Beam – Interactive Streaming

Love beam but the app needs work. First of all half the people i follow dont show up on the top of the list i have to search for them to see if there even on. Theres no host option and now with the december update out i cant even host from my mobile browser i have to revert back to the old beam so i can host again. Theres also no controls for ur own stream. Theres no options to change ur game or title or any account options just ur username and email. Beams a great place much love but the app lets it down :(

Hey, so I would like if you could add EXPORTING to other things such as YouTube like Twitch. I find your streaming quality better and I would prefer to record with your App!!! Also maybe save videos or streams stay on the channel for a few days so people can watch off stream?? GREAT APP!!! Hope to see it go far!

Love the ability to stream and interact with viewers. The team feature is great and I enjoy streaming with party members. We have had no lag with streaming like with Twitch even on a great connection. There are a ton of cutomization, overlay and interaction options. Pro is very worth it. The huge drawback is not being able to record short gameplay clips with the "record that" command on Xbox One. They are improving the service and adding more features.

Great concept and roadmap to a different kind of broadcasting for gaming. However, 1) the app is still clunky - video skips or freezes all together but audio continues. I have to restart the app to continue viewing. 2) The Casting box hangs on loading and has not once worked yet.

Love how simple the layout is. Love how you can stream this on Xbox by default. Love sharing moments. However the mobile version is limited and mobile browser version is broken, unlike the computer browser version where you're more free. I don't like being restricted. I hope in the future this isn't the issue, so i don't have to go on a computer just to change my settings. 3 stars for now.

Not intuitive at all. Still have no idea how to search by game. Nothing comes up when u search and the app just fails to load most times. Just poorly made which sucks because it would be nice if it worked well with xbox one. Its like the developers dont understand how the app is supposed to be used.

Since the major update to this app, many problems arose while many features aren't available. A bigger delay when launching the app than before. No quick way to go to your profile, use stream commands(even though streamer name is marked white). Some streamers we follow don't appear. I have to say, Twitch's app is better than this. Please fix ASAP!

Functional for viewers. Lacks the functionality for live broadcasting like Twitch does. And to make full use of Beam, you have to use a PC and do everything from there. I'm hoping the app will do more in the future. Its not perfect, but a step in the right direction to complete or simulcast with Twitch

This app is trash. There's no reason it shouldn't run smoothly. Nothing loads. At least try to make a quality app. You can't get rich off just looks. Twitch is just a million times better. So's YouTube, and that's saying something.

(I'm using a galaxy S4) The app has 2 major issues. It constantly freezes and I can't earn the action points from watching streams like I can on pc which eliminates my favorite part of beam. The interactivity with streamers. I enjoyed the app when i had action points.

It would help if I could actually get into my account. I have created my account but confirming it is a huge problem. I keep opening up the confirmation e-mail but it has errors. Not only this, but I don't know what the confirmation code is. I type the code at the bottom of the e-mail and it says that it is wrong. The instructions are not very clear. I need help but I can't find it anywhere.

PLEASE! Can you improve the app and make it so I can edit bio etc and check network and basically the stuff I can do if I go to beam on my pc. I stream via Xbox one (chat overlay is the best thing ever) but not being able to use my PC and Xbox at the same time. Makes it hard to use beam because the phone and Xbox app are both very very limited. When It comes people who stream. Other than that this is a great streaming platform and I would recommend to anyone! (Follow me. Daily streams) - Fokken

Is this app in beta or something? Settings is empty, in both account and stream. Lots of lag and pauses every few seconds. I have no clue why Microsoft have includes this on the X box guide. Maybe it is OK on pc, but this app is in no way ready for general consumption. Sorry. Will review again if it gets better but 2 stars for now.

App is garbage. No editing account settings. Half of the streams aren't even on the app that are on the beam website. When watching a stream the video almost always freezes while the audio still goes. Have to back out and go back in the stream for it to work again. Better off adding the beam website to your home screen until they fix this app.

Terrible app. After I signed up, it took 5 minutes to log me in, and then took 5 minutes to load the homepage, on both the app and website. When I watch a past or live livestream, it lags like crazy. The voices come before the mouth movements. This app doesn't even deserve a star that's how terrible it is. Fix everything and I'll give it a second chance.

This app seems poorly conceived. What's the point of following someone if you still have to search for them? I have to search my own name to see my own stream. It needs a lot of work to be worth while.

Interesting but video stream frequently freezes so I have to pause it then wait and press play again for video to continue streaming again. This happens more often when selecting 480P stream (eg if you want to conserve bandwidth) for a 720P source stream. App can't play VOD files available on a channel and it can't play a Xbox One Beam High quality stream (video stuck on flashing circle). App also crashed when I attempted to cancel viewing the Xbox One Beam High quality stream. I wish you guys well as I think it has potential but still needs some work.

I just feel the mobile app needs a serious bug fix and overhaul. I use it daily for streaming and watching and every time there is a problem somehow

Not impressed app is useless. Needs lots of work. I'll keep using twitch. Now thats a five star app compared to beam that has no options

I CAN'T GET INTO ANYTHING BECAUSE WHENEVER I TRY TO SIGN IN IT JUST SAYS THERE WAS A PROBLEM AND THEN GOES BACK TO THE MAIN SCREEN!!!! DISSAPOINTED

This app can be really great, but it still has its problems. I made an account and it only asked for one password, I typed it in wrong and there was no confirmation password and now I can't log in or fix it. I'm sure I'm not the only person with this problem

Crap!.. You boasted about Beam having no lag or latency while streaming from Xbox One.. I have a fast fiber internet connection and the lag is terrible! The stream is about 1 minute behind.. Awful! I'll stick with twitch thanks!

Why can't I watch my own stream? Why can't I search for streams by game? Why is the settings page basically pointless? Beam is better tech wise than Twitch but the app is bare bones bollocks right now

To be honest, this is a TWO STAR app. It's actually frustrating to use on mobile and pc. Search is a joke and it's missing several options.

Three times first day using it, my account world be deletedd, and I would have to recreate it, by just watching a stream. Twitch is at least better than this glitchy service. Never use it again.

I tried but I came to a decision to just leave. No updates, lag and delay worse than twitch just not cutting it for me. Maybe in the future I will try again but for now I will be uninstalling and deleting my Beam account.

Not impressed with this app video keeps stopping yet you can still hear streamer talking some times it will randomly pause it's self it need its own follow tab not hidden in search button need more video not just 480p and 1080p all around just one big mess of app that's not ready to be realest yet

The app won't let me sign in with my discord account but it will in my browser. Very frustrating.

Good app, but there are a few bugs that still need fixed. One in particular is when using the Cast option I can't see any options in the selection screen to pick what device to cast to.

The app could be good but it freezes up when streams are exited, the chat will not load up it keeps saying retry, and also it constantly crashes out of no where. Fix this so the app can be enjoyable.

This is not good at all when I try to stream it just says "Something went wrong. Try broadcasting again later." Other than that it is pretty good.

What a crock of crap. Can't view any info about my own channel. Can't watch my previous streams. Can't really do anything with it but watch randoms! I'll stick to twitch thank you

Its pretty good for watching streams but is very limited. When I stream I wanted to use it to text chat which it does ok but it reads my mobile app as a person watching my stream. Like its a separate profile. I can't check who is watching my stream or get any notifications if I get followers. Needs work but has great potential.

Almost never loads and when it does it takes 30 minutes. I can't log in because it just keeps loading forever or says something went wrong and won't let me try again. I undownloaded and redownloaded but same problem

Beam is amazing, but this app is so broken. No FTL, it is unnecessarily hard to find streamers that I'm already following. And some of them don't even show. Please fix!

I cant log in with my xbox account keeps coming up as "something went wrong please try again later" otherwise would rate higher then a 3

Love the app. Very responsive on my Pixel XL. I do have one question though that I couldn't find the answer to online: I created an account using Discord. I have not figured out how to sign in on the mobile app since it used my discord information. Any help on that would be appreciated.

I love the idea of having a beam app and it would be very useful for people like me but the app isn't as good as it could be. For example it is next to impossible to find my own channel if I want to monitor my chat from my phone. Searching for channels isn't good and can sometimes come up with "no results found" when i type in a name exactly correct. It's impossible to search for one particular game and see all the streamers on that one game. Not all the games that can be streamed are on beam's 'game' list such as F1 2016. Final point is that there's a 10 second delay on the app for streams. Not sure if that's resolvable but it's significantly longer than on PCs. Love the app but these improvements will vastly improve the use of it. Thanks for reading I hope my feedback helps

Searched dark souls 3, yeah, couldn't find any matches. Fix tbis, actually it doesn't matter I'm done with beam already, there was never anything wrong with twitch.

I could see this being an amazing app it works perfectly on my Xbox only takes a few seconds to start broadcasting way faster than twitch but this app needs major updates fast I currently can't do anything to my profile or talk in my chat. Sometimes it doesn't load anything. With the right updates it could be really useful.