Daily Wire Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience37.9% of reviews
Neutral18.1% of reviews
Negative experience44.0% of reviews

~ Based on 625 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Daily Wire

Is Daily Wire Safe?

Daily Wire appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Daily Wire is 90/100.

This assessment is based on 17,277 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

87.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
8.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 17,277 App Store ratings for Daily Wire.

Is Daily Wire Legit?

Daily Wire appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Daily Wire is 93/100.

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

Top reviews

Big problem with iPhone 18 pro max

App causes iPhone 18 pro max to overheat and drains battery within an hour (not entirely sure of the battery drain timeframe as I stopped the app to prevent overheating but it is very quick). There have been multiple updates since the iPhone 18 launch. Don’t know if this is a known problem or if it will be addressed.
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Great content, frustrating app

The app is so buggy it’s annoying. The progress on a podcast gets lost constantly. If i listen live to a podcast and the live feed ends, progress just disappears, and the podcast stops and i have to find where it stopped.
Downloading content doesn’t work when I’m actually offline.
Then the layout and navigation are super confusing. I just want to listen to the latest episode of Ben Shapiro, and it always takes 5 clicks to find it.
Also the carplay app is not intuitive. Again, i just want to easily find the latest episode of my favorite host. Why is it buried in menus?
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Cancelling my subscription because of the app

I like the content, but the app is completely non functional for me. I have iOS 27 updated, I have updated the app, I have deleted it and reinstalled…and the app still just does not work at all. I can go to YouTube and load up a video of Matt Walsh in 30 seconds whereas in the app I can’t even get off the home screen after several minutes of it loading. I simply don’t want to pay for a subscription anymore when I’m forced to go watch the free stuff on YouTube anyways.

Take a look around, how many reviews are “I like the content but there are technical issues with the app”? These reviews have spanned a year plus and nothing is being done. Well I’m leaving because of the lackluster technical support. Good job at not being good at your job.
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What Happened to DW

I was a subscriber, listened to 4 hosts daily, Ben, Matt, Micheal and Candice.
Then Candice went off the handle, Micheal became annoying and like flaming metro. Matt walsh is still cool.
Ben was my favorite, but now most of his content is behind a pay wall, or goofy tik tok influencer type videos. I’m genuinely confused how the business model of hiding news content behind a pay wall is helpful to the conservative cause.
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Smooth

I downloaded the app when I got my subscription and I have to say I’m impressed. Beautiful interface, intuitive and the best content. First time I don’t regret paying for content. The best way to escape woke garbage. Like a breath of fresh air in a room full of farts.

Response from developer

Thank you so much for the five-star review! We’re thrilled to hear you’re enjoying the Daily Wire app and content. We really appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback, and we’re so glad you’re enjoying Daily Wire!

Good content but app is going downhill

UPDATE 09/2026 I received a response from DailyWire saying the ads were a trial and to not worry.
Now 5 months into this “trial”ads are more prevalent and have accidental trigger sensitivity so while scrolling they open a new page. The only change is now they have preference ads for their movie and specials. They also force you to scroll through promoted content before you can find the morning news. Subscription is worth less and less.

Last month (May 2026) DW started including ads in the app for paid members. The adds are both in the main page feed and dispersed through the articles as full screen adds that make them easy to accidentally trigger as you scroll. Why pay if they are still going to spray you with aggressive adds?
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SCAM ALERT Once i subscribed and paid I can’t get a refund

I loved Ben Shapiro and daily wire until today. Last week I signed for a year and realized there’s nothing really I’m interested on the website. Today I cancelled and these scammers lock you in for a year and don’t refund you your money even if you never used the service.

I’ll never trust another person again that I think is honest, Ben Shapiro isn’t or he’d never take money from people who don’t want the service. Total scammer

I’m getting a bad feeling about certain people now because of Shapiro
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App update improvements

Updated app does resolve the crashing issue when listening to podcasts - thank you!

Good content, garbage app

Every time this app updates I think “hopefully they’ve fixed it so it won’t be such a buggy mess. It can’t possibly get worse.” And I’m always wrong.

What Happened??

I used to be able to close my phone and keep the audio going. Now it cuts out. What gives??

App keeps crashing

As several others have said, app closes out after about a minute of playing video unless the video is kept on the screen.

Also, Car Play is inconsistent. Sometimes I can access it, other times it tells me to log into the app on my phone.

Make this work with Apple Accessibility for visually impaired listeners

The application is not friendly for Accessibility features for Blind and low vision users. The technology team must work to make the system work with screen readers so that the 10 million people with vision impairment can enjoy this content.
The bottom NAV menu when using Apple‘s native voiceover screen reader, simply states the word button giving no indication what type of action is being incurred.
When someone cited assist a visually impaired user to the search screen, voiceover simply states screenshot. That’s all it states and there’s no way to get to the editing line to enter a search element such as “Matt Walsh“.

In late 2026 I would expect developers be keen to the needs of accessible nature for the visually impaired.

Until this is repaired, I will have to rely on the Daily Wire Podcasts.
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App now crashes during video/audio playback.

It started about a week ago. The app will crash after about a minute of playing either video or audio when your phone screen is locked. I listen to podcasts while working and lock my screen to save battery. Now I have to leave the screen on or the app will crash.

Great app.

My uncle Klavan recommended this app to me. No relation.

Complete Scam

All good until you decide to cancel. Despite the email confirmation of your cancellation, they continue to charge you at renewal while telling you they can’t refund after renewal. This would be fine if it wasn’t their failure.

App keeps crashing

It won’t play for more than about a minute without crashing - this does not equate to improved stability as the latest update claims

Newest App Update is Terrible

5 star content, newest update is horrible. Content won’t keep laying if you close out of your phone.

Pay for AI

This ad free experience is actually “limited ads”. What’s that mean? It means ads still, even during live shows. Plus banner ads and ai lists like “top 13 hearing aide brands, number 9 will shock you”. I don’t want to pay for that and you should be ashamed for defending that, daily wire, you rapacious, disingenuous snake oil salesmen

Edit - they say while they include limited ads to “expand their growing news section” that no ads make it into daily podcasts for paid members… then why am i complaining? Obviously they do and last i checked I’m paying.
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Used to be great

Completely ruined with EXCESSIVE ads and paywalls.

video and audio player cuts off

Not sure when this started but the audio and video versions of podcasts cut off about 1 min into playing. The entire app crashes - even restarting or picking up from where episode left off and it still crashes. Please fix, this makes the podcasts completely unusable.