# A "TV cloud photo album" got 680k installs in two months, but the people installing it were really there for free movies · Mobile app

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> Its parent app has 120M users who keep asking for a big-screen version. The TV app absorbs about 7% of the parent app's new users daily, and TV-install tutorials on YouTube bring in users for free.

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Seekee: Videos & Photos on TV · Seekee Ltd

# A "TV cloud photo album" got 680k installs in two months, but the people installing it were really there for free movies

**What it is** : the smart-TV version of Seekee, a free movie-streaming app from Latin America. You save videos to cloud storage on your phone and play them on your TV with a remote.

**Why it took off** : the parent app has 120M users and has been asking for a big-screen version; the TV app takes about 7% of the parent app's new users each day, and YouTube install tutorials bring in users for free.

**D** **How you could follow** : don't copy it. If you already have a team with Latin American mobile users, you could learn from this and build a TV companion app that only handles login and playback, funneling users over from the phone app.

Grade D: its traction comes from the parent app's 120M existing users and pirated content sources, which followers can't access and shouldn't chase. The only lesson is that "building a companion app for an existing app is cheap." Spreading in small circles

Data (updated daily) · first launch 2026-08-28 · 11-07 installs 687,226

Android · Total installs worldwide

Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.

On Google Play there's a TV app called "Seekee: Videos & Photos on TV." The store page says it lets you view cloud photos and videos on your TV. It launched two months ago, has 687k installs, and reached the top ten of Argentina's free productivity chart. It's actually the TV version of a free movie app with 120M installs in Latin America, and its users came from the parent app. This shows how cheap a "companion app" play can be, but you can't replicate it yourself.

### A 440k-view tutorial, five months before the app

In 2026 Mar 18, the YouTube channel JOSHUATECH IA posted a Spanish video, "Como INSTALAR SEEKEE en Smart TV" (How to install Seekee on a Smart TV), whose description says "even if your TV doesn't have this app, you can install it." As of 11-06 it has 448k views. The comments are mostly "Me funcionó" (it worked for me), with some saying "I can't get either code to work" and "my Xiaomi box isn't compatible." One Brazilian commenter wrote in Portuguese: "I've been looking for an app to watch movies for free, and you really helped me."

Back then Seekee had no TV version. The tutorials said to type a download code on the TV and sideload the APK. Five months later, on Aug 28, the developer Seekee Ltd put an official TV app on Google Play. The day before, on Aug 27, another tutorial channel had already posted "Cómo DESCARGAR SEEKEE En TV".

### What it actually is

The parent app is called "Seekee - AI Search & Assistant". On paper it's an AI search tool plus browser. On Google Play it has 120M installs, a 4.64 rating, 1.09M reviews, and ranks #1 in the tools chart in Mexico and Argentina. Hardly any reviews mention AI. They talk about "películas gratis en español" (free Spanish movies) and "para que no usen Netflix" (so you don't need Netflix). In 2025 April, the Spanish tech outlet Applicantes called it straight out an "illegal app that lives on piracy": basically a browser that finds pirated streams, with a built-in player and casting. The company is based in Hong Kong, and it also goes by the name Buscari.

The TV app's store listing never mentions movies. It just says "videos and photos you save in the Seekee phone app will automatically appear on your TV", plus "free cloud storage on signup". The flow goes like this: find a film on your phone, save it to your account's "cloud", then play it on the TV with the remote. The TV app can't search on its own.

Users hate this most. One two-star review from Argentina (10-30) reads: "I thought it could search movies and shows like on the phone, and I was disappointed". Another (10-10) says you can't search content on the TV, and shows synced from the phone don't display subtitles. The positive reviews make a different point: "If you don't have Netflix, it saves you a lot of money" (10-30, five stars).

The TV app has no search, so its store page just reads as a "personal cloud player". Reviewers can't see any link to piracy, which is probably why it has stayed on the Play store. This is an inference. I haven't tested it on a device, but the reviews and store description both fit.

### Where the installs come from

Mostly existing users of the parent app. Three pieces of evidence:

- **Same country mix.** The TV app only charts in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and Spain, which are also the parent app's main markets. 11-06 The TV app ranks #9 in Argentina's free Productivity chart, #76 overall in apps, #35 in Mexico Productivity, and #80 in Brazil (Google Play charts).

- **The ratio fits.** Over the last 7 days the TV app added 127k installs, while the parent app added about 1.76M in the same period. So the TV app is roughly 7% of the parent. That looks like "phone users with an Android TV at home installing it", not paid acquisition. On the estimated curve it adds a steady 7k to 15k a day from September, with no spike like a chart push.

- **Users are asking for it.** Recent reviews on the parent app include "can't cast to the TV" (11-03), "Seekee should make a PC version... the screen is bigger" (11-02), and "after the update I can't cast to my smart TV anymore" (10-30).

The rest comes from YouTube tutorials and Instagram shorts ("¿Como ver Seekee en TV?"), plus SEO sites that write up TV install steps. Searching "seekee" on TikTok now returns nothing: the API comes back with a banned-word block, which suggests the platform has suppressed the term. Creator videos did exist before, for example "Magis TV or Seekee, which is better".

Timing helped too. Magis TV and Xuper TV, old Latin American pirate TV apps, were blocked in several countries in recent years. Spanish-language media wrote a lot of "alternatives" articles, and Seekee was one of them (not verified in detail).

### Where the money comes from

Unclear. The store lists no ads and no in-app purchases, version 1.0.1, and no updates since September. But reviews say "there are ads" and "you have to pay", and Google's help forum has complaints about the parent app's subscription charges. A third-party estimate puts the parent app's revenue at $100k to $500k, with no period given, so low confidence. The TV app doesn't look built to make money. It looks built to keep parent app users.

### Who it's competing with

| Competitors | What it is | How it compares |
|---|---|---|
| Seekee's parent app has built-in casting | Same company | Casting means the phone has to stay on, and it breaks often. The TV app installs on its own and plays with the remote. |
| Magis TV / Xuper TV | Latin American pirate TV apps, sideloaded | Has live channels, but you have to enter a code and sideload, and they keep getting blocked. Seekee installs straight from the Play store. |
| Cuevana, Pelisplus, etc. | Pirate websites and install packages | Constantly blocked; they keep switching domains |
| Tubi, Pluto TV, Samsung TV Plus | Legal, free, ad-supported | 120M to 290M installs, but no new releases and no Netflix exclusives |
| Web Video Cast and other casting tools | General-purpose casting | No content included |

Some people are riding the name. On iOS, an individual developer published "Seekee : Películas y Series" in 2026 January, with 11k ratings in the Mexico store. It has nothing to do with Seekee Ltd.

### One lesson to take away

The most useful part of Seekee's TV app isn't the product. The product is bare bones, and it's only one version. What matters is the cost structure: **if you already have a big base of phone users, and they're asking in reviews for a bigger screen, building a TV app costs almost nothing in acquisition** . It can pick up 5% to 7% of the parent app's new installs every day.

Another number worth noting: the Latin American Android TV Play store has very little competition. Ranking #9 in Argentina's free Productivity chart only takes about 10k installs a day. On phones, that same volume wouldn't even get you into the top 50 of a category chart.

### If it were you

**One-line verdict:** don't copy it. It took off because of the parent app's 120M users and pirated streams. You have neither, and you shouldn't want the second.

**Who it's for:** teams that already have a Latin American phone app with several hundred thousand installs (video, fitness, kids' content, karaoke, religion, education), and reviews where people ask "does it work on TV?" Those teams can borrow the companion-app playbook.

**Who it's not for:** anyone without an existing user base who wants to build a "TV cloud photo album" from scratch, and anyone who wants to ride this wave on grey-market content. TikTok has already blocked the term, Google Play could pull the app at any time, and the company hides behind shell entities in Hong Kong. A solo developer can't absorb that risk.

**How to build it:** add an Android TV / Google TV version to your own phone app. Cut it down to logging in and playing content saved from the phone, operable with a remote. It can be done in one to two weeks. On the phone side, add a "watch on TV" entry point with QR-code login.

**How to get users:** don't buy ads for it. Put an entry point in the phone app and push it to phone users. Then post a Spanish or Portuguese "how to install on your TV" tutorial on YouTube. Tutorials like Seekee's pulled in 10,000 to several hundred thousand views.

**How early is early:** there's no deadline. This is a playbook, not a window. If anything, the low bar for the Latin American Android TV store's category charts means building sooner beats building later.

**What would prove this read wrong:** ① the TV app gets taken down within 30 days, or its new installs drop to a few thousand a day, which would mean the path depended on pirate demand and wouldn't hold with licensed content; ② a licensed Latin American app launches a TV version and its long-term TV installs stay under 1% of its phone installs. That would mean the 5% to 7% ratio comes from "free movies" specifically, not a general rule.

[Android store page ↗](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seekee.cloud.tv)

**Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report**

Competitors

| Name | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs from this one |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seekee's main app has built-in casting / mirroring | Android | 2024-12 | 120M installs | Casting requires the phone to stay on and breaks often. The TV app installs on its own and plays with the remote. |
| Magis TV / Xuper TV | Other | About 2020 | A top Latin American pirate IPTV brand, blocked in several countries in recent years (not verified in detail) | Requires sideloading APKs and has live TV. Seekee TV installs directly from the Play store. |
| Cuevana / Pelisplus, etc. | Web | Years | Large, constantly switching domains | Web / APK format, not on official stores |
| Tubi / Pluto TV / Samsung TV Plus | Android | 2014-2020 | 120M to 290M installs | Legal, free, ad-supported, with no new releases or exclusives |
| Web Video Cast and other Cast-to-TV tools | Android | 2014-2021 | 27M to 98M installs | General-purpose casting, no content included |
| Plex | Android | 2011 | 117M installs | User-built media libraries. Seekee is the parent app pushing content into its cloud. |

Where users come from

- **Verified** **parent app base driving installs** : same developer and privacy policy, identical country mix; TV app reviews say "no es como la versión celular"; parent app reviews are asking for a TV version

- **Verified** **YouTube / Instagram install tutorials** : "How to Download and Install Seekee on TV", "SEEKEE for TV How to Install", "Como INSTALAR SEEKEE en Smart TV", Instagram reel "¿Como ver Seekee en TV?"

- **Verified** **SEO sites** : seekeeapk.com/es/seekee-tv/ has a dedicated TV install page

- Inferred **TikTok creators** : there were "Magis TV o Seekee" videos before; a TikHub search for seekee now returns hit_dirt_words (blocked)

- Inferred **paid creator promotion (parent app)** : Applicantes 2025-04 reported claims that creators were paid to promote it

- Inferred **platform event: Magis TV blocked** : Latin American media's Magis TV alternatives articles include Seekee

## Seekee: Videos & Photos on TV (com.seekee.cloud.tv) research report

Date: 2026-11-06 | Channel: Google Play | Developer: Seekee Ltd (site seekee.ai, email info@seekee.ai; the same company also goes by Buscari, address in Cheung Sha Wan, Hong Kong)

### Bottom line

It isn't an independently grown "TV cloud photo album". It's the **TV companion** to "Seekee - AI Search & Assistant" (com.enzo.paulo, 120M installs), a hit grey-market video app in Latin America. The store description is framed as "cloud photos and videos on your TV", but in practice you find films in the phone app, save them to the "cloud", and play them on the TV. Every user comes from the parent app's existing base, plus YouTube "how to install Seekee on TV" tutorials. Growth came from the parent's resources, not from anything in the product worth copying.

### 1. Data (from our googleplay database, 2026-10-29 to 11-06)

- Cumulative global installs: 687,226; last 7 days: +126,788. The database records this as 2026-10-29 560,438 (googleplay.app_day).

- AppstoreSpy's estimated curve since launch (app_day_ext): starting from 2026-09-08, it runs at a steady 7k to 15k a day. Occasionally a single day hits 30k to 57k (10-03, 10-08, 10-21), with no explosive chart-driven surge. 9-12 cumulative 38k, 10-01 about 198k, 10-27 about 560k.

- Leaderboards: Argentina Productivity free chart #6 to #9, overall app chart #57 to #76; Mexico Productivity #24 to #44; Brazil Productivity #64 to #94; Spain Productivity #139 to #193 (chart_rank). The country breakdown is identical to the main app.

- No updates since version 1.0.1,2026-09-08; the store listing shows no ads and no in-app purchases (app_snap); no rating count (common for TV apps).

- Parent app com.enzo.paulo: 120M installs, +7M over the last 1.76 days (about 250k a day), rating 4.64 with 1.09M ratings. Argentina and Mexico Tools #1, Mexico overall chart #3, Argentina #6 to #11, Brazil #22 to #33 (googleplay library).

- The TV app's daily new installs run at about 5% to 7% of the parent app's (127k vs 1.76M). That ratio fits "part of the parent app's users who also have a TV installing it," not independent paid acquisition.

### 2. What it actually is (evidence)

- The parent app is pitched as "AI search + browser," but almost every review is about watching movies, shows and anime for free. Take these from Mexico 11-04 and 11-05: "películas gratis en español", "la puedo pasar a mi tele", "para que no usen Netflix" (googleplay.review).

- Applicantes(2025-04) calls it "una app ilegal que se nutre de la piratería": essentially a browser that finds pirated streaming links, with a built-in player and casting. It hit the top 10 free charts on Google Play at the time, likely after paid influencer promotion. The developer is Hong Kong-based Buscari. [applicantes.com/seekee-app-peliculas-series-gratis/](https://applicantes.com/seekee-app-peliculas-series-gratis/)

- TV reviews (Argentina, October): the most common complaint is "you can't search on TV the way you do on the phone," e.g. "No se puede buscar contenido como en la aplicación del celular y si carga en el historial una serie o pelicula que estes viendo en la aplicación del móvil, los subtitulos no se ven" (10-10). Positive reviews: "salva mucho si no tienes Netflix", "para que HBO y Netflix JAJAJAJA".

- This implies the flow: find titles in the phone app Seekee, save them to a "cloud" (seekeeapp.net also lists cloud storage space as a core feature), and the TV app only reads that account's cloud and watch history. **The TV app deliberately has no search** , so on the store it is just a "personal cloud video player," which helps it get past Google Play's piracy review. This is my inference, but it matches the reviews and the listing.

- Many parent-app reviews ask for a TV version, so the demand comes from existing users: "no me deja transmitir en la tv" (11-03), "deberian tener un Seekee para pc… pantalla grande" (11-02), "con la última actualización no puedo trasmitir al Smart" (10-30).

### 3. Competitors

| Name | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seekee's main app has built-in casting / mirroring | Same company on Android | 2024-12 | 120M installs | Casting requires the phone to stay on and often breaks; the TV app installs on its own and is played with the remote |
| Magis TV / Xuper TV | Sideloaded APKs (Latin America) | About 2020 years and up | Leading pirate IPTV in Latin America; shut down in several countries in recent years (FayerWayer "¿Viudo de Magis TV?", not fully verified) | Requires sideloading and includes live channels; Seekee TV installs directly from the Play Store on TV |
| Cuevana, Pelisplus and similar sites / APKs | Web / APK | Years | Large; constantly blocked and switching domains | Web or APK; Seekee is the "laundered" form inside an official store |
| Tubi, Pluto TV, Samsung TV Plus | Android / TV | 2014–2020 | 120M to 290M installs (googleplay library) | Legitimate, free, ad-supported; the library excludes new releases and Netflix exclusives |
| Web Video Cast, various Cast to TV tools | Android | 2014–2021 | 27M to 98M installs (googleplay library) | General casting tools with no content source |
| Plex | Android / TV | 2011 | 117M installs | Self-built media library; Seekee pushes content into the "cloud" from the parent app |

I did not find an independent competitor at this scale that does the same thing: a TV companion to a gray-market streaming app, sold through a major app store.

### 4. Growth tactics

1. **Existing-user funnel (confirmed)** : same developer and same privacy policy (h5.seekee.ai), identical country distribution, and reviews explicitly say it is "different from the phone version," which shows the installers were already phone users.

2. **YouTube, Instagram, Facebook tutorials (confirmed)** : "How to Download and Install Seekee on TV", "SEEKEE for TV How to Install", "Como INSTALAR SEEKEE en Smart TV", "How to Connect Seekee to Smart TV" all tell people to install it from the TV's Play Store (Jina search results; youtube.com/watch?v=MIfuzJjJ9kM, -VQnRBiFWZU, g8lARJKLVi8). Instagram has a short video "¿Como ver Seekee en TV?" (instagram.com/reel/DYkoXltAnV6). SEO sites like seekeeapk.com have dedicated TV install pages.

3. **TikTok (partly confirmed)** : TikHub searches for "seekee" and "seekee tv" both return 0 results, `search_nil_item: hit_dirt_words`, meaning TikTok has blocked the term as sensitive. But Jina found a TikTok video "Magis TV o Seekee: cuál es mejor". So creator content existed and was later suppressed by the platform.

4. **Paid creator promotion (unconfirmed)** : Applicantes 2025-04 reports people claiming the parent app went viral because creators were paid to promote it.

5. **Platform events / timing (partly confirmed)** : after Magis TV and Xuper TV were blocked in Latin America, users were looking for replacements ("alternatives" articles from FayerWayer, rtsmedios and others).

6. No evidence of paid acquisition by the TV app itself; our metaads and tiktokads libraries don't track it (not finding it doesn't mean it wasn't run).

### 5. How many people have seen it

- The parent app is already well known in Latin America: Spanish-language media (Applicantes) have covered it, YouTube has controversy videos like "La VERDAD DETRAS de SEEKEE", and a Google help forum thread has users complaining about subscription charges (support.google.com/googleplay/thread/414548564). Sensor Tower's search summary puts the parent app's revenue band at "$100K–$500K", with no period given.

- The TV app itself is not discussed much; X (x-radar, last 30 days) returns 0 results for "seekee". So it counts as "spreading in small circles": circulating among Latin American pirate-viewing communities, mostly unknown to developers and investors.

- Copycats: on iOS there is "Seekee : Películas y Series" (id6758005359, by individual developer Muhammad Hamza Sajjad, listed 2026-01, 11,158 ratings in the Mexico store), which is riding the name; there is also "Seekee: Ai Buscar & Ai Tools" (Seekee Verge Co., Ltd, 2026-06,78 ratings), possibly an official iOS sibling or another name-rider, not verified.

### 6. Why it took off

- The parent app has 120M installs and users are actively asking for a big-screen version; the TV app gets 5% to 7% of the parent app's new installs every day, with no acquisition spend.

- Many living rooms in Latin America have Android TV and Google TV devices, and their Play Store lets people find and install it directly, far lower friction than sideloading APKs.

- It is packaged as a "cloud photo and video player" with no search, which is how it got through review and stayed live; the cost is a pile of 1-star reviews complaining about no search.

- Timing: after legacy pirate IPTV services like Magis TV were blocked, users went looking for replacements.

### 7. Differentiation

A pirate-content TV app that installs from an official store and syncs with the phone account's cloud. Compared with Magis TV, no sideloading is needed; compared with casting tools, the phone doesn't have to stay on. That difference helps keep people who installed it, but the reason it scaled is the parent app's traffic, not this differentiation.

### 8. What to borrow

- An app with a large base of phone users can build a "companion shell" (TV, PC) to monetize that base, so installs are cheap; using account cloud sync to move content from the side that gets reviewed to the side that is reviewed more loosely.

- Competition in the Play Store on Latin American Android TVs is low, and the Productivity category chart bar is low (Argentina #9 needs roughly 10k installs a day).

- Very high compliance risk (piracy); copying the content model is not recommended.

### 9. Still unclear

- Whether the content in the TV app's "cloud" was written in from pirate sources on the phone side (inference, not verified by actual installs).

- The parent app and TV app revenue, and whether the TV app has ads or subscriptions (the store listing says none, but reviews say "tiene anuncios" and "toco pagar").

- Whether any separate ad spend went to the TV app, and how large the takedown risk is.

- The relationship between the entities Seekee Ltd, Buscari and Seekee Verge.

This article was written by AI from public data and the data we collect daily. Numbers are sourced, and inferences are labeled.