CastBox - Cast to Chromecast

My samsung tv used to be able to cast flawlessly on its own and now you need this junk to be able to cast. This castbox app is broken and will only cast pics it wont allow me to cast live streaming videos anymore.... not impressed...

Useless. Why should I install some other app which I don't need to make this work?

Doesn't​ tell me anything but how to use it. It doesn't play videos or anything. The only thing it does is tell me how to use then won't let me use..

Only one screen telling how to use the app, nothing more. Maybe the developers have abandoned the app.

When I try to do anything it takes me to the "How to use" screen and won't let me out. I've tried everything. PLEASE FIX THIS

The only thing this app does is connect to your tv and that's it

Damn application.. I can't do anything with this..

This app does nothing can't play my videos form my downloader

In order to use this app I have to download Private Downloader apparently. Um. No.

Use to work well on its own but now forcing to download another app. Why?

yall make life graet

Doesn't work

Install what? Nah...

Awesome

Nice...

App does not since the latest update. When i open the app it immediately insists on connecting to cast device. Once connected, the dreaded "how to use" screen is displayed. From the how to use screen there is no way out!

Used to work really well but after update will not connect with devices. Waste of time now

This new update is a joke the previous one was great. This one is a joke.

Don't work after updated

it won't show the thing I want it to connect to

cant find this app on my laptop

Tried to find 3 different Chromecast devices on two different networks and not one showed up. Most likely would have loved the app from all the great reviews I've read. Very frustrating though when the app on Play Store says it was just optimized for Chromecast in the latest update. So, my search for a working video cast app continues.

This app seemed to be promising but yet was just another flop to cast videos from my phone to the Chromecast. Everything loads up fine and the layout is simple but as soon as I want to cast a video or a photo it buffers, then shows the movie/photo for a brief second before going back to the castbox screen.

I have a galaxy s6 and it seems to work absolutely wonderful I do like the fact that there's very few ads or none. Dec 5 edit stopped working after last Google update l was forced to use another app.

MKVs seem to work great! I'd like to pay for the app to get rid of the ads and constant reminders to rate the app even though I have. I'm surprised there's no pro key. Also, there is no option to exit the app or to hide the persistent notification that the app is open. Loses 2 stars for those reasons .

As i couldn' t use VLC for casting to my Chromecast, i installed this app which is just great. Not only does it cast the movies in excellant video and audio quality, also, when the app is launched, if the tv is off, it automatically turns it on or if the tv is on, it automatically switches over to the Castbox channel. Well done Castbox team.

Photos should be separated in folders just like in Gallery app. Music files should be viewed just like in the music app. Running App Notification does not go even after quitting the app. CastBox logo on the TV should be on a dark background like Gray or Black because White stings the eyes. Otherwise the app is very good and very useful.

ometimes takes a few minutes 2 cast.. But I do love being able 2 cast my movie app threw chromecast without using the cast screen option which leaves my phone screen on, mirroring screen on TV.

Been looking for an app like this for a while now. A lot of regular video apps won't even show videos which are stored on my SD card, which is annoying. I love that they show up on this, and! I can play to my chromecast. However, sometimes I'll have to reboot my phone or else it will say "loading" on my phone without transferring to the tv. Although, I'm sure force closing would also work. I'm a derp.

Would give five stars if you add play and pause button and a time line to pick where to play videos. these are my only issues. thank you please add these features! The app constantly crashes on me the past couple days

I was using chromecast by itself but it would go off if I dimmed my phone causing extreme battery drain. This app works great. To work around the app not sensing videos on the sd card, just move the movie(s) to your phone storage. Very happy with no more lagging or battery drain, thank you! ! !

I like it a lot! My only issues are that it occasionally plays the wrong file and that the controls in the notification tray don't go away even after I've closed the app and stopped casting. Have to restart my phone just to get rid of it.

The first full featured Chromecast app, I have seen! But the video still lags, so it would be much better if you fixed it. Players like YouTube don't lag.

App is not able to find gallery videos in SD card. Will give two more stars if I can see all videos in my SD card.

just bought google chrome cast and found out that it will not play the things in my phone gallery.. im glad i found this... helps a lot. thanks

This crap keeps buffering like we are immortal and time is immaterial. How many hours of people's lives have you wasted dear app developer? Do you need that for some magic voodoo ritual or something?

Great app, great ui, smooth streaming, A+. A cool feature you could add though would be some kind of queing system so I dont need to manually select a video, right now you can only play the video before or after your current video.

This plays everything in the gallery your personal files your business files everything all mixed up you can't make distinction between downloads and albums and so forth it's all based on the date. Very disappointing the quality otherwise is quite good. Even bad apps seem to be able to understand you need to make these distinctions. It's pretty basic.

Good: Simple to use. Nice interface. Bad: Photos casting is very poor, out of sync, sluggish. Videos can be better managed. No subtitles support.

I searched and searched trying to find a simple app to cast Facebook albums from my phone or tablet to a Chromecast and they were all rubbish. Then I stumbled upon Castbox and I love it. So simple to use and it just works. What more could you hope for really! (added bonus, it does Dropbox too)