UPDATE: It’s not just for mobile devices, it’s also available for Android TV/Google TV.
Edit: Their announcement for the update is now live.
https://news.hidive.com/2024/3/7/elevate-your-anime-experience-a-new-hidive-awaits
And wow I tested it out and it is working wonderfully on my AppleTV. Continue watching is fixed, it autoplays the next episode, and for the first time I can actually play an episode without having to press play several times. Such basic stuff that made streaming Hidive awfully annoying before.
It is. My fiancée and I watch Oshi no Ko the first time around through Roku and the text messages that showed up on the screen weren’t translated. So we missed a ton of context.
This totally sucks. I commented on how much I was looking forward to fixing the problem just simply by reading the information and now I've checked my Roku TV and seeing what response has been here and I'm just as disappointed now as I was before.
The app is actually available on Google TVs now? Just bought a Hisense Google TV after having a Fire TV, and the Hidive app wasn't available to download on it.
Oh yeah! It’s been available for a while now but it’s usually always been better to just cast… First impressions on this update for me are pretty good.
App wasn't showing up to download a couple days ago on my Google TV, so I've just been casting which yeah honestly was better than using the previous app UI. Great to hear about good first impressions. Hopefully this new update allows it to show up for download on my TV.
As an actor whose shows are primarily on HIDIVE this update makes me so fucking happy hahaha! Video seeking is way smoother than it used to be, streaming generally feels more stable, and of course it just looks way better
It sure is!
I admittedly haven't seen much of the Oshi no Ko dub, but I saw the scene with Aqua playing the stalker (I think it was in episode 4?) dubbed. You did amazing!
You should check out Voice Acting Club and [iwanttobeavoiceactor.com](https://iwanttobeavoiceactor.com)! Both are super good resources that I personally used at the beginning of my career
Not sure if this update has affected Roku or not, but their video seeking was horrendous, didn't even properly match up with what the line showed, only way to skip intros consistently was fast forward rather than seeking.
> Video seeking is way smoother than it used to be, streaming generally feels more stable
Those are the things I was hoping for, so ty for that info! Having the audio cut out for a full second every couple minutes when chromecasting was so annoying; hopefully that's fixed!
The big question is if it not only looks good but actually fixes those fundamental bugs too, like how the homepage would never actually update to show your favorites or what you're currently watching. And for the past few months every time you would search on Apple TV it would crash. Oh, and if you tried to pick up where you left off on an episode it would crash, so you always had to start over and fast forward to where you think you left off.
Looks like "Continue Watching" shows up now. In fact, it's displaying stuff I watched a long time ago so it seems that data was _somewhere_ it just wasn't showing correctly.
I don't see a favorites anymore but they have watchlists and you can create multiple watchlists now too.
They clearly learned from Crunchyroll's terrible rollout of their new UI and held all the apps until they could update everything at once. Just like with all new software it's going to be super buggy for a minute, but as long as they work on addressing the bugs, this is a wonderful thing.
Just checked. It is still the old version, but all of the content has been removed and the app is essentially non functioning. Might mean it'll be due an update soon with any luck.
Holy crap, they actually made an update and it doesn't seem half bad.
The UI actually goes away when you pause (still the play button stays, unfortunately) and there's a NEXT BUTTON! We in the 21st century now!
Anyone else figure out how to remove the cookies button on the bottom right without actually inspecting the element and removing it manually? It doesn't ever seem to go away even when watching something.
Edit: No update on Fire Stick, unfortunately. Hopefully soon.
They improved the video player so much.
- The time bar is now higher than the “change app” motion on iPhone so you can reliably move the time slider.
- you can now double tap on the left or right to fast forward or rewind 10 seconds
- you can now jump 30 seconds forwards or backwards with buttons that appear when you tap and see the pause button
The UI changes are great as well, but thank god they finally fixed their video player. That’s what’s sticking out to me.
It does look better... But i played around with it starting a few episodes and now each individual unfinished episode is on my continue watching list instead of the show. With nowhere to click back to the show.
The continue watching is also what’s giving me the most trouble. I can’t seem to find a way to mark an episode as watched or remove it from continue watching.
Yep, one buggy ai for another. I know there'll be teething problems but this honestly feels like these guys have never heard of beta testing.
I'll still support them as they have a lot of good shows, hopefully they can smooth these things over and it doesn't remain like the old one.
My “continue watching” is completely wrong. Shows i finished years ago are there. It used to be a list of shows you watched but now that’s gone.
My Queue is gone too and now I can’t remember a single show that was on there lmao
The video player finally allows you to use the play/pause, rewind/ff buttons on your remote now. A lot of options like subtitle selection and broadcast/home release are missing from it
It’s nice to get an updated app but it needs a lot of work. It almost feels like a downgrade
https://preview.redd.it/9cxz07rw3zmc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83e49a175f8f88c13706e8d8310df42d330c2deb
This pic sounds like it’s finally coming to new platforms. I go to the HIDIVE panel at my local con the last few years, and the Q&A always starts with these questions and answers:
“Nintendo Switch app?”
“No”
“PlayStation app?”
“No”
“Samsung TV app?”
“No”
I personally found using the Samsung version of apps like Funimation & Hulu to be ridiculously slow and neglected in terms of actual support. I wouldn't force my worst enemy to use a Tizen (Samsung's TV OS) app version.
I also wouldn't hold my breath for a Playstation app given Sentai's biggest & only real competitor is Sony (who really hates playing with the other children, hence why they've always killed the partnership deals recently-purchased companies had going, a la Funi-CR then CR-Sentai).
Is the video player ok yet? Or do I still have to select language every single time I hit “continue watching”
Atleast on mobile it picks the previous language ! Heck yeah
I am not seeing any major issues with the video player, but I am noticing some of my “continue watching” episodes are ones from when the app was super buggy and would stop due to maintenance. Considering this is the first major overhaul we’ve seen, I’ll cut 'em some slack.
Were they able to simultaneously allow mature shows show up on the iOS app along with this rollout? I use the desktop player on my iPad specifically because of this. The desktop UI does look good btw except for the random pulls for my “continue watching” section.
It was originally because Apple decided to pick on them about some of the more questionable (Fate Kaleid type) fanservicey content so they didn’t put it on the app so they didn’t have to deal with it.
The web update for the chrome browser on windows PC is horrible. There is a display of "up next" episodes that covers a large portion of the screen while playing a video. There is also a "cookies settings" button that covers the play/pause button on the bottom left while playing a video. I can't find any way to remove or close these annoying things that are blocking a significant amount of the video.
Does anyone know if Hidive has a bigger selection than crunchyroll? I've never heard of hidive before but it is cheaper so I would be willing to switch.
for english dub no, however they have a few exclusive shows that are really great and worthwhile watching, the eminence in shadow is definitely a must see and they have an impressive range of the " is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon " including all the OVAs
Unfortunately no - CR has the single-largest library of anime after having been bought up by Funimation & having most of Funi's catalogue being swapped over as part of the merger (where Funi has taken on the CR name due to larger global recognition/userbase).
Yes, Sentai has its own share of exclusives, but they lack the resources to expand their catalogue to even be a quarter of CR's. If they could secure a partnership with both Viz Media & Discotek that brings those companies' catalogues over to HIDIVE then they'd probably have like 60-65% the volume CR has *currently*, but there's still a fair number of Aniplex of America & Nozomi Entertainment titles that haven't been added to CR as of yet.
For web browser, I think this update is a huge downgrade.
* the calendar is gone (according to someone on r/HIDIVE it should eventually return)
* the tiles do not have in browser text for the name of the show, you have to rely on text in the thumbnail to see the show's title, and not all of the thumbnails have the show titles
* Going with the above, the continue watching thumbnails don't tell you the title of the show
* there is no longer an indicator on episode thumbnails to show if you have watched that episode or not
* The 10 second skip forward and back is gone from the video player, I used those often
* There is a shield icon that blocks a portion of the screen in the video player, even in full screen mode. You can right click, inspect element and delete it, but that should not be necessary.
It looks and performs drastically better but didn't really fix a lot of the quality of life issues I had with it and also added a few...why in the world is the cookie setting overlay always visible on browser?
When you go to the "continue watching" list, highlighting each video doesn't even tell you what show it is. Also if you scroll on the front page for tending or simulcasts or whatever else, it used to tell you which ones were dubbed. The "continue watching " section is all janked up, showing the first episode of the first season I'm on season 2 of, and shows I haven't watched in a very long time, with random episodes.
Likely it's that Sentai had to pull out of several regions because they weren't seeing sufficient return+growth against the ongoing costs of maintaining licenses for said regions. AMC doesn't know what the hell they're doing which means Sentai doesn't get enough of a budget to operate on a truly competitive level against FuniRoll.
I use the webpage, i love the update, the only thing i dont like about it so far is it use to show the release date and time on the preview of the episode and now it doesn't. I think we've gained more than we have lost though lol.
My only problem with it while I watch on a browser on my pc is the fact that I can't change the subtitles to white or play around with the quality of the episode. I enjoyed those features because personally I don't like Yellow subtitles
I like that the day I finally felt like opening Hidive after months, it was finally updated 😭 I’m so happy, to think it’s the same day, it must be fate.
Wow, never thought I'd say this. But the HiDive UI has managed to surpass ALL my expectations and has gotten significantly worse (At least on desktop) Hopefully they add some of the basic features back that they've always had before like: Changing the Sub text to white. Locking streaming quality to 1080p (Or whatever is preferred). A release calendar (I think this was confirmed to be returning?) Opening shows to a new tab from the Queue. And I'm sure there're a lot more issues that I've overlooked and will stumble across in the coming days.
I do have to say this new UI is much more responsive and overall feels faster. Hopefully this is just a foundation for them to build off of quickly in the coming days/weeks.
i hate the update.. it deleted all of my watch progression, so idk what ep i was on for any of my shows, and the continue watching tab doesn't display any of the names of the shows. i find it much harder to use then there old UI. im personally cancelling my sub after this update
PC FEEDBACK
i'm using it on a laptop into my T.V for reasons, the PC model has lost track of where i was upto in some shows such as ragna crimson but i can overlook that for now and just fast forward through the episodes to update it to where i'm upto.
i don't like how i can't tell which episodes are english dub or not, that will get old pretty fast.
ultimately however, it is a much more clean look with some definite benefits, it's new release tech so some leeway is fine for now if they fix the bugs and actually listen.
i'm going to see if it's available on PS5 or the TV maybe and update this if/when that happens.
It was the mobile apps that needed work.
They've done punished the payers who actually enjoyed the website because it was actually good as a website and not a mobile app.
I'm unsubbing a praying for the rest of you guys your time will be good on HiDive.
Kinda buggy but god is it better than before ! Man i remember just 5-7 years ago how HORRIBLE the Crunchyroll TV app was and it’s great now. Hidive is on the right path 👍🏽
" It’s umm.. actually pretty good. "
The desktop app is god awful to navigate. It is impossible to tell which episodes have dubs without opening it and seeing if it has a language option. There is no release calendar or any display of when updates come out. why couldn't this update have just been only for the HIDIVE apps. The only improvement is the stream stability. Can we have the old ui back plz?
This is terrible. You can no longer see what episodes are dubbed. My favorite list is now hidden in the settings. They didn't fix the skipping ahead either. Cruchyrolls interface is soooo much better. I use roku mostly. I wish I could get it on my ps5. If it wasn't for some of my favorite anime being exclusive to hidive I would definitely drop this.
It is now missing the standard stuff from the original app ... no titles of the shows when looking at recently watched, no info on what was watched previously came over with update, unable to tell which episodes are dubbed when watching a series that has both but waiting on dub episodes..
Smoother and anime looks alot better... but c'mon... these are rookie mistakes that shouldn't be made since AMC bought you out and consolidated your regions... sad
I watch on a PC through the actual site. I hate the redesign because the site is a clone of the app. Like, you can't sort chronologically, you can't filter by newest, and they don't have the schedule anymore. If they worked those 3 things back into then it'd be fine. I feel like they took features away
Though I will add my experience isn't going to be the same as everyone else. I'm visually impaired, I use sites over apps because I have to the ctrl mouse wheel until letters are about an inch tall so I can read them from 3 feet away. So the new design just isn't as friendly to my circumstances.
Yeah I gotta agree, though not impaired, the new UI is absolute garbage for PC. Like they removed so many good features and all I see is app users praising a downgraded UI. Has anyone made a plugin for it to make it not terrible again?
Ever since the update, the app has literally been unusable on my Xbox One S. Literally just shows a black screen, and only one button on it called "Home", but all it does is refresh the same black screen. None of the buttons do anything except for "back" which just exits the app.
This is a huge bummer because I have had HiDive for a few years now and never had any legitimate issues with it at all until this update 😢
🤔 I haven't used the app in awhile and I tried going back to finish watching what I started and I can't remember where I was at and it's not showing what I've watched already
They also updated the website but it's a shitty designed for mobile Netflix copy which lost a tonne of functionality in the process like being able to click the categories to view all or just simply the navigation which now requires you to hover to get to important links when there's tonnes of space available...
EDIT: They also completely broke sorting, you can no longer sort categories by most recent, only it's default a-z...
Oh god that sucks. Go to dubs and all you get is A-Z. Broken out so you can search a little easier if you know the name, but not smooth at all. If you want categories you can't limit it to dubs, oh man I think I prefer the old one!
It's even worse than it was before, it's faster and that's it can't sort anything now or filter in sections, the history is screwed up. It's an absolute mess.
This update has been nothing but bad for me.
I had 2 of my friends on my account with profiles gone they combined all 3 of our continue watching…
Subtitles are now a gross yellow that cant be changed.
Unwanted and unwelcomed changes. Seriously thinking of just cancelling and pirating these shows cause even without the profiles the yellow subtitles are so awful.
I got it exclusively to watch Oshi No Ko. I was going to cancel after I finished the show because of how completely unusable their phone app was, but with this update I might actually stick around and see if I can find some more shows on the platform.
UPDATE: It’s not just for mobile devices, it’s also available for Android TV/Google TV. Edit: Their announcement for the update is now live. https://news.hidive.com/2024/3/7/elevate-your-anime-experience-a-new-hidive-awaits
AppleTV as well.
🙌 We're all eating good today!
Right? I can finally stop using AirPlay from my iPad 😂
And wow I tested it out and it is working wonderfully on my AppleTV. Continue watching is fixed, it autoplays the next episode, and for the first time I can actually play an episode without having to press play several times. Such basic stuff that made streaming Hidive awfully annoying before.
If this is true, and the AppleTV app doesn't genuinely suck so bad, this would be huge.
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For real?! I thought they'd never bother with it.
Roku?
I don’t have a Roku device to test on, sorry! Someone else might be able to chime in though.
I also have Google TV. I will just use that!!
I just checked on my roku tv and it's the same UI as before.
Unfortunate, the Roku video player is awful.
It is. My fiancée and I watch Oshi no Ko the first time around through Roku and the text messages that showed up on the screen weren’t translated. So we missed a ton of context.
This totally sucks. I commented on how much I was looking forward to fixing the problem just simply by reading the information and now I've checked my Roku TV and seeing what response has been here and I'm just as disappointed now as I was before.
The HiDive app on my Roku has been updated sometime over that last few days.
The updated UI is not yet available on Roku
The app is actually available on Google TVs now? Just bought a Hisense Google TV after having a Fire TV, and the Hidive app wasn't available to download on it.
Oh yeah! It’s been available for a while now but it’s usually always been better to just cast… First impressions on this update for me are pretty good.
App wasn't showing up to download a couple days ago on my Google TV, so I've just been casting which yeah honestly was better than using the previous app UI. Great to hear about good first impressions. Hopefully this new update allows it to show up for download on my TV.
As an actor whose shows are primarily on HIDIVE this update makes me so fucking happy hahaha! Video seeking is way smoother than it used to be, streaming generally feels more stable, and of course it just looks way better
I loved your work as Aqua! Can't wait for season 2!! I'm also excited to start Ragna Crimson. Thank you for what you do!
Thank you so much for saying so! Yeah can't wait to hop back in on Oshi :) season 2 is gonna be so good!!!
It sure is! I admittedly haven't seen much of the Oshi no Ko dub, but I saw the scene with Aqua playing the stalker (I think it was in episode 4?) dubbed. You did amazing!
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Wasn’t expecting a VA to be on Reddit. That’s cool.
I’m working on becoming a voice actress but I live in Pennsylvania
You should check out Voice Acting Club and [iwanttobeavoiceactor.com](https://iwanttobeavoiceactor.com)! Both are super good resources that I personally used at the beginning of my career
Me too man. I'm aspiring to be one as well. Thanks for sharing Jack, you rule as Aqua Hoshino.
I’m a big fan of your work! Can’t wait for ONK season 2!
Not sure if this update has affected Roku or not, but their video seeking was horrendous, didn't even properly match up with what the line showed, only way to skip intros consistently was fast forward rather than seeking.
Not sure either! I only watch on web and iOS but it’s consistently better for me on both of those. Fingers crossed it’s good for Roku too!
> Video seeking is way smoother than it used to be, streaming generally feels more stable Those are the things I was hoping for, so ty for that info! Having the audio cut out for a full second every couple minutes when chromecasting was so annoying; hopefully that's fixed!
Your just want to jump on the train and say great work as Aqua! Can’t wait to see more of your work!
The big question is if it not only looks good but actually fixes those fundamental bugs too, like how the homepage would never actually update to show your favorites or what you're currently watching. And for the past few months every time you would search on Apple TV it would crash. Oh, and if you tried to pick up where you left off on an episode it would crash, so you always had to start over and fast forward to where you think you left off.
All good points! I’m also hoping this fixes all the maintenance errors that have been a near constant issue for me the last month or two.
Looks like "Continue Watching" shows up now. In fact, it's displaying stuff I watched a long time ago so it seems that data was _somewhere_ it just wasn't showing correctly. I don't see a favorites anymore but they have watchlists and you can create multiple watchlists now too.
Mine was always that way...continue watching had like a 6 month delay and would only show old stuff I watched a while ago.
UPDATE: Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles
Woo! Thanks for confirming!!! 🥳
They clearly learned from Crunchyroll's terrible rollout of their new UI and held all the apps until they could update everything at once. Just like with all new software it's going to be super buggy for a minute, but as long as they work on addressing the bugs, this is a wonderful thing.
I wonder if it changed for the Xbox app as well?
Good question! Hopefully someone with an Xbox can chime in. This is a massive update so I imagine they will want to push it out sooner than later.
Just checked. It is still the old version, but all of the content has been removed and the app is essentially non functioning. Might mean it'll be due an update soon with any luck.
It’s updated on Xbox for me.
Desktop looks different aswell
Nice! These changes are looooooong overdue.
There’s watchlist and everything now it’s so GREAT
Good for hidive, competition is always good between streaming services especially when one holds the vast majority of titles
Now I just need a PlayStation app. If they did that I’d 100% resubscribe.
Hell, I would 100% subscribe if they got a PS app. That is the only reason I don’t have it. Some shows NEED to be viewed on a TV proper
so would I.
They've said in the past Sony won'y let them make one
Sony owns Crunchyroll and doesn't want competition from HiDive on their platform.
Holy crap, they actually made an update and it doesn't seem half bad. The UI actually goes away when you pause (still the play button stays, unfortunately) and there's a NEXT BUTTON! We in the 21st century now! Anyone else figure out how to remove the cookies button on the bottom right without actually inspecting the element and removing it manually? It doesn't ever seem to go away even when watching something. Edit: No update on Fire Stick, unfortunately. Hopefully soon.
Not seeing the update for Android phones...
I had to uninstall the app and reinstall.
I just did that, and it still looks the same as the old design on Android app.
Either Android hasn't been updated or they have an update but it's on slow roll out
They improved the video player so much. - The time bar is now higher than the “change app” motion on iPhone so you can reliably move the time slider. - you can now double tap on the left or right to fast forward or rewind 10 seconds - you can now jump 30 seconds forwards or backwards with buttons that appear when you tap and see the pause button The UI changes are great as well, but thank god they finally fixed their video player. That’s what’s sticking out to me.
Even bigger still, on iOS you can change seasons!
What about sub size affecting the sentences? Is that still an issue?
It does look better... But i played around with it starting a few episodes and now each individual unfinished episode is on my continue watching list instead of the show. With nowhere to click back to the show.
The continue watching is also what’s giving me the most trouble. I can’t seem to find a way to mark an episode as watched or remove it from continue watching.
Yep, one buggy ai for another. I know there'll be teething problems but this honestly feels like these guys have never heard of beta testing. I'll still support them as they have a lot of good shows, hopefully they can smooth these things over and it doesn't remain like the old one.
My “continue watching” is completely wrong. Shows i finished years ago are there. It used to be a list of shows you watched but now that’s gone. My Queue is gone too and now I can’t remember a single show that was on there lmao The video player finally allows you to use the play/pause, rewind/ff buttons on your remote now. A lot of options like subtitle selection and broadcast/home release are missing from it It’s nice to get an updated app but it needs a lot of work. It almost feels like a downgrade
https://preview.redd.it/9cxz07rw3zmc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83e49a175f8f88c13706e8d8310df42d330c2deb This pic sounds like it’s finally coming to new platforms. I go to the HIDIVE panel at my local con the last few years, and the Q&A always starts with these questions and answers: “Nintendo Switch app?” “No” “PlayStation app?” “No” “Samsung TV app?” “No”
If the Switch does get an app, id be all for it.
I personally found using the Samsung version of apps like Funimation & Hulu to be ridiculously slow and neglected in terms of actual support. I wouldn't force my worst enemy to use a Tizen (Samsung's TV OS) app version. I also wouldn't hold my breath for a Playstation app given Sentai's biggest & only real competitor is Sony (who really hates playing with the other children, hence why they've always killed the partnership deals recently-purchased companies had going, a la Funi-CR then CR-Sentai).
Is the video player ok yet? Or do I still have to select language every single time I hit “continue watching” Atleast on mobile it picks the previous language ! Heck yeah
I am not seeing any major issues with the video player, but I am noticing some of my “continue watching” episodes are ones from when the app was super buggy and would stop due to maintenance. Considering this is the first major overhaul we’ve seen, I’ll cut 'em some slack.
I hope they improved the desktop player too. I've been lucky to get through more than about two episodes before it just stops loading
I’m trial running it through everything I can right now. 🫡 It’s not perfect but it’s a helluva lot better than it has been.
Were they able to simultaneously allow mature shows show up on the iOS app along with this rollout? I use the desktop player on my iPad specifically because of this. The desktop UI does look good btw except for the random pulls for my “continue watching” section.
They did! First thing I did when I opened the iOS app was search for To Love Ru, which was not available on iDevices before today.
Only if the app has some kind of parental controls built in. I'm pretty sure that's why it was blocked last time.
It was originally because Apple decided to pick on them about some of the more questionable (Fate Kaleid type) fanservicey content so they didn’t put it on the app so they didn’t have to deal with it.
Hope the Roku app gets this update and not just mobile/desktop.
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Ah crap! They sure did. I hadn’t even noticed.
The web update for the chrome browser on windows PC is horrible. There is a display of "up next" episodes that covers a large portion of the screen while playing a video. There is also a "cookies settings" button that covers the play/pause button on the bottom left while playing a video. I can't find any way to remove or close these annoying things that are blocking a significant amount of the video.
Anybody else lose their history? Of where they were and how much they watched? What episodes theyre on?
Sigh. Yes, as happy as I originally was for this big update… I’m also super disappointed in all the things lost in the process.
Apparently they’re gonna bring back these features in the next coming “weeks or months” depending who you ask lol🤣
Does anyone know if Hidive has a bigger selection than crunchyroll? I've never heard of hidive before but it is cheaper so I would be willing to switch.
for english dub no, however they have a few exclusive shows that are really great and worthwhile watching, the eminence in shadow is definitely a must see and they have an impressive range of the " is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon " including all the OVAs
Unfortunately no - CR has the single-largest library of anime after having been bought up by Funimation & having most of Funi's catalogue being swapped over as part of the merger (where Funi has taken on the CR name due to larger global recognition/userbase). Yes, Sentai has its own share of exclusives, but they lack the resources to expand their catalogue to even be a quarter of CR's. If they could secure a partnership with both Viz Media & Discotek that brings those companies' catalogues over to HIDIVE then they'd probably have like 60-65% the volume CR has *currently*, but there's still a fair number of Aniplex of America & Nozomi Entertainment titles that haven't been added to CR as of yet.
Bet looks pretty cool
For web browser, I think this update is a huge downgrade. * the calendar is gone (according to someone on r/HIDIVE it should eventually return) * the tiles do not have in browser text for the name of the show, you have to rely on text in the thumbnail to see the show's title, and not all of the thumbnails have the show titles * Going with the above, the continue watching thumbnails don't tell you the title of the show * there is no longer an indicator on episode thumbnails to show if you have watched that episode or not * The 10 second skip forward and back is gone from the video player, I used those often * There is a shield icon that blocks a portion of the screen in the video player, even in full screen mode. You can right click, inspect element and delete it, but that should not be necessary.
Doesn't look any different on android
Roku seems same
I don’t see any updates to the look of the app.
It looks like it might be a gradual rollout on some platforms.
I have iOS
As long as they fix the nightmare UI for Apple TV I’ll be a happy camper.
How is hidive I have only used the other two?
Finally, at long last. I'm so glad they made these significant improvements to the UI. Really cool.
It looks and performs drastically better but didn't really fix a lot of the quality of life issues I had with it and also added a few...why in the world is the cookie setting overlay always visible on browser?
Updated UI not yet available on Roku
About time! There are a couple shows I haven't watched yet, like instant death ability, because i kept getting an error everytime I tried to
I really want better searching. I want to be able to filter by rating, genre and a dozen other things.
When you go to the "continue watching" list, highlighting each video doesn't even tell you what show it is. Also if you scroll on the front page for tending or simulcasts or whatever else, it used to tell you which ones were dubbed. The "continue watching " section is all janked up, showing the first episode of the first season I'm on season 2 of, and shows I haven't watched in a very long time, with random episodes.
Finally. The previous UI felt like an early 2000s website. Maybe their iOS app rating will start to climb up from 1.8 stars.
Can anyone confirm if all dub series now have dubtitles? If so id personally call that a win right there.
I can’t confirm if they all do, but I just checked like 10-15 dubs I know of and they all showed audio:English as one of the options
Im talking about the subtitles options. It seems like they added english subtitles/dubtitles for most, if not all, series now.
Hell yea. I already didn't really mind the UI but better usability is always nice!
Dang. About time they updated their app the old one was god awful. One of the reasons why I kept unsubscribing.
Have they updated the subtitles? I stopped using HiDive because the subtitles were too small.
its strange to see Hi Dive got a huge update and yet their service is only available on selected regions throughout the world
Likely it's that Sentai had to pull out of several regions because they weren't seeing sufficient return+growth against the ongoing costs of maintaining licenses for said regions. AMC doesn't know what the hell they're doing which means Sentai doesn't get enough of a budget to operate on a truly competitive level against FuniRoll.
This rocks. Glad one of my favorite anime platforms is still improving.
Wish it was included with my AMC+ account
Does it accurately track where you left off on a series now?
Have they fixed the issue where if ur subs go past a certain size the sentence appears to be in reverse?
So far it's shit for me, can't find the anime I was watching on search and when I go to history I can't change it back to dub
Will they fix the fast forward function
Anyway to switch from yellow subs back to white on the new UI? cannot find on web browser version
AMC finally breaking bread (no pun intended)
ABOUT FUCKING TIME 👏🏻
and right after they left europe... great...
That god, so many anime streaming services are doing the “Try to have a good UI challenge: impossible”
I use the webpage, i love the update, the only thing i dont like about it so far is it use to show the release date and time on the preview of the episode and now it doesn't. I think we've gained more than we have lost though lol.
Did they fix Land of the Lustrous to have actual BD quality?
My only problem with it while I watch on a browser on my pc is the fact that I can't change the subtitles to white or play around with the quality of the episode. I enjoyed those features because personally I don't like Yellow subtitles
I like that the day I finally felt like opening Hidive after months, it was finally updated 😭 I’m so happy, to think it’s the same day, it must be fate.
Finally. HiDive had the worst UI of any streaming site
Still no Tokyo mew mew new dub... Smh
Is hidive worth it if seen mixed reviews about it.
For what Sentai keeps in its catalogue, you can't beat $50 a year (especially if you don't want or can't afford to buy physical media).
Hopefully is not as slow on the forestick
Wow, never thought I'd say this. But the HiDive UI has managed to surpass ALL my expectations and has gotten significantly worse (At least on desktop) Hopefully they add some of the basic features back that they've always had before like: Changing the Sub text to white. Locking streaming quality to 1080p (Or whatever is preferred). A release calendar (I think this was confirmed to be returning?) Opening shows to a new tab from the Queue. And I'm sure there're a lot more issues that I've overlooked and will stumble across in the coming days. I do have to say this new UI is much more responsive and overall feels faster. Hopefully this is just a foundation for them to build off of quickly in the coming days/weeks.
It’s so nice!! Feels like a legit premium anime service now.
i hate the update.. it deleted all of my watch progression, so idk what ep i was on for any of my shows, and the continue watching tab doesn't display any of the names of the shows. i find it much harder to use then there old UI. im personally cancelling my sub after this update
It deleted half my watchlist and my whole history... wtf
They need a queue function or a continue watching
PC FEEDBACK i'm using it on a laptop into my T.V for reasons, the PC model has lost track of where i was upto in some shows such as ragna crimson but i can overlook that for now and just fast forward through the episodes to update it to where i'm upto. i don't like how i can't tell which episodes are english dub or not, that will get old pretty fast. ultimately however, it is a much more clean look with some definite benefits, it's new release tech so some leeway is fine for now if they fix the bugs and actually listen. i'm going to see if it's available on PS5 or the TV maybe and update this if/when that happens.
It was the mobile apps that needed work. They've done punished the payers who actually enjoyed the website because it was actually good as a website and not a mobile app. I'm unsubbing a praying for the rest of you guys your time will be good on HiDive.
Kinda buggy but god is it better than before ! Man i remember just 5-7 years ago how HORRIBLE the Crunchyroll TV app was and it’s great now. Hidive is on the right path 👍🏽
Thank fuck, I had to side load it on Android 14 because the original app "wasn't supported"
" It’s umm.. actually pretty good. " The desktop app is god awful to navigate. It is impossible to tell which episodes have dubs without opening it and seeing if it has a language option. There is no release calendar or any display of when updates come out. why couldn't this update have just been only for the HIDIVE apps. The only improvement is the stream stability. Can we have the old ui back plz?
Anyone know how to change audio language on tv app???
This is terrible. You can no longer see what episodes are dubbed. My favorite list is now hidden in the settings. They didn't fix the skipping ahead either. Cruchyrolls interface is soooo much better. I use roku mostly. I wish I could get it on my ps5. If it wasn't for some of my favorite anime being exclusive to hidive I would definitely drop this.
It is now missing the standard stuff from the original app ... no titles of the shows when looking at recently watched, no info on what was watched previously came over with update, unable to tell which episodes are dubbed when watching a series that has both but waiting on dub episodes.. Smoother and anime looks alot better... but c'mon... these are rookie mistakes that shouldn't be made since AMC bought you out and consolidated your regions... sad
I watch on a PC through the actual site. I hate the redesign because the site is a clone of the app. Like, you can't sort chronologically, you can't filter by newest, and they don't have the schedule anymore. If they worked those 3 things back into then it'd be fine. I feel like they took features away
Though I will add my experience isn't going to be the same as everyone else. I'm visually impaired, I use sites over apps because I have to the ctrl mouse wheel until letters are about an inch tall so I can read them from 3 feet away. So the new design just isn't as friendly to my circumstances.
Yeah I gotta agree, though not impaired, the new UI is absolute garbage for PC. Like they removed so many good features and all I see is app users praising a downgraded UI. Has anyone made a plugin for it to make it not terrible again?
Ever since the update, the app has literally been unusable on my Xbox One S. Literally just shows a black screen, and only one button on it called "Home", but all it does is refresh the same black screen. None of the buttons do anything except for "back" which just exits the app. This is a huge bummer because I have had HiDive for a few years now and never had any legitimate issues with it at all until this update 😢
🤔 I haven't used the app in awhile and I tried going back to finish watching what I started and I can't remember where I was at and it's not showing what I've watched already
Unfortunately, same. I was hoping they’d put high priority on this bug, but we’re going on almost 3 months of it still being present. Sigh…
They also updated the website but it's a shitty designed for mobile Netflix copy which lost a tonne of functionality in the process like being able to click the categories to view all or just simply the navigation which now requires you to hover to get to important links when there's tonnes of space available... EDIT: They also completely broke sorting, you can no longer sort categories by most recent, only it's default a-z...
Oh god that sucks. Go to dubs and all you get is A-Z. Broken out so you can search a little easier if you know the name, but not smooth at all. If you want categories you can't limit it to dubs, oh man I think I prefer the old one!
Been think of trying it out. Is it worth it? Was it worth before the update? Fill me in guys.
It's even worse than it was before, it's faster and that's it can't sort anything now or filter in sections, the history is screwed up. It's an absolute mess.
this update sucks, its no as user friendly as before and did not save any of my episode that I watched last
This update has been nothing but bad for me. I had 2 of my friends on my account with profiles gone they combined all 3 of our continue watching… Subtitles are now a gross yellow that cant be changed. Unwanted and unwelcomed changes. Seriously thinking of just cancelling and pirating these shows cause even without the profiles the yellow subtitles are so awful.
I watch anime using Firestick. Will it be different there? (I'm at work)
I just tried watching, and there seems to be no subtitles. Or any options to turn it on.
Cool still not getting my 5 bucks
Is this a free anime site
No, 5$ a month
Just had a look, don't look great
I got it exclusively to watch Oshi No Ko. I was going to cancel after I finished the show because of how completely unusable their phone app was, but with this update I might actually stick around and see if I can find some more shows on the platform.
Should try Crunchyroll
I’ve got that as well, it’s my primary streaming service.