Reviews for Sling: Live TV + Freestream

Sling's apps all such. The mobile one is no different. The app continually freezes when cutting to commercials, and causes me to have to force stop it on my Android device. On my computer, commercials will cut off parts of the show, and even other commercials. I am a software developer, and there is no excuse whatsoever for how crappy Sling's apps are. Don't pay for this service, at least until they can figure out how to deliver the service they are charging you for.

I signed up for sling through Roku, but the Roku app shows no sign of my account. I try to go to the sling account who says my address isn't right. You get what you pay for, I guess by getting cheap TV I have to be subject to zero customer service, just robots, confusion, incorrect information. But boy sling can always charge my card!!! Never a problem there. When I finally figured out how to put this on pause, I may just cancel and not come back this is a nightmare.

Worked fine for a month. Now it works half the time at best. It either has an error message at the start, or it plays for a minute and says the stream is unauthorized, or it just crashes. There is no way to get help for it. If you can contact the support, they just run you in circles until you give up. My opinion, it's not worth the cost. I can not watch tv for free. Sling is charging me not to watch tv. I'm going back to cable. Sling sucks.

Terrible. Upon opening the app and selecting the "Free Stream" option on the opening page, the app goes into terminal loading lock where you can't do anything at all. I refuse to give up my cc# info and pay for a service that is advertised as a "free" streaming service. I really should have read other reviews first and I would not have bothered downloading this waste of my time and space on my phone. Deleting it now. I'll be spending my viewing time on applications that work as advertised.

Although Sling is a great value, this is probably one on the worst mobile streaming apps I've ever used. When device powers down and resumes, video does not start up again. You have to go back to the guide and relaunch the channel. When the player is windowed, the device does not stay awake. You can't just listen to audio in the background. All of these features are expected for a modern streaming app and are missing.

The app is great for sports events, but it gets incredibly spotty if the event runs a little long. Watching an NBA game tonight (casted to my Google TV), the game ran from 7:30 to a little after 10:00. Right at 10:00, the stream began constantly disconnecting. Every 2-3 minutes, I would have to stop casting and recast it. This has happened with every game I have tried to watch.

I've never had so many issues with a streaming service. It's not worth the price. When I open the app, it immediately closes or crashes. It constantly stops playing all together, it keeps giving me errors trying to set DVR schedules and then doesn't show anything that was recorded. I've un-installed, cleared cache, and every other thing, short of just canceling. I paid for this to get Oxygen and I can't watch it! Back to Philo where it's cheap but literally works like a dream.

I don't usually make reviews but these streaming apps have become so greedy. I understand its a business, but there's a line. I started paying for Sling to watch Playoff hockey which I love. I wanted to watch one game on my TV and the other overlapping game(s) on my phone... and to find out i can only stream from one device at a time. 1... ONE!!! lol I can't help but laugh and be frustrated at the same time. I'm spending $45a month for a service that gives me the bare minimum. Unreal

Keeps shutting down. Sometimes, we have to restart three or four times for it to stay on. Only happening sling, not happening with other streaming services. Changed to Sling for the cost difference but due to poor service and rising cost of streaming, it may be time to go back to cable. Also, seems like we are fewer channels.

Promotions are total scams! I've been advised twice now from legit emails that I have earned spins in their promotions, only to open the app well within the allotted time, so I can spend an hour looking for this non-existent wheel to spin. It's so frustrating that I'm about to spend the next few hours looking at different streaming options. Oh, I also just found out that you can no longer reach Sling TV by phone. But good luck trying to even get info through their chat bot. That's the worst.

Worst app to watch live sports. works great during the allotted time for the event but as soon as the game goes over it allotted time on the guide the stream glitches. Since every game goes over the allotted time the ends of games are unwatchable. It great if you are not in to the drama and excitement of the ends of games. Also great for watching games that are blowouts. Just lower your expectations for that end game experience.

Sling is getting worse by the week. It used to be a good, reasonably priced streaming service. Now, it is painfully slow, and the fast-forward function only partially works. Forget about support. There is none. There is also some problem with adding services like a sports package. In any event, I can't add baseball no matter how many times Sling tells me, "All set You're Subscribed." I'm not. Spend a couple more bucks and get YouTube TV!

App freezes way too much. The guide doesn't match up with what's playing. Plays the same episodes 3 times a day, every day. If it plays in the morning, it plays at noon and in the evening. TV shows have more than just the 5 same episodes. It crashes when more than one person is using the app, even though I pay for 3. The price went up from 35 to 73, but the service went down.I'm so tired of this app, with all the free apps I honestly don't know why I still have it.....

The platform is ok. Not great, but ok. However, they are now increasing the rates by $6/month (from $55 to $60.99), and although I have the sports package already, (Sling Orange and Blue, and Sling rewards), I would have to buy an additional sports package for $15-$23 or more per month (unclear on the price) to watch many of the WNBA games. Ridiculous!

App was ok until I decided to pause the app for two months. The pause worked fine only $5 a month until I decided to resume my regular plan. They resumed but I was not able to view what I was paying for Espn Disney channel and free form. They were all locked and Sling couldn't fix it but still charged me Orange package price. No refund. I canceled my subscription. so my advice never try to pause your subscription!!!

The dvr experience is totally horrible. Some of the scheduled programs that are suppose to be recorded aren't. And getting black out moments for games that are suppose to be showing in my area is not what I'm planning to keep paying for. And a lot of the games that are suppose to be recorded won't play half the time. I'm not going to go into how much customer service sucks when it comes to getting problems resolved.

Sling is the worst streaming app that's not free. Actually, it's worse than the free apps I use. I've tried it out 4 times over 7 years. It's still as garbage as it was the first time I tried it in 2018. It's never not glitching. It displays the wrong times, channels, programs, and it won't play a DVR recording from the beginning if it's currently recording. Absolute trash streaming app that they aren't going to fix or they would have done it in the past 7 years.

More complicated than it needs to be. Channels that are "included" with a package are inaccessible, like some cruel tease. There are constantly errors on the website when trying to manage your account, and messages that just say, "Unable to process, please try again later." And again, the channel you want to watch is likely not available for some stupid reason. Had this app on and off for years. I will cancel my subscription and never, EVER subscribe again. Absolute trash.

Terrible product and terrible business model. Bought a subscription, first sporting event i watched the live stream timed out and had to be restarted at least a dozen times. Other times the stream would rewind to a previous spot without warning causing another restart. The next morning i asked for a refund and because i "watched" for more than 60 minutes they refused to refund the subscription. It like they know their product is terrible and they don't care. Avoid this company at all costs.

I signed up 2 mos ago and it's been nothing but problems. 2 wks after signing up for paid service, DVD didn't work. Then for several days when opening the app the screen was just black, so I had to keep uninstalling and reinstalling multiple times. The past few days it's been buffering and freezing every few seconds, making it impossible to watch any shows, and it wasn't my wifi bc all other apps worked fine, and tech help - forget it - useless AI chat. Zero help and customer service.