Tubi TV - Free Movies & TV

Tubi TV is the official app by the eponymous online TV service, offering ad-supported streaming, both live and on-demand. Download Tubi TV to have a real air TV experience on your phone or tablet, with all its clear pros and sweet cons!

Design 5/5

The design of such apps has been polished by thousands of developers, and Tubi TV just follows the mainstream. Its catalog looks like a virtual shelf with covers, sorted by genres. No matter if you like comedy, horror, drama, action, or documentaries: they are all on their respective shelves, easy to find. Scroll vertically to select the genre, scroll horizontally to select the title.

Usability 5/5

It doesn’t even require a registration (though registration lets you personalize your preferences). You just install Tubi TV and start off watching. All you need to do is tap on the title you like and press Play. The player is quite basic: it works in full-screen mode when turned landscape. It takes a tap to summon controls which include a search bar, pause/resume button, 15 second forward/rewind, subtitles on/off, and casting to TV.

Video quality is quite decent, and with sufficient bandwidth it starts almost immediately, with fast buffering. We tried it with W-Fi and LTE on a Full HD device and encountered no lags or freezes. Casting it to TV also works fine, both to Chromecast and to Apple TV.

Last but not least: this American service works worldwide. You won’t have to use tricks like VPN when abroad: just launch and watch. Non-American audience will appreciate it, despite all the videos are only available in English.

Features 3/5

As for the content Tubi features, it’s far from premium. There are mostly B-movies, old TV shows, and lots of mockbusters. Titles like Day of the Mummy, Going to America, All Hallows’ Eve, The Jurassic Games, or Ants on a Plane, with prototypes easy to recognize, are common here. Yet there are as well famous titles, like Convoy and other 1970s hits, spaghetti western classics with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, or 1980s’ martial movies. There are also quite decent documentaries. Use the built-in search to find certain titles or persons.

In-app purchases 5/5

Promoted as absolutely free, Tubi really is. But, of course, it’s ad-supported, and commercials intervene in the middle of the video you are watching. They can’t be turned off, and you have to watch them through – just like on good old analog air TV. If you are not satisfied with this, okay, there are always Netflix, Google Play, or iTunes.

Conclusion

If you want a TV on your phone for free, with the ability to cast it to TVs and read subtitles, and don’t mind B-movies as a class, you have it. Tubi TV delivers what it claims and does it quite well.

• Graphics 5
• Gameplay 5
• Controls 3
• Replay Value 5

Pros

Really free;
Requires no registration;
Decent video quality, with subtitles;
Available worldwide.

Cons

Commercials that can’t be turned off;
Bmovies and mockbusters prevailing.