MagellanTV Documentaries

CONTENT: Attractive and varied, and seems to be growing. I sincerely hope they continue this way. APP: Functional and stable but has a few quirks that I find puzzling. First, the way it transfers between full-screen and framed seems a bit clunky, it switches from landscape to portrait (it does the same thing when you use the 'back' arrow). Second, there is no ability to skip ahead or back. Double tapping any part of the screen just switches from landscape to portrait.

Can't exactly say why, but the app feels hard to use. Playback is missing features I've come to consider essential, like moving forwards or backwards by some seconds. The "keep watching" list shows programs I've finished and I'm not sure which programs are part of a series or just the app thinks are related. In one case clicking on an episode, restarted it instead of continuing. Also for series I have to manually find which program I've watched last since all episodes show in "keep watching".

I subscribed for a year. Not bad, but the scam begins when you properly cancel subscription and playstore reflects this. Yet I've been billed every month for the last 4 months without my concent. And of course google is zero help. Trying to talk to a human is useless. It's actually credit card fraud at this point. Next step will be contacting Mastercard. If you subscribe to this use a playstore card with a finite dollar amount.

Let me start off by saying, I normally don't bother using subscription-based streaming services for a variety of reasons. However, I really love documentaries. So when I saw that there was an app for just documentaries, I decided to give it a try. I've had Magellan now for 6 months and have loved it ever since I got it. The amount of content is great and they add new documentaries very often. All of the videos are high quality (no low-budget home made content). I would highly recommend Magellan!

It's great for people who love a wide variety of documentaries from science to history and everything in between, plus if you watch on your phone you can run it in the background and have your phone of so you don't waste battery. Love it would definitely recommend 👌

Has very few history, science, etc that I haven't watched on YouTube. Plus every time I watch 1 show and then select another show the app closes itself and i have to reloadthe app. No other app on any of my devices just close themselves exceptfor MagellanTV. I'm using Apple TV and an Android phone and it happens on both! I was stoked to start MagellanTV and now I wish I hadn't let my free trial run out! Definitely not worth the yearly subscription! I'm deleting MagellanTV from everything.

I was really excited to see some of the documentaries and gave the trial a go. Coming from Curiosity Stream, I was happy to see options I hadn't seen before. I tried to watch the first program that drew me into the app, but it kept messing up, giving me an error message with a grey static screen. Out of frustration I watched a different one, and after I finished it I attempted to watch the first film again... with the same results. I tried a different documentary again and it too wouldn't play.

Customer support is timely and extremely helpful. I asked about picture-in-picture pop out windows on mobile while using other apps and Nancy from the service told me exactly how to do it and provided even more information than asked. Exceptional streaming service and exceptional customer support.

Great content, if you can get the app to work. I subbed for a year (my bad) and have discovered that this app is the absolute worst. I've had to re-sign in multiple times after getting kicked out. 4 out of 5 times when I try to open the app, there is nothing on the screen but text. App does not indicate shows have been "watched", so it's on me to remember where I left off? Now today, regardless of which show I click on, the app crashes and returns to Roku home sc. Absolute POS app.

I really like the idea of this app/subscription but there are times that the video just won't load and keeps buffering. All other apps work fine so I know it's just this app. I think it's easy to use with lots of great content and I hope to support later and hope the streaming gets a little better. We also watched on our TV and the titles and images aren't shown so we have to either pick from app or look at every episode to see if that's something we want to watch.

I really love the content on Magellan, but the app needs work. It's unstable, and crashes often. The video player feels ancient, and lacks simple "skip" features. It's a huge pain if you want to rewind or fast forward to a certain point in a program. Maybe they could spend some of their YouTube ad money on development.

The content is great but the app itself is as buggy as hell. When using it I get pop ups of system level errors you never see when using other applications. It freezes up a lot and is difficult to manage. I'm using a regulaly patched recent version of android (11) too. This should not be happening. Over all it is very amateurish and needs a LOT of work.

Great selection of documentaries, watcging then on my phone and TV. I haven't had any issues related to the app or otherwise.

This would have been 5 start it was a great app. Tons of great quality content. But I will now have to cancel my subscription... Chromecast worked great for a few days. Now for the past week it disappeared from the app. This was my primary way of using it. I tried force closing, uninstalling, and rebooting my phone. You guys have plenty to offer, but have real technical issues, which makes me loose faith in you guys being a quality streaming service.

I like it because it's a lot like curiositystream but with its own stuff. If there was one bit of advice I can give it to the developers of the app, that is please put in fast forward and reverse/skip 10 seconds buttons. I'm shocked that it doesn't have it. Every video streaming app in existence has got it . It's incredibly annoying to try and slide around that tiny little bar on my Samsung Note 10 plus.

I'm giving it five stars, because it's awesome. Mary Beard is worth it, alone. However, ever since I installed it on my Sony Bravia, the TV has never worked the same. Everything was suddenly slow, totally unresponsive so I uninstalled. That helped but didn't fix it. Now, I have to unplug it every few hours for anything to work. Who knows if it's causation or correlation...I'm sure it'll get worked out and for all I know, the remote got sat on. It did happen immediately after installing, though. Can't find anyone else with this problem, so 5 stars for good stuff.

The documentaries Ive seen so far, are excellent, in depth, and It's nice to see a lot of them have reenactors involved which adds a layer of depth. Image quality is superb, sound is great, and the selection of content vs price is a good deal. Now the Cons. the app need improvement. you have to go into the app to adjust volume, or do anything. connecting to cast sometimes doesnt work or bugs out. I look forward to this service growing and improving. excellent job.

Only for those who really know how to appreciate a good production. I had been struggling to find good documentaries, apart from watching those mainstream documentary channels, I could hardly find something useful and informative on YouTube. This app is great, it is worth every single dollar (or pounds). Its really easy to use, with very intuitive menu, and no bugs at all. I hope it never stops getting updated.

Great content. But app needs lots of work. 1. Doesn't save where you last left a program if you can't finish it in one sitting. 2. No already viewed history available, in case you can't remember if you watched a certain program already. 3. An error msg pops up quite a bit that says "This video cannot be viewed because of technical error".

It connected to chrome cast the first night and will not connect again. Good thing I learned during the free trial. I was planning on buying a full year. This would be totally worth the money. This is an awsome learning platform. I just wish it would work on anything other my phone. ... I have a chrome cast, roku and went to my sisters house to try it but got the same error. We even signed in on my wife's phone and tried to cast on all 3. Looks like lots of other reviews say the same thing.

Content is good. there is plenty of stuff to watch. But i am afraid i wont renew my sub. because both the app and support need some serious work. On the description it says that the videos can cast on any device on the same network. Thats a lie i am afraid. it will only detect my roku attached devices. there is no native app on smart tvs therefore i can currently watch only where i have my roku. And when i tried to address the support team for that same issue they never replied. In general, there is some decent content but if you are looking for a netflix sort of app, then functionality is far from it.

I regret buying an annual subscription. The app needs a ton of work, no way to fast forward or rewind. And the User Interface is poorly planned. I've joined 3 or 4 days ago and watched sounds 8 documentaries. Two were not bad, the rest are very average. I find content of the same quality on YouTube for free. Hopefully I can at least get a partial refund.

Not exactly what I thought it would be. It's frustrating because if I accidently exit and I am in the middle of an episode I can't find that content in my "keep watching' section. Once I do give it I have to fast forward and look for the last spot I was left off at before exiting. But I do love documentaries so it's nice. Just think there could be a lot more content. And I think the accessibility could be easy better.

Over all the app has really great content. But it will always stop whatever is playing with about 5 minutes left. And takes me back to the selection. Sometimes it remembers where it stopped but every 30 to 40 seconds it will happen again. I can't watch the end of anything and am needing some closure.

Nearly perfect. The quantity and quality are superior. Vast array of different types of documentaries. The only reason for 4 stars is unlike YouTube , it won't pick right back up if you have to interrupt watching. And it gives no visual Que if you have already watched something. Fix that little issue , and easy 10 stars.