# Tizen Reviews **Vendor:** Tizen Association **Category:** [Operating Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/operating-system) **Average Rating:** 3.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 67 ## About Tizen Tizen is an open-source, Linux-based operating system developed collaboratively by Samsung Electronics and the Linux Foundation. Designed to provide a consistent and reliable platform, Tizen powers a diverse range of devices, including smart TVs, monitors, digital signage, and smart home appliances. Its flexible architecture allows for seamless integration across various product categories, delivering a unified user experience. Tizen's emphasis on performance, security, and scalability makes it a robust foundation for Samsung's smart device ecosystem. Key Features and Functionality: - Cross-Device Compatibility: Tizen OS is deployed across multiple product lines, ensuring a consistent user interface and experience across different devices. - Advanced Graphics Performance: The operating system offers enhanced graphics capabilities, providing responsive and visually appealing interfaces for smart TVs and monitors. - HTML5 Support: Tizen emphasizes compatibility with HTML5, enabling developers to create rich web applications that run smoothly across Tizen-powered devices. - Open-Source Platform: Being open-source, Tizen allows for extensive customization and development, fostering innovation and adaptability to various industry requirements. Primary Value and User Solutions: Tizen addresses the need for a unified operating system that can seamlessly connect and operate across a wide array of smart devices. For device manufacturers, it offers a flexible and scalable platform that can be tailored to specific product needs, reducing development time and costs. For developers, Tizen provides a robust environment with comprehensive tools and support for building applications that can reach a broad audience across different device types. End-users benefit from a cohesive and intuitive experience, as Tizen ensures smooth interaction and interoperability between their smart devices, enhancing convenience and functionality in their daily lives. ## Tizen Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **lightweight size** of Tizen, enabling smooth operation on various devices without lag. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **super fast performance** of Tizen, enjoying smooth operation across various devices and applications. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **hardware compatibility** of Tizen, enabling seamless performance across various devices and applications. (1 reviews) - Users love the **open API** of Tizen, appreciating its lightweight and fast-response HTML5 application model. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **security features** of Tizen, enhancing the protection of their smart devices effectively. (1 reviews) - User-Friendly (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users notice the **limited app selection** on Tizen, often wishing for more options and better compatibility. (3 reviews) - Users experience **app/game issues** with Tizen, noting fewer options and inconsistent updates compared to Android or Apple. (1 reviews) - Users report **compatibility issues** with Tizen, leading to unavailability and malfunctioning of various apps. (1 reviews) - Users often face **installation issues** with Tizen, as many apps are unavailable or incompatible. (1 reviews) - Users note the **lack of support** for Tizen, with fewer apps, slow updates, and weak developer engagement. (1 reviews) - Slow Updates (1 reviews) ## Tizen Reviews ### 1. Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fabrizio M. | OPERATORE ANTINCENDIO - OSPEDALE PEDIATRICO BAMBINO GESù, Hospital & Health Care, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2026 ### 2. Easy Built-In OS and Smooth Digital Display Integration **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel L. | Technical Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2026 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Built in OS with easy interface and integration into the digital display software **What do you dislike about Tizen?** any remote management for the device is a charged for product and the interface can be really slow **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows us to use the screens with native support for the digital display software ### 3. Stable, User-Friendly, But Limited in Customization **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sai K. | Design Engineer, Semiconductors, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2025 **What do you like best about Tizen?** I appreciate how Tizen offers fast boot times and smooth multitasking, which ensures a stable experience, even on budget TVs. The minimalistic and user-friendly interface makes it easy to navigate. I also love the tight integration with smart home controls like Bixby, Alexa, and Google Assistant, making it convenient to manage my smart home devices. Moreover, the pre-installed major streaming apps like Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney Hotstar enhance my viewing experience, providing seamless access to my favorite content. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** I find the limited app ecosystem restrictive, as it only allows pre-installed apps like Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney Hotstar, and restricts the installation of new software. This limitation affects my ability to customize my experience further. Additionally, data transfer is restricted as it cannot be done to non-Samsung devices lacking Tizen compatibility. Customization options are limited since third-party launchers and deeper interface personalization using metas and other software are not possible. Also, I encounter bloatware issues due to the presence of unwanted third-party apps. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I find Tizen provides smooth integration on Samsung devices, offering fast boot times, smooth multitasking, and stability even on budget TVs. It's user-friendly and supports major streaming apps, though customization and third-party app installations are limited. ### 4. Fast, Lightweight and Versatile, But Limited Apps **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Francis J. | CEO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2025 **What do you like best about Tizen?** I like that Tizen is super fast and lightweight, with a clean and simple interface. It gives freedom to all developers and works on many devices. This makes it particularly helpful for watching TVs and running appliances smoothly without lag, and I use it for applications like Netflix and YouTube. I also appreciate the security it offers for smart devices. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Compared to Android or Apple, Tizen has fewer apps, fewer games, and slow updates. Some popular apps are missing, the developer support is weaker, and the updates are inconsistent. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tizen helps solve the problem of ensuring a smooth path in its usage. ### 5. TIZEN TV OS: Modern, Optimized Experience for Smart TVs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeffrey K. | VICE PRESIDENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2025 **What do you like best about Tizen?** TIZEN TV OS IS AN UPDATED VERSION OF THE TIZEN OPERATING SYSTEM SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR TV USE. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** TIZEN'S APP SELECTION IS NOT AS EXTENSIVE AS SOME COMPETITORS WHICH CAN LIMIT THE VARIETY OF APPS AVAILABLE FOR USERS. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** UNMATCHED SPEED POWERED BY A 64-BIT PROCESSOR AND AN UNPARALLELED COMMITMENT TO DELIVERING OPTIMAL PICTURE QUALITY. ### 6. I use Tizen in my smart tv **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Satish Kumar A. | Assistant Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2025 **What do you like best about Tizen?** It's html5 application model , lightweight and fast response. Best part is being a open API. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** More apps are not available, some apps are not working due to compatability. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Tizen IVI for Automotive infotainment. Also Tizen iot for cobots. ### 7. Good TV OS with some problems **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexander K. | Mr, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Intuitive User Interface: Tizen's user interface is sleek and intuitive, making it easy for both beginners and experienced users to navigate. The well-designed layout and minimalistic approach contribute to a seamless user experience. App Ecosystem: Despite not being as extensive as some of its competitors, Tizen's app ecosystem has grown significantly over the years. Major developers are now actively supporting Tizen, offering users access to essential applications and popular services. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Sluggys UI, apps take a long time to load, reopening some apps will restart them most of the times instead of going to the last open page, my samsung TV with Tizen has problems with some ARC HDMI soundsbars **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making TV "Smart". It allows me to install apps (disney+, netflix, Plex, etc) directly on my tv, and even SteamLink for remote playing games from my PC (if the connection was better) ### 8. Tizen - one of best open source OS for smart devices **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Tizen?** It's open source feature which makes it easy to customize according to our liking. Also, it's support across different platforms is an added asset. Even security wise tizen is one of the best available in the market. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Sometimes we'll be left with limited option of applications as it's not that prevalent operating system compared to Android or iOS. Also, it is difficult for non - tech savy people to use it. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Customization of OS. Since tizen is open source, we can customize it according to our liking which offers great flexibility when compared to other os available. ### 9. Seemless smartwatch experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Even S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Tizen?** There are a lot of options to download third-party applications to your watch, unlike Apple. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Can do with a little less lag sometimes. But, I also doubt it is because I am using the first version of the Samsung Galaxy watch. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using a Samsung Galaxy watch that provides a seamless experience. ### 10. My Best Experience with Tizen OS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Y B I. | Head of Customer Success, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Tizen?** User friendly, ease of use, simple English, smooth transition **What do you dislike about Tizen?** More enhanced fonts, option of more colours **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Display & entertainment ### 11. Best standard based software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinod M. | Auditor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Tizen?** this app ensures seamless communication and compatibility across various platforms and systems. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Nothing to dislike because it enhances user experience by adhering to established industry standards **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** this software includes security protocols, making it easier to implement robust security measures ### 12. Decent but no Android **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ron S. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Tizen?** In general it's a imitation of the Android OS, sadly it's a underwhelming one; at times wish they would just focus on Android instead of Tizen, but then I do see value in terms of price and some additional flexibility. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Speed, limitations vs other OS's, infant stage when compared to other OS and their potential. Less of a fan following leaves it always as a chaser instead of a leader or a top 3 even. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's the OS i've used on my projector, it's light footprint makes it less of a resource hog at times but that means it is a limited vesion of what the hardware could be. ### 13. One stop shop for me! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Tizen?** What I like the most is the advantage in the difference between my Samsung and LG interfaces. Samsung with Tizen tends to be more valuable and easy to navigate. (Maybe not for some but for me, it is) Long story short: it's more intuitive. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Downsides? I think for someone who is not like me, it can be difficult for them (the non-tech-savvy people) to navigate around the UI because it could require a lot of customization that they're just not used to. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** It sends me more recommendations of content to watch instead of me scrolling endlessly trying to find it. ### 14. Easy to understand and User friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** aditya p. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Most essential applications like Netflix, and Amazon Prime work on this Operating System. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** We can not open multiple apps Simultaneously, it crashes sometimes. RAM optimization can be done better. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tizen stand against Android in the Smart TV market. these are the only two significant competitors. and Tizen is working well by constantly adding new applications. ### 15. Well Condition **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pawan Kumar P. | C, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Tizen is the good processing functions which can use to intract with others with less time and faster than other social websites and application so it's features consists it's good **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Nothing go bad on this application software but it will be upgradable and more features are addable in future i think that's best platform to do all types work, and I can think that it's don't need to some improvement **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** No need to recommendation to considering because many types are users of this Tizen software and solutions **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Benifit is so more and Tizen is so coperative comparative for any devices and problems are not facing here but realised more types of benifit and features like smooth working and portability ### 16. Tizen os is good but not so great **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pabitra D. | DET, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Tizen?** It is so smooth, feature rich, upto date, it is one the no.1 operating system in T.v.And many more features are regular added.this is very good thing. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** All is good but many apps are not available in tizen store, that is very ridiculous . **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** I recommends to other use tizen software, for easy, smooth operation. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** They need more add Apps in app store, and pay attention in software update. ### 17. My experience with Tizen is overall good but there are some disadvantages as well. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tigran S. | Relationship Manager Corporate Banking, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Tizen?** The operating system works pretty fast. I like the inbuilt programs, such as Youtube Netflix, and how they work. The connectivity is really good as well. The wifi and Bluetooth are working smoothly. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** The most embarrassing feature of the operating system is the really slow browser that is impossible to use. You cannot add AdBlock or other extensions to it. Typing with the controller is problematic. Also, there is a lack of applications in the store. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sometimes I connect my laptop to the Samsung TV, which is working with Tizen to have two monitors simultaneously. It helps. ### 18. Peculiarities of the Tizen Os **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel A. | Academic writer and editor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Like Android, Tizen is based on Linux and shares a lot of similarities to the android OS. It is intuitive, lightweight (which implies smooth app operations and transitions) , has a beautiful well laid out design and it allows for customisation. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Compared to other available options, Tizen cannot effectively compete and gain a foothold due to inadequate support to the infant ecosystem. The array of apps available to users can be increased and improved on by Samsung. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** On the android phone, Tizen offers the full stock android performance and experience with none of the lag and extra customizability. This means you can expect zero lags or loading time with apps on Tizen. You also have the option of customizing the interface more than you can on android. ### 19. Best Operating System ever used **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Tizen?** It's startup time, this OS takes very less amount of time while booting up **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Nothing much to dislike, but it should create its own ecosystem like android **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Samsung smartphone which uses tizen oS ### 20. Tizen **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Booting time is much faster as compared to Android or other OS. Being an open source platform is the best part about it. Can run on mobile as well as smartwatches. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Not much developement by app developers as compared to other OS. People are not too familiar about this when spoken about. Notifications & UI require improvement **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** The integration of Tizen in mobiles as well as IOT devices has been a saviour. Have had a smooth and fluid experience while using this. Apps take little space hence it's much lighter in memory utilisation. ### 21. About Tizen OS **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saran U. | Senior Technical Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Tizen?** a good option and is easy to use for almost everyone **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Tizen OS' voice assistant does not hold a candle to Google's voice assistant. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** It doesn't lack any of the essential features and is not really a deal-breaker. But it does offer fewer choices than Android ### 22. Tizen review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Md Mofijul I. | Graduate Research Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Tizen?** I like the cross-platform apps development. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** The apps development platform needs some improvement. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I mainly used Tizen for apps development. ### 23. Powerful framework but lack of support. **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ANSAR H. | Software Engineer 1, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Tizen?** The performance and the scalability. Tizen-based applications are comparatively fast and optimized. It uses the EFL libraries which are so feature-rich library, and highly optimized for resource usage. It's fast and lightweight as compared to other OS. The best part about Tizen is its support of multiple types of devices, in smart TVs, refrigerators, smart watches, smart phones, washing machines, light bulbs, vacuum cleaners. Samsung’s devices with Tizen OS consume less power than other OS. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Although there's official documentation is there, but when I need any support/help at some point where I stuck, there are not much resources available on the web. So it's difficult for me to solve the bug in my code. The application uses a lot of RAM, which causes the application to crash several times. **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** If someone is going to work with Tizen, he/she must be very clear about the basics, otherwise, it may be difficult to solve the problems. There may be some points where someone can get stuck and will not be able to find an accurate solution. So, it really important to be very clear with the basic concepts. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used Tizen to implement the application used in Enterprise TVs. The main advantage of using Tizen based application I have observed so far is the Performance and Scalability of the application. Tizen-based applications are optimized. It is said to be a lightweight operating system that offers speed in the startup when compared to other OS. ### 24. Experience of 2 years in Snapdeal, Currently working on tizen apps. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saurabh S. | A Free Bird - Self Employed, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Tizen?** It's pretty easy to code in Tizen and Tizen is free. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** There is no proper documentation. There should be documentation with examples so that new joiners can pick up things quickly. There should be few sample projects for learning. For example- It took me days to understand how to get all contacts and store them in the Tizen watches. The problem is that the community is small, and error codes are ambiguous, so searching for a particular issue might be troubling. The tizen community should work on the documentation with live examples. There should be a bunch of "sample projects" so that anyone can learn easily understand it. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are working on providing youtube accessibility, the top 20 contacts access app, and better free navigation from our third-party software. ### 25. Tizen has potential, but needs better ecosystem **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shashank S. | Sr Member of Technical Staff, Linux Graphics, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Tizen?** - Multiple light UI implementations - Scalability across many devices from watches to TVs, Phones to Washing machines - This OS has true potential to become the first "Complete home automation OS" is ported to IOT well. - It's Open-source. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** - Ecosystem is very limited to Samsung support. - Lacks good apps, It depends on Android majorly to get the apps - Major features (like screencasting) are supported only in the Samsung ecosystem **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Opensource Competition to Android and MacOs, there is something to fall back to. - One solution for all consumer electronics devices (think if your phone/TV/Fridge/Washing Machine/smartwatch/speaker/car can all be running in the same compatible ecosystem, sharing everything in a home) ### 26. Many apps, very fast on tv and smartwatch **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Tizen?** fast and many apps for tv and smartwatch **What do you dislike about Tizen?** On tv I can not use polish language in bixby On smartwatch I can't use NFC for payment in Poland **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** Very fast operation system for tv and smartwatch **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** i watch tv on it and look what is my condition on smartwatch ### 27. Efficient OS for smart watches but limited apps **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike S. | Program Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Tizen?** The performance and basic features provided by the Tizen OS provide all of the basic features. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Limited apps developed and available on Tizen OS. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides synchronization with email and calendars and provides summary of events at start of the day. ### 28. Good for Beginners and UI developers **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Tizen applications are basically developed on HTML5, so any person who is having knowledge of HTML can develop a interactive UI, Also a good UI gives better browsing experience. As its based on Linux OS and Application development can be done in C and C++ programming. Any person having knowledge of C/CPP and HTML can develop his own application in Tizen. As a developer perspective its easy to learn and good scope to contribute. Tizen is a light weight OS compared to Android. It takes little less time to load the OS, I recommend Tizen OS for Smart Watches and TVs **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Most of mobile developers creates their own application and deploy in app stores but, Tizen do not have a better application store unlike Play store and App Store(Apple). There creates a lack of interest in developer and we dont see much of Tizen OS or Applications in Smart phones. **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** As said earlier if any beginner who is looking exploration then he or she can go with Tizen. You can experience Old school C/CPP programming and also extend your hands on HTML5. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compared with other org like Google and Apple it does not have much limitations, it give one of best option for customized OS and UI experience. As a programmer I can say if someone is looking for exploration then he or she can go for it. You can experience Old school C/CPP programming and also extend your hands on HTML5. ### 29. Best Choice for Tv OS and HTML developer **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Tizen is very light OS if we compared to Android so boot time is very less due to which its perfect choice for tv. Tizen applications are based on HTML5 due to which it used to give better browsing experience. As it is new comparative to Android so there is much scope of optimization for developers to contribute .Os is based on Linux It dont have any restrictions which google have , its best for customizing the Os and user experience. If you are tech savvy and like to explore amny customization go for it. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Tizen doesnt have better app store. There is lack of interest from developer due to this its not widely used in smart phones. Right now only samsung and intel is contributing to this ,it will be better once more developer will start contribute to this **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** If you are looking to explore more from developer front and then go for it there is much more open areas to explore here **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** For tv ,boot time is very important so with tizen we are seeing instant booting when there is power cut , also we can do customization to ROM for different user experience. ### 30. Tizen- a user friendly platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shreya G. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Tizen?** It is a user friendly OS. The APIS are so easy to understand and work with. Working in Samsung, we are so content with the services provided with Tizen platform. And it is truth worthy aa it is way older than other OS platforms. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Nothing to be honest. Just requires some polishing of new features. **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** Go for it. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work in Samsung and all our LFDs and LEDs are Tizen based. They are fast and easy to use. Tizen- studio helps in understanding the Tizen APIS with such ease. ### 31. Proficient tizen developer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Tizen has been the Samsung OS since 2014. The apis and media playback experience is reliable. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** The OS and in particular web support is lagging atleast by 5 years e.g 2018 tv supports web features on or before 2015. It’s very hard to build an app with using latest web features e.g grid which has been around for a while now. The navigation library caph is good but ancient. **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** Please be aware that technology is not the most latest but it does the job well. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am building media apps for tizen since Samsung smart TVs account for at least 60% household tvs. It’s simply not optional if we are looking to attract tv consumers. ### 32. Worked in Tizen for about 5.5 years **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Towfiq N. | Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Tizen TV OS, Family hub and IoT devices are good use of Tizen. Samsung is working on other wearables to integrate with Tizen OS. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** User interface can be better. It should introduce one ui with Tizen. It can be made a little bit faster so that user can get same level of experience compared to android. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a QA I faced different problems like crash. Benefits are huge. Its a great Platform for IoT devices ### 33. Tizen TV for OTT streaming **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Sound and video quality was very good. Good user experience while testing various Web application on this tv **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Doesn't support automation testing. This device need a separate framework for automation testing. Other than this for manual testing overall user experience was very good. **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** Go for it. It worth buying. You will find good user experience with this TV. And customer service is also very good. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Testing OTT (live/on demand) video streaming in tizen device. It is a good TV for customers. ### 34. OS is awesome but market has no quality apps, for quality app dev. at mail shahzainali@live.com **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Speed. their workout is awesome specially sleep tracking. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** When i was on motorbike, watch assumes i am cycling and it shows calories burn according to that. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sleep tracking, heart beat, call and remote connection , all are beneficial. ### 35. Tizen : Faster way of getting things done **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deepesh S. | Senior Systems Engineer/Lead Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Tizen is blazingly fast and responsive. A linux based operating system also makes it less suseptible to virus attacks. Though not an active user currently, i used it for couple of years a while back and found it much more responsive compared to Android/Windows phone.Not Only Speed wise, being a lightweight OS, it also gives amazing results with seemingly lesser configurations ( works pretty neat with less RAM) when you compare the HW configuration of other competeters . Another great feature which i like was Ultra power saving mode in Tizen Phones, which basically shuts down all un-necessary features and gives it a keypad phone kind-a look and improves the Battery Life insanely! To conclude i love how they have optimized the Hw resources to get the maximum benefit out of it. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** In one Word, i missed App Store which was the primary reason of moving back to android. Though i hope the continous work on intoducing more alike and distinctive apps can help tizen go up the ladder. **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** Its worth a try.. it hadly takes anytime to boot up and ready to serve . you might miss few of your fav apps on switching OS, but considering its smooth experience its areasonable tradeoff **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used Tizen during app developement work. For Developers its a treat as bootup time is very less. Being a Linux User and C /CPP programmer , it was easier to get into working mode for Tizen Apps. ### 36. Implemented the application from scratch using Web and Native code related to sensors. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Itban S. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Despite of having a lot of uncertainties, the best part of using Tizen is that the officials are trying their best to enhance the understanding of the developers by improving the documentation, organizing live chat sessions and promoting the developers communities. If you are stuck somewhere, You can use platforms like Tizen Developers Community and the Samsung Developers Community to get the answer to your problem. The documentation does not contain sufficient information yet, but it is being improved day by day. If you've developed an incredible application, You can submit that for the "Best of Galaxy Store Awards". This is also a great initiative for motivating the developers to use Tizen platform. I think it will increase the efficiency and maturity of Tizen APIs as the increasing number of developers will result in identification of possible bugs and suggestions for their fixes. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Every technology has it's pros and cons, There are a couple of things that I dislike about Tizen. First one is the incomplete documentation. A documentation is supposed to have all the information related to the APIs and other stuff but you shouldn't expect this in case of Tizen. Sometimes there is not sufficient information available about the purpose or the possible values of any method parameters. You may not be able to find the output of any API call. In some cases the API call description only translates the name of the API call and nothing more. In my personal opinion, When it comes to the API documentation, it should contain each and every single bit of information about all the methods. It will help the developers to understand the behavior of Tizen and polish their code in a different perspective. Another thing I would like to point out is the legacy software of Tizen Studio which is a really heavy thing for the machine. It can cost you a lot of resources when you work on the Tizen Studio as it slows down the system sometimes. The UI is also not much user friendly and it has a lot of room for improvement. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've found it useful in a sense that you can access a lot of things from the lower layers e.g. I've collected the Sensor data from the Smart Watch and then sent it to the server. It gives you full control over the available information. There are plenty of APIs available to extract the useful information from your device. You can play around with the APIs and have more information than your imagination ! ### 37. Faster development and easy to learn **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Samsung owns Tizen and web development makes the system popular to app developer. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Tizen community is still immature and have helpful information! **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** Tizen is growing and professionals have future in Tizen development **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have developed some web apps which is very easy to develop if you have web development experience. Web developer will love to migrate to Tizen easily if Tizen can able to grow as OS. ### 38. Tizen is the best OS for IOT devices **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Tizen?** It is lightweight and easy to understand **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Mobile OS development got stopped, we cant write apps for mobile phones now **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** It might be challenging to use in the earlier days of usage; once you get hold of the Tizen, it is easy to use. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** As it is a lightweight IoT real-time OS, it works well with real-time devices ### 39. 2 years and more with tizen **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Its UI like you dont have to go deeper and deeper into mentus to juts get one option you need **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Compatibility like if i developed tizen application using olders version it has issue ruining on the updated tizen version **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its very useful to develop SmartTv application and simulator helps to test almost every samsung devices ### 40. Tizen good to use and easy to navigate **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Tizen?** The performance was good and the usage was easy. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Apps are not many as android store and some of the apps downloaded do not run. **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** NOne **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trying to build web apps. ### 41. TIZEN is very light OS and robust. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Tizen?** I am TIZEN web and mobile app developer,and doing well in since 4 years..TIZEN is very light weighted OS for mobile and for smart TV developed by Samsung (PM, QM,QB series).. It is more robust. you can write the app via javascript (very common scripting) and easy to learn and develop. It has more flexible and attractive UI.. Overall, I can say, it's promising. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Having no API in OS that plays DRM content We hope it will be included in upcoming future release. **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** It is easy to use for any generation, value for money country like india **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I wish to play DRM with TIZEN, not able to play DRM stream..If there had been a good rich api for drm stream like in Android (Exoplayer). Benefits :- 1: It is understandable. 2: Easy to lean, just need to hands on knowledge of javascript, html, css.. 3: Its async file system.( not blocking ui thread) ### 42. Perspective platform, but lacking developr's support **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oleksii T. | C++ Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Tizen provides good permormance to power consumption ratio which may be a crucial feature for embedded devices. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Developers community is a drop in a ocean comparing to android. Sometimes it is hard to find solutions for some platform specific issues. In my time doing development, SDK was lacking good documentation and snippets, so i had to search for support on Tizen developers IRC chanels that had only around one hundred people. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Software development for Tizen. You could expect good performance and power consumption even on low-end hardware. This feature could be exceptionally beneficial on wearable devices, where you don't have much room to improve battery or hardware. ### 43. Tizen is a great operative system, it is versatile, easy to use and very well documented. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mirna L. | Programmer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Tizen?** I like the easy way to implement the API's **What do you dislike about Tizen?** At this moment I don't have any disagree with anything **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well I work with Samsung newest model of Smart TV's so all app developed are on Tizen, the major benefits compared with another platforms (OS) is the way to implement the API's and the easy way to debug the applications ### 44. Tizen is light & Fast **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Tizen OS is web based, support multiple enviornment. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Lacks of ecosystem which is main drawback of Tizen **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** Think about ecosystem **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking ### 45. Have been working as part of tizen mobile os testing and have contributed in few app in tizen store **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rakhil R. | Engineer II, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Tizen?** As advanced web development markup language, HTML5 is continuosly being used nowadays, it is very much supported in tizen as app development. So it will be useful for creating or contributing your app to tizen app store. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Tizen OS should have been more mature enough to support android package rather than using 3rd party tool to make it support same. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** None ### 46. Single OS for everything is more than enough about Tizen **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Tizen?** As it flexible to every platform so i like it.It is also used in PC,mobile and IVI system.As it is based on linux platform and using its kernel so I feel it will be more secure than any other os. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** As it is nowtimes only supported those apps which are based on HTML5 in android system not all so I hope it will support all apps of android in near future **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is compatible with every mobile platforms .Here you can manage your personnel things very easily with high security. ### 47. Overall positive **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Phillip C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Tizen?** First and foremost has the ability to collaborate on the software **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Hard to support because it's a moving Target because it's changing all the time **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automotive display technology. It is allowing us to move much more quickly and be more creative than we could have using other systems there's no question about that ### 48. Tizen for Smart-TV App Development **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Klemen G. | Freelance Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Usefull features like TV-window overlays. Good API and well-established developement environment (web technologies). Good web-based debugging features. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Command line development tooling is unreliable and buggy. Small and inactive comunity. **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** Tizen offers some of the best features regarding smart-tv app development. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Smart-tv applications with window overlays ### 49. Ever impressed product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2020 **What do you like best about Tizen?** I was using an old device, I never thought it was compatible, however, it was working incredibly. And also as a developer, I realized it's So easy to developer Tizen applications with basic programming languages. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Never thought about it. I will think about it if it's necessary. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developed Tizen app with react native. This is a Huge advantage I found. ### 50. Minimilast and fast Platform **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Very lightweight no frills platform. Development is done in c/c++, so you get very fine grained control over what you are building. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Since its not widely adapted, its bit difficult to do Development in tizen as compared to other widely used platforms like iOS or Android. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am working to make the widgets used in the platform flexible so that you can use the same widget on all the devices without worrying about compatibility issues. ## Tizen Discussions - [Why the eco system are not growing ???](https://www.g2.com/discussions/48737-why-the-eco-system-are-not-growing) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How is tizen different from Android?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-is-tizen-different-from-android) - 1 comment - [What can Samsung Tizen do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-can-samsung-tizen-do) - 1 comment - [DRM (Azure media services) play with TIZEN](https://www.g2.com/discussions/30124-drm-azure-media-services-play-with-tizen) - 1 comment - [View Tizen pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/tizen/reviews?qs=pros-and-cons§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+08%3A31%3A16+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=c995e017-6e4f-450a-ad21-f63a6f06b418&secure%5Btoken%5D=c83f4b4d2f8360002aaa6b19bcc13e1a31ef14a9acd23eaa23a56db7f7819339&format=llm_user) ## Tizen Integrations - [xibo](https://www.g2.com/products/xibo/reviews) ## Tizen Features **Memory Management - Operating System** - RAM management **Security** - Access Controls - Network Security - Compliance - Cryptography **Device Management - Operating System** - I/O management **Backup and Recovery - Operating System** - Data backup **Error Detection - Operating System** - System operations monitoring ## Top Tizen Alternatives - [Apple iOS](https://www.g2.com/products/apple-ios/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,511 reviews) - [Ubuntu](https://www.g2.com/products/ubuntu/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (2,315 reviews) - [Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (928 reviews)