Joyn | deine Streaming App

Joyn GmbH

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About this app

Joyn offers you live TV and media library in one app. Joyn's basic offering is free: simply download and start streaming. If you want to use the complete free offer, you have to register, but it's free and takes less than 2 minutes.
With Joyn you can watch over 60 TV channels live, e.g. public channels such as ARD, ZDF and ZDFneo, but also private channels such as ProSieben, Sat.1 and DMAX. You can also stream cult channels such as MTV, Comedy Central, KiKA and Eurosport.
But live TV is only part of Joyn. The other big part is our media library. There you will find lots of series and shows. For example, originals and exclusive series that you can only watch on Joyn such as "Big Brother", "Germany's Next Top Model", "The Big Celebrity Penance", "TV Total" and more. Also previews, i.e. complete series episodes before they are broadcast on television. Watch shows and series from the media library whenever and wherever you want.
And with whatever device you want, Joyn runs on smartphones, tablets, TVs and web browsers.
If you are registered, you can watch over 60 channels, you can use the watch list and, for example, start on your mobile phone and continue watching later on the TV. You'll also get recommendations that match what you like.

And what is Joyn PLUS+?
PLUS+ can do everything Joyn can do and much more. PLUS+ offers a huge film library with current blockbusters such as "Dune", "Spider-Man: No way home" and "The Suicide Squad", as well as complete series such as "Steel Buddies", "Navy NCIS", "Desert Warrior" and “Beauty and the Nerd.”
You will also find many more originals and exclusives on PLUS+ than on the free version of Joyn, e.g. "jerks.", "Der Upir", "Check Check", "Frau Jordan" equals" or "Blackout". Also the offer Live TV is significantly larger with over 70 channels, including eight pay TV channels such as Sport1+, Discovery Channel, Eurosport 2 and ProSieben Fun.
With PLUS+ you experience everything in brilliant HD quality (where available).
We are constantly expanding our offering, so you can always look forward to new films, series and originals.
Do you love sports? Welcome to Joyn. Sports fans get their money's worth here: Eurosport, ran and others always offer live sports events such as the Super Bowl, Australian Open, WWE Wrestling and Nordic Skiing World Championships. At Joyn you can experience 24 hours of sport.
As a user of the free service you can see highlights, with a PLUS+ subscription you get the full sports experience - at "Roland Garros", for example, you can see all the games, on all the courts and everything in HD. We are constantly expanding our sports offerings, so stay tuned.

Ratings and reviews

Not only do you have to watch up to 9(!) ads but the app fails to start playing the episode you selected to watch but randomly skips to another one and does the same thing after having to watch ads in the middle of the episode. So you have to restart the whole episode and forward all the way to the point you were at before. But then, if you forward to much by constantly pressing the button because it only forwards 10 seconds at the time, it crashes. Who wants that? Terrible experience.

While in general working quite well there are two serious issues that really need to be fixed. 1. Full screen mode: when switching to full screen mode an ever so slightly rotation or tilt of the phone immediately stops the full screen mode. This is absolutely unacceptable! Please ignore rotation/tilt sensor during Fullscreen mode. 2. Battery drain: why does this app draw so much juice in the background? Once moved to the background, please put the app to sleep.

This app manages to combine the worst of tv with the worst of streaming services. Constant and endless advertisement which is not announced, non-skippable and after which it doesn't even manage to continue streamimg where you left off. Sometimes you got to watch ads just to have to skip through to roughly where you left off, to watch ads again because somehow the app did not recognise you already watched ads. This app makes it feel like watching tv, which is exactly what one does not want.