![]() ![]() Ignoring the deceptive official Twitch logo at the top of the app's menus, the actual browsing experience beats LiveGaming's. Don't be surprised if "TwitchTV" gets delisted and returns with another title. I say currently because I know for certain that Twitch doesn't like unofficial apps to use the Twitch name.Įven though the store description has the word "Unofficial" up front, the name, icon, and visual design of "TwitchTV" all mimic the official Twitch design too closely for comfort. This app is currently called TwitchTV on the Windows Phone Store. Finally, the Settings menu offers a scant three options, one of which adds a page of recent Twitch-related tweets to the main menu. You can't follow from within a stream, only outside from the browsing interface. At least chat has an emoticon menu, although sometimes the actual icons failed to load until I relaunched the app.įollowing channels is harder than it should be. Usernames appear in blue, making them particularly hard to read. The app's ugly font fares worst in chat, though. I actually think this looks better than 8Stream's partial transparency. If you enable chat in full-screen, the text overlays the video with no transparency effects. If split-screen doesn't do it for you, you can toggle between two full-screen modes: with or without chat. An ad (that can't be disabled) appears over the chat window, whereas it would fit much better on the left side above the video. By default, the video appears on the left and the chat on the right side of the screen. Streams can only be viewed in landscape mode. In any case, the broken search means the app can only be used to watch streams you discover through browsing or are already following. Maybe Twitch changed how their searches work between then and now. All of my searches for popular games returned zero results. The search function, sadly, simply does not work. It also goes a little farther, offering both featured "Streams" and "Recently Viewed" pages. They also get pretty tiny in places, even on my Lumia 1520.įrom a stream browsing standpoint, IGS has the same basic browsing functionality of 8Stream. The main issue is the app's choice of fonts, which don't look professional at all. Rather than a typical plain light or dark background, this one has a blurry gray image that doesn't wrap-around properly when you swipe between the "Menu" and "Recently Viewed" pages. The actual app interface looks distinctive, at least, but not in a good way. Things start rough for Infinite Game Stream (IGS) with an utterly non-descriptive and poorly-written Store page. 8Stream knows its portrait mode is better, so users can set portrait to default but not landscape. Either the transparency is too bright or too dull – probably the former. Not a terrible solution, but it could look a lot better. Tapping the screen brings up chat, which overlays the video on a semi-transparent background. Switching to landscape, you won't see chat by default. The chat doesn't support username colors or emoticons (standard Twitch features), but I like the font. Portrait looks quite good, with the video at top and chat automatically displayed below it. While 8Stream supports both portrait and landscape orientations, the presentation of each varies in quality. A minor gripe, but all of those settings could easily fit on the same page instead of being spread across three pages. If looking through a random-ish list of games doesn't strike your fancy, you'll have to search for specific games or streams.ĨStream features a fair amount of settings with which users can customize their experience, most notably the choice of two visual themes. You can scroll through a list of featured games, and select one to view a list of active streams for that game. Actual stream browsing is fairly limited. A $1.99 in-app purchase disables ads, presumably across both platforms. The app itself is free and supported by ads. At present, 8Stream is the only Twitch app on Windows Phone that also offers a Windows 8 and RT version. ![]()
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