Crestron AirMedia is a wireless presentation app for iOS and Android that enables screen sharing to Crestron in-room hardware.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Productivity
Sentiment
1.6
432 reviews
Nemesis
Vysor
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire this app to facilitate professional meeting room collaboration, relying on it to bridge mobile devices with enterprise-grade AV infrastructure.
For Enterprise, education, and government IT administrators and end-users operating within Crestron-equipped meeting spaces.
Key features
Transmits screen content from mobile devices to in-room Crestron hardware
Allows multiple users to connect and present screens simultaneously
Supports silent installation for IT management
How much does it cost?
The app functions as a free utility to support the sale of high-cost enterprise hardware.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentperformanceUX improvementsShow more...
The development cadence is approximately 0.04 releases per week, significantly below the threshold for active development. The latest release occurred in August 2025, and the previous release was in November 2024, indicating a long-term maintenance pattern. Updates are limited to technical compliance and minor bug fixes rather than new feature development. The app is currently in a state of low-frequency maintenance.
Who built it?
Crestron Electronics
3 apps tracked · Productivity
Crestron Go
Crestron HomeUser Sentiment
What do users think recently?
The recent review mood reads frustrated. Users report connection and discovery failures.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Connection and discovery failures
Competition
Competitive landscape for Crestron AirMedia
How's the Productivity market?
Crestron AirMedia operates as a specialized enterprise utility, with its market position defined by hardware-locked integration rather than consumer-facing chart performance.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Vysor, Inc.
Vysor competes directly by offering high-performance screen mirroring and remote control capabilities that overlap with AirMedia's core wireless presentation use case.
- Offers full remote control of mobile devices, whereas AirMedia is primarily a one-way presentation tool.
- Cross-platform desktop client support provides superior flexibility for users mirroring across different operating systems.
- Vysor Share feature enables remote collaboration, addressing a broader use case than local room-based presentation.
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Key takeaways for Crestron AirMedia
Where is it heading?
The wireless presentation market is shifting toward software-defined flexibility, leaving hardware-dependent solutions like AirMedia exposed to agile, cross-platform rivals. The team must address discovery friction to maintain relevance within existing enterprise accounts, or risk losing the meeting-room interface to software-only alternatives.
- Persistent network discovery failures in the latest release erode user trust, which compounds the rating drag already visible on Android.
- Software-only competitors like Vysor gain market share by removing hardware barriers, accelerating churn pressure on Crestron's closed-ecosystem model.
The SWOT
- Enterprise-grade stability within Crestron-equipped rooms
- Silent installation support for IT management
- Develop wearable companion controls
Next best moves
Rebuild network discovery flow because discovery failure is the top complaint → reduce churn
The counter-intuitive read
The reliance on proprietary hardware is not a…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Hardware-button one-click sharing (available in ClickShare but missing here) +1
Since the last report: The competitive focus shifted from hardware-locked projector rivals to software-only mirroring and one-click hardware solutions, with a corresponding pivot in development priorities toward network discovery.
Bottom line
AirMedia provides a stable presentation conduit for existing Crestron users, but the high friction in network discovery drives negative sentiment, so the team must prioritize a one-click connection flow to defend against software-only rivals.
Unlock 3 critical frictions, 2 market threats and the analyst’s take.
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