VUit Reviews

by IT Specislist

Several months ago, this app was unbeatable. It was a fantastic app to catch up on your local news, even if it was a replay because you couldn’t watch it live at the time. Now it has completely irrelevant commercials. Who cares about a car lot selling cars 400 miles away and watching the same 6 irrelevant commercials replay over and over? If anything, that’s a real turn-off for viewers. Now if you happen to miss your local news at the live time it’s on, you’re end up watching a news channel somewhere in Tennessee. Why would a viewer in Wisconsin want to watch a random news channel 800 miles away? Whoever is in charge of VUit and it’s content needs to step aside and let someone with some common sense take it over and put it back the way it was.

by Danishabrooks2001

For almost 2 weeks I hasn’t been able to get my local news

by Coastaldog

Read a nice article about this app in the WSJ and decided to try it. Well, I found that it’s one of those things, “That’s not quite ready for prime time.” Appears they have “jumped the gun” on announcing it was ready - ‘cause it “ain’t” ready by a long shot!

Most channels I clicked on were blank with a message saying they were “having technical difficulties.

Too, and it might be the time of day I tried this app, seems like local news and weather is all I get at the channels that I can receive at all.

this app seems to be trying to provide streaming of many TV stations around the United States, but at the moment they are struggling. If they don’t iron out their technical problems and carry things other than local news/weather within a few weeks, they might as well hang it up.

I’m tired of businesses using the present day strategy of, “ready, fire, and then aim.” They need to go back to the tried and true business model of, “ready, aim, and then fire.”

by Tismark

There are stations on here that are nearby (available on local cable) but hard to pick OTA. I was thrilled when I saw those stations on here and the schedule even shows regular broadcast shows. But it’s only live when the news is on. The rest is repeats of the news. Well one station is completely dark outside of the news hours. It’s kind of funny but sad how it periodically breaks the darkness for a commercial break.

Hope this evolves into something better but it’s barely worth it for just the news.

by Fcrawford77

Don’t want to load anything not even my local channels, and if it does load then I can’t watch my local channel cause they’ve already aired and have to wait for it so I can watch it later. I’ll just go back to paying extra on my services to watch my local channel at least I know it will be on and I don’t have to wait for or even hope it comes on. VUit has gone downhill and just needs to be removed

by Sanddz

KTSF shouldn’t have moved to VUit. When it airs commercials it goes overtime into whatever you’re watching and it suddenly cuts to your broadcast, but the show has already started, so you’re basically watching half the broadcast without knowing the first half. The ads are also long and irrelevant.

Do not download.

by B-Rad-Leigh

I can’t record. Only shows news but nothing in between news shows. No audio. Constantly buffering. Black screens are common. It might be good if my favorite show to watch was local news and nothing else. What is the purpose of VUit ? I see no benefit

by Marilynqingbingli

This app is good but when my parents watch Ktsf 26 on VUit when it time for Chinese New and then commercials cut into English version and my parents don’t understand so which you guys can keep the commercials in Chinese instead English commercials

by Glee217

Using ktsf the ON DEMAND videos:
1) it is unorganized! —————————————————
2) also to view previous ON DEMAND videos I need to keep on scrolling to the right while only can see two events at a time. ———————————————————————————
Fix VIDEO ON DEMAND organization ———————-
1) Organize separately by event titles: i.e. ktsf/news section, drama section, etc…
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2) VIDEO ON DEMAND needs larger viewing area instead of two events at a time when scrolling to the right. Also whatever is under video on demand at the bottom is old and not needed like New Years and Martin Yan!
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3) viewing video in landscape it is not possible to scroll/skip through video with Apple Home Bar (long white horizontal bar) blocking the circle.

by Buff Vincent

Version 1.2.0 came with the on-demand streaming removed, and so channels can now only be watched in real time. VUit became useless in an instant!

by Junningliu

VUit itself has a basic and simple user interface. Not the most visually appealing but it does its job. The biggest pain point is VUit ’s inability to cast to other devices such as AirPlay or Chromecast. This is a very basic option that any video streaming platform should have.

by 52378

With the new update, VUit no longer offers on-demand streaming. Please bring this feature back.

by Kylersoukup

I just recently updated VUit and when I did I noticed that the on demand feature that showed the past shows and newscasts on demand was gone. This is very disappointing to me as I used the feature frequently. I hope that this was just a mistake in the update, otherwise I may have to uninstall.

by Tmanokc

this app needs to add multitasking capability to allow users to watch a stream while using another app, either via picture-in-picture or side-by-side app tasks.

by The Phife

It would be nice to be able to cast this from my phone to my google chrome stick.
Nice app though

by Fireman878

Will there be more Ohio stations added

by Unabirder

I use VUit to watch Channel 69 news either from my iPad or Apple TV device. However, Channel 69 has not worked on Apple TV for several days, yet the other channels do work. Deleting VUit , reinstalling, makes no difference. So I will just use the iPad or mirror it to the TV. Sorry to put that in a review, just see no other place to report it.

Back to VUit …it is a good one, and with the above mentioned exception, works very, very well. If I were to improve it I would NOT use the slow time lapse images or vegetation or the parrot during commercial time, but instead would use some screen save type image like colorful changing patterns or similar.

One additional annoyance…sometimes, during commercial break, it freezes up and the you have to out of the program and come back in, then it works again.

VUit on this iPad works great, always has, but on the Apple TV device, not so much. To view on TV I will continue to screen mirror from this iPad.

by Cybric

I only wanted VUit to get my favorite local channel that isn't on my streaming service. Works great!

by InhumanSeth

this app is great for watching your local news live or on replay. The biggest flaws are that if you use your control panel it’ll pause what’s playing. There’s no multitasking. If your alarm goes off and you swipe it up to dismiss then your program will pause. For that reason I’m giving a 3/5. IMO it’s the best way to watch your local news stations on the go without a cable subscription by far!