- Today we're talking about hidden gems
on the new Chromecast device.
These are the apps that,
if you dig a little bit deeper you might find.
I did another video a couple of weeks ago
about the top 10 absolute best free channels
that you can get on this device,
and I would encourage you to check that out
if you're unfamiliar with the free options
that are out there.
So I will link to that in the description below.
But for today, like I said,
we're digging a little bit deeper.
Talking about 10 apps
that you might not have ever heard of.
In fact, if, unless you've been streaming for a long time,
you probably haven't heard of them.
But I guarantee there's gonna be something in here
that will tickle your fancy
so let's dive in.
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So first things first, how do you actually find apps
on the new Google Chromecast?
Well, from my home screen,
I'm gonna come over here to the apps section and come down.
It's gonna list a bunch of featured ones,
the kind of obvious the Disney+, HBO Max, et cetera,
and then your apps is the next row down.
After that, it's all stuff
that you can get recommended to you on the platform.
So you can go search by category,
or you can scroll down from there
and find a section that looks interesting to you,
scroll over and find something to download.
So, that is just fine.
It's a little bit clunky
and might not be the best way to find
the really good stuff out there,
but the better way honestly is just to watch this video
so that I can show you a few of the ones that I found.
So again, on that app section,
I could go down to Your Apps here
or there's the same thing over on the homepage as well.
I'm gonna click on See All,
because, yeah, I'm going past all of the obvious stuff,
the Hulu, the Tubi, the Peacock, all of that stuff.
I'm gonna go past that
and down here to this section below.
The first one that we're gonna talk about is Old Movies.
Now, someone asked me on a previous video
how did I find this, Old Movies?
Well, I found it with long hard searching,
but I really like it and I definitely recommend it.
The interesting thing about the Old Movies app
is that it doesn't actually host any of these videos.
These are movies that are available in the public domain
and are available for free to watch
in their entirety on YouTube.
And so they're essentially aggregating
a bunch of YouTube links,
but it is an interesting way
to to kind of aggregate all this stuff, to organize it
and to give you an idea of something to watch
if you like kind of old classic stuff.
So for instance, if I wanna watch
"Sword Of Lancelot" from 1963,
I'm gonna go ahead and hit Play Movie
and it opens up the YouTube app on my machine.
So obviously you've got to have the YouTube app
downloaded as well in order to make this work.
Next up is the Button Mapper app.
I talked about this one
in my tips and tricks videos for this device,
but I wanted to bring it up again
just to make sure everybody sees it
because it really is a great help
if you want to have your buttons
do something different on this remote.
For the most part, I think it's totally fine.
I'm not going to remap my Google voice search button.
I'm not gonna remap the home button
or the back button, whatever,
but these two buttons down here, YouTube and Netflix,
maybe I don't really use those as much as I use other apps
and I can remap them by going into the Button Mapper
and going to Add Buttons.
And if I add a button, let's see, press a button to add.
Let's add the Netflix button.
Let's have that do something else.
And then you'll see button three.
It calls it button three, shows up,
I'm just gonna go and customize this.
And then you can tell it what to do with that button
on a single tap, a double tap or a long press.
And there you go!
Once you're all done with that, it is ready to fire.
I can go back to my homepage and when I single tap
on Netflix,
it actually brings up Disney+.
There you go.
Okay, let's get back to some entertainment options here.
I'm gonna go to The Economist, The Economist Films.
This is a channel that I think you'll really enjoy,
if you enjoy that kind of magazine editorial style.
They're gonna have a lot
of news stories and a lot of documentaries.
I really enjoyed some of the stuff on here,
some of it wasn't quite to my taste, but I went down
to a section called
Future Works
and really enjoyed this one.
I watched a little documentary that was about
20 minutes long about e-sports superstars.
A lot of fun, actually.
So if you enjoy The Economist in print
because I'm sure that still exists,
or, you know, if you read them online
then definitely this channel is worth checking out.
If you're into sports, then go check out Barstool Sports.
If you do like sports, if you're a sports fanatic,
I'm sure you've already heard of Barstool.
Well they have their own app available
for download here on this Android TV or Google TV platform.
So you can pull up Barstool Sports.
There's a lot here to go through,
but my favorite section would probably be the
Barstool Rundown that you can watch every day
just to get obviously their daily take on stuff.
Next up is Tune In.
Now this one isn't necessarily a hidden gem.
A lot of people use it, but for those who don't use it
there's a good chance you haven't heard of it.
And I really like it as an app for my TV
in case I want to listen to,
in my case especially, podcasts.
But you can also get some FM radio station on here as well.
So it's gonna have your local stuff,
it'll ask you for your location,
Then you can go up to Browse and look for
featured podcasts
and shows, that sort of thing, in the browse menu.
If there's something specific that you're looking for
then you go all the way up to Search and search that thing
and it will allow you to find
just about anything out there as far as
podcasts that have been submitted to the large feeds
So obviously Tune In is great
if you want to have your TV on, have something going
but you're not necessarily sitting down and watching,
you know, maybe you're doing the dishes or, you know
some other chore, whatever.
And you want to just have something going then, yeah.
Make sure you have Tune In for that.
Next up is Free Documentary.
What could that be about?
And well, okay yeah.
It's pretty, self-explanatory, it's a bunch
of free documentaries that you can go in and watch.
Let's see what we've got here.
Some of these are obviously satisfying
and really straight-forward as far as
what you get.
This one is called,
this series is called, "Blow Down"
and so it's about demolishing buildings essentially.
And yeah, it's exactly what you would expect to get from it.
I really like this, this particular app
for my son who loves machines
and trucks and you know, giant boats and stuff.
So we got to watch this thing
about how they shipped a wind farm from Germany to China
and they had to build a special boat for it.
That whole documentary is here on the app.
It's all free to watch
and it is fantastic if you're into this sort of thing.
Next up is one that if you're a sci-fi fan,
there's a good chance you have heard of it.
But if you haven't
then you should.
Make sure you take special note of this one,
it's called Dust.
This is sci-fi
shorts, for the most part.
They do have some longer stuff
but most of it is gonna fall between
five and 20 minutes long, and
it is actually
really decent quality stuff.
And it's got actors and directors that you
have heard of, many that you haven't.
You can go in and watch for free.
You don't have to sign in.
If you do sign in, you can save, you know
a My List of the things I'm watching, whatever,
but you don't have to do that.
You can watch these Dust films.
If I go to View All
it's gonna show me everything you've got here.
Like I said,
there are some faces that you'll recognize.
There's Tatiana Maslany from "Orphan Black",
Rachel McAdams and George Clooney show up in some
deepfake kind of thing.
A lot of it is, in my experience, gonna be
kind of a "Black Mirror" style sci-fi experience.
Not all of it though, but anyway.
If that sounds like it's gonna ring your bell,
then definitely make sure you download Dust.
I find myself in here more often
than I kind of thought that I would,
if I'm being honest.
Next up, if you like Pluto TV,
Pluto TV is kind of the live TV
cable doppelganger, right?
There's another one called AiryTV.
So if you find yourself, you know,
scrolling all the way through Pluto TV
and you can't quite find something to watch,
then make sure you check out Airy.
Like I said, it's gonna be very, very simple.
It's structured like a cable programming setup
where you've got different channels
airing things at specific times.
So this is not On Demand stuff,
it's gonna be, like I said, structured as a live program.
Now, are you gonna find actual cable channels on here?
No, definitely not.
If Pluto TV is the B-team stuff
then Airy is definitely
more like C-team stuff.
(laughs)
Honestly, sometimes that's exactly what you're looking for
and they do have good shows
and movies that they show every once in a while,
they kind of pull them in from
other sources and make them available
for you to watch here on a timed basis.
But sometimes all you want is a little bit
of noise around the house, right?
And this is going to provide that for you.
Airy TV, a good companion to Pluto.
All right, back on the kind of useful side of things,
Daily Workouts.
If you find yourself lacking a little motivation,
you want something to work out to,
but you don't want to spend hundreds of dollars
on a, you know, whatever Peloton
or interactive software,
Daily Workouts is incredibly simple.
There is a premium version of it if you want to,
but this free version is gonna give you
six categories that you can go through
for quick act exercises.
So I can tell it, yeah, I want to work out for 10 minutes,
I want to do workout number one,
and then when I hit play
it simply shows me a person doing the exercise
and I can do that along with them,
and it's gonna time it for 10 minutes
and run me through a bunch of different exercises.
So, like I said, this is very simple.
It's not interactive,
it's not fancy,
but if you just want something to
kind of get your butt off the couch,
this is gonna help you out with that.
The last one that we're gonna go through is Neverthink.
And boy, is that an appropriate name!
But this one is kind of fun.
If you enjoy internet memes, then Neverthink is
exactly that.
It is a non-stop loop
of quick internet videos and memes for you to watch.
And this is kind of like background stuff.
I imagine if I owned a restaurant or something,
or you know, if I just needed something
playing in the background, this might be a fun one to use.
So on Neverthink,
I can go, let's see.
What's my favorite category?
Maybe Oddly Satisfying.
And it's gonna have little videos
run on a loop that are weirdly, oddly, satisfying.
So there you have it, 10 hidden gems.
I hope there was something in there
that you'll find interesting,
something that will help your experience here
on the new Google Chromecast.
These are all ones that frankly
I'm not gonna be deleting anytime soon
because I do find a use for them.
So, if I missed any of your favorites,
go ahead and hit the comments below,
I'd love to hear them.
Or if you try any of these and you really like 'em,
or you hate 'em, hit the comments with that.
But, in the meantime, give this video a like
and make sure you are subscribed for content much like this.
Thank you so much for watching everybody.
I will see you next time.