to work around.

The idea is straightforward. You keep the sender on your phone, install the receiver on the television side, and the two talk to each other so photos, videos and music can move across. That division of labor is the whole point of the app, and it shapes everything about who should install it.

What the receiver does on the TV side

This app is the receiving end of a two-app setup. It sits on an Android TV device or a TV box and accepts photos, videos and music sent from the All Screen Sender app running on an Android phone.

In practical terms, that means the receiver is the part that lives in the living room, plugged into the screen everyone is watching. The sender is the part that travels in your pocket. If your household already uses an Android TV or an Android-based box as the main screen, this is the piece that makes the phone-to-TV handoff possible without a separate casting device.

The app was released in September 2016 and has been updated since, most recently in October 2025, when the change log mentions MPD support alongside bug fixes.

Sending photos, video and music to the big screen

Photos, videos and music cover most of what people want to move across: snapshots from a trip, clips recorded on a phone, and audio for background listening. Because the receiver handles all three, you are not limited to one category of file when you decide to put something on the television.

The appeal for me is the simplicity of the split. Rather than teaching a guest how to log into a streaming service on your TV, or hunting for the right cable, the phone stays the remote. Anything you can open on the handset through the sender app is a candidate for the screen.

The catch is that the receiver alone does nothing. Without the sender app on a phone, there is no source to pull from, and the receiver has no way to browse or play media on its own. That is worth understanding before you install it on a box you were hoping to use as a standalone player.

Setting it up where it belongs

The developer is direct about placement: this app belongs on an Android-based TV or TV box, not on a phone. On a phone, the All Screen Sender app is the one to install instead. So the setup is really a matter of putting the right half of the pair on the right device.

That means the first decision is not about settings or menus but about hardware. If your television runs Android TV, or you have an Android-based box connected to it, the receiver is the version for that screen. If you are holding a phone, you want the sender.

The only real requirement is having both ends of the pair installed in the right places.

Households that fit the two-app arrangement

The clearest fit is a home where an Android TV or Android-based box is already the main screen and the phones in the house run Android. In that setup, the receiver slots into hardware you own and gives the phone a reason to talk to the television. It is the kind of thing that suits shared viewing of personal media rather than a single person's private library.

It also makes sense for anyone who regularly wants to show phone-captured video to a group, whether that is family around the couch or visitors who want to see a clip. The receiver stays put; the phone does the work.

The install figures are substantial, with more than five million downloads, though the average rating sits at 2.9 from 2,691 ratings. That gap is worth noticing: a lot of people have tried the arrangement, and the scores suggest the experience has not satisfied all of them. I would treat the rating as a reason to set expectations carefully rather than a reason to dismiss the app outright, since a companion app's usefulness depends heavily on the sender it is paired with.

A narrow tool that knows its place

All Screen Receiver is not trying to be a general media player or a streaming hub. It is one half of a two-app system, and it only makes sense alongside the All Screen Sender app on an Android phone. If you have an Android TV or box and want a simple path from handset to screen, the pairing is coherent and the price is right.

If you are looking for something to install on a phone, this is the wrong half of the pair, and the developer says as much. For the TV side of an Android household, though, it is a focused, free option worth trying, especially now that MPD support has been added. I would go in expecting a utility that does one job, and judge it on how well it moves your photos, videos and music across.

What's new in version 1.0.55

Support for MPD Bug Fixes