--- title: Tizen Reviews meta_title: 'Tizen Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 68 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Tizen works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.8 review_count: 68 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # Tizen Reviews **Vendor:** Tizen Association **Category:** [Operating Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/operating-system) **Average Rating:** 3.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 68 ## 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 love the **lightweight size** of Tizen, enabling fast performance and smooth operation across various devices. (2 reviews) - Users value the **speed and lightweight performance** of Tizen, enhancing the experience across various devices seamlessly. (2 reviews) - Users value the **hardware compatibility** of Tizen, enabling seamless operation across various devices and applications. (1 reviews) - Users value the **open API** of Tizen, contributing to its lightweight, fast, and versatile application model. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **security features** of Tizen, ensuring safe use across smart devices with enhanced protection. (1 reviews) - User-Friendly (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Tizen's **limited apps and store selection** hinders their experience compared to Android or Apple. (3 reviews) - Users experience **app and game limitations** on Tizen, facing slow updates and missing popular applications. (1 reviews) - Users face **compatibility issues** with Tizen, leading to unavailability and malfunctioning of several apps. (1 reviews) - Users face **installation issues** , with many apps unavailable or malfunctioning due to compatibility problems. (1 reviews) - Users report a **lack of support** for Tizen, including fewer apps, games, and slow, inconsistent updates. (1 reviews) - Slow Updates (1 reviews) ## Tizen Reviews ### 1. 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. ### 2. Very good user experience of Tizen **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manish S. | Founder Member, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Tizen?** The overall user experience, design and functionality. Everything is good. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Some functions need to improve in next version **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't have any problem. Easy to use and nice design. ### 3. Tizen allows you to leverage your HTML/CSS/JS knowledge to make mobile apps **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris M. | Lead Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Tizen?** The upsides of using Tizen are: * Can create apps using existing web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS) * You can re-use code from front end projects * The IDE lets you see what you preview what your app will look like/ function quickly **What do you dislike about Tizen?** * When I used it, it was very time consuming to get started, and actually see anything on the device. Needed a ton of certificates, and it still didn't work. The docs weren't updated, and wasted several days trying to get the initial build on the device because of the inconsistencies. And if you wanted to test on multiple devices, you had to repeat a lot of things to get it working. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** The interface for using the device specific features/ hardware worked well through JavaScript. It was nice to be able to test everything initially through just a web browser, verify it looked the same in the IDE, and finally get it on the device, looking pretty much the same as testing in browser. Overall if you can get past the setup time, it's much faster to work in than other mobile platforms. ### 4. Its fast and simple but difficult to get help in the beginning. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Tizen is based on C++ and easy to adapt for a linux background Software Engineer. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Its hard to get help from internet and develop complex UI. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I develop webview for Tizen using Chromium engine. As Chromium and Tizen both are written in C++, I found it easy to work with. ### 5. Worth giving a try considering user-friendly uX and low power consumption. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Tizen?** UX is easy and intuitive. Power consumption is low. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Less number of applications in app store. **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** Must give it a try. Its user friendly. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** crash and improving user experience. ### 6. B2B solution **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Tizen?** faster execution time of native applications **What do you dislike about Tizen?** play store need to be enriched all the more **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** its earlier versions were developer friendly for system programming **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** for development of USSD-based applications ### 7. An evolution of robustness **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan C. | Director of Digital Strategy, Food Production, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Tizen?** I worked closely with the Tizen team from their focus on mobile OS into their transition to embedded devices. Their insight to adjust the platform for embedded screens has come along quite well and is a strong platform for smart TVs and other devices now. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Their early focus in mobile left a lot to be desired. As a new platform it lacked documentation and robust features to utilize. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** To use Tizen to layer into Samsung embedded devices or to use it for your own embedded OS on a unique device both works quite well to have a strong toolset to work from and build off of. ### 8. Tizen was very promising mobile OS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vahagn N. | Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Back to 2013 to have html5 based mobile platform, which will compete with IOS or with Android was something very intriguing. The tools for development was very complete and advanced despite the fact that development process was much easier than for Android. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Performance and the fact that es6 was not realized yet and the platforms bring the JavaScript mess with him. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** As Tizen was very fresh platform we tried to implement PicsArt photo editing app for Tizen. That was one of the most advanced applications in all Tizen store. When you have ready web application for Tizen it was very easy to port it for browser environment. ### 9. Light weight OS extensively used in Samsung Smart Gears and Smart Home Appliances **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Light weight Operating System written in C++ . Ideal for any smart device. Can be used in M2M devices for Remote capturing of the data. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Could not evolve with time and thus still not a part of premium smart phones. Lack of enough applications built on it. **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** Tizen OS offers great opportunities to build smart devices and iot devices. A lot of applications available on Android, IOS are still not built over Tizen and thus has hampered its popularity especially in smart phones. These need to built over Tizen in order for it to flourish and compete with OS. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Samsung Smart home devices and smart gears are being built on it. Being a light weight OS , latency is very low and works pretty well without any lag with smaller lesser built devices with low RAM smoothly. ### 10. TIZEN a perfect replacements for ANDROID. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Tizen?** It is very fast while booting up. UI is great and attractive. All the apps works in a seamless way. Since implementation at lower level is in C language it is for the developers to work on it. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Do not find anything . Everything is great and perfect. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was working as developer in WIFI Direct. Implementation of WIFI Direct in C language to interact with wpa supplicant. ### 11. I had tizen smart watch and I have been tizen developer 3 years **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dmytro R. | Senior Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Tizen?** From development side tizen has good documentation. From user side tizen devices have good performance and life cycle **What do you dislike about Tizen?** From development side tizen community is not so powerfull as at Android. From user side tizen store is very poor. Will be good if tizen smartphones will be presented on European market **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Create new applications for tizen tv, smartphone and watch ### 12. Tizen Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Tizen?** I have developed multimedia application i. Tizen. It is at par with other OS currently available in market. Also, it is purely based on C so it is faster than competitors. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Still it is in early stages. There is a long way to go to compete in terms of apps available. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have worked on some web services and multimedia applications. It is in general decent OS with almost all basic functionalities. ### 13. I like Tizen OS. Because i can develop application using JS. Its lovely to work with tizen **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Application development using JS. I am JS developer, so Its very easy to develop application for me for tizen **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Its quite slow then android. Need ti focus on performance. Also need to rich on app store application. **Recommendations to others considering Tizen:** Its the most powerful & important time to focus on performance, app store, available apps. So focus on this **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Though i have developed application using JS, but get much better performance like android ### 14. Good for iot, not for mobile os **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Its based on linux. Therefore faster than androud which is avm(android virtual manager) based **What do you dislike about Tizen?** There is a very small active contributors that develop apps for tizen. Whereas in android you will find many. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its good for iot devices. I think tv and home automation system already are tizen based which are pretty fast. ### 15. it was really cool! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Tizen?** the documention is clear, you can use css, html and js. **What do you dislike about Tizen?** some code you need to integratee with android code **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I did app to handle the remote control. it is very uselful the only bad thing that you need the phone. ### 16. Tizen's honest review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Its lightweight and easy to use. Being realtively new OS it is well developed **What do you dislike about Tizen?** Still less app support, apps should be more. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used it in my samsung gear watch and LED TV. Have great experience with both gadgets. ### 17. Good and lightweight platform **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Tizen?** It is lightweight and well designed operating system **What do you dislike about Tizen?** It is not easy to develop apps for and still not common in market so people tend to use Android **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not enough documentation ### 18. Clunky OS, Limited apps **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Tizen?** Compatibility and native communication with Samsung products **What do you dislike about Tizen?** App store is extremely limited. OS upgrades have issues on mobile devices. **What problems is Tizen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Notifications on the go on the watch, not being tied to my phone is nice. ## 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?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-22+05%3A53%3A05+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=522b3898-e7eb-4c05-9dd0-648c1cd52e33&secure%5Btoken%5D=37e32688906a5079f6f1bd6760b3580f4cb60e6467ce65108c03ffab29e86316&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 (1,541 reviews) - [Ubuntu](https://www.g2.com/products/ubuntu/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (2,341 reviews) - [Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (933 reviews)