Channel 5 User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience3.8% of reviews
Neutral3.8% of reviews
Negative experience92.3% of reviews

~ Based on 104 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Channel 5 Safe?

Channel 5 appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Channel 5 is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 35,963 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

93.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 35,963 App Store ratings for Channel 5.

Is Channel 5 Legit?

Channel 5 appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Channel 5 is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Always crashes after 8 ads!

Constantly crashes after making you watch 8 ads so then you have to go back and press play and watch 8 ads and crashes again and again until you’ve watched like 10 mins of ads before you can watch your programme! Ridiculous!!

Useless

I can’t get this to work on either of my iPads running IOS 26. It says it’s compatible on the App Store however streaming circle goes round and round with resolution.

Struggle to watch following episodes!

Over last 4 weeks when I’ve watched an episode of a programme and waiting for the next one to start and it doesn’t then I get there’s been an error, this has happened over various different programmes, which I watched on my iPad!

It’s a free app why are people complaining

Personally I feel it is very good and not sure why people are complaining so much about something which is literally free

error VJS-2999 driving me mad

Like the title says… this error is relentless and driving me potty. Have rebooted everything, deleted, reinstalled and followed every bit of advice. I’m about to stop using this app for sake of my sanity.

Advert streaming service

If you like adverts then this is the app for you. Annoyingly there will be some short snippets of programming thrown in now and again but thankfully these only last for a few minutes before you get back to enjoying the adverts 😁👍🏻

Picture in Picture

Why does this app not have Picture in Picture???

Chromecast Please

Why no Chromecast? Seriously limits using the app for catch up viewing.

One of the worst apps

Starts playing in the background of other apps, never works properly on iPad, randomly cuts out and jumps to other apps, terrible

Buggy and drops out

Just really buggy. Often takes ages to initially load. Then when it drops out and you continue you then have to go through a barrage of ads again.

So slow!

Out of all the apps the channel 5 one is the, without a shadow of doubt, the slowest, glitchiest one. Surely this can be resolved? Do you think?

Always crashing

Sick to death of the app constantly crashing on both main TV’s in the house.

Hopeless

Awful app with far too many ads. It stop/starts and buffers with a less than super quick signal. Unwatchable.

Buggy. Bugs lead to more ads.

Such an amateurish feeling app. When playing the content it’s okay, but then it transitions to ads (yeah okay don’t like ads, but necessary evil for free content)…but then it fails when switching back to content meaning you have to close the app and restart, which means….more ads.

Subtitles don’t work? Closing the app fixes, but guess what? More ads.

Content freezes? Closing the app fixes, but guess what? More ads.

If I was cynical I’d say the app is deliberately flaky because the fix is always a restart, which always spans….more ads.

Did I mention that whatever you do to fix issues, there are ads?
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Dire

Ads ads and more ads complete overkill. No need for it.

Stopped Working on iPad

Used to work and has now stopped. Uninstall and reinstall just get a blank screen whenever I open it. Works on the iPhone but can’t screen share to the to from it so not a great viewing experience.

Play next episode keeps failing

Play next episode is fine for a few episodes then the next one just plays the ads and fails to play the next one. Have to keep reinstalling the app

Doesn’t work on IOS

No idea what the problem is but I can’t make this app work. I have deleted it and downloaded it again and it still won’t get beyond the spinning wheel of doom after entering my log in details. It’s the same for both my iPhone and iPad. Don’t waste your time.

Never known an app not to work

Delete app, switch off IPAD, download again, just get a black screen on iPad, it works on IPhone today, not a compatibility issue as worked the other stage, rebooted WiFi, I give up

When will the cast option be back?

When will the next update take place? And will that update include the cast option returning?