DLive · Your Stream Your Rules

Lucas Landsknecht

4 years ago

Very clunky. You need to have the app open fully for replays and any slight taps are likely to mess with the video time. Which makes watching replays on the go a struggle. Watching live is marginally better, being able to pop it out in a window. I don't understand why this is disallowed for replays. You are also unable to put it in split screen or a full app pop-out, like the majority of apps. It just seems very hastily put together with no thought for the user.

A Google user

6 years ago

Love it! The app lets you change volume and brightness by swiping up or down on either side of the screen. However, swiping along the screen to rewind is not executed as nicely. Since there is no minimisation button one needs to swipe up from the bottom of the screen for navigation buttons to show up and DLive ap reads this swiping as 'rewind time' :D Maybe add minimisation button as well? Split screen would be handy to have as well. :)

AJ Lin

4 years ago

Terrible app. They like to censor and the app is flakey and poorly designed. When you select your list of selected channels you get a blank list if no one is on right at that moment. You have to go searching for the channels manually if you want to see a replay. If you are using it on an android box I can't even find the replays and don't intend to waste my time looking for where they've put them in this disaster of an app.

A Google user

6 years ago

the app runs smooth, I just wish as a broadcaster we had the ability to change our stream titles and also in order to see your live chat you have to come out of the app and go back in. if your doing everything from mobile. my laptop is low end, so I cant stream from it and have a web browser open, that's why with the app it helps changing stream titles and having the live chat working on the cell phones. also I see theres a little red icon that shows viewers, but no way to see the actual id?

None ya Business

4 years ago

The app constantly makes me close out everything and start it back up to see chats, followers or fix streaming issues. More than half the time everything isn't working as it was designed. Replay videos don't go into picture in picture. And when I'm watching a replay pushed by dlive, if I go back to search another broadcaster and go back to replay on auto play it starts it all over or I don't get the same stream. I still cant find the stream I was watching. Many buffering and glitches.

Jeff Paquet

4 years ago

You need to upgrade your servers, I try to watch vids during the day, I get 2 seconds of vid and 20 seconds of dead air, kind of sucks when you're trying to watch a livestream. I try and watch later and it doesn't load. The few times that I have been able to watch, I love the fact, that I can minimize the screen and still listen to the vid.

A Google user

6 years ago

Love the platform but this app needs A LOT of work. The gesture controls are annoying and completely useless. I can't even swipe down the notification shade without changing the volume or the brightness. There's no way to navigate to the people you follow to watch old vods with manually searching for their channel. And the best part is you can't even minimize the app without the vod restarting when you open it abck up again, so make sure you remember the timestamp. Love DLive, hate the app.

James Doyle

4 years ago

Lacks functionality and features of other streaming services. Additionally, the features they do have work only intermittently, such as basic search and replay functions. While it is a neat idea to have an alternative streaming service, there is a reason Pewds no longer uses this service regularly, even though he is on the main picture when you go to download the app.

David Dodd

5 years ago

This app is horrible, i have to close it out and restart it constantly. If you pause a video to do something on another app it will restart from the beginning on replays and skip to current on live streams 50% of the time so you always have to keep track of how far you are into a show and the search doesn't work half the time either, type and hit enter and nothing happens.

Zachariah Johns

4 years ago

This app is broken beyond repair. Between the crashes, the slow startups, and closing the app wrong prevents different functionality when opening it again. This would have been bad enough, but when they chose to remove several streamers for political reasons, they lost all appeal they once had content wise. Trovo is significantly better, should you be searching for a streaming service

A Google user

6 years ago

I use it on my phone and the app crashes at the worst times. Even with perfect network services and WiFi. OK I am editing this now. Make that 3 crashes and 4 times going to complete unresponsive and having to force stop the app. I am trying to become a streaming member but this has to be fixed. It doesn't matter which stream I'm watching but it mainly happens when watching Dahboo7's channel. It doesn't matter what I'm doing it constantly crashes.

Mikey Jayy

4 years ago

Nice idea, but this app lacks in functional ability. The No. 1 problem is you CANNOT toggle between apps. The moment you minimize the app, it shuts off the video you were watching and you have to start over from the beginning. You cant even pause to save your place. You basically have to set aside your time and do nothing else. Some broadcasters no longer use YouTube due to censorship, but beware. Dlive will demonitize your channel if you have alternative view from Mainstream.

A Google user

6 years ago

This app provides a great streaming experience with a system to reward people for watching long amounts of time. However, it is missing the most basic features that any video playing app should have like rotating the screen when you turn it or hiding the home bar while in full screen. These issues lessen the experience for me despite the snappy loading speeds and great responsivenss of everything else. Overall still a great app though, please support this app so they may continue to improve it.

A Google user

6 years ago

I'm looking for alternatives to Youtube. The app works well enough. This app is much better than the Bitchute app, but still lacks 1 very crucial feature. When the phone is locked, the audio/video stop playing. Which makes it useless for me most of the time. I suppose this might not be an issue for others if the content they watch is all game streamers (which appears to be almost all of the Dlive community). This isn't the particular content that I'm looking for anyway.

Jake W

4 years ago

This app is garbage. Replays won't save your place if you change apps on your phone. Any subscriptions given to the streamer you're watching block the screen on mobile and you have to physically close them all since they don't expire on screen despite no longer being available. Notifications are inconsistent. Stream quality is inconsistent. Clearly developed by people who don't know what they're doing and won't be around in a year. BYE!

A Google user

6 years ago

Great concept. Excellent execution. Love the app. It makes me happier than anything just by watching. There are problems with bugs and UI keeping this from 5 stars like Sometimes when the lino is given out a loading box comes and never goes even after the giveway. The video's UI and title/label stuff disappear when you click share then click off. Can't copy text from chat. Can't click links. Can't delete favorite emotes to add new ones. This list will change with the app as well as my rating.

A Google user

6 years ago

Really need to improve the Replay feature. I don't have the best internet connection, so I sometimes timeout. But when I come back, I have to restart it allllllll the way from the beginning, and the rewind controls for mobile devices does NOT make it any better. Make it so that the site remembers the timestamp that you left off and have better control of fast forward and rewinding for mobile, (like double tap a side of the screen to go forward or back for 10 secs) then the score will be better.