Leave a Review Motorsport.tv
Greatest app for racing videos
Motorsport.tv app is the best thing around to get your fix of racing videos and livestream. Their first version was fine but this 2.0 version took care of all the issues and works flawlessly. I watched different livestreams last weekend with no buffering or drop. Amazing, considering that even YouTube buffers out. Content is great too. I just wish they would have F1 live racing on Motorsport.tv rather than counting on the buggy F1TV app.Show lessPhil T-V.
Needs a bit more work to be compelling
This is a good service hindered by a few limitations, mostly in terms of UI. (Writing this in early June 2019, and 2.0 just got released, so keep in mind some or all of these might have been fixed!)
1) Not supporting picture-in-picture or even split screen! It’s amazing I can finally watch full SuperGT races! But that would be three hours where my iPad is a dedicated monitor to one thing. Not a good oversight when every streaming service has this.
2) basic sorting— on a series’ page, the strip listing full races helpfully includes future live broadcasts, but they seem to be totally randomized instead of chronological order? It’s super confusing.
Similarly the list of Programs is poorly organized. There’s several different ones for the WEC: “Inside WEC” has individual race summaries from 2017, “FIA WEC Live Racing” has one episode recap of the entire 2016 season, and another called “Special events” which is weirdly just an ACO press conference about the 2018 Le Mans, and so on. Dakar & Rally Raid events has a similar problem; F1 news has at least five or six different channels.
With as much content as motorsport.tv has- and to be clear, there’s a TON of great content here!— collating these better would be tremendously useful to get a picture of what’s on offer. (A search function would also be useful, given how much there is to navigate!)
3) When using the free version, there’s a blue corner to denote paid-membership content, which is fine, that’s a good signal. However, there’s a bunch of videos Without that corner, appearing free, that preview the first two minutes before prompting the membership upgrade screen. This is reeeaally bad UI. A second marker noting “preview available” would be helpful but as is, this will make users paranoid about what is or isn’t available.
4) Given the large diversity of content, you really gotta to include the run time under the thumbnail. In non-races alone, you have 5-10 minute tech analyses, to half-hour-to-an-hour race previews/summaries, to full two-hour documentaries.
Less important things I assume are already on the list but worth mentioning: Chromecast support, being able to favorite or otherwise bookmark content to watch later.
Basically, I hope the app gets nearly as good as the service, because I’m enthusiastically looking forward to being a paying subscriber!Show lessWill Pierce
Developer Response
Hello, Thanks for your feedback. 1) The Motorsport.tv does support "Open a second app with Slide Over": you can watch videos in Motorsport.tv while working with another app on the right hand side. We don't have picture in picture in the video but this will be an upcoming feature. 2) You are right. We will be working to have better sorting, especially in the sort order of series and program pages. 3) Can you let us know which "paywall" video you saw that does not have the blue corner? Normally, all paywall video should have it. 4) Agree and this is coming in our next update. Thanks again for the feedback!They added Apple TV support but the app is still buggy
When you login, it acts like you haven’t and won’t play free streams without directing you to a subscription page. It’s ridiculous for an app like this in 2019.Chris JT
Developer Response
Hello, we recommend that you update the Motorsport.tv application to our new version 2.0, that comes with many improvements and is fully iOS native. This new version supports our freemium model, with free viewing, free account and paid subscription for extra benefits. Cheers!No Chromecast!
The website selling this service states it can be used with chromecast, but there is simply no option to cast any videos! Love the idea of the service but without chromecast its pretty uselessFormerlazybum
Developer Response
Hello, Chromecast is supported natively in Chrome (normal, since it's a Google product). In the iOS app, native support for Chromecast is not quite native, but we are working on this feature. Otherwise, we recommend that you update the Motorsport.tv application to our new version 2.0, that comes with many improvements and is fully iOS native. This new version supports our freemium model, with free viewing, free account and paid subscription for extra benefits. Cheers!Promise much delivers little
Downloaded but only operates some videos others keep crashing, jumping or just repeating a few seconds over and over
Waste of time and money. Will be cancelling after free trailmwillis942
Developer Response
Hello, we recommend that you update the Motorsport.tv application to our new version 2.0, that comes with many improvements and is fully iOS native. This new version supports our freemium model, with free viewing, free account and paid subscription for extra benefits. Cheers!Great Motorsport Platform
Just came across this app, after being disappointed by the lack of F1 TV in Canada and rumours that WEC app won’t offer live coverage anymore I thought the WRC app was my last chance. Motorsport.TV is a great collection of new and old racing, with series that most people in North America don’t have access to watch.
Few requests:
- Integration into the “TV” app in iOS so live racing events appear in the “up next” just like other sports apps.
- On the Apple TV please integrate with “TV” app for live races this could be an amazing experience. Also, next to impossible to find the app on the Canadian AppStore - also note TV support is not list for this app currently.
- App icon (actually service icon) is very generic and very ugly. Would recommend a more representative and appealing logo for the service. This was part of the reason I’ve overlooked the app several times I thought it was a low quality spam app.
Keep up the great work!Show lessdjtripd
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Signed up for a subscription but can't get it to work. Contact with the support has so far not solved the problem. I am not sure what the problem is, but very disappointed. Bring back motors on Sky!Dissapointed from Buckingham
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Sound doesn’t workHhhhhahwkdndu
Developer Response
Hello, We recommend that you update the Motorsport.tv application to our new version 2.0, that comes with many improvements and is fully iOS native. Cheers!Won’t Respond on Open
The app starts, and immediately freezes on the yellow banner page. It just hangs in that state permanently. Have deleted and re-downloaded multiple times with no change.bputt1
Developer Response
Hello, We recommend that you update the Motorsport.tv application to our new version 2.0, that comes with many improvements and is fully iOS native. Cheers!Doesn’t work
You pay for a video player that doesn’t work. What a load of garbage.
I will be switching to other video streaming services once my subscription is over.the experts reviews!
