# Amazon Fire TV — user reviews > 4,221 indexed App Store user reviews of Amazon Fire TV by AMZN Mobile LLC, rated 4.50/5 from 1,390,755 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/amazon-fire-tv/id947984433/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/amazon-fire-tv/id947984433.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,125,553 · 4★ 99,825 · 3★ 47,245 · 2★ 28,014 · 1★ 90,118 ## What do users think of Amazon Fire TV? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Convenient remote alternative - 👍 Easy to navigate - 👍 Keyboard feature for faster typing - 🚀 Works well when connected **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent disconnects and reconnection issues - 🐛 Unresponsive buttons and controls - 🐛 Inconsistent performance - 🔋 Drains phone battery quickly **Commonly reported bugs** - Buttons not registering properly - Freezing and crashing issues - Inability to reconnect after phone screen timeout **Most requested features** - Volume control - Power on/off functionality - Improved stability and reliability ## Newest reviews (15 of 4,221) ### 2/5 — Remote *2026-08-23, version 4.7.0* Doesn’t work ### 3/5 — Gets buggy *2026-08-23, version 4.7.0* Sometimes it gets very buggy and glitchy ### 2/5 — Will. Not. Connect. *2026-08-23, version 4.7.0* I’m not sure what the point of a remote is if you have to physically interact with your TV every time you use it. This app will not - will NOT - connect to my Fire TV unless / until I go over and hold down the power button on the TV for 15 seconds to restart it. Both phone & TV are always on the same 5GHz network, no VPN, no proxy, dedicated local IP address for both, and I power cycle the TV on / off for at least 60 seconds every day (which is what I had to do several app updates ago if I ever hoped to reconnect it to the TV). Now not even that works, and I have to physically reboot the TV in order for it to be seen in the app. To be clear, the app SEES the TV, it just will not connect. During the TV reboot, the TV that it sees and won’t connect to disappears, then shows up again once the TV reboots, as unable to connect, then (and only then) rebooting the remote app finally connects it to the TV. This is all before getting to the (dys)functionality of the app itself. Why on earth do you have to scroll left and right to access the most commonly-used buttons, while 60% of the screen real estate is occupied by a giant 5-button navigating array + empty space? And now the latest “feature” since the latest few updates: scrolling left to right in order to access the commonest buttons, automatically instantiates the Home button. Yay! The only way to avoid this is to carefully touch a few choice pixels in the bottom corner of the side you’re trying to scroll toward, just enough that you can barely manage to side scroll. This app is one bizarre custom-built afterthought after another. Much like every other piece of Alexa / Amazon software. 🤦‍♂️ This is on modern hardware, while doing every bit of updating, network administration, rain dancing voodoo magic (which an end user shouldn’t actually have to do if you made AND TESTED reliable, functional software in the first place), so yes, Amazon: it’s not me, it’s you. You’ve earned every negative thing that can be said about you through sheer neglect, ignorance and incompetence. 🎯 ### 4/5 — Good quality viewing although a little glitchy *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* Once working, the fire to is high quality viewing with excellent picks for watching and gaming. However, at times, it can be difficult to connect the controllers to the tv. The tv also does work if you have no WiFi. ### 3/5 — No power button control *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* App is great except I can’t shut the TV off ### 3/5 — Remote control *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* I really like Amazon Fire TV; however, the remote controls have an extremely short lifespan requiring one to replace frequently. The remote APP was a great idea. I use my cellphone as a remote control; however, it’s a challenge when trying to play a video game (Poker), when the an incoming calls come in. ### 5/5 — Great *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* 5* ### 5/5 — Reliable *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* When I can’t find the remote this comes in clutch ### 5/5 — The best *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* This Amazon fire tv is the best , I love it so much ### 4/5 — Latest version UI is terrible *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* The first thing I want to see on the Home Screen are the apps I have downloaded . Now Amazon has decided I don’t need them, they’ve disappeared. I don’t want to see all the content they’re promoting, I want my apps! If you scroll far enough you can find “frequently used”, but that’s just the last few you accessed. Blatant money grab. ### 4/5 — Life saver but *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* I can’t power on my tv otherwise works great ### 4/5 — Fire stick *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* Sometimes it freeze up it won’t let you use it. They need to fix that but overall it’s a good app, but they need to fix a few things but it’s not freezing and not connecting to your TV or your fire stick. ### 5/5 — Utility *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* This app is very useful and I use it frequently to use my fire tv. ### 5/5 — Nice *2026-08-21, version 4.7.0* Saves me from having to buy a remote ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-08-21, version 4.7.0* Why on earth do I want more things I know I’m going to lose when I have a device that I have to replace within a day if lost. It’s genius. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Never works *2026-08-23, version 4.7.0* Literally never works ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* Out of no where just stopped working ### 1/5 — Can’t find my TV *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* For some reason this app won’t find My fire stick tv and they are both connected to the same WiFi ### 1/5 — Annoying rating requests *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* Way too often ### 1/5 — Fire stick not working *2026-08-21, version 4.7.0* Since last update of fire stick have not been able to watch any TV and there does not seems to be a fix STILL AS OF 8/21/26 NOT WORKING. I AM VERY UPSET ### 1/5 — Crashes constantly *2026-08-21, version 4.7.0* I have never had a worst TV than this Fire TV. It constantly crashes to the home scree. TCL refuses to do anything about this. It a piece of worthless plastic . ### 1/5 — Volume control *2026-08-20, version 4.7.0* Yall would have recieved a 5 star from me if the volume control was still available. But ever since yall did away with for WHAT REASON I DO NOT KNOW, I would give 0 stars if I could!! ### 1/5 — Inconsistent *2026-08-20, version 4.7.0* Doesn’t stay connected. Cuts off at worst times. ### 1/5 — Digital remote *2026-08-20, version 4.7.0* Sometimes my digital remote cannot find my Fire TV, which leaves me without my TV for a couple of days until it figures out that it’s the remote for the TV thumbs down ### 1/5 — What happened? *2026-08-20, version 4.7.0* Yesterday, after no issues whatsoever, this app has become useless. I can’t even change the volume now. Bring back a functional app! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Remote App *2026-08-23, version 4.7.0* Great product very user friendly! ### 5/5 — Fefe *2026-08-23, version 4.7.0* This app is so great but sometimes it gives u a little trouble to connect with ur tv not that big of a deal tho 👍🏼after that I love it 😍 ### 5/5 — My review *2026-08-23, version 4.7.0* Sexy ### 5/5 — Tee *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* Great so far ### 5/5 — good *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* good ### 5/5 — Works great *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* My dog chewed up our remote but thankfully we can still watch tv. Only wish there tv was compatible with the controls so I don’t have to get up to change volume ### 5/5 — Practical *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* Very useful. You will never use your remote again! ### 5/5 — 👍🏿 *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* Love it ### 5/5 — T’habite *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* Good ### 5/5 — This hurr the App! Come get it *2026-08-22, version 4.7.0* Don’t waste time and energy fiddling your KFC fingers on those not-so tingle-jingle knock off Apps. Listen hurr, this is the really rilly dilly south side Philly wham-a-jamma yall need when you’d in those wool pajamas! That ol’ Babe Ruth Home- Runner with a Louisville Slug for a ninth inning Alabama Slew Slamma yall know what Dis Brudda mean, a let your hurrr down one tap grab a snack stackin’ so high it’s a triple dog dare ya pack With this ol’ lip smackin’ App! You dig? --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-28.*