Is there a good app for control playback across my devices?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
80
Opportunity /100
87
Demand /100
53
Competition /100
89
Execution gap /100
4
Apps serving it
26
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to control playback across my devices, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| no sync across devices | missing-feature | 3 | Does not sync across devices! |
| no sync between devices | missing-feature | 2 | if it could sync between devices it would be five stars |
| no cross-device playback linking | missing-feature | 1 | I wish there was a feature to link playback between two devices |
| no gapless playback across devices | missing-feature | 1 | If only all their apps could figure out gapless playback on all devices including Tesla and headphones |
| does not save playback spot across same or different devices | bug | 1 | my shows are infrequently saved to the right spot and I have to watch several commercials trying to figure out where I am |
| playback state not persistent across devices | missing-feature | 1 | using the tidal app on my phone doesn't remember what I was listening to on my home unit thru same app |
| no continue watching across devices | missing-feature | 1 | If I was on a competing app I could continue watching while even changing devices |
| limited sync across devices | reliability | 1 | the ability to get the data across multiple platforms and the syncing is limited |
| sound won't work across all devices | bug | 1 | Can’t get the sound to work on the app... done all the troubleshooting... still no luck |
| only one device can play at a time | missing-feature | 1 | only being able to play on one device at a time is annoying |
| doesn't sync properly across devices | reliability | 1 | it doesn’t sync properly across my devices |
| not syncing across devices | bug | 1 | It is not syncing across devices. |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| DISH Anywhere | 4.6★ | 255,609 | Free |
| DIRECTV: TV & Movie Streaming | 4.6★ | 573,262 | Free |
| The Roku App (Official) | 4.7★ | 5,644,505 | Free |
| VPN Proxy Master - Super VPN | 4.6★ | 308,879 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 80 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
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