Emby Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience30.6% of reviews
Neutral12.1% of reviews
Negative experience57.3% of reviews

~ Based on 454 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Emby

Is Emby Safe?

Emby has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Emby is 62/100.

This assessment is based on 660 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.1/5.

Safety Analysis

48.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
7.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
44.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 654 App Store ratings for Emby.

Is Emby Legit?

Emby appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Emby is 88/100.

Based on 88 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Slideshow!?

Disable slideshow on photos, it’s absolutely terrible and there is no option to turn it off.

10/22/2026 I wrote this review years ago and the fact this is still an issue is ridiculous. Forcing a slideshow anytime you want to view a single photo is ludicrous. This has been a pretty big complaint in the community for years, goes to show how much they care!
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Subpar

Uses a lot of battery when just playing songs. Also, the downloaded folder sometimes gets corrupted and needs to be deleted and redownloaded. Wish I would have went with plex

Good Enough

The Emby iOS app gets the job done, and I’ve had no issues watching my hosted movies or TV shows. The UI could use some attention, though—especially the music player, which isn’t very mobile-friendly in some areas and seems cluttery.

The scrolling overlay also gets in the way on both mobile and PC. It stays visible even after I’m no longer hovering over it. I like the app overall, but it needs a little more care on the UI/UX side. As a Premiere user, I hope that gets some attention
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Français

Pourriez-Vous terminer la vf de one piece je vous en supplie

Searching funtion doesn’t work

Searching funtion doesn’t work,unable to search the movie I want. Please fix it.

Best media streaming platform out there

I have been using Emby for a number of years and love it. Do not hesitate to buy the lifetime subscription. It’s such an amazing product to organize your media database. Powerful !!!

Now supports plugin displays.

Previously connected my RayNeo pro 4 glasses and they didn’t work. Tried them again and they work now. Well done for fixing this. However, I just tried streaming my Emby to hotel TV and this doesn’t work. I’ve tried it on many hotel tvs. It sometimes half works, as in starts but can’t move backwards or forwards. Now appears to not work at all. Fix this and it goes 5 stars.
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Не пришел код!Обман!

Купил месячную подписку,код на почту так и не прислали!!!Обман покупателя!!!Верните деньги!!!

Seems to work…

The app seems to work good, however I can’t get it to work remotely with Tailscale nothing plays back including video and audio. However if I open my server in Firefox playback is just fine. Needs some work for remote connections it seems.

Exceptional But Has Gone Awry

Used to be an exceptional app; terrific media centre, minimal glitches. The ability to download for offline viewing has recently been removed and represents a huge step back. Hopefully the developers can reintroduce that feature along with others soon!

No sound with Tailscale

Videos play consistently well on remote clients. However, Audio files do NOT, regardless of formatting, I.e. AAC, MP3, FLAC. This is an app problem, NOT a server problem … IMHO

And BTW, Jellyfin works fine with Tailscale, with the latest Windows backend and IOS app.

My workaround? Emby for video, Jellyfin for audio, accessing the same libraries … 😎
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Update: Now can! [Can’t] play videos via hdmi

UPDATE: appears to be fixed. Stars adjusted.

As the title says, can’t play videos out over hdmi. Paid for the playback, but be aware it only works on the phone screen.

The server is good, it’s good on Apple TV.

Misleading app

Useless app. Tricks you into thinking it work but then constantly prompts for unlock fee. Pure greed. Go with jellyfin instead which has no paywalls.

doesn't work

stuck on loading screen even after deleting and reinstalling and having major issues even before the last update--app simply does not work at all

Can’t play videos via hdmi

As the title says, can’t play videos out over hdmi. Paid for the playback, but be aware it only works on the phone screen.

The server is good, it’s good on Apple TV.

Bonne Appli

Superbe appli pour accéder à différents serveurs.
Fluide, pas de bugs constatés par contre l’application se déconnecte automatiquement et là je n’ai plus accès au remplissage automatique de mon identifiant et mdp ?
Est-ce normal merci pour votre réponse.

Downloads disappear

Downloads disappear. This app is generally useless and unusable

Stopped streaming video over screen share.

Screen share works fine with other apps but Emby quit working.

Doesn’t support plug in displays

Just connected my RayNeo pro 4 glasses and they don’t work. They work with all the rest of the iPhone apps. Viewing enby was the main reason I bought these glasses.

New version still not fixed studio display bug

So the first new version in over a year and it still crashes when playing audio on a Mac with Studio Display. I know there are workarounds that reduce the audio functionality of Studio Display to make it work, but I find that unacceptable.