HGTV GO - Stream Live TV Reviews

I gave 4 out of five stars, because in my experience the quality was great! I love that I’m able to watch HGTV on a mobile device. However, my iPad does not have data so I’m not able to watch on the go, unless I’m connected to WiFi, which isn’t always easy to do. Another thing I didn’t like was the amount of adds, 6 adds every time which is 3-5 depending on the length of the show. Also, they play the same adds almost every time, not even mocking, that’s why the adds get so boring. I came to HGTVGO to enjoy watching my favorite HGTV shows not 10 minutes in total of adds. I do understand where they are coming from, HGTVGO is free and adds help with payment. So, I like watching, and getting first dibs on the shows, but it really isn’t for on the go (which I assume would use a lot of data), and the amount of adds is infuriating. I’ve heard about the add problem before, and I wish the network would do something to change it. If you don’t mind watching 2.5 minutes of adds every 5-10 minutes, then HGTVGO is for you!

I was super excited to see that I could get all episodes and seasons on demand for my favorite shows until I actually started using this stupid app!!! It’s so touchy and I swear it has a new annoying glitch every couples of weeks. Last week it started to just pause right after the commercial was over and I couldn’t press play to get it back to where I it had stopped. So every single time I have to stop casting, close the dumb app, re-choose the episode and try to manually drag the bar to what time I need it at. However, it redoes that 1 min and 60 sec ad over again even though I just watched it and then often it will then pause and not work again once the ad is done or it will jump ahead to a place I didn’t ask for! Today I got so sick of it doing this that I am now writing in my two star rating! I love HGTV, but come on just have your app work! Also I love how all the ads will stream perfectly but the actual show can’t seem to work and often is laggy 🙄 and it’s not my internet speed, I have 60 mbps. I hope someday you can make it work!

I like the shows on HGTV, but have to wonder how many people are working behind the scenes, as the hosts never appear to be very dirty when working in the yard. HGTVGO is okay when it works. Sometimes, it shuts down and I have to relaunch. The most disturbing thing about HGTVGO are the number of pharmaceutical ads. The big pharmas don't care a whit about people getting well and are only out to make money. I don't understand why some doctors don't look at the whole person--diet, stress, exercise, lifestyle-- and instead prescribe drugs that mask the symptoms. Wake up! The body sends signals to let you know that something is wrong. A rash is the body telling you something is wrong on the inside and instead, I see an ad for a cream for a rash that suppresses the immune system. The immune system is overreacting for a reason. But I digress...get rid of the pharmaceutical ads and that will improve HGTVGO greatly.

I previously was able to watch the shows through my cable provider. Now it only lists 8 providers and the More Providers button does not work. Very frustrating. Was a 5 Star and when fixed will return to 5 Star.
UPDATE: contacted customer service. Their response and it worked.
“If you'll go to your iPhone or iPad's settings, then scroll down to TV Provider and select it, please turn off the switch beside 'HGTV'. After this, please close HGTVGO from running in the background of your device then reopen it. Then, when you select Sign In within our app, you should be able to select your provider to sign in.”

I’ve had Direct Tv Now for almost a year and have been able to use my Direct Tv Now subscription and link it with my HGTV app. HGTVGO says my DTN subscription does not allow me to access this content. I have the second tier (live a little I think is what it’s called) and DTN says that my subscription does let me have access to the HGTV app. It’s also on there list of apps accessible with subscription. HGTVGO has red keys besides almost all of the shows. I’ve always had access until about 2 weeks ago. So I don’t if it has anything to do with there update or if their blocking DTN customers?? I contacted DTN and they put a ticket in but I have not heard anything back. Getting very frustrated. My wife watches this channel the most out of all our other channels!!! There is only so much chip and joanna gains that you can watch before it just becomes old hat!! Really wish they would get this fixed!!!!

I like the shows but when I am playing the shows it goes on commercial and gets out of synch. There is one commercial in particular that it gets to and as soon as it starts playing the video and audio get out of synch and you can’t get a good picture again so what is the use of watching it. HGTVGO support needs to either find the glitch in HGTVGO or the bad encoding of the commercial and fix it if they want people to use HGTVGO .

Also, wish HGTV would make a show about eco friendly home improvements ie adding solar panels to a home, improving insulation, switching over to led lighting, smart programming to reduce energy consumption such as smart blinds things like that. Granted this has nothing to do with HGTVGO and is not part of my review but if HGTVGO makers could pass it on that would be great.

I love HGTVGO so much it gives me all my favorite home improvement shows and house hunting shows. But there is a few things that I think you could put on it number one is that is you need to put all the episodes on. Some times I have all ready seen the episodes or just don’t want to watch it. The second thing is that you should not have to sign in every locked episodes. IT IS A PAIN!!!🤬🤬. So please fix that. But I love that it has all my favorite show and so much more. I love that there is a variety of channels so if I like TlC and Hgtv I can watch both of them. There is not just one channel like other tv apps. No one thing you should make is a on now button. Thank you so much!! Bye!!👍👍

I think HG app is great I love watching it when I’m not at home but now I’m always at home but I do enjoy watching all your shows great past timeThanks for your reply didn’t expect that really enjoy hearing from you also if possible could you show Texas flip and move once in a while on you to go app I really like that show but really can’t afford right now because of Covid to have DIY channel Chyna cut expenses thank you so much staying home safe lady watching TV

I really wanted to like HGTVGO because it has lots of the shows I enjoy watching. BUT just about every time I open HGTVGO on my ipad, it makes me re-login. I don’t understand why. Nothing changes for me. I don’t take my ipad out of my house or change networks. I will just close out HGTVGO , and then the next time I try to use it, I’m logged off. 🤷🏼‍♀️
For example, tonight when I tried to re login (for about the millionth time) it now says that it does not recognize my user ID for my Direct TV provider, but that has not changed either. Nothing has changed on my end! I can’t even re-login now. So frustrating!

Additionally, when I do get to actually use HGTVGO , another frustrating point is all of the commercials that play during each episode. When I downloaded HGTVGO I was hoping to NOT have to watch the commercials like we have to with our cable. But I guess we have to pay even more money on top of what we already pay towards cable to HGTVGO developers to get the commercial free version?

So, anyway, I’m super disappointed and frustrated with HGTVGO and I’ll probably be deleting it. It’s not worth this login frustration anymore.

I watch HGTVGO all the time because it offers so many shows. I like that it offers a large variety of shows that may not be on the schedule to broadcast that month. There are 2 things I don't like. Sometimes it is difficult to log in with your provider. There is a glitch there because sometimes Discovery channels log in comes up instead. The other thing is the commercials are VERY repetitive. You will see the same commercial 5 times in 1 show and sometimes they play the same one back to back. While I don't like these two things it doesn't keep me from watching HGTVGO . I watch HGTV using HGTVGO probably at least 2 hours a day - sometimes using HGTVGO to watch live TV.

I absolutely adore most of the shows on HGTVGO. I just find myself not using it as much as I thought I would be because the commercial breaks are a little too frequent for me. I was watching an episode of Good Bones which was 43 mins and ended up getting 4 commercial breaks with 5 commercials each break. That’s 20 commercials for a 43 minute show, and most of the commercials are the exact same every break. It just started to feel a little bit like I was watching more for the commercials than the show. Like I stated before, I love the shows on HGTVGO. For the most part HGTVGO is great too, but the commercials really make me question how bad I want to watch the shows through HGTVGO.

Why did I see Political commercials on HGTV. I thought that was the one channel I didn’t have to watch people tear down our presidents. I quickly turned to another channel and called friends to tell them that our channel that you were campaigning for Biden. Why! What goods does it even mean to complain about something when you have fallen into the Democratic’s whole which is ruining the US A. I can’t come up with a nick name because they are all taken, so there again I won’t know if you get this. That is the way Democrat’s get their way. I have tried 20 times and all nick names are taken. Unbelievable another way to avoid answering my complaint. There isn’t a nickname that hadn’t been taken. Send without a nick name

Ok, don’t judge the title, YET. I love that you can watch HGTV in one place. Sadly though, most of the episodes are locked. The ads, well the longer you are watching an episode, the more ads there will be in the episode. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind ads, but at times when you want to just settle down you are watching ads. I know y’all earn money from ads, but PLEASE decrease the amount of ads. I understand that you are thinking, when you watch tv you have commercials/ ads. Well not as many.

Thank you to the people who ACTUALLY read this.

HGTVGO constantly locks episodes and claims they aren’t available through my cable provider settings. For example, I played an episode a few hours ago and now it’s telling me that same episode is not available and has a key icon next to it, which usually just means I need to be on the home WiFi, which I am at the moment. I expect newer episodes to be locked, that’s normal, but it will randomly do this with entire shows, so suddenly I can’t watch any of the episodes. Often when I go back to view the show within a day or two they are available again. Seems like a bug, either that or hgtv can’t make up their mind with licensing.

Me and my girlfriend love HGTVGO. The latest iOS update to HGTVGO ruined it for us. We have directv now and now it gives an error message saying the shows are not part of my subscription. What the hell is that. I have the go big plan which includes this channel. Why is the stand alone app not letting me watch the shows I pay a monthly subscription to access through my provider? This doesn’t make sense to me. I’ll uninstall HGTVGO until they fix it. That’s just BS. I rated 3 stars because I like their shows but the fact that they blocked 99% of the content we used to watch for free before is BS.

Clearly HGTV has gotten pricey. I miss some really old shows I used to watch all of the time when I was able to afford exorbitant cable prices and despite the fact that I now pay for three streaming channels, I still am unable to watch most of the HGTV shows I really love. I say that to say this... if you are looking for specific shows, check first because many of them are unavailable on HGTVGO. The ones that are available, are often very blurry when I cast them to my TV even though I used to watch them clearly on a smart TV on regular cable. (Same smart TV - just blurry now)

This is one of my go-to apps, so when the upgrade broke my connection to my TV provider I was very upset. However got a developer response and did then follow up with app support who were very good.

The issue was two factor authentication with my provider. That does need to be resolved between them to work properly, but at least now I can login.

They have fixed the worst part of the prior interface, which was a little tiny play/pause button. Now its in the middle of the screen. Thank you!

I don’t know what has changed but it just spins looking for the cable provider. Last night I successfully logged in and it took to a Discovery Channel site. There was no way getting out of it. I used to be able to stream and watch programs with ease. Lately it has been impossible to watch anything. I have tried to delete HGTVGO and reinstall. Sometimes this helps but invariably the same problem reappears.

It does not work well at keeping track of watched show/episodes. Not the best at allowing one to move from one devise to another and the ads are very annoying. Not the fact that there are ads. I accept that they come wit the territory but when, in a six ad slot, three of them are the same exact ad and in a five ad slot two are the same??
One is not able to pause ads. I am not trying to skip it. Just pause it when I need to walk away for a moment. So, I either miss part of the show when it restarts or I have to wait until the ads are over in order not to miss the program.
Very annoying!

I like it when it works, but the constant need to activate it is super frustrating. Sometimes I have had to activate it twice in one day, even when I keep HGTVGO open. I have also had issues with the live feed, which often doesn’t sync with my provider or doesn’t work at all, so I have given up on that. I have tried deleting HGTVGO and reinstalling, and have also tried restarting my whole system, but nothing has helped. I have made sure my settings allow automatic access to my tv provider. I use apple tv and watch most of my tv shows through that and this is the only app that I have these recurring issues with.

I have not been able to watch a HGTV show in months. HGTVGO will not load. I emailed them 3weeks ago and still app will not load. Very dissatisfied.

Update: July 2019 the HGTV app was upgraded to HGTV GO. This is a major improvement. I have not had any of the previous issues. Very pleased.

Update November 2019 i have to delete the this app app each day and reinstall it. I constantly get the message “ This content is available to viewers who receive HGTV as part of their TV prescription.” Well I have an expensive subscription with Spectrum but cannot watch HGTV. Can you fix this please.

December 2019: i updated to latest ios 13.3 yesterday and app has been crashing whenever i open up an HGTV show. I reinstalled HGTVGO . I also tired to watch hgtv on apple tv and it crashes as well. Please fix asap. Thank you.

December 20, 2019 still have the same problem, after being told it was fixed. There were no options on my screen to “upgrade” to the new ios13.3. I deleted and reinstalled HGTVGO . Can some please fix. Thank you.

HGTVGO is amazing when it works!! You can chromecast all the shows. There are many times when I can not sign into HGTVGO to be able to watch the most recent episodes or use live tv option. I can do these options on all my other apps which is so frustrating because HGTV is my favorite one.

The set up of HGTVGO is fantastic and I want to love it. I was so excited to start using it. The problem, however, is that I can watch a single episode without issue. As soon as the episode finishes, HGTVGO freezes up and cannot load anything. I have tried closing out HGTVGO and restarting it, but it eventually either times out and says that something went wrong or it just stays frozen on the intro/load screen with the HGTV logo. Restarting the device does not work either. The only solution is to uninstall HGTVGO and then reinstall and download again from HGTVGO Store. Then I get to watch one more episode before repeating the process.

WHY DOES HGTVGO CONSTANTLY FREEZE?????? I like to come home, turn on my tv get into bed and put my shoes on and relax. I can’t. I constantly have to watch until it freezes. Pick up my phone go back and click watch live ummm about 8-15 times within 15-20 mins. Then I get so mad that I just turn it off and don’t watch anything.
Also, who works in your advertising sales dept?? No one? I worked in radio scheduling commercials and the ads you have running would’ve been sold up in radio in a heartbeat with a good sales staff. Please sell ads or stop it with the continuous repeating commercials. Or better yet don’t even break for commercials. Ughhhhhh.

Fix your freezing app first.

Would be nice if I could watch shows through HGTVGO but I have to sign in with my cable provider. Right now my cable provider is having some serious problems and we’ve been trying for over a year to create an account so we can watch HBO Go but we can’t. It never goes through and Suddenlink is no help at all. With the CW app all I have to do is hit that I have Suddenlink as my provider and boom! It goes through and I can watch all of their shows. Maybe you can help figure something out that doesn’t require a cable provider because I’m getting ready to tell them where they can go.

Well I want to thank for updating your app to when the commercials come on the sound increases more than double. Do you have an idea how painful it is to have your earbuds in and then have a commercial blast your eardrums without warning?? Thanks, thanks a lot, we are done with dealing with such a stupid change in your app. We don't need to have our ear ring for the rest of the day because someone is screaming about Bargain Outlet...

Update...You seem to have adjusted the volume issue, thank you. However we do think 21 ads in 27 mins is excessive.