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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe handy the Android authority app guy frequency is kind of like the mix between RSS and YouTube and in this video we're gonna take a closer look at it okay so here's how frequency works think of an RSS feed you search for your favorite websites add them to your RSS feed and then when you check your feed you see all of the new stories frequency is exactly like that except instead of stories you'll see videos when you open up the app for the first time you'll see the sites that you're pre subscribed to at the top along with the feed view down below between those two UI elements is the navigation bar pressing that will open up a side menu where you can view your channel top picks trending social and all of the categories for discovering more channels the settings are very simple you select whether or not you can turn on autoplay sign in to Facebook Twitter and YouTube or sign out of your frequency accounts you can use categories top picks and trending to add feeds to your own personal channel and your personal channel will be ever-present at the top of the app as a horizontal scroll bar I spent a good 25 minutes adding stuff and there doesn't seem to be an upper limit to how many things you can subscribe to it's also helpful to note that there are a huge number of categories including text sports comedy gaming and a bunch of other stuff overall this is a very simple application the navigation is easy to get used to and while the interface is a busy place there really isn't all that much to do just pick your feed find the video and watch it and it really is that simple ok so how can you use this if you're one of those people who likes to watch Internet videos then this is a great app to kind of congeal all of your video watching into ones place YouTube has subscriptions but only for YouTube channels frequency is kind of like that except for it pulls from a lot more places than just YouTube in short it's a place where you can find all of your favorite videos in one spot you find the channels you like subscribe to them to add them to your own personal channel and then you have a list of videos to watch whenever you open the application from people and websites that you enjoy ok so here's what we liked about frequency it's a very simple application I reviewed a lot of RSS apps that liked to be complicated for no good reason other than to be flashy frequency is not like that you pick your feeds and go watch videos and that's it no side nonsense to worry about it has a lot of options and it's easy to search the categories to find what you like it doesn't matter who you are or what you like you can probably find it unless channel is brand-new with like one subscriber you can pretty much find what you're looking for it runs smooth I had no lag problems whatsoever and everything loaded nice and quickly videos played smoothly and without hiccups it was nice while the interface could use some Android design line goodness frequency manages to pack a lot onto one screen from the main screen you can browse your fees go to the settings search and watch videos the menu pops open where you can get to the rest of the functions so there are really only two screens on the interface and that's kind of impressive and here is the bad some of the app navigation features could use some tweaking for instance you can organise the fees at the top by long-pressing and then moving it around however if you have a lot of feeds than moving them around can take a really long time and it can be pretty annoying during my testing I had some trouble signing into YouTube and my social media feeds never loaded all that well I don't know if it's API limitations bugs or if my friends simply don't post any videos but if I had to pick the weakest point of this application it would be social integration the apps greatest strengths are also among its greatest weaknesses you can watch all the videos you want from all the feeds you want but that's pretty much all you can do with them you can share them but you can't comment on YouTube videos or anything like that it's not a huge deal but if you'd like to engage on videos it's something to keep in mind overall frequency is a very well-done application the fact that this app gets it done using essentially a main screen and a menu is fairly impressive add to that the sheer number of options and the ease of use and this is quite frankly one of the best ways to organize your internet video watching available today it does have a couple of issues but the issues are either temporary or minor so there really isn't anyone I wouldn't recommend this to it's free to use in the Google Play Store and we'll have that download link in the written companion which is linked in the video description below if you want to try it out once again I'm Joe maybe the Android authority app guys don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel and if you want to follow Android authority 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