When this is on the phone is a remote and every video plays on the Roku.
Your TVs
Lanes
The reel
A slow drift of up and coming videos from smaller channels, with partner spots mixed in. It grows when a television is playing and shrinks when the phone is. Touch it to hold it still.
Auto advance
Sends the next video when this one should be over, unless you have tapped something in the last 30 seconds.
Only show recent videos, optional
TopReel looks for the best videos it can find, not the newest, so a good video is worth watching whether it went up last week or last spring. Leave this on Everything unless you specifically want recent videos only.
Choosing a television plays the video there and turns this phone into a remote. Choosing this phone brings the video back here.
Sound comes from
One of them at a time, never both, so there is no echo. Choosing this phone is the way to listen on headphones while the room watches the television.
Television volume
60
Lining the sound up
matched
The phone is checked against the television every ten seconds and moved if it drifts. If it still sounds a shade early or late, nudge it here once and it will stay put.
Link a TV
On your TV, open YouTube, go to Settings, then Link with TV code. Type the code it shows here.
New lane
Say it however you like. A subject, a mood, a decade, a kind of channel.
Edit lane
Remote
Volume
60
Playback
Power and menus
TopReel with everything on
Your first seven days
The whole app, free, with no card. Just your email. Everything works.
After that
Subscribe to carry on. There is no cut down version, so the app stops when the seven days are up.
Or subscribe now
Regular price $4.99 per month. Introductory launch price $3.99 for a limited time.
Sign in or create your account
Type your email and we send you a link. Tap the link and you are signed in. There is no password. Your account keeps your stream, your steering, your blocked channels and your plan on every phone and computer you use.
Leave it empty if nobody sent you. It only counts when the account is new.
How TopReel works
Watching
Press Next for another video. That is the whole of it. TopReel picks from channels that passed a quality check, so you are not sifting through bait to find something worth your time. You can also swipe up for the next video.
The reel
Under the video a slow strip of what is coming next drifts past on its own, so you can glance down and see what is ahead without tapping anything. Every card shows the title and the channel over the picture, never a thumbnail on its own. Touch it to hold it still, and tap any card to jump straight to that video. Anything you skip past counts as watched, so it will not come round again. It grows when a television is playing and shrinks when the phone is, and it can be switched off in Settings.
Steer
Say where you want your stream to go, in your own words. Something like more woodworking, or more calm and slower videos, or less true crime. It is a lasting change of direction, not an order for right now. Anything we already have moves to the top straight away and we keep looking for more over the following days. If what you ask for goes against something you told us before, Steer takes that back for you.
Tune
Tune is about the video on screen. It offers choices at several levels, from the whole subject down to the exact angle, so you can say more of this or none of that without leaving the video. The first choice is always more from this channel.
Mood
Tap Mood to lean your stream toward how you feel right now. Pick Calm, Curious, Hands on, Light, Out in the world, or Something longer. It is a quick lean, not a lasting change of direction like Steer, and it only shapes your own stream. It works straight away. Tap the same mood again, or Clear the mood, to take it off.
Block
Block removes that channel from your stream for good, not just the video you are watching. You get a moment to undo it if you tap it by mistake.
Skip Ad
Jumps past the ad at the start of a video.
Watching on a television
Tap TV to choose between this phone and any Roku on your network, and Remote to control the television without getting up.
The trial and the subscription
Your first seven days are free. They start the moment you first open TopReel, with no card and no account needed. Everything works during the trial, including Next, Steer, Tune, Mood, Block, the reel and casting to your television.
When the seven days are up, the whole app stops unless you subscribe. Monthly is $3.99 a month, an introductory launch price for a limited time, and the regular monthly price is $4.99. Annual is $29.99 a year, our discounted annual rate. There is no free version after the trial. You make an account with your email when you subscribe, so your subscription and your stream work on every phone and computer you use.
