Family Handyman User Reviews
Customer Experience
~ Based on 27 written reviews from the US App Store.
What users say
Summarized from real user reviews of Family Handyman. Based on 426 reviews and a 4.6/5 average, it highlights the 4 positives and 10 negatives reviewers mention most about this Entertainment app.
Positive things
- 📚High-quality, helpful video content
- ✅Well-organized categories and search functionality
- 💡Useful DIY project guidance and knowledge
- 🎓Confidence-building instructional material
Negative things
- 🐛Frequent stuttering and buffering issues
- 📺Excessive advertisements throughout app
- 🔗Broken navigation links and category access
- 🎬Videos fail to play after ads
- 🔊Autoplay videos with no volume control
- 🧭Poor navigation and difficult content discovery
- ⚠️App continues playing in background after closing
- 🔐Login authentication failures
- ⏱️Live episode timing misalignment
- 🔒Locked content categories
Is Family Handyman Safe?
Family Handyman appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Family Handyman is 91/100.
This assessment is based on 426 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.
Safety Analysis
~ Based on 426 App Store ratings for Family Handyman.
Is Family Handyman Legit?
Family Handyman appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Family Handyman is 85/100.
Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.
Top reviews
This app is never smooth in play back. Even through my Apple TV it stutters, no smooth flow of viewing. It is the only app that does this so I know it’s not my internet connection or device. I like the shows, hence why I downloaded the app. Fix the buffering Family Handyman.
Navigating online App is very bad
I get more ads than I do FH. Useless App. Can’t get to the project I want. When I tap my desired episode, it plays some totally different segment.
Went to the app to select Automotive and the link does not bring you to anything, nor did the other links. As such, the app is not intuitive nor does it work 😕.
The app is extremely glitchy when trying to watch a live episode and it is always off from the timing of the live show on the channel. I love the idea behind this app but it doesn’t work well. The app also does not stop playing in the background when I close it. I will close a show and then get in my car and it is still playing on my phone with no way to actually close the app.
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I get more ads than I do FH. Useless App. Can’t get to the project I want. When I tap my desired episode, it plays some totally different segment.
Why can’t a user toggle the volume off on the video? That’s a horrible feature to not have available to users.
Can’t search anything without some video playing
Can't login, can't play ANY video, regardless of using it on laptop, phone or AppleTV app. It simply doesn't work AT ALL. Very disappointing. Someone needs to fix this pronto.
This app needs a handyman to fix it. Can’t login, keeps telling me username and pwd are wrong. Changing pwd does nothing. Also, videos do not play (but the commercials in front of them do). This app is broken useless garbage. Family Handyman needs to fix it. How ironic.
I don’t want to watch videos
Clicked on videos to watch, but only advertisements play. You can’t view a lot of video content because the videos won’t play after the advertisement plays. It would be a great app if they can fix this.
Too many commercials
What a waste. Difficult to navigate, auto plays videos you don’t want to watch and ads play often. Just watch HGTV.
App works well and has lots of useful info and guidance for many home repairs and projects!
I signed up for the app but went to certain items in the app and they do not play so you cannot chose any category they are pretty much locked out
Not able to use app due to not loading
App is good until it locked up my screen.
Far too hard to find interesting content by category or topic.
No way to shut off the voice
