Smart TV browsers are great for viewing and terrible for typing. beam2.tv fixes the typing: you open one short address on the TV once, and every link after that comes from your phone or PC in a couple of taps. No app to install, no account to create, and nothing is tracked or stored.
No phone at hand? Open beam2.tv/s on any PC, type the code from the receiving screen, and beam the link from there. Any screen can send or receive – TV, PC, tablet or another phone.
Samsung (Tizen), LG (webOS), Android TV and Google TV, Fire TV, and any device with a web browser – including desktop browsers, which makes PC-to-PC and PC-to-TV beaming work too. Because it runs in the browser, there is nothing to install and nothing to update.
The parents' TV – set up once, help forever. On your next visit, set beam2.tv/tv as the homepage of their smart TV's browser (or bookmark it). From then on, "open the internet" on their TV always lands on a calm screen with a big code and QR – nothing for them to remember or type, ever. When you want to share something – a news article, the grandchild's video, a photo album, that thing you talked about on the phone – they open the browser and either read the code aloud to you, or take a photo of the TV and send it in the family chat: the QR in their photo is scannable straight from your phone's gallery, opening your send page directly. Then you beam, and it's on their screen. Works from any distance, needs nothing installed on their side, and the worst case after the TV sat idle is one press of OK on the remote for a fresh code. The same trick serves IT support and helpdesks.
Meetings and presenting. Get a link onto the meeting room screen or projector in seconds: open beam2.tv on the room PC or smart display, beam from your laptop or phone. No cables, no casting dongles, no guest-network gymnastics.
Phone ↔ PC, both directions. Stop emailing links to yourself. Open beam2.tv on the PC, scan, beam – or flip roles with one tap. No account, no app, works between any two browsers.
Watch web video that has no TV app. Most video on the internet never gets a smart-TV app: videos embedded in news articles and blogs, live streams on organisations' own sites – a local sports club's match, a parish service, a council meeting, a school celebration – webinar replays, public webcams, and smaller video platforms your TV doesn't know. If it plays in a browser, beam it and it plays in the TV's browser. (Playback capability is the TV browser's own – standard web video generally works.)
Test your site on a real TV. Developers: beam a staging URL straight to the actual Samsung or LG in the corner instead of trusting emulators. This product was built that way.
Hotel and rental TVs. Works on screens you'll never touch again – nothing installs, nothing persists after the 5-minute session.
Some links don't just point at a page – they carry the data: a Google Maps route with your waypoints and stops encoded in the URL, a journey-planner result for one specific connection, a YouTube video at the exact timestamp, a product configured just so in a car or furniture configurator, an apartment or flight search with every filter set, a shared photo album, a document or meeting link with its long access token. These URLs run to hundreds of characters and are impossible to retype – one wrong character and the route, the timestamp, the configuration is gone. Beaming moves the link byte-for-byte: what you built on your phone is exactly what opens on the screen. Planning a road trip on the big screen with the family, from the route you prepared on your phone, is the whole product in one scene.
Any browser screen can become a simple info display: open beam2.tv on it, then beam the link to whatever it should show – a restaurant or cafe menu page, a weekly timetable, a meeting room booking calendar, a lobby notice, a live dashboard. The screen opens the link and keeps showing it until you beam something else or change it at the source. No signage software, no media player box, no cables – just the browser the screen already has. For screens that stay on, the full-screen beam2.tv/tv version is made for exactly this.
Occasional use like this is free. Running screens this way regularly in a business (digital signage) requires a separate agreement – we are happy to discuss options at info@beam2.tv.
On your phone: Android – open beam2.tv in Chrome, menu › Add to Home screen. iPhone – open it in Safari, tap Share › Add to Home Screen. It then launches like an app, straight to sending.
On your TV: bookmark beam2.tv in the TV browser, or set it as the browser's homepage. Every time you open it, a fresh code and QR are already waiting – the one-time typing of the address becomes zero-time. For a cleaner full-screen version made exactly for this, bookmark beam2.tv/tv instead: a calm dark screen with a large code, QR, and a clock.
Does it work on Samsung and LG TVs without an app? Yes – it runs entirely in the TV's built-in browser. That is the point: the TVs that cannot install apps are exactly the ones this is for.
Is it free? Personal use is free. Systematic commercial use (for example digital signage) needs a separate agreement – see legal.
Is it private? No accounts, no cookies, no tracking, no ads. A beamed link is held for at most 5 minutes and deleted the moment it is delivered. The honest answer to any data request is that we hold no data about you.
What if the QR will not scan? Type the code instead at beam2.tv/s. Codes never contain the easily confused characters 0, O, 1, I or L.
Why does my iPhone ask before pasting? When you tap Beam clipboard, iOS shows a small Paste confirmation (in Finnish: Sijoita). That is Apple's privacy protection for the clipboard – tapping it is normal and required, and beam2.tv never sees your clipboard without it.
Beaming doesn't work? Some browsers and environments block it: strict security settings or disabled JavaScript in the browser, managed or corporate devices with restrictive policies, and hotel, office or public networks that filter unknown sites. DNS-level ad blockers (such as Pi-hole) on a home network can also block the page or the QR library. If the page loads but the QR won't scan, use the code instead at beam2.tv/s. If nothing loads at all, try the same address on your phone's mobile data – if it works there, the network or device policy is the blocker.
Does it work across countries and networks? Yes, and delivery is instant regardless of distance: each beam travels through a single meeting point created for your code, so a sender in one country and a screen in another connect to the same spot. If a beam ever seems slow, the usual causes are the network blockers described above.
Is there a version made for TV homepages? Yes – beam2.tv/tv is a full-screen dark receiver with a large code, QR and clock, made to be set as the TV browser's homepage or bookmark.
Why not use a link-sharing app? Such apps exist and work well when both devices can run them – and that's the catch. They need installation on both ends (most TVs can't install anything), often an account, and usually the same Wi-Fi or a pairing step. Hotel and office networks isolate devices; your phone may be on mobile data while the TV is on Ethernet; and a screen you don't own will never have your app on it. beam2.tv makes the opposite trade: nothing to install, no account, no shared network needed – any browser is enough, on both ends. If both your devices happily run the same app on the same network, use the app. beam2.tv is for everywhere else, which turns out to be most places.
Is beam2.tv a streaming or IPTV service? No. beam2.tv streams nothing and has no channels, playlists or subscriptions. It relays exactly one thing: a web link, from one of your devices to another, deleted within minutes. Any video you watch through a beamed link is your own link playing in your own TV's browser.
Will beam2.tv stay free? Basic beaming – what you see here – is free for personal use, and that is meant to stay. The service will evolve, though: paid additions are coming, such as screens that stay permanently paired for business use, priced per screen, and possibly a tasteful sponsor. These will be additions, not subtractions – the free one-shot relay, and its no-account, no-cookie privacy model, remain as they are. Systematic commercial use already works by agreement (see legal).
Why "beam"? Because typing a long URL with a TV remote is the opposite of the future we were promised.
Try it – open beam2.tv in any browser