
Benjamin Glasthal
I won't completely trash it like many are for the subscription. It is a functional browser, and works with the new Chromecast with Google TV well. It may even be the only one as far as I can find. It can play videos in browser, and generally functional. For that you deserve more than 1 star. However, your price plan does not. Yeah, $10 for a year subscription of anything is negligible, but that doesn't make it sensible. I could do it without thinking, but I have such a hard time supporting that model because its frankly anti-consumer to charge a subscription for your app like this when you're not needing any major server upkeep or anything. I could understand a $10 one time purchase (still would be high mind you) but to expect that regularly just seems like you're trying to exploit the market. It doesn't even have the options for tabs so I can keep multiple pages open. If you had some deep settings like I could customize navigation on the remote and tabs, and if you had some more specialized integrations than QR codes then I might understand more. But it just feels like you're on the edge of exactly as useable as I could expect at the bare minimum past playing videos, and that I should be happy to pay for that. Unfortunately, I'm just not sure I am or that I can recommend anyone else does so either. If you rethink your business model to a one time payment, then call me and we can talk.
372 people found this review helpful
CloudMosa Inc
April 8, 2021
Puffin runs web browser session on the cloud servers. Additionally, all video traffic must go through the cloud servers, too. You assessment that "you're not needing any major server upkeep or anything" is not correct. We do not expect users to know how Puffin works internally.

Adam Segal
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Browser works great until it tells you you hit your browsing limit. I don't really care about any of their server side optimization, just the basic browser functionality with ad blocking. Why is that so difficult to get on a tv? I'm not paying a subscription for a browser. Maybe if it were like $3.99 one time I'd use it. How about offering the browser as a normal browser, and add the extra 'speed' from whatever server processing as a subscription? I hated amp pages and don't want any of my sites processed server side anyway.
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CloudMosa Inc
May 22, 2021
Android TV hardware is too weak to support web browser well. As a result, Google does not release Chrome on Android TV. If you are using AOSP Android TV, you can try Firefox, which is available on AOSP but not on the official Google Play Store on Android TV.

David Junior Shirley
well I don't understand because from 2019 when I downloaded the legitPuffin Browser from the Google Play Store I paid a subscription fee and from 2019 up until November of 2025 I was never asked to pay another subscription because the system always validated my account and I do not like having me paid monthly without a reminder or automatic paymentdo you not have a yearly subscription plan or a plan like I had it from 2019 because I do love your browser I think it's the best in the Google Play store. but as a customer for all this time and they repeat since 2019. and without having a yearly payment plan or automatic payments I'm not sure if this would be the right way to go anymore so please review your system and let me know what would
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CloudMosa Inc
December 26, 2025
Please don't delete your previous reviews. To combat widespread piracy, Puffin switched to a paid subscription model in 2023. The subscription is automatically renewed and recurring. A one-time payment from 2019 to 2025 doesn't exist. Pirated and hacked Puffin doesn't work anymore. That's probably why you got the subscription prompt recently.