Hulu: Stream TV shows & movies App Reviews

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Decent service, but really tedious interface

The videos have streamed well but I feel the interface is really tedious to navigate, far too many levels to navigate. I also find the kids profile excessivly limited. Id like to be able to define the appropriate content lavel for my kid (instead of relying on Hulus judgement), and provide a search feature.

New app is so-so

Ive been using Hulu for a little over a year. The older version worked well. You knew what shows were unwatched and how many episodes you had left. After you watched them they went to the end of the list. Now you have to read to see what you have to watch and its all mixed up. The Keep Watching list is a good idea but needs to be expanded as most people (me included) probably have it filled up fast plus it shows TV shows Ive never watched. The autoplay feature has been removed and needs to be put back in. I prefer to to choose what I want to watch next or nothing at all. Over all the new app is okay but it definitely has room for improvement.

New Apple TV App Is Pretty but Quite Buggy

The new Apple TV app is very good looking (hence the 2 stars), but functionally it took a step backwards. I have become a pretty avid user of Apples TV App, because it helps track new episodes across various apps. The issue is, if you launch this new Hulu app from the TV app its completely unusable, it has to be force quit and reentered via the app icon. Overall, I dont necessarily feel that the new app is a bad direction, I just think that the QC needs to be a bit higher on the UX.

Interface is terrible

Hulu used to be super easy to use and now Ill be cancelling my subscription because their user interface makes the app unusable on all platforms especially mobile and Apple TV

Apple TV

It is impossible to view tv shows with this update, most of the shows seems to be transmitted live when all i want is a simple broadcast, and when i press play on the show it says HDCP error, tried this with my 3rd gen apple tv and this problem wasnt there! HULU please fix this!

Awful!!!

What a mess the Apple TV app has become! What were you thinking? It looks like an iPhone app on a 48" TV. Huge lettering, scrolling, scrolling and more scrolling!!! I can no longer find anything. Is there a watchlist? I certainly cant find it! I dont want endless ever changing suggestions of what to watch, just a good way to browse what you offer. I hope the iPad app does not update to this interface. I will seriously consider dumping Hulu if it does.

Doesnt work anymore

Watch list doesnt show up. Shows wont play. Making it easy to cancel.

Love Hulu Hate the App

The new version of Hulu on the Apple TV app is terrible! It is difficult to navigate, even when you find one of your shows you are looking for it is difficult to find the episodes. It appears they went for simplicity and ended up with useless junk. I actual would prefer to us the app on my iPad than the one for Apple TV! Only reason 3 stars is because I love Hulu and the iPad app is decent.

Hulu should be free

If Hulu is a free app why do people have to pay for a subscription. What happened to the old Hulu .

U have completely Fd this app

I can find $h.t on this app anymore. Cant find recently watched, new episodes are a pain in the a.$ to find. Quit changing $h.t up. Just make it more accurate! Add downloads.

The new update makes the app unusable.

The current redesign makes the app unusable. Please bring back the ability to see what shows have new episodes.

No Longer Intuitive

Updated review: I find the new Hulu format a great deal less user friendly than its previous format. I pay for Hulu Plus but not sure for how much longer now that other options are available. Shame really as I have been a long time subscriber.

tvOS review

Its a mess! Finding content takes just as long as it did before but recommendations are incorrect and there are way too many side-scrolling categories and there is no longer the ability to disable autoplay so Hulu will start playing crap you care nothing about and have to back up. I end pressing the menu/back button more times during use of this app than several other "TV" apps combined. Sure it looks pretty but its very aggravating to navigate. As for the side-scrolling menu, you should only have five categories: Lineup, Keep Watching, TV, Movies, Kids... everything else you have is a sub-category and should be tucked into one of the aforementioned five categories. Further, the app also does not ask who is watching upon opening and therefore all family members are required to navigate to the menu option thats farthest away to open their profile. Either move the profile option to the front or ask who is watching EVERY time the app is opened. Because of this flaw, my keep watching feed is loaded with reality shows (which I despise) because my spouse is not very tech savvy (annoyed by having to learn a new interface) and she mostly watches trashy reality shows. Unfortunately, I cant change her viewing interests but it would be nice if you made some fairly basic UI changes to better accommodate households with vastly interests. Please make some changes to simplify navigation and bring back settings within the app so auto play can be disabled.

NO LONGER WORKS FOR APPLE TV!!!

Ive tried everything! This app is horrible and a complete waste of money! It no longer works for Apple TV and no one seems to be in a rush to fix the issue...I HATE HULU AND I HATE THE NEW UPDATE!

New TV interface is terrible

TV interface is just terrible!! Hard to use, gets in the way, cant find stuff. Please fix it!

Not just a bad update... the worst update!

I hate the new version of Hulu. It is harder to use and its slower. I mainly watch on my xbox1 and the interface is absolutely crap! Since the update I cant even watch on my android tablet either. Did I say I hate the new version? BECAUSE I SERIOUSLY HATE IT! Let us restore to the previous version! The new update makes this like a whole new app, so why didnt you design a new app for live tv instead of forcing this on us? I bet Netflix is getting a lot of love recently. Everyone I know who uses Hulu has said they dislike the update and after reading the most recent reviews Id say all the people I dont know hate it too. Get it together Hulu or you wont have any subscriptions left

New App Almost Unusable

My visually impaired mother cant use the new interface at all. Font is too thin, the background offers little contrast, and it is all very busy. I see well and have a difficult time. The Apple TV app is horrible. If things dont improve soon, I will stop spending my $21 a month for the first time after several years.

New interface makes it even harder to use

Ive been a paying member (ad-free) for quite some time, and free user for much longer. Hulu has seriously earned their low app ratings, from poor interface to buggy playback (audio cutting out and not coming back till you remove the app from memory and start over). This update? It takes the cake. 99% of my Hulu usage needs a simple queue that I control: let me watch new episodes in the order I want. That is it. Every major update in the past year or two has made that more difficult. But now? New episodes dont even show up, and its pushing first seasons on shows Im currently in season 3 or 4 of (just waiting for the new episodes to come out, except now the app doesnt even let me see that either). The queue...wait no, favourites... wait no, watchlist...wait no, my stuff?! Or is it the keep watching list? Hard to tell, because everything is messed up, and new episodes...its not usuable. On top of that, the remaining 1% of my Hulu usage involved browsing...which we cant do anymore because shows are only shown one at a time. Thats not browsing. Thats a massive waste of time. Roll back 2-3 years (back when there was a semi-usable queue), then fix the bugs youre pracitcally famous for: audio cutting out and not coming back till removing the app from memory and starting over. Please.

Spanish speaking commercials

Every commercial break there is at one Spanish commercial. I dont speak or read Spanish and live in America and speak English and read English. There needs to be a setting to have English only.

New video interface poor design

This update feels way to rushed for the live tv service. The experience is slow and not clear. The old interface would easily show you shows you were watching and what is next. Now that is gone, you cant easily see what shows you watched and what you havent. They need to really work again on this poor UI.

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