A&E User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience25.5% of reviews
Neutral12.9% of reviews
Negative experience61.5% of reviews

~ Based on 278 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is A&E Safe?

A&E: TV Shows That Matter appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for A&E is 78/100.

This assessment is based on 7,816 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.9/5.

Safety Analysis

70.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
7.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
22.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 7,816 App Store ratings for A&E.

Is A&E Legit?

A&E: TV Shows That Matter appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for A&E is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Way to many commercials / ads

You only get to watch like 30 seconds to 1 minute of content and then have to watch 2 minutes of ads. Way more ads then actual show.

Way to many commercials

Irrelevant commercials in foreign languages, even when signed in with TV provider.

No access

Why isn’t there a selection for Google/ You Tube Tv? I wanted to watch a program and could not gain access even if I paid for it.

Great for free tv

The shows on here are amazing and the ads are even better then YouTube ads

Constantly having to sign in and out of TV provider

No complaints other than I constantly have to sign in and out of my tv provider in order to access episodes.

I will literally watch one episode, then when I want to watch the next one will have to sign in and out because it will tell me I can’t access the show because of my tv provider.

The constant sign in sign out is super irritating
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Squatters

I really enjoyed this show

Commercials and Screen Sharing

The commercials are out of control. You start out with one, but by the time you get to the end, there’s seven. I understand it’s a free app and I should watch commercials but 28 commercials in one 30 min program is a bit much. In addition, it keeps telling me to stop recording the screen when I’m screen mirroring. I watch on different televisions in different households and screen mirroring is the best option sometimes.
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Review

It’s an app.

The ads

I know we have to watch ads but in Spanish??? And after the ad is over, it takes another 30 seconds to get back the program. Ridiculous. Shouldn’t have to watch so many and definitely not the same ad over and over and in Spanish. Drives me crazy!!!!

Hate this app

Love the channel but for a channel with such high caliber shows the app is worthless.

App won’t load

Absolutely garbage app. It won’t load on my smart tv, so I tried to screen mirror from my phone onto my tv and it got flagged as me trying to record the show. This was after I had to delete other apps to make room (large app, almost 9mb). Terrible product, stay away

New to A&E

Love discovering I have access to your quality programming with limited commercials and it’s FREE!! Thank you for putting it out there 🥰

Love the content, not the ads

I love the shows A&E produces, especially Squatters and Hoarders. It is nice to see people being helped.

Some of us cannot afford cable services so it is unfortunate that episodes are locked and ads are so frequent though.

Love A&E Content: Hate The TOO Frequent Ads

As a person who has worked in the broadcast, cable and digital media world for over 2.5 decades, this one is rough for even me. The ad frequency feels like every :120 seconds & it frankly becomes frustrating. There are 2 different ad types that pop up & make the viewing experience less than enjoyable. The user decides which ad to view by clicking one of two choices. The first ad choice is a :30 interactive ad which I must physically click to “return to content” after the ad content plays. The 2nd ad choice is either a :120 or a :150 second ad (can’t recall off the top of my head) that the user must simply sit thorough. I’m not sure if I’ll continue to use the app simply because there are ads happening SO frequently. I wish there were another option to enjoy this network. It truly is one of my favorites. If commercials and required interaction don’t bother you, I’m sure you’ll love it! Side note…your ad sales team/traffic team or DSP needs to step up their game because I watched the same B of A ad in every single break 😂
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Endless adds, literally.

I watch my show and it eventually rolls to adds. I can choose 30 seconds to watch 1 add and get back to the show. I chose and watched the 30 seconds. But the problem lies with sending you back to the show, IT DOESNT OCCURE! Tryed it again, same result, hence perpetual adds👎🏻Whatever man

The shows

A&E has some of the best programming there is. Five stars.

Good but too many ads

Too many too long and also the interactive ones don’t pass even when you click on them after the time it gets stuck
Content is good tho

Too many commercials!!!

It’s so annoying.

Ads

The ads mess up all the time and can leave you stuck for 2-3 mins please only do 30 min or ad the skip option like YouTube. Thank you

Too much ads

I get spammed with 30 second ads. I know it’s only three, but it starts to add up.