Discovery GO Reviews

by Ted2500

If you want to be aggravated, this is DiscoveryGO for you. I tried DiscoveryGO on my ipad and, assuming you can get through the cumbersome sign in process in less than 3 attempts, you'll find DiscoveryGO crashes when you try to play something. I even tried it on my Firestick. I got the "Success" screen after going through the sign in process, which is even more cumbersome since you have to use the remote, only to have everything lock up at that point. Save the storage space on your device for something that works.

Update: Received an email from the developer telling me to sign out and then sign in again. If that didn't work then I was to submit a ticket. Since I couldn't ever get signed in on the Firestick, this wasn't an option. I did as suggested on the ipad with the same result - app crashed when I tried to play a show. Following my own advice, DiscoveryGO has now been deleted from both devices.

by Bennynielsen

DiscoveryGO would be great if you got a DeLorean up to 88 mph and went back to 2007. But unfortunately time travel doesn’t exist here in 2021, and DiscoveryGO is terrible. It’s terrible on iOS, and it’s terrible on an Xbox. It wants me to continue watching episodes I have finished and they just stay there telling me to continue watching. The ads are ridiculous. There are more ads on here than if you watched it on TV. An hour long show takes way longer than an hour to watch. It’s almost as if they forgot they had DiscoveryGO and service so they stopped developing any updates that actually make it work like it should in the 2020s. Just spend a little time on your UI please!

by Numetheus76

Let me start out by saying I have no problem with commercials. They are necessary. However, DiscoveryGO is ridiculous. If DiscoveryGO crashes during a show either because DiscoveryGO is terrible or because you accidentally shut your phone off THEN it crashes, you have to watch tons of commercials just to get to where you left off. Example is Naked and Afraid where Season 5 does NOT exist on the list of seasons. You have to view the last episode of season 4 and fast forward to the end watching 3 minutes of commercials. It will then cycle to the first episode of season 5. THEN you have to fast forward to the end of the first episode, watch another three minutes worth. Repeats that a few times until you finally get to the episode ... THEN watch another 3 minutes worth. You had better hope you get the spot right, because you will have to watch more commercials if you don’t. THEN it crashes. Rinse and repeat. There is no pickup where you left off.

by IPerson

DiscoveryGO crashes only during streaming of programs, commercials always work. When you try to go in to catch the last 10 minutes of a program after DiscoveryGO crashes, you wind up having to watch 12 minutes of commercials. I give up, and no longer care how a show ends. If DiscoveryGO crashes that's the end of the show for me.

As if the Discovery network wasn't already bending over backwards to prove they couldn't care less about their customers, they've now locked out their PAYING customers, that have to get their service through Spectrum, from watching back episodes of most of their shows through DiscoveryGO .

by Shawjc4

I stream tv shows on multiple different apps, and I’m pretty sure Discovery Go has more commercials in one episode of a show than every other streaming app has combined in a whole season of a show. Each episode has at least 7-8 commercial breaks and each break has about 7 commercials. The worst part is, they are all the same! You watch the same commercials over and over and over. Sometimes it will play the same commercial 3 times in a row! You spend more time watching commercials than the show itself, it’s almost unbearable. After I finish the series I’m on, I will be deleting DiscoveryGO.

by Raraw993

I'm really disappointed with DiscoveryGO. I don't mind a commercial or 2, but the amount of commercials in DiscoveryGO is ridiculous! I may watch 5 minutes of a show then a 3 minute commercial comes on. Then repeats this throughout the entire show. I'd really like to use DiscoveryGO because I'm away from home a lot and like the discovery shows, but the amount of commercials makes it almost impossible. This is why Netflix will eventually put Discovery and all other networks out of business. You need to keep up with the times. People want less commercials and more show. Just reduce the number of commercials and how long they run and maybe more people would use DiscoveryGO

by DuckTapeGundam

Requires you to give over your TV service subscription info and then we have to sit through and watch all the commercials what’s the point of giving over her your information if you have to watch the commercials that are only making the money you pay for the discovery channel on your TV and in the end up giving them more money sitting and watching to the commercials I thought the point of downloading the apps and everything was so you watch your shows without the commercials but if I’m gonna have to watch the commercials on my phone and use my data might as watch it a home I don’t need to waste my data or battery life for commercials

by Xyz1

DiscoveryGO frequently crashes and when restarted forces the show episode I was watching be played from the beginning and forces me to watch many commercials when I forward to the point where DiscoveryGO crashed. It seems to have many more commercials than other apps that authenticate with a cable subscription. It also plays 6 - 10 commercials in a row. The same commercials are often replayed multiple times throughout the show. Sometimes a commercial repeats within the same commercial break. As I type this review I am watching an episode of Deadliest Catch and a break of 6 commercials was supposed to play. Instead DiscoveryGO is stuck in a loop constantly playing the first and second of the six commercials.

I would give it zero stars if I could.

by Williams Network

App was working flawless with AppleTV until the latest the update Discovery pushed two weeks ago. Now shows won’t start and kicks out of DiscoveryGO to the main screen, I suspect this has something to do with the commercials which Discovery has drop the ball with coding.

In short app has become useless.

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Update: July 27, 2018

LISTEN UP DISCOVERY

This information is for the many people who are experiencing issues with your Discovery app on AppleTV.

I’ve identified the problem without the help of Discovery and have a work around to resolve the issue as documented above. This ISSUE has nothing to do with your internet connection as another person has said in a review.

The issue is indeed related to the coding of the Discovery app which corrupts the installed app previous to the Discovery update.

To resolve the issue: First remove DiscoveryGO completely, Second restart your AppleTV, Third reinstall the Discovery app, Fourth turn off Nielsen Measurement (Discovery spyware) and finally restart your AppleTV once again.

We have two 4K HDR AppleTVs. One we were able use the work around and the other had a additional step of RESETTING the entire AppleTV prior to reinstalling the Discovery app.

This can major pain & inconvenience for people who are using their AppleTV as a HomeKit hub.

by Dcmd31

I love the content but I have lots of problems with the tv provider staying linked. I frequently open DiscoveryGO to watch the latest episode of gold rush only to have it tell me that my tv subscription doesn’t include this network. So I have to unlink provider, deny access to tv provider in phone settings, go back in to DiscoveryGO , link provider, and permit access again. Once I’ve done that, it remembers that I do in fact still have the same subscription package I always had and allows me to indulge in my guilty pleasures… until it happens again the next day.

by InvictaFIVE

Like some other reviewers have noted, DiscoveryGO needs to be updated to save your place better. And it needs to not force you to watch another 3 minutes of commercials to even see IF you scrubbed to the right spot. I also have no issues with commercials, that part is totally fine, but as someone who actually buys time for clients on these types of services, I know the frequency of ads is badly misrepresented (way more than it should be).

This really needs to be fixed. It makes me just want to record on my xfinity, download the show after it ran, and skip commercials entirely that way.

by Deathskitso

They have a wide range of shows which is nice. It would be nice if you took out after the catch and the bait as their own shows, or have I’d play them correctly in they way they aired. Sad you don’t have any old dirty jobs.
However some flaws it does a poor job remembering where you left off, and it does show up on the recently watched.
It crashes all the time, freezes or won’t connect.
I’m jinxing myself with this but only in the past 3 days has it not done this but it will in the middle of what you’re watching make you log out and log back in, about every 2.5 to 3 shows watched. Time watching doesn’t seem to matter.

by Zdburrell

I can’t describe how annoying it is to be fast forwarding and being forced to watched 5-7 ads every time you hit one of the “ad bars” on your video progress. Switching between tv and mobile, it doesn’t save my most recent spot on the shows I watch. So when I am scrolling through an episode, I constantly have to watch all of these ads even though I haven’t found the point I was last at yet. And you can’t back out of the ads once you trigger them. Currently looking for a point I was last at and I have already had to watch 19 ads. So, so very annoying and wasting my time. There has to be a better way.

by Turnip2113

I downloaded the Discovery Go app because my household does not have cable/ satellite and I’m very disappointed. The commercials are ridiculously long, it’s always the same ones over and over. I watch maybe 4 min of the show and then boom 4 min of commercials. A lot of the episodes are locked. But the worst is that I can’t fast forward 10 seconds like almost all other streaming apps and when I check a text it doesn’t remember where I was and I have to find my location and then watch 6 more commercials. I gave it 3 stars because I love the shows but DiscoveryGO itself needs work.

by Setander

When I first started using DiscoveryGO it worked great, could shut the phone off or close DiscoveryGO to open a text message and I could pick up where I left off by just going back to DiscoveryGO . That hasnt been the same for the last few weeks and now it doesnt even show that I started watching an episode after I start one. The continue where you left off feature from the menu has never worked, it deletes my favorite shows from my favorites list and feel like the commercials are kind of out of hand. Would give it a 1 star rating but its the only place I can catch up on some series I have missed so I throw it a bone for that.

by Happyplace918

Let me start by saying DiscoveryGO is great, and I love the convenience of being able to watch my favorite shows on my mobile device. My only complaint is the commercial break placements. Instead of falling into the shows cut edits specifically for commercials, it breaks in at almost random intervals which breaks up the flow of the show. That would be alright if I could back up the video and resume the flow, but if I do, it just starts the commercial circuit again. If this could be resolved, that would make this a 5 star app imho. Even if it can’t be resolved, still very awesome to have access to all these great programs!

by Scomega

I understand commercials are used to fund this experience, I would pay to watch everything with out commercials but Discovery doesn’t have that option... Now with that being said, the entire commercial system in place in DiscoveryGO and with the way they have this flow setup is absolutely trash... I have watched 4 seasons of gold rush and have had to watch the exact same commercials over and over and over again.. my favorite part is that 90+% are for a the OWN network, 5% for food network and remaining for other trash... beyond frustrating, time I just say screw it and go do something else

by Ortiz66

This is a great app and it’s casts well to our TV but we have noticed that when we’re watching a series it will skip episodes or if I select an episode to watch it’ll jump 2-3 episodes ahead (ex I select episode 10 to watch but DiscoveryGO will start playing episode 12) and same if we just finished watching Episode 10 sometimes it will skip to 12 completely missing episode 11. Other than that like I said it’s a great app just has this one annoying glitch.

by Richgang562

So I love using discovery go, I finally get to catch up on one of my favorite series. “STREET OUTLAWS” only problem is that after I watch an episode or 2 it’ll pop up with a notification saying that the show is only available to people who have discovery on their cable plan or something like that. It’s kinda annoying having to delete DiscoveryGO and reinstalling it, then punching in my info, just to watch the next episode. I’ve been dealing with this for over a week now and it’s really frustrating to me. Is there a fix to this ?

by Mario Tejada

I have Fios. Their on demand is trash! You only get a couple of episodes per season. The rest you have to pay for LOL. Per episode 😂 wth am I paying for cable!? The this app app is AMAZING! You get the usable ads which is perfectly fine. You get all the episodes. You really can’t co plain. Only flaw is that if you leave DiscoveryGO and come back or close it and come back. You have to rewatch the ads.

by P1zzaman88

DiscoveryGO is ridiculous... It has more glitches than any other streaming app I use. The add pop ups are the most frustrating thing, they pop up, and you can’t get it to go away to hit play or pause on the show you started until you’ve clicked the add. The commercials are annoyingly long, it seems like a 30 minute show is 15 minutes of commercials. Streaming has become worse than live tv with commercials, I get they are needed to provide funding, but it’s the same ads over and over and over... drives one crazy. As soon as I find another way to watch certain shows, I will stop using DiscoveryGO, and never go back to discovery.

by 450knot

Probably the worst app I’ve ever used. Just to be clear, I watched all 6 seasons of Ice Pilots using the VHX app, and it never crashed. Not one time in 50+ episodes. DiscoveryGO crashed before I could finish ONE episode. I tried multiple times to return to the same place where it locked up, and after being required to watch the same ads over and over again, it kept crashing. This happened at least five times before I gave up. There are plenty of other similar reviews of DiscoveryGO. I’m adding myself to the growing list of VERY unsatisfied users of your terrible app. Get your act straight. Produce an app that does not crash or lose a customer.

by Annon545

DiscoveryGO works fine for me and I have no issues with anything beyond the advertisements. The length of the ad blocks are very long and typically play the same few ads over and over. Furthermore, there are designated ad blocks in the video which do not turn off after watching them. This means that if you want to rewind to before an ad block you have already had to watch for way too long, you will have to watch that same add block again whenever you get back to that point. This simply ruins DiscoveryGO for me, as the content I want to watch seems to be riddled with ads that take up probably 1/3 of the time in the total video.

by TimJR55

I love the fact I can watch the exclusive shows on DiscoveryGO . DiscoveryGO started out great! My wife got me hooked on N&A and N&AXL and so I wanted to catch up on the episodes. Plus the only way to watch N&A Savage is on DiscoveryGO ! So I signed in with my DirecTV info and boom, all the N&A episodes where at my fingertips. Then a day later I went to watch some more episodes and now they are all locked. I click the sign in button, I have deleted and re downloaded DiscoveryGO and nothing seems to work. Very upsetting, I was excited about being able to watch any of the shows at anytime but it isn’t working at all anymore.

by Fish4FunFish4Life

Thanks for putting up all of your shows. The commercials and advertisements are no different than standard TV and I respect that. Please keep it that way. I can deal with 5” 3 minute commercials/ads for a one hour show on demand. If you have a cable tv supplier or tv provider. Try DiscoveryGO if you want The Discovery Channel! Try it more if you want discovery when you want it, and how you want it. Thanks. Please try out the discovery show “The Last Alaskans” if anyone gets a chance. It’s real and it makes you feel on the edge. Love DiscoveryGO . Love the channel and always have. Try to keep us informed forever please!