AFN Now Reviews: Is It Legit?

AFN Now
AFN Now
Defense Media Activity

Customer Experience

Positive experience4.7% of reviews
Neutral3.3% of reviews
Negative experience92.1% of reviews

~ Based on 215 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about AFN Now

Is AFN Now Safe?

AFN Now does not appear safe based on available data. AppsHunter Safety Score for AFN Now is 29/100.

This assessment is based on 559 user ratings, with an App Store average of 1.4/5.

Safety Analysis

7.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
90.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 559 App Store ratings for AFN Now.

Is AFN Now Legit?

AFN Now appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for AFN Now is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Just Disappointed

Constant Verifications, takes forever to load… when it works. We just want to watch some NFL, but it’s 5050 at best.

Login issues

When using the app, you cannot login. Every time the website pops up for login it immediately closes without loading.

This app sucks

No other words

Garbage

Absolutely worthless piece of garbage!!!!! Can watch anything and does show and sports!!!

Too quick to give up

This app has a bad reputation, mainly from people who expected perfection. I sent an email to the support email and got a reply that I would consider fast, I described my problem and was met with a few possible solutions. When those didn’t work the support staff didn’t give up, they tried something else. Eventually the problem was solved, and I had access to the great and FREE resources that this app has to offer. The obstacle in your path to success is the path to action.
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lol

No wonder this app has 1 star. I’m literally deployed and it doesn’t work. Great work AFN

Works fine for me

I don’t know why it has such low reviews. The app has worked well for me so I’m giving it 5 stars. It’s not the most user friendly, but I appreciate having access to U.S. channels while overseas.

Inconvenient

Doesn’t allow you to use it if you have a stateside number.

So-So app until now because I can’t log in on my iPad or iPhone

Mobile app frozen on login screen on both my iPhone and iPad. Still works on Apple TV, but that’s it.

Worthless app

A mildly incompetent team could still produce an app better than this.

Is it Chinese? Seems cheap!

Doesn’t work well. Tapping a button doesn’t often work or are laggy. The interface isn’t intuitive. Don’t rely on this as it seems to cube cheaply built, probably lowest cost bidder with no testing whatsoever.

Doesn’t work

Its an app that doesnt let you log in and when it does it just sends you to the website so whats the point of the app

Junk

Very buggy. Makes you sign in again when you’re right in the middle of watching something. Real POS app, but not surprised.

Streaming quality

I have gigabit fiber in Okinawa and the stream keeps buffering. Also there is quite a bit of programming that AFN doesn’t have the streaming rights to. Shutting down direct to home satellite was the worse decision until they worked out all the kinks and upgraded the servers to handle the bandwidth. If I had speed issues from my ISP I would understand.
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Bricks constantly

Worst streaming app. Please invest a little into the stability and reliability of this app.

Worthless app

The app currently says the content is only available to overseas military installations but I’m overseas, not using a VPN, and have my location on. They need to do better.

Developer doesn’t heed the 1 star reviews, they’re there for a reason; morons.

Evidently only works when connected to MWR wifi (but they keep that a secret until you call)

When the app loads, it just shows a blank screen. After calling support number, they said that this was because my cellular data is a US company and it will only work when I connect to a wifi network on base. The support person seemed annoyed that I was calling, but they could just put that information on the app. Obviously it would be better if they could fix the app to use better geolocation than that, but in the meantime, they could just have a message appear clarifying the problem instead of a blank screen.

Just another example of how communism is bad. AFN has no motivation to explain itself so it doesn’t occur to them to explain themselves.
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Give us back the box!

I’m sitting here watching a green screen. Yet again it’s not working and no one answers emails for assistance. Please give us back the boxes. The app is awful and was not ready to be the only option for those living off base.

LG tv

Not available on the LG tv App Store

Bring back FEN!

This app is absolutely the worst I have ever experienced. From a satellite to online and basic TV shows like ABC News all of a sudden don’t have viewing rights. I have very fast internet, but that doesn’t stop this app from stopping constantly, and the picture quality is close to the 1920s. This is disheartening and AFN needs to do better for its military members and their families! Straight trash!!
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