Fubotv review interface
Fubo's interface is slick and well-designed. The black, gray and white color palette is more attractive than YouTube's stark, utilitarian look, though not quite as pleasing as Philo's interface.
The menu is divided into a handful of tabs (which differ slightly between platforms). On the web, those tabs are Home, Sports, Shows, Movies, Guide and Recordings. On mobile, the Shows and Movies sections are combined into Entertainment, while Recordings is labeled My Fubo.
The Home tab is broken down into sections, like Live TV, 4K on Demand, Live Sports, Popular Shows and Popular Movies. The Sports tab shows all the games that are airing that day or on future days. The Shows and Movies tab highlights popular titles and content on demand.
The Guide tab features the typical cable-like grid with a vertical list of networks and horizontal times. The networks are not alphabetized, so you may need to hunt for your preferred channels. But you can also favorite channels, so they always live at the top of the Guide.
The Recordings tab houses all the shows and movies you have recorded as well as a marker for how much Cloud DVR storage you've used.
FuboTV's search functionality is very fast, with results populating as you type, but it isn't as extensive as YouTube TV (which pulls in related video content from regular YouTube) or even Philo (which includes episodes as well as shows in results).
The show profile pages are fairly typical. They display upcoming episodes and give the option to record the series. (And you can choose to record all episodes or just new episodes.) And the playback window features the usual controls.
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What the web version looks like
FuboTV web interface is pretty user-friendly. Its prevalent colors are black, grey, and white, with an orange accent coming in at intervals to help emphasize some aspect of the screen.
The top menu bar features six tabs: Home, Sport, Shows, Movies, Guide, and Recordings.
Sports: It consists of video content relating to sports. It could be live sports events, Top leagues, sports tournaments, and other sports-related events.
The Sports tab shows you a sub-menu containing different sports like Soccer, Football, Basketball, Baseball, Hockey, Golf; never forget FuboTV is popularly known as a Sports streaming TV.
Home: This tab consists of different sections like 4k on Demand, Live TV, Live Sports, Popular Shows, and Popular movies; it is somewhat a list of what is happening in the various other categories.
Movies/Shows: Though FuboTV is popularly known as a Sports TV, it doesn’t however fall short in the movies and entertainment domain. Here you can find a considerable amount of movies and shows to pick from. The search and genre feature is a way to navigate around here.
Guide: This tab is somewhat similar to what you’ll see on your typical cable TV. It is a list of channels arranged in a grid format with networks arranged vertically and horizontally. The Guide section doesn’t offer the Lookback content feature; just the Sports tab has this.
The channels here aren’t arranged alphabetically or numbered, so this may turn off many users. However, after using FuboTV for a while, you’ll find it relatively easy to understand the channel part of it.
Leaving out the numbering system is also understandable when you consider that media streaming devices like Amazon Fire Stick, Roku Ultra, and others lack remotes with numbers.
Recording: This tab is a collection of recordings arranged in large thumbnails and organized into a list structure. With the search feature, you can dig out your recordings based on title, league, channel, or team; a feature we would have loved is to search based on date.
To make things easier, the recordings are arranged based on their categories; Sports contain sports recordings, Shows for show recordings, and Movies for movie recordings.
Mobile interface
You can enjoy FuboTV from your mobile devices too, and it is available on both Android and iOS devices. Visit your device’s app store and get the FuboTV mobile application.
You won’t break a sweat to sign-in on the mobile app; it then seeks permission to access your location; this is quite normal with these types of services.
You should avoid using the app with a VPN as you may encounter issues.
The slide in the left-hand menu allows you to switch between profiles, displaying some of your account details. The app is pretty limited; you can’t manage your subscriptions or add-ons, not even control your closed caption preferences or customize your video streaming quality.
The content categories can be accessed by scrolling horizontally. At one end, you get all available channels to watch, and the other lists display upcoming sporting events.
It also shows popular shows, trending content like Worth Binging, 4k On Demand, and popular Showtime.
At the bottom of the screen are the Home, Sport, Entertainment, Guide, and Recording tabs. These tabs perform similar functions to their web version.
With the Sports tab containing sporting events and events related to sports, the Entertainment section is a combination of Shows and Movies, which have their respective tabs on the web interface.
The Guide and Recording tabs are similar to what you have in the web version.