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Cross-Platform Media Streaming Apps: 5 Picks That Follow You From Phone to TV

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My laptop runs one system, my phone runs another, and the TV seems to have a mind of its own. For a long time, watching something meant remembering which app lived on which device, and half the time the answer was "not this one." So I went looking for cross-platform media streaming apps that would simply follow me from screen to screen. This list is the result of that trial and error: five apps, each the best at one particular job. It is not a ranking — the right pick depends on how you watch. One thing before we start, because honesty matters more than a clean list: I built one of these. OnTiv, the first entry below, is my own project. I have tried to judge it by the same standard as the rest, and I have kept the claims to things you can check yourself in about two minutes. Where another app genuinely does something better, I say so. What I look for in cross-platform media streaming apps My criteria are simple. The app has to run on the devices I already own, without...