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.
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.
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 "beam"? Because typing a long URL with a TV remote is the opposite of the future we were promised.
Try it – open beam2.tv on your TV