HIDIVE 17+

If you look through the reviews (going years back) the issues I list below are still here from years prior. The developer seems to have no interest in doing anything to improve the user experience. You would think with HIDIVE having a parent company like AMC Networks that the app would have been overhauled at some point but that doesn’t seem to be the case. HIDIVE is clearly at the bottom of their list of things to invest in. Is the app technically functional enough to where you can watch content, yes but that’s where the positives end. None of the anime apps out there are particularly stellar but the HIDIVE app takes the cake for being so bad that the service is not worth paying for. There is no skip forward or back 5-30seconds options (you have to manually seek everything), no way to see from the series page where you left off or what the last episode you watched was. Nothing syncs from where you last watched on iPad, iPhone and Apple TV. Most of the time, at the end of an episode it will not auto play the next episode. The Apple TV app is slightly worse in that when you start an episode it goes to a loading icon that you then need to pause and then hit play to start every single episode.

How is there an app this talked about with this bad of an interface on iphones and iPads? Last update was three years ago? Are you even trying to improve? The interface on iPads and phones won’t allow you to remove shows from your watch list. You can’t pause shows you are watching bc they just keep playing or pause for a few seconds then start playing again. Switching episodes is a pain it’s doesn’t keep track of what episodes you have watched or where you stopped an episode at should you close the app and come back later. The options on the phones and iPads are hard to get to and navigate. The fast forward and rewind is a complete guess as to where the app will actually stop the episode. You might get close to where you want to be but most likely will end up somewhere completely random. You can try to move the little slider at the bottom of the screen but when you stop it where you wanted it to be, it will move itself forward or backwards to where ever it wants to be. I have never seen a more poorly made interface for iPhones or iPads. I’m not sure if it works well on other devices but even on my television it’s still got a lot of the same issues. I bought the year subscription and should nothing be done for yet another year to fix these issues I will not be renewing. I spend more time trying to get it where I want, working like I want, and remembering what episode I was on then actually watching anything.

I'm not asking for Netflix quality streaming or anything but, this is pretty bad and it could be better if they just changed a few things. 1. Why is the subtitles automatically Portuguese? Why can't it stay in English, especially when I have to constantly set it to English? 2. I'm signed onto 3 devices, 2 TVs and my phone but, I'm the only person watching because I'm the only person who watches animes in my house. Why can't it remember which episode, settings or where I left off when I switch devices? I'm not watching on two devices at once as it's either the TV or the phone, mostly on my phone though. 3. Subtitles are too high when watching on my phone and could you please put black borders around the subtitles itself so that it doesn't have that annoying black bar around it when I'm watching on my phone? It's not like this when watching on the TV. 4. Please see # 1 as it's super annoying every time I switch devices or if I have to take a break only to come back and it can't remember where I left off or what settings it's on. This is especially annoying if I'm in the middle of an episode and then come back only to have to remember what episode I left off on and exactly where I left off as it'll start off at the very beginning.