VUniverse Needs Some Work

Universe app

What is VUniverse? No that is not a typo. Think of it as Viewniverse. It is an app and website designed to help people find something to stream. It is designed to cull 60 or so apps and tell users where to find the content they are looking for.

Unfortunately it looks like the app is not ready for primetime despite already being available on IOS, Andoid TV and Android mobile. At this point the app is way behind Just watch, Realgood and a host of other tools for finding content.

First of all the app and website are very slow. The site and the app have been very laggy and not loading meta data and artwork. See the picture bellow where we should be given a row of things I should probably watch. I guess Vuniverse thinks there is nothing available I would like. Notice the missing art for Baadasssss!

Universe app
Screens fail to fully display choices meant to simplify the streaming process. If they are looking to be helpful it might be nice to know what I should probably watch.

The app fails to display the actual services that have access to content. For instance we looked for content that we confirmed was on Hulu and it only suggested we buy it from Vudu. We searched for Netflix originals and it didn’t even provide a source to watch it much less recommend Netflix.

High Rise Hulu
High-Rise is available on Hulu and other services but users are not given that choice on Vuniverse
High Rise
Here you see the Hulu listing for High-Rise. Different artwork same movie, read who is the star.
Justwatch High-Rise
This is the same listing on JustWatch.

I wish I could say that these things were not hampering the experience. But at the moment the Vuniverse app fails to deliver on the basic premise of the app itself.

 

Images a from screenshots of Hulu.com, universe.com and Justwatch.com.