SYFY Reviews

by KauaiSkyGuy

I downloaded SYFY in order to watch Resident Alien with Alan Tudyk by streaming the full episodes to my tv from my iPhone via AirPlay!... but it is terrible. I do this same thing with several other apps and they work great, but not this version of the this app app. It glitches, can’t scrub forward and backward without starting over, then sometimes drops the episode and jumps to a random commercial, the n freezes and crashes.
AirPlay from my Mac on Safari works, thankfully. But SYFY needs some major work.

by Spencerljohnson

I managed to get through 2 1/2 episodes before deleting SYFY .

The AirPlay streaming connection keeps crashing. It takes 10 minutes or more to reconnect each time, but the location in the episode would be lost. Trying to scrub through to the right spot is a nightmare. Every time you move the playhead it makes you watch through a bunch of ads. Then it randomly jumps to some other spot.

It’s not worth the headache, even for the 3 free episodes. I can’t imagine paying for the subscription.

by Rhondabae

About 20% of the time, the show casts without the picture, just the sound. There’s no obvious fix for this other than trying again later. Restarting SYFY , my phone, and the TV never helps. When I’m actually able to cast, the volume control displays every 30 seconds, and readjusts to a totally random number. I have to adjust the volume then QUICKLY close SYFY to set the volume for that particular episode. I could go on, but the quirks of SYFY just aren’t worth it. I’m working with the latest iPhone and a relatively new smart TV, so I’m not exactly bashing rocks together and expecting miracles. If you have any other option, don’t use SYFY.

by Allison_holly

The only show I care about is Face/Off and I’ve been waiting since season 7 to start watching it again. I finally have my chance and it doesn’t work. SYFY is the only app that isn’t working on our smart tv. You can get in but when you try to watch the show it just buffers and doesn’t load. It also glitches all the time. When and if It does work it’ll skip up to 10 seconds of footage at a time. AND the set up for SYFY on my tv is backwards....so once I select what season I’m on, the first episode it shows me is the last one SO I CAN SEE WHO MADE IT TO THE FINALE ALREADY?! The only thing that seems to work well are the repetitive ads.

by Olwenluv

I say “tried” because it rarely worked. 70% of the time I would get a “video playback error” message. I contacted SYFY masters and they suggested I loaded the Cable provider information incorrectly. I followed the directions and still got the fail message repeatedly. I deleted and reloaded SYFY — no success. I even restored my iPad to factory settings and reloaded SYFY —no success. At this point I think it would be easier to find an actual vampire on the street than to watch Underworld on the this app app. If you have to have a degree from MIT to correctly use an app, it’s poorly designed.

by Crsouser

This is hands down one of the worst apps for watching shows. Ads over and over again frequently every couple of minutes and the same annoy ads and it never picks up where you left off exactly..: HORRIBLE.
You used to at least also be able to watch shows with this annoying Ad behavior.. but now on top of that they implemented a credit system that EVEN WITH using credits its ad after ad and the same behavior.
I used to Love this app and their shows but theyve ruined the experience so horribly bad I can no longer stand sitting through any of their Programming. So digusted.

by Laura Luv

If casting to TV don’t even bother with SYFY. It’s just nonstop commercials anytime you do anything. Even to rewind it’s another commercial! There’s no FF or rewind 10 or 30 seconds. Try to fast forward if you need to get back to your spot (because it won’t save your spot), ALL the commercials and then 10 seconds later another commercial! Forget trying to get closed captioning or even pause. Literally none of the controls work and sometimes you think you’re just watching a commercial but when it comes back it’s playing an entirely different movie! More frustration than its worth.

What upsets me the most is no closed captioning. So people with hearing issues just don’t matter? Absolutely despicable. Shame on you for not fixing the problem. And stop asking people to tell you more about what they’re experiencing, just test it out yourself! You ARE SYFY developer. I’m not buying it that you don’t know these problems exist. I’m not the first one to comment. Just, shame on you.

by KRYXUS711

I like the shows but there is to many commercials if I have to sit through 1 more vivid-19 commercial I’ll kill myself at least then it would save the virus the trouble but when your casting to a tv if your phone goes to sleep and you need to pause it the show will start over and you can’t pause it if you want to keep viewers cut down on the commercials and fix any problems you may want to add more shows and movies too there’s not much to choose from

by Pirateninja!

Half way thru every episode of resident alien during the gambling ad my episode glitches and either puts me into a loop of constant commercials or completely freezes up and won’t allow me to watch anything further. I have to close SYFY and reopen it 3-4 times to make it allow me to watch. At that point it does not allow me to pick up where I left off, but rather forces me to re watch all the commercials again and repeat the whole process over or skip ahead 15 min and miss a bunch of the program.
If that’s not the issue I’m faced with, then I have to deal with the whole episode stopping randomly and telling me I have to restart because of an error.
I was so excited about SYFY, but I’m really just disappointed.

by Heckima

I do like the shows available, and I could even stand the amount of commercials if it wasn’t for the buggy video and missing features.

If you switch out of SYFY , or your phone goes to sleep momentarily, the video will not play at all if you try pressing the play button again. Instead, you have to exit the show and scroll to find the episode you were on again, click it, and hope it works (because sometimes you’ll get a playback error).

As for the features, there’s a rewind 10 seconds button but no skip 10 forward button. It’s incredibly annoying, especially since trying to track accurately on the video player is a nightmare, and there’s no Netflix-like feature where the show will auto-skip or provide the option to skip opening sequences/recaps that waste your time. I’d like to be able to at least skip 10 if I want to.

One last thing to note, using SYFY on a smart TV shows the amount of commercials in a commercial break while this does not show up on mobile. It’s a smaller thing, but it does end up feeling like you’re sitting through endless commercials when you don’t have a number in the corner to keep track.

by Angrymonkeymermaid

SYFY works fine. However, casting is stops working after the first commercial break. When the first commercial plays the video and audio stop syncing up. So what you will have is the commercial playing but you will hear the movie audio when it comes back from commercial break. And the after the 2nd or 3rd commercial break SYFY crashes. I dont have this problem with any other app so I know it’s just SYFY which is already updated. They wrote that they updated the performance but the performance is worse.

by Lunas Girlfriend

So let’s talk about people saying ads being interrupting and stuff, so basically I never watched from here but people say many ads. If you can turn down the ads from them that will be great! Also I will get to the point why I downloaded this and never used it.

Second, WHY ISNT HARRY POTTER WORKING! none of the movies work for me! I wanted to watch the prisoner of Azkaban. (my fav) but it says failed playback speed! There aren’t any comments on it for some od reason! I wanna watch Harry Potter! I tried NBC and USA but nothing is working for it, I’m not gonna pay 4 dollars to rent something when I can just watch it here. Soup2day has a virus on it! So I don’t understand. Please try working on this problem. I have school work to do right now! I wanted to check if it’s working now but it’s not. Before 2021 I hope it’s working! I wanna cry again about people! Thank u for reading this and I hope you have a wonderful chrismas and happy New Years. If your reading the after that well, I hope u had a great New Years! And plz make Harry Potter movies work before New Year’s Eve! Thank u bye bye!

by KatCaLa

I love this app shows so I’m incredibly happy there’s an app, but if you try to pause or rewind, you’re done. The commercials don’t come on when a typical commercial break would start. I’m talking like someone is in the middle of a sentence and boom, random commercial. Sometimes I really do just give up on whatever show I’m watching for a few hours because it will start in a random location of the show.

Will I still use it? yup.
Is it a bit of a pain? Yup.

by Officialkellycash

There is catch behind it, one it’s stupid there is only a certain amount of credits you can use & mind you if you have it linked to your phone and tv if you watch the same episode on each device it cost as 2 credits ! & then afterwards they want you to link a TV provider just to watch other stuff. It was nice watching the few episodes of chucky but now I’m stuck not being able to watch the rest.

by Marshmevan

SYFY does the job of showing tv and movies, but the image quality is sometimes messed up, especially when I link my provider. Sometimes I’ll take a second to turn off my phone, and when I turn it back on to play my show, it reloads and takes a few seconds to continue playing. It then takes a while to get back to good image quality. Again, SYFY does its job. It’s not above average, just average.

by 15Minus5Man

So I’m finally able to watch the shows I’ve wanted to for a while, but it’s just not working all that great. Shows stop randomly and won’t restart, when they do, they show as already watched and SYFY tries to skip to the next episode, but when I actually watch the show, I have to go and manually start the next episode. I assume most of the content here will be on peacock, just hope it works better.

by Venousreturn

I really enjoy the programming on SYFY and think the interface looks great. Only issue I have with it is that going back to the episode list of a series, SYFY (on both the mobile version and TV app) keeps going back to the first season and first episode of the list instead of where it left off. It’s an annoyance to have to keep going back to the season I left off on to find the next episode I want to watch as I like to skip episodes. If that can be reconciled, that would be a huge improvement to the viewing experience.

by Meterman 2016

I’ve read the reviews and they are correct about the commercials, but they are not long commercials. I still enjoy SYFY and the programs. Well worth a minute or two to be able to watch my favorite shows!

by Ardis4kids

I’ve been watching Kolchak, the night stalker, and about 40 minutes or less into this 1 hour show, it auto plays the next episode!!! So frustrating!! I’d love to see the end of these episodes. Please fix the bug and give us the option to stop auto play.

by Jackson Jp

Only problem with SYFY is that the adds everything else is amazing a great overall app even though the commercials are the worst part it tells you whenever the commercials come up so until the commercials are over you can go do something else so great overall app and I love watching my favorite shows like Harry Potter.

by Mikec9mm

I see that SYFY has received a overhaul but still no Orion to expand the picture or “zoom” to fill the screen of ALLL new model phones now that have infinity screens . Every other app has it . It seriously over 2 years past due and it is all cell phone companies going to the indignity screen so why have the bumpers on each end ? I would rather watch online for free then pay to have this on my cable bill only to have to watch it with bumpers on each side . Literally like the 10th review I’ve left about this issue !

by 0ctavia

There is no way to subscribe to this channel or purchase more credits to watch a show.

My Rant:
I do not subscribe to any television provider because they charge way too much, tax is insane, insane fees, and then to top it off they subject consumers to lengthy commercials. If the service is free, commercials are the incentive to purchase a subscription, duh. But television service providers are so ridiculous they want to make money from advertisers and on subscriptions. If I see a product in a commercial, I add it to the list of stuff not to buy for subjecting me to commercials. Next, I’ll find out they’re selling my data! Advertising via word of mouth is the only type of advertising I trust, including reviews to a certain extent.

So I guess I have to get this content elsewhere.

End Rant!

by Brandi_Doernemann

I was halfway through “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” and then I opened SYFY two days later. I can’t find any Harry Potter movies even when I search for them! I can’t find them on the home page! I’ve even tried searching for the “Wizarding World” folder like it says in SYFY description! So frustrated with SYFY!!! Everything was going great before they took my HALFWAY watched show away!!! I would’ve highly recommend SYFY, but now I am just disappointed!!!!

by IDontWantAStupidNicknameDamnIt

App insists on location permissions to ‘obtain the local feed’.

Really? You need GPS coordinates to know if I’m on the toilet or kitchen while watching?! IP address isn’t sufficient? My US cable subscription isn’t good enough?

The arrogance is remarkable. To watch we need a cable subscription, an app that restricts usage, ads and more ads, and then, to monetize even more, you want to track every movement.

Your shows aren’t that good.

Now, I know this snarky review with neither get you to improve programming or change Big Brother location tracking. But hopefully it makes some admin chuckle and, maybe, just maybe, shines the tiniest of lights on the greedy executive who is thinking of the next monetization - might I discourage the anal sphincter measurement service. You could call it the Sucky Contrarian Indicator of Fudge Index (SciFi spelled correctly).

by Ped314

SYFY breaks for commercials in mid scene instead of where the original breaks were. And then when you get to the original break it pauses there too. This interrupts the flow of the show. If you pause the show to look at something else you have to get out of the episode, the get back in and THEN it jumps to a spot before of where you left off. Hitting go means several seconds before the show will start so then you touch the pause/pay again on the screen and again thinking SYFY didn’t “get the message” to start the show.

by Tess1213

Love the show and movie options but when I pause the show or movie to do something else on my phone when I go back to the show it is frozen. I have to close out of it and go back in to continue watching it. Sometimes it starts where I left off sometimes I have to fast forward the show which causes more commercials to play. Really a pain. Very close to giving up and watching another app.

by Wichee

LOVE being able to watch my favorite shows. However - so many glitches. Can’t play the episode (guess that’s why there is two for each one). Cannot pause without starting the episode over at beginning. Occasionally will skip to very end and start next episode, when there was 15-20 min left of show.

by Widrazek

This is one of the best tv apps I’ve seen, besides this app always has the best shows anyways. Having all those shows on demand? Yes please!

I recommend it even more if you are subscribed to the channel in your tv package like me, it gives you full access to all shows with the press of a finger.

Although people are complaining about some bugs (they do exist) most of the bugs are not the blaring in your face types. You can usually just ignore them and keep going. No game changing bugs.

Now I’ve seen many apps that offer a great selection but turn you off because the UI is abysmal but I have to say, the this app app is very fluid. It feels very natural to use and all the essentials work really well like the search function and the recommendations etc.

All in all, it’s a Netflix quality deal at no extra cost to you if you already have the channel subscription in your tv.

by Dank Memes At Swag

Never have any problems with it, always works perfectly and has a good list of shows to watch and updates for episodes come quickly and on time.