Tubi Review - Streaming Service - Plans, Pricing, TV Shows, Movies, and Features (2024)

Tubi is a free video streaming service that includes on-demand access to 200,000+ movies and TV episodes - more than any other streaming service. Its ad breaks are shorter and less frequent than most free services. Fox executives have called their service “TV on steroids.”

The service includes 55+ live news channels affiliated with NBC, FOX, Cox Media Group, Hearst, and Scripps. Local affiliates provide coverage in most major media markets.

Tubi’s programming includes films and television series from Fox Entertainment, MGM, Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., NBCUniversal, Disney, and more.

Tubi offers a few standout shows like “Firefly,” “One Punch Man,” “Everybody Hates Chris,” “The Jeffersons,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” and “Sleepy Hollow.”

But most of their TV offerings are geared toward light entertainment: “Duck Dynasty,” “Storage Wars,” “Kitchen Nightmares,” or “The Masked Singer.” There are also some kitschy old series like “ALF,” “Fantasy Island,” “The Beverly Hillbillies,” and “The Flying Nun.”

Tubi has some high-quality movies, though most are low-quality schlock. At the time of this writing, standouts include “American History X,” “Cast Away,” “RoboCop,” “Three Kings,” “The Perfect Storm,” “The Long Kiss Goodnight,” and a handful of James Bond movies.

The service offers many well-curated categories like anime, action, faith, comedy, LGBTQ, romance, and sci-fi & fantasy. There are also more thoughtful categories like cult classics, highly rated on Rotten Tomatoes, and “not on Netflix.”

Hidden gems include some long video clips with white noise, so you can listen and watch rain, fireplaces, or fireflies. There are also exercise videos, travel shows, and stand-up comedy performances.

Commercial breaks appear roughly every 25 minutes in a film.

A special Tubi Kids section helpfully segments children’s programming away from the more mature content. You’ll see family movies like “Free Willy,” “Osmosis Jones,” “All Dogs Go to Heaven,” and “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure.”

When it comes to TV, Tubi offers “Barney & Friends,” “G.I. Joe,” “Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitsu,” “The Flintstones,” and “Scooby-Doo Where are You?”

For the youngest viewers, there’s BabyFirst TV and a selection of educational content.

There are no parental controls for Tubi.

Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Disney+, Max, Hulu, Netflix, Paramount Plus, Peaco*ck, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, and STARZ have parental control features.

Tubi does offer some live news channels, but not on every device. You can access news if you use Amazon Fire, Android mobile, Android TV, Comcast/Xfinity, Cox, iOS (iPhones only), Roku, Vizio, and Xbox devices.

The channel lineup is subject to change, but may include channels like

• NBC News NOW
• NewsNOW from FOX
• Newsy Top Stories
• Black News Channel
• Bloomberg TV
• Cheddar
• Bloomberg Quicktake
• FOX SOUL
• CBC
• Estrella News
• Euronews
• Pattrn
• WeatherNation
• PeopleTV
• fubo Sports Network
• Fox 5 New York
• News 12 New York
• Fox 11 Los Angeles
• KTVU Fox 2- San Francisco
• Fox 32 Chicago
• Fox 29 Philadelphia
• Fox 4 Dallas-Ft. Worth
• Fox 5 Atlanta
• Fox 26 Houston
• Fox 5 Washington DC
• New Hampshire (WMUR)
• Fox 10 Phoenix
• Q13 Fox Seattle
• Fox 13 Tampa Bay
• Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
• Fox 2 Detroit
• WXYZ Detroit - 7 Action News
• Fox 35 Orlando
• News 5 Cleveland WEWS
• Very Pittsburgh by WTAE
• Very Kansas City KMBC
• Very Cincinnati by WLWT
• Fox 6 Milwaukee
• Fox 7 Austin
• Very Oklahoma by KOCO
• Very Alabama by WVTM
• Very Nola by WDSU
• FOX13 Memphis (WHBQ)
• FOX23 Tulsa (KOKI)
• Very Omaha by KETV