DISH Anywhere Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience36.1% of reviews
Neutral6.0% of reviews
Negative experience57.9% of reviews

~ Based on 587 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about DISH Anywhere

Is DISH Anywhere Safe?

DISH Anywhere appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for DISH Anywhere is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 265,432 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

91.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 265,356 App Store ratings for DISH Anywhere.

Is DISH Anywhere Legit?

DISH Anywhere appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for DISH Anywhere is 100/100.

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

Top reviews

Seems like censorship is going on. Not surprised

Weird how shows not friendly to the Government corruption are last to be updated in remote viewing and always have issues.

Watching recordings very painful!

Trying to watch recordings and to go forward/backward breaks the recording! Closing out and re-opening, takes you back to beginning!

Updated version

The updated version of this app SUCKS!!! Can’t get anything to populate on the DVR recordings, doesn’t show what is recording, scheduled recordings is off, the guide isn’t helpful. You click on a show to see info on it and it tries playing. Why the change??? Go back to the old version.

Great app

Tons of fun use it all the time

When it works…

The biggest issue is when it doesn’t work or you spend 20-30 minutes trying to get it to work, extremely frustrating when you want to watch a live sporting event.. The most common issue is it stating that my Hopper isn’t connected to the internet, when in fact I have someone at home to verify that it is in FACT connected… so when it works properly it is very good.
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Can’t compete with streaming

You have to watch 10 minutes of ads to “catch up” to the live even even if the event never had any ad pauses

Updated to become useless

This app used to be a useful tool when you’re not at home. Latest updates removed access to timers. Also eliminated information about shows.
Need to go backwards to regain any semblance of usefulness.

Horrible

Your new update to this app is horrendous. It’s not user-friendly. It’s slower than it can ever be. It’s the worst.

The worst

How can the update be worse than it was before with lagging and skipping commercials and timing out? This is 2026. Do better DISH or you’re losing the streaming race.

Buffer

This app buffers all the time. Ran it on AT&T, T-Mobile, and Starlink. Constantly buffers. Compared to DirectTV app this is junk and frustrating. Plan to go back to DirectTV when I can.

Casting tab

Where the heck did the casting tab go?! I used to be able to cast from my iPad to my TV using the cast tab, but after the app update, I can’t anymore because they removed it! Bring it back! WTH

Not Dish “Anywhere” Anymore

This should now be called “DISH anywhere where you can get an Internet connection”. Unfortunately, they removed the feature that allows you to download content onto your device so that you can watch your recordings later in areas without Internet connection. That was one of the biggest features I used on this app. With this ability gone, they are cheating customers out of being able to watch their content and countless places that don’t happen to have an Internet connection. I guess just one more reason why so many are cutting the chord nowadays because what’s the use of paying the premium that we do and still not getting simple features like off-line viewing.
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New Update is HORRIBLE

As the title says, the new update is genuinely awful. Completely changed the UI and removed useful features - can no longer filter by category, for example, Sports. You used to be able to find all channels that are showing a certain category at the current time. Bring this back. Why even remove it in the first place?

Overall performance and speed absolutely tanked. Insanely slow now. It’s even worse if youre using the app on a smart TV. Takes 5-10 seconds for the app to respond to anything you do with the remote.

App used to be so great on mobile and TV, now it’s terrible and frustrating.

Not sure who approved these changes and decided to ship this update but they should probably be fired.

Revert this back to the way it was earlier this year.
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Casting problems

App casting no longer. Used to work very well with casting button at the top. Click on on it, select your device and easy connect. Now, no button. Very disappointing.

Great service

Incredibly convenient when traveling.

Dish anywhere

This app was good until they did the update. Now it just bad. too many issues and just doesn’t work more times than not.

App harder to navigate

I love having the dish anywhere app when we’re traveling but the app is much harder to navigate. Can’t find what exactly I’ve taped or watched as all episodes come up. Much harder to delete things.

Works as well as you’d expect from Dish

Sooo, the option to use the app as a remote is gone. Again. This app is clearly an after thought, and they are investing as little as possible in development and testing. If I wasn’t rural I’d be done with these weasels.

Streaming recorded shows is poor

If you're looking to watch a show you've recorded and are ok watching all the commercials then it's great, BUT if you'd like to skip the commercials...good luck. Whenever I select the 30 seconds forward, it stalls or goes back to where I left off. Also, if I try to continue watching a show that I started at home it starts from the beginning & then I have the issue mentioned above. Extremely frustrating.
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Terrible

A lobotomy will be more pleasurable than using this app