Picarto: Live Stream & Chat Reviews

Please fix these issues. I'll break them down one-by-one;

1. Picture-in-Picture doesn't always work, often automatically pausing when I switch to another task.

2. Picarto frequently logs me out between uses.

3. My own friends' usernames never show up in search results, and I can only find them in Picarto by clicking on notifications from them.

4. Links to my friends' streams never open Picarto itself, instead opening in my phone's default browser.

5. Notifications don't always work, and sometimes not even turning on.

6. Basic features within Picarto use a lot more screenspace than they should on older devices, such as the first generation iPhone SE.

7. Whenever I start watching a stream with mature content, even though my preferences are set to show that sort of stuff, it still gives me the warning that the stream might not match my content preferences.

8. I'm not able to search multiple communities at once unless I use "All", and channels apparently aren't able to assign themselves multiple tags.

I used to love Picarto and this site but PicartoTV has become unusable lately. 1. Because Picarto kept glitching because streams take forever to load. 2. The inability to filter inappropriate/unwanted content out. Almost every time, as soon as your hit the explore tab, you are assaulted by porn/nude shots and suggestive animal art. Forget trying browse through the the streams. They need to add something to the filters/account settings so that a user can block certain genres/content from popping up on their lists of streams. They have weak settings in place for that where certain works are labeled explicit but it certainly doesn’t stop users from X rated thumbnails. I have literally seen thumbnails of graphic sexual acts when I opened Picarto and that should not be. I really want to enjoy PicartoTV but I just cannot endorse this.

It seems every time this app updates their app it breaks a little more. I wish they’d put as much care into this as they do with their website because it has the potential to be great. That, and if they could fix the notifications and the constant sign-outs that would be fantastic.

The design is very nice, and there is a great community but, at least for the iPad version, it takes quite a while for a stream to pull up on a good internet connection. Many times I have opened Picarto only to find myself back at the log-in page. And although slightly less of an issue, Picarto is not compatible with any split-screen or mini player viewing. They recently advertised being able to stream directly from iPad, but that doesn’t seem to work either, with the stream still shown as being offline.

A streaming service for artists is an excellent idea, and we’ve seen some nice updates in the past, but they are so few and far in-between that I fear Picarto will never reach what it could be.

While Picarto itself works perfectly fine for the purposes it serves, i see a lot of people upset about the endorsing and/or lack of filtering of nsfw content on the platform.

While i agree that a filter would be good for certain content, i do think that the backlash regarding the various hate reviews is a bit overplayed.
Due to the lack of representation in the sex worker industry, there are few opportunities or places where it can be generally accepted. Picarto doesn’t deserve the backlash that comes from the nsfw creators on the platforms, neither do a majority of the creators themselves.

I personally recommend Picarto for a decent alternate streaming service centered around art. It has good mechanics to it, and it makes it convenient to watch your favorite artist create something. But minors should be wary about where they step on there.
While good nsfw representation is appreciated, the exposure of it to minors is frowned upon for good reason.

Honesty I’ve used Picarto since 2019, which I was wonderful to use then. Now I keep meeting the login screen and keep having to log in over and over again. Recently I started to use this app again after my favorite streamer returned and my account has been acting up. So I decide I should just make a new account. I’ve wasted four emails on Picarto now and some in the past on the account activation, and I can’t even unregister those accounts to try again cause a message saying ‘account not activated’ hinders me from deactivating those accounts. When I find the email to activate the newest attempt of Picarto, it’s no longer open to activate. So Picarto really has just became disappointing.

Picarto is great but it would be better if there was a way to report bugs or issues through Picarto . Also recently even though I have great WiFi signal and cellular data the streams have been glitching up an their are sometimes where I can’t see the stream on mobile but is fine on my laptop. So it would be great if they could fix this and continue to improve Picarto because it has the potential to be great.

I’ve been trying to log into Picarto for over an hour now, and all I’m getting is a red bar that says something went wrong, or it says something went wrong:asp. I even get the famous continua loading screen. I even went as far as trying to make a new account and got the same thing. I tried contacting service and their not much help, they can’t find my account. Everything is up to date one my phone so it’s all on Picarto . Until it’s fixed, it’s staying at one star & to be honest, the one star is only a pity star

I was really, REALLY excited to use Picarto after seeing what their site is like and since other places like Twitch need 3rd party apps to stream drawings this would’ve been the obvious choice. After hearing that a patch was imminent I held on for another week but Picarto so far won’t even let me register. Coming back every couple days I’ve watched the rating on the store plummet for identical reasons to my own, it’s sad to see a beloved app actually die because it’s parent company just can’t be bothered. Remove it from the store or fix your app.

There is recently a new problem in PicartoTV. The chat area isn’t showing up and all it says is “Something Went Wrong”. Still love Picarto though, but I would definitely love it you could fix this situation.

Ok let’s start it off like this, Picarto isn’t bad, it’s not good either, I see lots of potential in Picarto the developers just have to work on the format. It’s definitely better than most of the reviews say. This is a great app the devs just need to work on the layout and format.

It took me forever to get it to let me log in in the first place. Then I got in and I couldn’t even find one of the streamers I was looking for. Closed Picarto , then it wouldn’t even load after that. None of the streams or categories would even show up on my screen. Then I deleted Picarto and downloaded it again. But now it won’t even let me log in. Stick to the browser. Picarto is a waste of time.

The design and looks of Picarto are nice and it good to look at but Picarto barely functions and often gives up after loading a stream for 1 minute or so. It only streams for a minute before freezing and refusing to load the chat and the stream. The only way i could get it to play more was to close the stream and open it again only for it to repeat itself after another minute.

Picarto doesn’t work. And you know what? It hasn’t worked for months. I’ve been trying to watch my friend’s stream, and nothing loads. The spinning circle spins forever, and Picarto won’t even load my notifications. Not a single stream of anything loads. Picarto would make you think that this app is a dead platform with no humans, because not a single thing loads or works.

The PicartoTV streaming service itself is pretty good and the desktop experience is mostly okay. But the iOS app is full of bugs. It drops connections, sends whispers to the wrong people, brings up the wrong screens when you click on things, and is often just slow to respond.

I got this in hopes to stream my art progress, but you can’t stream your iPad screen or select an app to stream. You can stream with your camera and mic, but that’s it. Also, there doesn’t seem to be a way to upgrade your account via Picarto .

I downloaded Picarto primarily to receive push notifications when my favorite artists started their streams. Unfortunately Picarto fails at this basic task, even after I've double checked ios settings to allow it. At least stream viewing seems to work. (If that's your reason for downloading)

Ok so picture this, it’s your first time trying to log in, you get your email and password but and when you actually try it says that your email or password is wrong. So you try and renew the password, and when you do it says password already in use

So yea I tried this for like 10 minutes and I’m just so stressed

I have only been able to use this app on my computer, which I don’t always have with me, so I assumed Picarto would be better, turns out, it’s worse. Nothing ever loads (even with full bars of wifi) and even if I do get to a stream it says it’s unavailable. Please work on your website and your app for those who can only use Mobile.

I love it! Just a couple things, 1, when I have show follows first on, it doesn't show the streamer even if they’re following. 2, it would be very beneficial to everyone if the notifications weren’t only inside of Picarto , and/or through email.

I was very interested in Picarto as I wanted a new platform for my viewers only to not be able to activate my account. I’ve tried activating my account for 3 hours only to go right back from where I started . In those 3 hours I made 3 accounts with different emails all “activated” when none of them worked . Extremely disappointed and dissatisfied in this streaming platform .

I do love that this app has an app on iPad and other tablets devices but there are few things I think holds it back. One things I do not like about Picarto is the keyboard/typing area as often it's small and I cannot see what I'm typing all time and when I post in chat I see last grammar errors I did not to see. I think they keyboard/typing section should be bigger when one is typing in it as make it easier. Also recently after updating this app it seem to take awhile to load up and when final loads and I log into it I can find any streams and hoping that it only temp. One final thing that I think needs to be done is multi-stream as when an artist multi-streams with another artist I can't see anything when they do, in often have wait for one artist to do regular streams in order to watch them. All in all it is a good app that just needs some fine tuning

Basically make Picarto work like twitch . I should be able to leave Picarto and still hear who I am watching. I also the stream itself while I’m on Picarto freezes way to much as well as the chat .
Picarto could have potential but it needs major work.

Going to be brutally honest Picarto crashes too much when watching the stream of my artist fix it plz

So I tried to sign in so I could activate my account and it wouldn’t let me sign in because my account wasn’t activated.

I can’t really give a review because it won’t even let me login

Given how long it took for Picarto to come out, maybe I had unrealistic expectations of how it would work. Yes, I can watch streams, but there are too many little issues to make me want USE Picarto .

Right off the bat, I was annoyed that there wasn't an easy, intuitive ways to be able to see streams listed as nsfw. I realize it shouldn't be active when you use Picarto for the first time, but there should be something in Picarto settings to let you see those streams or to tell you to go to the desktop websites setting. Having to Google how to view EVERYTHING was not a good start.

The other really BIG issue I have is the fact that there's no way to rotate my phone to change between full screen and chat. So many other video and streaming apps have this as a basic feature that it's quite jarring that it's missing here. Also, when I do go full screen I become locked in with the steam set in one position, which makes it awkward if I need to turn my phone for some reason and suddenly I'm watching things upside down.

Also, I don't really use chat on streams that often, but the couple times I did, the whole thing messed up, making it impossible to see what I was typing.

Over all, it's not a bad app, but it's not worth it to me right now to use it over watching streams on the Puffin browser app. :(

I only have one issue with Picarto. Everything else works perfectly fine, but every single stream I watch is severely lagged. It puts me off wanting to use Picarto , and seeing as I can't always get on a computer, it makes me very upset. I want to be able to watch my friends' streams without delay. Please fix this! This is the ONLY reason I'm rating 2 stars. If the delay/lag is fixed I will rate 5.
And I know for a fact that it's not my wifi that's the problem. It's Picarto. Hope you see this and are able to fix it!

An otherwise convenient app with good UI is plagued by certain issues and bugs, such as not being able to copy or paste anything into chat. Recently, I haven't even been able to type into chat, both on Picarto and the desktop version (this only applies to certain streams). I can work around this by using popout chat, but I shouldn't be required to do such a thing - especially if it isn't even possible on Picarto . Additionally, the smilies aren't up to date, plus the stream has a few moments of lag when compared to the desktop version. I was hoping there was going to be an update fixing all that, but it seems not.

Edit: most of the above issues have fixed themselves over time, but somehow Picarto had gotten worse. It no longer shows a preview of what’s being streamed, nor does Picarto actually bother to play said streams. Just an infinite loading bar.

So when I started using it I realized there were some Artis that I fallow but didn't show up on the list or the search. I realized
it was due to NSFW. Since I like their art style and yes most of them draw nude -I like using the Reference. the way to fix this is simple.

1. Create/have an account with this app. (On their website, not Picarto )
2. Go to configuration, then the account tab.
3. Scroll down till you see "Show NFSW on app". (It should be red and off)
4. Switch to on.
5. Make sure you save, otherwise it won't take effect. (Save botton is right on the bottom on the screen every time you try to make a change.)
6. Log in with your new or existing account. or If you already have one and login, log out and log back in.

That's it now! I can see all the streams!

but parents, be careful their is a lot of "non kid friendly" art. so make sure your child is fallowing or streaming "safe" work, that you want them to.
If not sure, then create and regulate an account for them.

Thank you, this app for releasing this update. It was much needed for a better viewing experience. A new UI, Notification and ReplayKit support, and many other improvements? Wow. All I can say is… thank you. This is the update we needed.

Two things that I’d want in the future:
1. Have the chat be integrated into the panel below the stream rather than loading a separate Safari window in that panel.
2. Incorporate the multistream filter and make it an option to remove all multistreams from the Explore section. I don’t like the concept of multistreams at all.

An app is made for the sole purpose of making it more convenient than using the website online, however, this is not the case here. There are several features on the website that are missing completely on he app. These features include: being able to view and change your profile, looking at your follows regardless of wether they are online or not, and being able to watch recordings of streams. I'm sorry, but there is little to no reason to download Picarto in its current state. It's a significant downgrade of the website itself. There's nothing wrong with the site or the program, Picarto is just awful.

I love being able to not have to rely on the Puffin browser to watch this app streams anymore, but some things still need addressing, like On-screen Notifications that tell you right when one of the streamers you follow goes live, and the keyboard obscuring the text bar when you try to type something in a chat. Getting tired of having to close the keyboard every time I want to check my spelling. Another issue is that some streams occasionally buffer endlessly.