tranScreen vs BenQ Smart Control
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
tranScreen
Wirelessly cast your phone's screen, photos, videos, and documents to your TV. Control your TV remotely with your phone, use it as a mouse or keyboard, and even stream live camera feeds and audio.
- Wireless screen mirroring
- File casting (video, audio, images, documents)
- TV screen to phone display
- Phone as wireless mouse/keyboard/remote
- Live camera feed to TV
- Real-time TV screen capture
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Professional and efficient projection expert tranScreen is a multi-screen interactive software for interaction between smart phones and smart TVs. The main functions are as follows: 1. Push the screen picture on the mobile phone wirelessly to display on the TV. 2. Push the files (videos, audios, pictures, documents... etc.) on the phone to the TV. 3. Wirelessly transmit the screen picture of the TV terminal to the mobile phone for display, and can directly perform multi-touch on the TV terminal through the touch screen of the mobile phone. 4. The mobile phone can be used as a wireless mouse, keyboard, touchpad and remote control for the TV. 5. Push the shooting screen of the mobile phone camera to the TV in real time, and you can speak on the TV through the mobile phone microphone. 6. The mobile phone can take a screenshot of the TV screen in real time, and save and view it on the mobile phone.
BenQ Smart Control
Control BenQ smart display devices like GV1, GS2, and TK810 directly from your smartphone or tablet. This app offers a brand new design for easy device management.
- Control smart display devices
- Smartphone and tablet compatibility
- Brand new user interface
- Easy device management
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• Brand new design for smart display device such as GV1, GS2, and TK810. • Control your device with your smart phone or tablet easily
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: tranScreen at every 6 weeks against BenQ Smart Control's every 5 months. tranScreen also leads on review sentiment (20% vs 11%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
tranScreen holds the better App Store score, 2.1 against 1.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 57 and 26 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of tranScreen's written reviews are positive against 11% of BenQ Smart Control's.
tranScreen ships an update every 6 weeks, BenQ Smart Control every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | tranScreen | BenQ Smart Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (57 ratings) — better | 1.9 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 19.6% of reviews — better | 11.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 57 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TRANSCREEN TECHNOLOGY SDN. BHD. | BenQ Corporation |
Customer experience
tranScreen
BenQ Smart Control
In-app purchases
tranScreen
No in-app purchases
BenQ Smart Control
No in-app purchases
Questions
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