Sconce

Sconce puts the photos and videos on your phone up on the television, then gets out of the way. Pick what you want, send it to your Chromecast, and let it run. Your pictures go to the TV over your own Wi-Fi.

PHOTOS AND VIDEOS ON THE BIG SCREEN
• Pick photos and videos with your phone's own picker and save them as a collection.
• Every photograph and every video is sent from this phone, so keep Sconce open and on screen while you cast. Sconce holds the screen awake, so plug in for a long collection.
• Set how long a photo stays up, the move from one to the next (fade, cut, slide or zoom), and whether the collection loops or shuffles.
• Play, pause, back and next from the phone.

SIX LOOKS FOR THE TELEVISION
• A photo is fitted whole inside the screen, so nothing is cropped by default. The look is what fills the space around it: the photo blurred and dimmed, the same with the corners taken down, and four solid surrounds.
• Every look has a live preview from your own photos.
• Fill the screen zooms a photo to cover the whole panel instead. It is free and it starts off.
• Press stop and the TV holds a quiet Sconce page, then hands itself back a few minutes later.

BACKGROUND SOUND
• A collection can play a background sound under its pictures: one of five that come with the app, or an audio file of your own.
• It is set per collection, so a wedding and a beach afternoon need not share one.
• A video takes the sound over while it plays.
• Part of Sconce Pro. Without it a collection plays silently, as it always has.

THE PRACTICAL HALF
• No Chromecast to hand? Play here runs the same collection on the phone or tablet in front of you.
• Some televisions refuse a clip a phone recorded happily. Sconce can convert one on the phone, with its own video chip, and keeps the copy so it is only done once. That is free.
• If your TV can see Sconce but cannot reach your phone, Sconce says what to try in plain words.

NO ADS, NO ACCOUNTS, NO SUBSCRIPTIONS
• No ads · No accounts · No subscriptions
• Your photos and videos go from this phone to your TV over your own Wi-Fi. We never upload them.
• Casting needs the internet, because your TV loads Sconce's TV screen from us. Sconce also uses the network for the one-time purchase, which the App Store handles. We never see your payment details.
• We receive anonymous usage stats.
• Casting uses Google's Cast framework and is covered by Google's privacy policy. https://policies.google.com/privacy

SCONCE PRO
Free Sconce is a real one: a collection of up to 30 photos and videos, cast to the TV, the blurred fill, Fill the screen, Play here, and converting a video your TV refuses.
Sconce Pro is one purchase, yours forever: as many collections as you like with as many photos and videos in them, the other five looks, the sound behind a collection, a time for one photo on its own, the order you want them in, and a whole collection converted at once.
Nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel. It is linked to your Apple Account, so it unlocks on any device you sign in with.

WHAT SCONCE WILL NEVER DO
Not settings to find and switch off. Not in the app at all.
• Ask for an account or a sign-in
• Carry an ad, or an ad SDK
• Put a watermark over your photos
• Charge you weekly, monthly or yearly
• Beg you for a rating
• Interrupt a collection with an upsell

Sconce casts to Chromecast and Google TV. The videos in a collection can also go to an Apple TV or an AirPlay television; AirPlay carries videos only. Sconce does not mirror your screen.

FROM ZONE7 STUDIOS
Small, honest tools, calm to use, and nothing that treats your attention as inventory. Tell us what it gets wrong: sconce@zone7studios.com