Samsung Flow

Elliott Collins

Works about 1/4 of the time, which is arguably worse than not working at all. The rest of the time, the connection is unstable and the lag gets up to 60 seconds (i.e. worthless). The "Link to Windows" function works perfectly, so we know screen mirroring is possible. It's just this program that doesn't work. I don't know what it is about Samsung that prompts them to release disfunctional software, but they probably should have kept working on it until it was consistently usable.

A Google user

Wow. Just been using this for a couple of minutes and I'm already dumbfounded. What was wrong w/ sidesync? I could turn the screen off to save battery, or not. I could rotate the screen if I felt like. I could connect to PC w/ USB to improve responsiveness. And why do we have to get it from the MS store now? I'm really close to peacing out on Samsung altogether. That's just from less than 10 minutes perusing the "features". Or lack thereof, more rather.

A Google user

This app feels like a beta release. There is a lot of stutter and delays. Trying to use the phone screen mirror only works intermittently. It is a shame Samsung is discontinuing SideSync with this app. I was able to type this review using SideSync. Trying to type a message on flow would have never happened. Mouse and keyboard interaction is simply horrible. I will keep using SideSync until Flow gets better. Another suggestion, put an option to hide the border around the phone screen, it looks bad.

A Google user

I just way to say how much I love Samsung phones. But... This app is really bad. Sidesync was way better. It was more beautiful and it worked. This app works when it wants to. It Connects to the phone whenever it wants. Most of the time it won't. Is it really that hard to add a button that will let you manually reconect your phone when the app decides it doesn't want to recognize that your trying to Connect to it? Most of the time I have to restart my computer just to get the app to realize that I'm trying to connect my phone. Also please black out the outside borders when in screen mirror mode. Noone wants to watch a mirrored video with a white glaring background. Samsung please fix this. I love you guys. I will not put up with medeocre apps like this though. If you can't make this work. go back to sidesync it was a wonderful app. At least it worked.

A Google user

I'm being nice with 2 Starts. I installed the app so I could transfer videos "seamlessly". Well that was a joke. It a 15-second video well over a half hour to download over WiFi. When I opened the video, well I guess thats really it, it wasn't a video anymore. It only transferred the audio. I'm not going to test anything else because I'm just going to uninstall it.

A Google user

I could figure out how to use Sidesync, but this one is too complicated to me. I also learned from reading the reviews that this app does not support USB. That is one of the best options should be kept. My recommendation to Samsung app team: *dumb it down for the setup. *add the USB feature back. *allow reading history of the text most importantly, get the new build run by someone who is not tech savvy. keep in mind, not everyone has software background like you.

Cynthia Lariviere

Terrible for moving multiple files or photos. could drag and drop so easily from SideSync. I don't know why they created this absolutely useless app. I'm on installing it. I've now had to revert to using a thumb drive to remove multiple photos from my phone and plug them into my desktop. Thanks for sending me back 8 years.

A Google user

options are lacking. I wanted something like deskdock for free. I was okay with controlling the phone on the windows screen unlike seeing the cursor on the phone, but I can't even choose to keep the sound coming out of the phone. Instead of having two devices with audio capabilities, this app downgrades it to one (I like to have music on the phone on speakers while I work/watch videos with the headset that's connected to the pc).

A Google user

For some reason SideSync is no longer supported on my S3 Tab, so I tried this app. To even use the app you have to grant the right to track your location -- it won't even start without that. Then it wouldn't connect to my PC anyway. I checked the help and it states you CAN'T connect a tablet to a PC. What the heck is the point of this app if that doesn't work?

A Google user

This app is I guess what is it marketed as but i would love to see so much more. I can understand the capability to do file transfers between phone and PC and how it would be useful as well as troubleshooting issues. But is there a reason you have it locked to bluetooth and same LAN? It would be so much more convenient if i didn't have to be on the same network and used a login based system where if both accounts match you can do all the current stuff but also use current apps such as messaging.