discovery+ | Stream TV Shows Reviews

by Kimmew19

I’m really frustrated! I started using discoveryStreamTVShows at the start of January, and it worked perfectly fine on two devices - my FireStick and LG smart TV. The LG tv is the main device I use. I think I’ve used discoveryStreamTVShows almost every day since downloading. I opened discoveryStreamTVShows yesterday, 1/18, and got a message saying there was an update, so I installed it and tried launching discoveryStreamTVShows . The Discovery+ logo popped up on the screen and stayed there…discoveryStreamTVShows wouldn’t go any further. I turned my tv off, waited a few minutes, and turned it on to try again. Same thing - just a frozen screen with the logo. I gave up and decided to try again today, thinking it just needed some time. Nope. It will not work. I even deleted discoveryStreamTVShows and reinstalled it…nothing! I decided to then check my account to see if there was anything I could do. I signed in on my phone’s browser and was then prompted to download discoveryStreamTVShows , so I did. I got all the way through the process and when I attempted to launch it on my iPhone, I got a message saying it’s not available in my area! What?! It still won’t work on my TV. What’s going on? I was a very happy customer (I love the selection of channels and programs from Discovery+) and now I’m the complete opposite. Please provide an update and/or solution.

by &103sne8,/wq

My biggest con is how discoveryStreamTVShows works when you are playing a show and casting it to your TV. There’s no “now showing” menu option so I often get lost because I’m also browsing other things on my phone. That means pausing or stopping is very difficult.
This is even more annoying when it is set to automatically play next, but if there are no newer episodes of that show it defaults to the same brother vs brother season 1 episode 1 show. Over and over. Then there is some lag between pausing the show and stopping casting (just hitting stop casting doesn’t automatically pause the episode like most other apps)
The algorithm on the featured programming seems a little off— for example tonight was premier of battle on the beach on HGTV. Lots of ads on Facebook for it. But when I go to the discovery + app it’s not on the Home Screen of featured programs or on the HGTV feature programs. I had to manually search for the show.
I’d also like it to be more clear when I’ve already watched a show.
Otherwise I love the concept of having some of my favorite networks and programs available in one app.

by GoreObsessed1975

As others have said, discoveryStreamTVShows works horribly (or not at all sometimes) with Chromecast. Yes, the content available is fantastic, which makes this casting issue so frustrating. I have contacted the help team, multiple times about this. I’ve done every suggestion they’ve given (cleared cache, re-downloaded discoveryStreamTVShows , reset my WiFi, etc.) and nothing helps. I will say the team are always very responsive and try to help. But what I learned from one team member after all of these suggestions failed is that unless you have a tv/setup that enables screen mirroring on your tv, attempting to Chromecast will continue to be problematic. That’s unfortunate considering many people don’t have this option, including myself. I have an iPhone, but not a newer tv capable of this. It feels a bit disingenuous to find this out AFTER I’d paid for a subscription. I’ve continued to keep my subscription because the amount of content is great, but will not be renewing at the end of this month. To potential customers I would say be wary if you plan on Chromecasting but don’t have the screen mirroring function on your tv. To the potential developer’s response- I have already been through the help process and suggestions. I don’t need to go through it again. I just need the Chromecasting to be vastly improved. Please fix this!

by Join.The.Hunt

I don’t know what it is with this streaming site, but I seem to have issues with them all the time. I will watch multiple episodes of a show and the close discoveryStreamTVShows or leave the web page for the night, when I come back to the main page, it will tell me I have episodes I watched and finished in my to be continued section. Then with just discoveryStreamTVShows , all the shows start mute in the beginning and it either comes on in a minute or I have to rewind for it to kick in. Now the subtitles come on every episode, even though I just turned them off on the previous episode and every setting on my AppleTV says no subtitles. Also, at first the subtitles were set to Automatic (Recommended), but when I deleted and reinstalled discoveryStreamTVShows for the probably 20th time since signing up, now the subtitles turn on at English, no longer the automatic option and unless I’ve missed an option somewhere I can’t get them to just stay off. I have no problems when any of the other streaming apps and I pretty much have them all. This is the only one that has been a headache since I got it. If it wasn’t for some of the shows, I would of canceled it the 1st day…. Forgot to add, that episodes will go in an out of being clear to fuzzy pictures, when watching and again it’s the only streaming services that does it.

by Kayldf

discoveryStreamTVShows is extremely frustrating. It’s constantly buffering when I’m trying to watch something on my smart TV and I’ve confirmed it’s not my internet connection. Other streaming platforms like Netflix and Prime don’t have this issue. Additionally, discoveryStreamTVShows often doesn’t save my place if I’ve only watched a portion of a show and come back later. I go to continue the episode and it shows I’m only 3 minutes into the show even if I had watched 30min. discoveryStreamTVShows also regularly freezes and gives an error message when trying to start the next episode automatically. You have to click “try again” a couple of times before it works. I think the interface is also not great compared to other platforms. For example, there’s no easy way to see when a show on your list has a new episode- you have to manually go to My List and scroll through each individual show which is pretty inefficient. I will also note I’ve reported these issues before and Discovery + support attempted to help, but the handful of suggestions they gave didn’t change anything. I really like the content so I’ll keep my subscription for now, but I really hope they are working on improving it significantly. From the other reviews it seems that other people have similar struggles with discoveryStreamTVShows.

by Saraloz195

The contents of discoveryStreamTVShows are great and love watching the shows I love. BUT discoveryStreamTVShows is like using the very first streaming apps that ever came out. I use discoveryStreamTVShows to stream to my TV and when I do the quality of the video is so awful. (No I’m not just watching older shows. I watch the magnolia network shows and the quality was still bad ONLY when streaming to my TV.) I haven’t had this problem with any of my other streaming apps. I can’t use my phone to answer a text without fear of having discoveryStreamTVShows glitch out when streaming to my TV. There have been many times when I get a FaceTime call and I can’t easily pause the video to answer. When that happens I have to close discoveryStreamTVShows then re-open discoveryStreamTVShows , find the show I was watching, press play from where ever it wants to play (from the very beginning or a whole different episode) then press pause. After my calls, I have to re find my place and I had a problem with finding my place then after an ad break it hopped back to the very beginning of the episode (I had to restart discoveryStreamTVShows ). It is not user friendly but all streaming apps have gone through this phase so I will keep discoveryStreamTVShows in the hopes that it will be better in the near future. If not I’ll just cancel and delete discoveryStreamTVShows . I STRONGLY SUGGEST HAVING A WAY TO STREAM TO A TV BEFORE PRESSING PLAY ON A SHOW (helps with the long buffer).

by AHG7282

If I were to cancel an app, it would be this one- hands down. Paying top rate for a no commercials plan is alright if the UX is great *and* the content is good. But, expecting anyone to pay for an app that pauses when they turn their phone is **incredibly irritating.** When comparing Discovery+ with other streaming competitors, it’s hard to understand why this hasn’t been fixed. Now, I turn my attention to the lack of PiP. *It’s frankly unacceptable in 2022.* As an early subscriber, I figured it would be in the very next update after discoveryStreamTVShows was released. But no. It’s been a LONG time. And still, there is no PiP. How is this possible? At this point, one can only assume that Discovery (and the dev team) must be incredibly bullish on NOT adding basic features like PiP (or fixing the rotating/pausing situation) because it’s hard to believe they could be completely unaware of ALL the complaints that have come in. Furthermore, in the time since discoveryStreamTVShows was released, other than fixing bugs on the backend, what have they *actually* done to update the UX of discoveryStreamTVShows ? For the Discovery+ folks who respond to people’s reviews here, although I’m sure it will never be shared, it would undoubtedly be great to have a general understanding as to when subscribers can expect some of these essential updates to happen.

by PH 000

I’m happy with the content of the shows on discoveryStreamTVShows and it was very easy to set up on my tv, iPad, etc, but when I go to a category and select a show to be on my List, or just to look at the description, there’s no way to get back to where I was in the listings. I’m immediately sent back to the beginning of the Home page and I have to start searching categories from scratch. Also, I’ve messed around watching some shows and now these shows are stuck in the Continue list. There’s some shows I looked at and have no intention of watching to the end and I can’t get rid of them. I even fast forwarded one to the end and the next episode immediately came up! Now I have that one and the previous ep (because it shows two seconds left)also stuck in Continue! I’m sure you’re working on these things, and I look forward to getting bug fixes and improvements in the future, but it’s so annoying to have these shows clogging up the space. Netflix has an option that says “remove this title from this row”. It’s a very good option. Just a thought.

by Chrgarre

I was initially irritated that people were being forced to get Discovery+ if they wanted to continue to watch certain shows. If I’m being honest, I’m still irritated. However, when looking at this from a financial perspective, in the long run this will save me money, as I will be canceling direct tv now that our contract is up. This may not be the case for others, so it is frustrating to know that this network is basically requiring you to pay more money for something that you are already paying for with cable. Yes I get it. It’s only $5, that’s not the point. Ok, that’s the end of my rant lol... I so far am enjoying g the content. However, discoveryStreamTVShows could use some improvement. When you’re streaming a show to your television from discoveryStreamTVShows and close discoveryStreamTVShows it often times will shut discoveryStreamTVShows down completely not allowing you to click back open to discoveryStreamTVShows to rewind or fast-forward. And then have to go into your continue watching section where it restarts the episode in the wrong spot. It would also be nice to have the option to remove episodes from the continue watching section. Also I am unable to download discoveryStreamTVShows on my chrome cast televisions. And PLEASE, when I have finished an episode, take it off of the continue watching section. That drives me bonkers!!

by Bechne

There’s a lot of Discovery content, and a little History, to entertain for endless hours.

There are some playback features and functions you might miss from other streaming services. 1. There’s no way to connect to Chromecast or another device on your TV until AFTER you start an episode. This means you have to buffer, load, and play the video on your phone before you can tell it to connect to a external device on your TV. It’s very annoying. 2. The streaming on your TV/Chromcast and the controls on the phone lose sync so you sometimes have to stop, reconnect and start again to change playback. You also my need to know the exact show and episode playing to click back into it to get the controls back. 3. My biggest annoyance is discoveryStreamTVShows will not stop streaming on a Chromecast unless you manually stop it. There’s no “are you there” option to check in and save your data usage and stop streaming after a few episodes if the TV is shut off while still streaming. If you set the sleep timer on your TV while a show is playing it will play all night and all day until you turn the TV back on the next night…and it’s still streaming. Has happened to me several times.

I like the service, but discoveryStreamTVShows it’s lacking some of the refined user experience features that users expect from a streaming service day one. This was either rushed out and not extensively tested, or it was never extensively tested. Neither is really acceptable.

by Jmoney1186

Love all the channels and shows we can get. This is the streaming app we use more than any other. However… you need to learn how to build an app there are some pretty pathetic rookie kinks in discoveryStreamTVShows that only belong in one built by a tiny amateur company. For starters I should not still see every single episode of every show we’ve watched in my continue watching list. Secondly and I think partly to blame for the first issue is the fact that each episode we watch seems to scroll back several minutes after we finish it. So if we continue to the next episode then back out before we finish it, the previous episode shows before the current one on the list causing us to continue an episode we’ve already watched when we try to pick up where we left off if we don’t pay really close attention. It’s incredibly frustrating! I really hope your developers get on the ball soon. In conclusion… progress tracking of episodes needs to be more accurate and delete completed episodes from the continue watching list. I should see 5 or 6 episodes there but instead there’s over 100. It’s been this way from the start I know I’m not the only one to complain and I don’t think this is too much to expect

by A. Hernz

discoveryStreamTVShows has brought all my favorite channels into one place along with exclusive content and I’m delighted. However, there is room for improvement. The picture is sometimes blurry when I’m casting to my Google Chromecast. Its usually spotty or clears up after about five minutes but there was one day where it stayed blurry and pixelated the entire day. Maybe the connection to the server can be stronger.

Also, I would like a “watch bar” at the bottom of discoveryStreamTVShows for when I’m casting like Netflix has. If you go out of the show you are currently watching there is no bar at the bottom of the screen that shows what you’re currently watching. This is especially aggravating because discoveryStreamTVShows auto plays to a different show if the one you’re watching finishes. So I’ve had to go searching in discoveryStreamTVShows for the new show that’s playing, click into the episode, just to be able to stop it from playing. This is insane to have to do. What I’m actively watching (via chrome cast) should always be available in a bar right at the bottom of the screen.

The shows and variety are great but discoveryStreamTVShows could use some better functionality. Please think more of people who use Chromecasts.

by Atebyb12

Overall, discoveryStreamTVShows is amazing but it still has to work out some kinks. The price is great, especially to have the ad-free version. I was hoping it was the answer to cancelling another streaming service I subscribe to but discoveryStreamTVShows doesn’t have the original 90 Day Fiancé show, just a streaming channel. Also, random episodes are missing on some shows, so I again have to revert to my other streaming service to watch there. discoveryStreamTVShows freezes briefly on Roku TV after pausing or rewinding, and will skip over the part it freezes on. I’ve had no issues casting from my iPhone to my Vizio TV. I can still use my phone while it’s casting and there is no freezing or glitching. The functionality of the home screen needs some improvement organizationally and to provide the ability to delete episodes in “Continue Watching”. When it auto plays or I check out shows, I don’t necessarily want them to stay in “Continue Watching” because then I have to scroll through those to get to what I really want to continue watching. The catalog of shows is exceptional and I do love that some shows are unedited - very refreshing to be able to listen to people swear instead of hearing “beeep beeeep”. I would honestly pay more to have them remove the censorship bleeps from all shows (Gold Rush, I’m looking at you). I was sure I would cancel after the trial but I’ve stayed on as a subscriber because we now watch Discovery+ more than our other streaming services.

by Matthew Shaffer

While I love watching the discovery plus app I feel like there were some seasons of tv shows that were missing such as the crocodile Hunter and monster quest missing a couple of its seasons like season 3 and for monster quest and seasons 1 2 3 and 4 for The Crocodile Hunter as well as some things like Jurassic Fight Club not being on the history section and it was on the history channel 14 years ago. But all in it was fine but there have been continuous times where it would stop and act like it doesn’t have WiFi on the tv but also because recently the shows I have on list in there went missing and now can’t find any of my favorite shows on there even quite a lot of discover-plus original shows have went missing I hope you guys fix these issues as well as stopping the crashes on tv from happening and I also hope you add in the missing seasons from some shows and in shows that were on the listed channels that hadn’t been seen in years as well as the original episodes of The Crocodile Hunter too

by Auntie79

For the most part, I’m really happy with Discovery +. It has TONS of content. But it doesn’t offer a lot in the way of setting options. I would love to see the following added to discoveryStreamTVShows: 1) the ability to turn off auto start of a new show when I complete a show. Usually the new show (that discoveryStreamTVShows chooses for me) is not anything I’m interested in, and it now stays in my “Continued Watching” list 2) the ability to remove items from Continued Watching. Mine is full of shows I’ll never watch due to the auto start feature and shows I’ve already watched that are just hanging there. If features like this are added, this would be a really great app!

Update: response from Discovery+ is that I can fast-forward through an episode to remove it from Continued Watching. This is not a solution. Fast forwarding only makes the next episode show up, so you have to fast forward through every episode in the season. Then another show auto-starts and shows up anyway. No one wants to spend time doing this Discovery+!

by Greenllamabean

I love all the different channels and content available- discoveryStreamTVShows has become our go to over the last week. However there have been multiple issues while watching on Apple TV. The big one is if I decide to stop watching a show and try to back out of it, it takes a bit of time to go back to the menu and even then, the audio of the show continues to play, and I can’t scroll through the menu while that’s going on. I have to actually back the whole way out to the Apple TV Home Screen in order to get the audio to stop and wait a few min from there to get the Discovery app to “reset”. Next issue, not as major, is when an episode ends and is moving on to the next automatically, I get an error when it attempts to auto play. Once I click “try again”, it does move on though. The last thing I’ve noticed is on several occasions once an ad airs, when the episode comes back on, it’ll have reset the show back to a previous point. If it lets me fast forward (it gets hung up and almost laggy when this happens as in the previous situation of trying to back out of an episode), it’ll hit the same commercial break and just jump backwards in the episode again.

by Crispycully

I love discoveryStreamTVShows. I'm so incredibly happy with the selection of shows and networks. But I have a huge problem streaming anything to my smart TV. discoveryStreamTVShows has a horrible system for streaming. It's almost impossible to pause/play your show while also browsing discoveryStreamTVShows . I've found that I have to go back into the show I'm watching, click the exact episode I'm watching, and then discoveryStreamTVShows with allow me to pause the show. I just wish there was a better way to control streaming while also using discoveryStreamTVShows . Other big streaming apps have an interface that's on screen all the time while streaming to allow you to control your show as you browse discoveryStreamTVShows . It would be huge if you guys added one too. Another problem I'm experiencing is discoveryStreamTVShows not playing the episode at all, or with the sound only. discoveryStreamTVShows will connect to my TV but won't load the episode or picture. The last problem I've experienced is sometimes discoveryStreamTVShows will replay 5 to 10 minutes of my show over and over again. The only way to escape this seemingly never ending loop is to skip ahead past the repeated scene.
Otherwise I love discoveryStreamTVShows so much and I will continue to use it, especially if streaming becomes easier to use.

by VaryingDegreesOfRight

UPDATE: New pro to add to the list: the Discovery+ staff appears to read and respond to nearly all of their app reviews. This shows an open willingness to improve, which is essential to any successful streaming platform. Bravo, discovery+! I was so excited to try Discovery+ at the $0.99/month for 3 months promotional price. While I was right about the original programming being very worth the standard monthly price, a handful of features are preventing me from actually using discoveryStreamTVShows . (1) No PiP in iOS/iPadOS - many neurodivergent folks multitask, using mobile devices to watch & work simultaneously. The PiP feature is a big draw for frequent viewers. (2) Not intuitively accessible - there aren't many shows with Audio Description, which is essential for many more people than just the visually challenged viewer. Additional languages for subtitles, and other audio/visual accommodations would be on par with other video streaming apps. (3) [This is nitpicking] When browsing, the date of original airing or release can only be seen once you start playback of an episode or movie. Finding the most recent releases helps me know what I want to watch. Those little ( I hope) additions will have me as a loyal subscriber for the foreseeable future.

by VirginiaHouse

Hey y’all I do t know what’s wrong but I updated my app earlier and since then it has not been working. My subscription is paid for and I am not sure of what may be wrong. I love discoveryStreamTVShows and usually am quite satisfied with it. I don’t understand since it’s a paid for subscription and not just thru a tv provider why it doesn’t include all the old and new shows on each channel such as with lifetime -Cell Mate Secrets isn’t on there and with Hgtv, lots of the classics are missing such as All the Sarah Richardson shows like Design inc, Room Service,Sarah 101, Sarah’s House(and cottage etc),Sarah sees potential, and the new Sarah off the Grid, Divine Design,Candace Tells All, Shop this Room and more plus on some of the others random episodes are missing. But other than that and the fact my app is not working at this moment (and I uninstalled and reinstalled and still not working ) I love discoveryStreamTVShows more than any other I have

by Weearose85

We love discoveryStreamTVShows! We watch a lot of the Discovery family’s channels. When we had to drop our regular tv package we immediately picked up Discovery + for the price and listings.
The only issues that we’ve had so far is that during any program we watch, it will freeze for a few seconds anywhere from one to three times an episode. It wouldn’t be so bad if it picked up where it left off, but it doesn’t and instead picks up wherever it’s supposed to be (I hope I explained that right). Another is that sometimes we watch a few seconds/minutes of a show to see if we’ve seen that episode or not and in doing so it builds up in the “Resume Watching” queue. It would be nice if there were a deletion option so that you could find the episodes you actually do want to resume faster.
Honestly, if those two problems were addressed, discoveryStreamTVShows would be close to perfect! We love that we still get to watch most of our favorite shows with significantly shorter commercial times and for a great value price!!

by Leelacey

I can’t believe discoveryStreamTVShows is coming from Discovery Communications. I have used your apps for a long time and have had no issues until now. I use voiceover and discoveryStreamTVShows does not work well at all. Please fix discoveryStreamTVShows to work with voiceover so that the blind and visually impaired can enjoy your services.

by Souzi87

I literally can’t get past the subscription page, I choose a plan and there’s no way to continue. I’m getting frustrated because I’ve been waiting for discoveryStreamTVShows to launch.

by Hsfrls831527

I love discovery shows so i was really excited about this streaming. BUT i cannot get discoveryStreamTVShows on my fire cube tv. So needless to say i am very disappointed!!! Cancelling my subscription. Thank God I haven’t paid for it yet. I’m truthfully ticked off because of this. When you guys decide to make it for the fire cube or roku i will then get the subscription again.

by WildHeartAshley

I have a profile on Discovery Plus. I am also blind, and I use an Apple TV with VoiceOver, the text to speech accessibility for the blind. When using VoiceOver on Discovery Plus, discoveryStreamTVShows is not accessible for me. None of the buttons are labeled, and VoiceOver will not read me anything. Therefore, I am not able to look for things to watch. As of now, discoveryStreamTVShows is not accessible for someone who is blind and uses VoiceOver on Apple products. I hope that Discovery Plus can resolve this issue soon, so that all people can enjoy discoveryStreamTVShows. Thanks.

by Squidink75

It’s a shame you can’t stream via one’s TV provider if one already receives the channels on TV (like ESPN). Discovery would be smart to allow such authentication to enable the public more access and varied avenues to view their content.

by Kat682

discoveryStreamTVShows doesn’t support Picture in Picture. I’ll use my 7 day trial, but that’s a dealbreaker.

by Narda12

I’m on 7 days trial, so disappointed, I thought discoveryStreamTVShows will have the last season episodes, but no, it’s nothing new to watch, what’s the point of paying for incomplete streaming service.

by Spike884824

It’s disappointing that the most current shows are not available for viewing? For example, American Pickers has 21 seasons, and only seasons 1, 2 and 15 are available? Fixer to Fabulous only has one season for viewing, when there are actually two seasons? Part of the pitch to sign up for Discovery+, was to be able to watch your favorite shows???? Can’t watch them if they aren’t available. Also, there is no feedback available in discoveryStreamTVShows . Most streaming services allow feedback,and they respond!

by Mcghee33

Once you start a video on the iPhone 12 Pro Max, turn discoveryStreamTVShows to landscape mode and then back to portrait mode, then back to the “x” to close the video player cannot be pressed because it’s outside the tap tartlet of discoveryStreamTVShows is is displayed over the target for the notifications pull down menu. So in order to play a different video you have to force quit discoveryStreamTVShows .

But bugs aside, the worst part of the video player is that you cannot multi task and watch the video. If you minimize discoveryStreamTVShows the video stops. Hopefully this can be quickly fixed by simply switching to the native iOS video player.
Once these crucial issues I might come back to discoveryStreamTVShows.

by Silly Dilly Do

I like the variety of all the shows but it doesn't have the option to cast with Chromecast or use through Apple Tv otherwise it would be 5 stars

by Jdk9915!

It has deleted all of the shows that my mom & I have picked for our accounts. Now it will say we have to pick our plan that we want. I have done everything with paying for the part that we want. Now have to put shows back on and deal with it going back to the beginning each time I pick a show. Really wish that discoveryStreamTVShows would work right cuz it’s been a few days already. There are things I would like to watch on here and my mom would like to watch too.
Hoping to get discoveryStreamTVShows on DVR soon too!!

by Jmiller511

Great app, just one annoying fix. When you are going through a list of shows, if you go into the show to select to save for later, when you back out, the whole list resets to the beginning. It’s super annoying.

by Amber43560

Discovery+ is a great service for just launching here in the US. The platform could use some improvement, but there are no huge bugs. Very affordable price points, even for no commercials. Overall, a great service that I highly recommend.

by Bdnjfkfienndnfijems

I am in love with discoveryStreamTVShows and this content! There are some bugs but hopefully they will work them out over time.

by натияд

Thank you !!!)