Samsung TV / lifestyle / VIVO TV
REVIEW
Vivo TV is a small regional channel app that does the basics.
screen craft solutions has shipped a niche live-TV app to Samsung Tizen, aimed at viewers of a specific regional broadcaster. The ambition is narrow, the execution is plain, and for the right audience it works.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 9, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
Vivo TV
SCREEN CRAFT SOLUTIONS
OUR SCORE
5.5
SAMSUNG TV
★ —
PRICE
Free
The Samsung Tizen store carries a long tail of small regional live-TV apps. Most of them are aimed at audiences whose home broadcaster has built a quiet, low-budget Tizen client to extend the channel’s reach onto smart TVs without requiring a set-top box. Vivo TV is one of those apps. The ambition is narrow, the engineering is plain, and the case for installing it depends entirely on whether you are part of the small audience the channel serves.
What the app does, it does. A live feed, a thin programme guide, basic player controls. There is no on-demand archive visible in the store listing, no second-screen companion, no notification layer for upcoming programmes — the kind of features a 2026 streaming-service app would consider table stakes. The argument in favour of Vivo TV is not that it competes with those apps; it’s that for a viewer who wants this specific channel on their Samsung TV, it is the only path to that outcome.
For a household browsing the Tizen store without a specific reason to install Vivo TV, the right move is to pass. The product is not for general audiences and is not designed to be — and that’s a more honest pitch than several of the other small Tizen submissions reviewed alongside it. For its audience, narrow is enough. For everyone else, it’s the wrong app.
Vivo TV is a single-channel app for a single audience. The pitch is honest and the execution is exactly that narrow.
FEATURES
Vivo TV is a niche live-TV streaming app from screen craft solutions, released to the Samsung Tizen TV store in April 2026. It is categorised as Lifestyle on the store rather than as a major streaming-service entry, which reflects its scope: a small app delivering a regional broadcaster's live feed and a thin programme guide rather than a multi-channel platform.
The product surface is narrow — a live-channel feed, a basic now-and-next programme schedule, and the standard Tizen video-player controls (play, pause, audio-track selection where carried, basic seek). There is no search, no on-demand archive of previous broadcasts visible in the store description, and no obvious user-account or login layer.
Free, with the live channel funded by its broadcast advertising rather than in-app subscriptions. Played via the Samsung remote with directional-pad and OK navigation; works on the standard 2019+ Samsung Tizen TV hardware compatible with the store's current SDK.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
For viewers of the specific regional channel Vivo TV carries, the app does the one thing it needs to do: bring the live broadcast onto a Samsung TV without a separate set-top box, antenna, or cable subscription. That is a small but useful thing for a viewer who would otherwise have no way to watch the channel on their primary television.
The honesty of the product scope is worth crediting. The app does not pretend to be a multi-channel platform, does not pretend to compete with Pluto or Tubi, and does not bury its single-channel scope behind a multi-screen home page. What you see in the store listing is what you get on the TV.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The product surface is too thin even for what it tries to do. A regional-channel app with no programme guide depth, no on-demand catch-up, no notification of upcoming shows the user might care about, and no second-screen companion is a 2010-era live-TV app shipping in 2026.
The app's discoverability problem is structural. Without the broadcaster's brand recognition outside its home region, "Vivo TV" in the Samsung store is indistinguishable from a long tail of small streaming submissions, and the store listing's description is too thin to communicate which audience it is for or which feed it carries.
Player reliability on Tizen long-tail apps is variable. Live streams over consumer networks need adaptive-bitrate handling and graceful recovery from connection drops, and a single-developer regional-channel app rarely has the engineering budget that streaming-service apps from larger broadcasters can afford.
CONCLUSION
Install Vivo TV only if you specifically watch the channel it carries and you want to watch on your Samsung TV rather than a phone, browser, or set-top device. For everyone else there is no reason to choose it from the store. The product is honest about being narrow, and that's the right way to evaluate it — narrow, plain, fine for its audience, irrelevant to anyone outside it.