Play App

Download Play from Google Play on your Android phone or tablet, open it and tap Sign in.

Sign in the same way as on the web: with your e-mail and password, or with Apple, Google, Microsoft or Facebook. If your account has two-factor authentication, you enter your code as usual.

New to Play? Create a free account first; your first screen is free.

The app has four tabs at the bottom:

• Screens: every screen in your team, with its online status, group and playlist.
• Playlists: your playlists, where you edit slides and publish.
• Groups: your groups, their base playlist and schedule.
• More: Team & Members, Library and your team’s billing pages.

Your picture at the top right opens your Account. Pull down on Screens, Playlists or Groups to refresh them.

Install the Player App on your TV, media player or computer first (see the setup guides). It shows a QR code and a six-character pairing code.

1. On Screens, tap the blue + at the bottom.
2. Scan the QR code on the screen with your phone’s camera, or tap Enter pairing code and type the code.
3. Give the screen a name and pick a group, if you like.
4. Choose a production screen or a trial screen. Trial screens are for testing: they aren’t charged and show a watermark on your content.

The app only asks for the camera when you tap to scan, and uses it only for the pairing code.

Screens shows every screen as a tile: a green dot when it is online, a red dot when it is offline (with when it was last seen), its group and the playlist it is playing. The Offline and Needs publish tiles at the top count the screens that need you; search finds a screen by name.

Tap a screen to change its group, see its settings and information, share it, or remove it. Settings like Launch player on startup, Display orientation and Screen edges are the same as on the web; see Screens and Screen Edges.

Changes reach your screens when you publish, as on the web. Look for the rocket:

• Green: the screen or group shows the latest version.
• Yellow: there are changes that aren’t published yet.
• Red: the screen has never been published.

Tap the rocket on a screen or group tile, or at the top right of a screen, group or playlist page, to publish.

On Playlists, tap a playlist, then Edit content. The slide opens in the editor, with all the playlist’s slides in a strip below it: tap one to open it, drag to move it.

• Add text, shapes, pictures and videos from your Library, icons and emojis.
• Add plugins such as Weather, Clock, Ticker, YouTube, RSS, Website and Google Slides.
• Start a slide from a template, from your Slide Stash, or create several at once with Multi Create.
• Set each slide’s duration, transition, conditions and background music, and add animations to elements.

Tap the blue + on Playlists to create a new playlist. Afterwards, publish the playlist to send it to your screens.

On Groups, tap a group to see its screens, change its base playlist, turn Content Synchronization on or off, and plan which playlist plays when. Read more in Groups and Scheduling.

Standby holds screens that aren’t in a group; use it to switch a screen off for a while.

Go to More > Library and tap the blue +. Pick photos and videos from your phone, or a file. They are added to your Library, ready to use on your slides.

More > Team & Members lets admins add team members, change their role or remove them. If you belong to more than one team, Switch Team takes you to another one.

Tap your picture at the top right for your Account: your name, product update e-mails, two-factor authentication, appearance (light or dark), log out and delete your account.