The free TVpilot app tells you the moment a screen goes offline, and lets you fix it from wherever you are: restart it, switch the TV on, change the playlist or put a photo on it. Your whole dashboard, built for iPhone and iPad.
Free app for iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 or later. Works with a TVpilot account; the Free plan includes one screen, no credit card.
Every screen with its latest screenshot, grouped by location, the ones that need you on top. Swipe right to restart a screen, left to switch its TV off or on, or hold it for every action.
Open Worldwide from Home and the globe turns slowly with every location as a glowing pin, in the colour of its screens. Tap a pin and the globe flies there and lists its screens. Touch it and it stops, so you can spin it yourself.
Also as a Home Screen and Lock Screen widget. A city in the location of a screen is enough to put it on the globe.
Home, Screens, Playlists and Media are real iOS screens, with pull to refresh, swipe actions and haptics. Everything else from tvpilot.app sits one tap away.
Open the app and you see how many screens are online, which ones need you and what you uploaded last. One search field finds any screen, playlist or file.
A notification the moment a screen goes offline, is back online or stops playing. Tap it and the app opens that screen; press and hold it for Restart or Follow on lock screen.
Drag slides into a new order, set how long each one shows, add media and push the playlist to your screens. Or link a Photos album, also an iCloud shared album, and new photos land in the playlist by themselves.
Upload photos and videos from your library or Files, several at once. Uploads keep going when you switch apps. From Photos, share anything with Show on TVpilot to put it on a screen.
The calendar of every screen, by month or week. See which playlist plays when, and what is coming next, before you walk into the shop.
Plugins, the Designer, Team, Health, Reports and Proof of play are one tap away under More. Whatever you do on tvpilot.app, you can do here.
TVpilot lives where iOS lets it: on the Lock Screen, on the Home Screen, in Control Center and in Siri. Everything works with your own rights in your team.
Tap Follow on lock screen and the screen stays on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island with how long it has been offline, until it is back. A running emergency alert shows there too, with its countdown.
All TVs on or off, Restart a screen you choose, or Emergency alert. Also on the Lock Screen and the Action button.
Screens, Locations, Next in schedule, Worldwide and Quick actions, with a Restart button for the screen that needs you. The small ones work in StandBy too.
“Restart Lobby in TVpilot” or “Turn off all TVs in TVpilot”. Show a playlist now and Switch a TV are ready for your own automations.
Standing in front of the TV, or a hundred kilometres away: what you do on the phone shows on the screen.
Remote turns your iPhone into the remote of one TV. Its picture refreshes while the remote is open, the big buttons go to the previous or next slide and pause or resume the playlist, and a swipe on the picture changes the slide too. TV and Show now sit underneath.
Take a photo or pick one, remove the background on your iPhone, and show it on any screen for the time you choose, from 15 minutes to 4 hours.
Link an album to a playlist, also an iCloud shared album. New photos and videos go to Media and onto the playlist, and to your screens if you want.
Pick a template, change the title and message if you need to, and show it full screen on every screen you manage, until it ends or you stop it. Part of Premium.
The app asks for Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode when it has been away for 5 minutes, and hides your dashboard in the app switcher.
On iPad the tab bar becomes a sidebar, the screen list and the screen sit side by side, and the schedule, playlists and Designer get the space they deserve. Plan the week on the sofa, fix a screen from the back office.
The app controls every TVpilot screen, whatever plays the content.
Yes. The app is free and works with every TVpilot account, including the Free plan with one screen and no credit card. Plans and subscriptions are managed on tvpilot.app in a browser, not in the app.
In the App Store on your iPhone or iPad: search for TVpilot, or use the App Store button on this page. Sign in with your TVpilot email and password.
Any iPhone or iPad with iOS 18 or iPadOS 18 or later. On an iPad the screen list and the screen itself sit side by side, and the app follows the dark mode of your device.
Screen goes offline, Screen is back online and Screen stopped playing, chosen per device. They follow the same rules as the alert emails, so a screen that is off on schedule does not wake you, and a notification only names the screen and its place.
Yes. Everyone signs in with their own TVpilot account and keeps their own rights: viewers can look at everything but change nothing, editors and admins can act, and a team member with some locations only reaches those. The same goes for Siri, widgets and Control Center.
No, the app manages your screens. To use an iPad or a Mac as the screen itself, open its player URL in Safari, as described on the iPad and Mac signage page.
Every TVpilot screen: the Amazon Signage Stick, Raspberry Pi, Fire TV, Android TV, smart TVs, a Mac and any browser. Restart and screenshots work everywhere; switching the TV itself on or off needs a player that can control the TV, and how often the remote picture refreshes depends on the player.
Lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode: it asks again when the app has been away for 5 minutes or more, and hides your dashboard in the app switcher. The app does not track you.
Also see: every supported player · product tour · teams and roles
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