# Funimation — user reviews > 52 indexed App Store user reviews of Funimation by Crunchyroll, LLC, rated 3.90/5 from 20,674 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/funimation/id1075603018/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/funimation/id1075603018.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 12,476 · 4★ 1,714 · 3★ 1,324 · 2★ 1,243 · 1★ 3,917 ## What do users think of Funimation? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Great selection of anime - 👍 Ability to watch in English dub - 🚀 Extensive library of shows **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and bugs - 💸 Too many ads even for paid subscribers - 🔍 Difficult to navigate and find content - 🔒 Account and login issues - 🔇 Subtitles not working properly **Commonly reported bugs** - App freezes and fails to load content - Downloading episodes often fails - Subtitles not syncing properly with video - Inconsistent availability of shows across platforms **Most requested features** - Add more anime in original Japanese audio - Improve app stability and reduce crashes - Reduce number of ads for paid subscribers - Implement user profiles to track progress - Add remote logout option for account security ## Newest reviews (14 of 52) ### 2/5 — Policy for refund needs to be updated *2023-03-31* So I bought it cause I thought as advertised that they had Naruto movie 6 and 7 available but when I tried it didn’t work. Now this is the ONLY reason I bought it cause I have crunchyroll and it works for me but they don’t have those movies available in this region, so when I saw Google showed funimation had it I thought great and when you go to the app on a streaming device or my phone when I search for it the movie shows up and even allows you to click on it, it just won’t play and refers you to customer service, so I reached out and customer service says they don’t have the rights to show it anymore, fair enough so that same day I requested a refund cause I don’t need it if I can’t watch what I wanted to see, they referred me to Apple, apple always gives me back my money on purchases but they did this time and when I asked they said the developer funimation’s policy does not permit them to do so, and referred me to funimation, reached out to them and their response, because I paid through third party (Apple) they have no way to refund me. It should not be this way. That’s a full month that I still have yet to use cause I don’t want to that has done NOTHING for me ### 3/5 — Many pros and cons *2023-01-07, version 2.6.4* Okay, I would like to start off that this app is amazing, there’s many pros but there’s a few cons. One, the ads. Funimation, every single episode I watch it over-boards the amount of ads. Like when I start an episode it gives me 6-7 ads. When I’m getting to like the middle of an episode ANOTHER 7 ads. When I skip to a part, MORE ADS. Now, I get that there’s premium and all that but like can you reduce the amount of ads?? Like just give two ads or one, don’t give an excessive amount of ads. 1 or 2 ads is fine. Premium from what I’ve heard isn’t as good either. I get that you’re trying to boost your business but believe me when I say this, lesser the ads the more positive reviews you’ll get. No. 2, more language. Now, I get that you need premium to unlock certain subs and dubs, but like why is that an option? It’s as if you’re trying to rob a bunch of people and the subtitles aren’t even accurate to what the characters are saying in the sub version of the anime. 3, adding more anime. Funimation, you should atleast add more anime that has been released and make it sub for like a least amount of time and then add a 2nd option to where u can watch it in English. Alright that’s the end of the review. If your looking to download it be prepared for the amount of ads you’re about to see. ### 2/5 — Few problems that need to be address *2023-01-06, version 2.6.4* This is a good app to watch animes like “Demon slayer”, “Dragon ball z” and more however their are mainly two issues i have with the app with one with the video and two reseting passwords. For the video part i feel like their are way to much ads per episode which is usually 3-5 ads per episode which i find annoying as i have to wait a while for the ads to pass only for the same thing to happen for another episode so if you could reduce the number of ads per episode it would make things better. The next part is probably just me but i recently forgot my password for my account so i tried forget password which could have worked If, it didnt keep saying “their was a issue reseting my password please try again” which i did over and over again but it said the same thing but if theirs nothing wrong with it then its most likely me. This is all i need to say have a good day. ### 2/5 — Get Crunchyroll. *2022-12-29, version 2.6.4* Im going to be brutally honest. They gave up on this streaming service. Days of not being able to connect on mobile but you can PC. Playing a crunchyroll ad before every episode even with a 10 dollar subscription. The only reason i got funimation is to watch One piece dubbed, and thats it. The website version of funimation is terrible. It hogs so much internet from your computer that it has to be the only thing running on your pc. even with it drawing this much internet, it buffers constantly 10 - 13 times per episode where it will skip seconds of content and then start playing in terrible quality. The volume doesnt stay consistent, making you have to lower the volume each time you start an episode. Funimation shared part of its library with crunchyroll to apparently make it the greatest anime experience, but all it did was bring funimations problems to crunchyrolls website too. Ive put off using funimation as i didnt feel like paying, and the minutes of ads with no subscription, and i wish i just stuck with that and never got funimation. If you aint reading allat, just stay away from funimation and just get crunchyroll or pirate shows. ### 2/5 — Only good for computers *2022-10-10, version 2.6.2* This app is hard to use on a phone because of the ads, but other than that there’s no problems I’ve come across yet. Examples: the ads pop up mostly every five or three minutes depending on how far into the episode you’re on which isn’t that much of a problem but sometimes I accidentally end up clicking on them and it’s confusing to get out of. If I get an ad and exit the app because I got a notification and go back into the app I have to rewatch the ads which I find very annoying. Ads usually pop up right after you click on the show which again, isn’t a problem but then it plays the show intro that most people skip because they’ve already seen, and it plays an ad after the intro so technically there’s ads right on top of each other. So basically the app would be nice if you paid to get rid of ads. Computer experience is different from the phone experience because it’s not as confusing unless you close the tab and have to go onto the website all over again which like I said before it makes you re watch the ads. But other than that it’s better to use the app/website on a computer rather than using your phone. Sorry if I wasn’t helpful, I tried to explain it as much as I could. ### 2/5 — Better than I remember it but still not great *2022-09-02, version 2.6.2* I remember trying to watch something on this app years ago and giving up not even halfway through the first episode because I was frustrated with the UI. The UI has most certainly gotten better but now a different issue frustrated me and made me stop watching not even halfway through episode 1. Look I understand if you want to watch stuff for free you gotta put up with ads. I am broke and am usually fully willing to put up with ad-breaks if it means I can watch stuff for free. But I feel like this app takes it to the next level. It felt like every 5 minutes I’d be hit with a 6 ad ad-break. Maybe I’d be able to put up with it if it was 6 ads every 10 minutes or 2 ads every 5 minutes. The thing that really annoyed me was that the ads were literally the same exact ad playing 6 times every ad-break. Hearing the same ad on loop got on my nerves and annoyed me so much I had to stop watching. There was even one point where an ad played OVER the audio for the show without pausing the show and when the ad ended I was watching a minute ahead of where the ad break started. Like I said I’m usually okay with ads (I understand they still need to make money off my freeloading) but I feel like this app just made it far too obnoxious and nearly impossible to enjoy watching anything. ### 2/5 — Was a good app *2022-09-02, version 2.6.2* Overall, it is a great place to get your anime. Few glitches here and there which are to be expected. It’s free or you can pay for the upgraded version. However, they have now added commercials to episodes… they have always had one in the beginning but now there are 3 different sets throughout the episode. But that does not mean 3 commercials no there can be up to 6 30 second commercials and they can literally be all the same… talk about annoying. I had 3 of the same ones, then 1 different and then 2 more of the first one. Really?! Come on now, that’s a little ridiculous. I pay for the premium plus subscription so I can watch everything. Why am I paying to watch commercials? I understand if the free accounts have this but the premium plus? Any other film app either doesn’t have any commercials or does the one commercial at the start if you are paying a subscription. This has bothered me for awhile now. When I started using this app I enjoyed it. Finally a place to get to watch all the anime you want. But with this change, adding all these commercials to paying customer is starting to change my mind. I feel like they went from caring about customer experience to more about the money. ### 3/5 — Great before, but recently… there has been an issue. *2022-07-19, version 2.6.2* Everything before a few days before this review was posted, was great. I’m not necessarily saying that it’s not great now, but there has been an issue as of late. Whenever I start an episode the advertisement in the beginning never loads, and never automatically goes away. I’m not a premium member, and upgrading would seem to be a simple solution, but I’m not sure I’d want to purchase a subscription right now. The selection of anime is still impressive and is comparable to many other large anime streaming services, but with the advertisements not loading correctly, it basically renders the app useless unless you pay the subscription for premium. The app itself is still good, but this only goes to show that one small problem can ruin something for what it is. Edit: Truth be told, I’ve been looking for reasons to switch to Crunchyroll anyways lately, because of its expansive library of anime, and ease of access to most features in its menu/Home Screen format. ### 2/5 — A fallen beacon *2022-07-14, version 2.6.2* I’ve had Funimation for a few years now and have loved using their services as they offered higher quality videos, better audio quality and a superior selection of anime than their competitors at Crunchyroll. However, they pretty much sold themselves out to crunchyroll for an easy extra dollar. Their app on all platforms has become unreliable as it struggles to load the anime you want to watch. The visuals can take several minutes to fully load in and while you wait for it to load, it continues to play in the background with zero response to any button presses. It won’t pause, rewind, fast forward, it won’t even respond to me trying to close the app. It cause both my iPhone and Roku TV to crash regularly for zero reason. Further more, they’ve introduced ads promoting Crunchyroll, even on the Premium accounts, which they advertise as “Ad Free” by the way. All in all, Funimation has become a joke of a streaming service and an unreliable supplier of legally obtained dubbed anime tv series and movies. They are sellouts and aiding Crunchyroll with creating a monopoly over the American anime market. ### 2/5 — Great when it works and not just buffering… *2022-06-09, version 2.6.2* As per the title, you can already guess where this is going. I think I’ve spent more time buffering and waiting for videos to start rather than actually watching them. The app structure, UI, layout, etc is all designed really well. However, streaming to the iPad has increasingly become useless across both 4g and 5g connections. I’ve tried both repeatedly, in the same room as the modem as well. I don’t know what’s happened to the servers, it does seem like this issue has only gotten worse and worse. Perhaps it may have something to do with the news about Funimation and Crunchyroll? Whatever it is… please fix it. I I know it’s not my connection, as all other streaming apps work perfectly by comparison, even at full resolution streaming. Or if there’s a way to clear the cache or refresh other flushing functionality to get this app working properly again. Thanks ### 3/5 — Great titles if you can get the app to work or titles to pull up *2022-02-17, version 2.5.1* Very good shows when you can access them and that is the problem. You can find a show and then the next minute it doesn’t exist. Then you find a show that has no episodes but a few hours later they have episodes for it. This is even if you can get on the app at all. For something you pay for not worth the money for the poor user experience you get but when it works it is worth it. Not only the above mentioned things but sometimes it bugs out and freezes in the episode. I can go from my living room to my bedroom to continue a show and it doesn’t work at all when it was just working fine and not to mention I pay for this and the app no longer works for me at any point. The only reason I keep this is because it does have the most dubbed and what I prefer to watch anime on unlike cruchyroll who is mainly in original languages and that is fine for those that like that kind of thing but I don’t like reading when watching something. If it wasn’t for the dubbed content I would cancel this and watch for free on gogo anime ### 2/5 — Poor App Quality *2022-01-21, version 2.5.1* I only got this to watch DBZ, but they do have a very large selection of shows to watch - that is why I gave a 2 star rating. Although the DBZ on here is not the original version and it’s missing quite a few parts, it’s still great to watch. Content aside, this is simply not a good platform at all. If I were rating only the platform I would give it 0 stars. There are constant errors, and if you pause for more than a few minutes it crashes when you push play again. After you go back to the Home Screen and find the episode again, it starts you back a minute or 2 from where you left off. Also, the lowest forward and rewind setting are much too fast. There should be a slower option so you can go right to the parts you’re looking for. There are also additional errors and crashes that happen every so often. It’s not my internet, as I don’t have issues with any other streaming services. Funimation should not charge for this service until they fix all of these errors. ### 3/5 — Ads don’t play *2022-01-07, version 2.5.0* Hi, I just got Funimation and am using a free account. I’m on an iPhone 12, and I noticed that sometimes, during an ad break, the screen just turns black and doesn’t play any ads. Currently trying to watch Demon Slayer, and I keep backing out of the episode to try and fix it, only for it to keep playing like 20 seconds before the ad break, and then the ads don’t play again (making it effectively stuck not playing the rest of the episode). My internet is good and this phone is still pretty new, so I don’t think it’s a problem with anything on my side of things. Please fix this, because I really wanna watch stuff but it just won’t let me. Thank you! Edit: I reopened the app and it worked, but happened again during the next ad break. This time reopening the app didn’t solve it, so it’s been a hassle to just watch one episode. 😔 ### 2/5 — Mediocre *2022-01-05, version 2.5.0* I’ve hate this app for a couple of months, it’s best feature is it’s anime library. I’ve come across plenty of issues not only on the phone app but the app on the television as well. As for my televisions one won’t play any show I choose, the other won’t auto play to the next episode. My fire stick is where this app works best. As for my phone downloading shows to watch later is terrible, for starters the download speed of one episode is slow, then after I’ve clicked download on episodes I have to always go back because the episodes always fail to download. I have to keep clicking and re-download episodes multiple times for hours. While on wifi in some locations episodes not download will not play, it’ll sit at a black screen and do nothing BUT on the same wifi speed Netflix downloads episodes and plays everything very well. With all that being said I guess it’s pointless having to mention the subtitles come in seconds late. So all in all it’s almost better to try a different anime app altogether which I have not done thus far. I’ll give this app another month of $7 before I call it quits. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — FAIL in any language *2023-02-09, version 2.6.4* Your app translations are as bad as the translations on your anime (but better-voiced): “Only Premium Plus and Premium Plus Ultra users must[sic] be able to access the app offline” And I thought the app was useless BEFORE! You are deliberately blocking access to PAID Digital Copies. Can you say “Class Action Lawsuit”? Update: this app FAILs on EVERY platform iOS (iPad and iPhone), PlayStation, Roku, etc. They constantly insert ads into PAID Digital Copies. Why bother logging in or building a digital library when your paid content has ads like anonymous, for-free guest viewing? That’s *IF* your Digital Copies are still in your Library! Funimation didn’t lose the licenses (yet)… those paid-for episodes are available but only on the main stream… with ads or, get this, only to premium subscribers! You need to subscribe to access your purchased content… which is otherwise available to all subscribers! Maybe you can find the missing Digital Copies in your Library by switching platforms, but I can all but guarantee you that they’ll have ads, even if you TRY to watch from My Library / My Anime! And the dubs are still garbage ### 1/5 — Good selection of content. Trash Apps *2022-12-01, version 2.6.4* The Good: They have a great selection of content. At least, I’m happy with it. The Bad: I use this on iPhone and Apple TV. On the iPhone when browsing through the full library it will sometimes say it can’t communicate with the servers. This always happens with certain shows like when I try to add DBZ or Naruto to my queue. It also seems like there is some content available on my phone that’s not available on Apple TV. Like I can watch Akira on my phone, but when I go to the info for it on TV it says there’s no videos. The Apple TV app is the worst. When I view the details for a show or movie, the back button doesn’t return me to the previous screen; instead it takes me to the main menu. I then have to navigate through the menus back to where I was. When browsing shows it always defaults to most recently added. I switch to alphabetical to make it easier to find what I’m looking for, but it doesn’t let me jump through the alphabet. Then as I said before, if I view something I then have to start all over. I also tried to navigate to Naruto or DBZ to add them to my queue on my TV, but the app crashes when I try to view them. Recommendations: * Fix the back button functionality to work like the rest of Apple TV apps * Add scroll by letter function / jump to letter function * Have a disclaimer if a show isn’t available on all supported platforms * Get an Apple TV for your QA team to test on ### 1/5 — terrible..😐 *2022-11-23, version 2.6.4* the only reason i gave this app an extra star was only because your app used to work before it started glitching. this all happened in less than a week after downloading. for some reason, whenever i open the app, it doesn't show any videos in my watch history. it tells me to click the top to refresh the page and nothing happens. I couldn't watch a certain anime i was catching up with and some other shows too. it didn't let me play the video and said something about "error 5." I tried reinstalling the app multiple times, and all I got was nothing. It still continued to glitch. My wifi is completely fine and it works with any other streaming app I have on my phone. I tried logging out and logging back in, just for it to say i am unable to get back into my account for some reason. I tried resetting my password for my account and it told me to retry. please fix this, it's really frustrating, and i might as well download crunchyroll instead. 🤦‍♀️ ### 1/5 — Failure at every turn *2022-10-14, version 2.6.2* This app doesn’t work on mobile or smart TV. On mobile it will fail to load most times you pull up the app. It will forget your watch history and what you had to your que. 5Mo ago there was a patch that states they fixed their chromcast not connecting. Welp I’ve tried to two chromcasts, one Roku and 2 screen mirrors and it doesn’t work. I tried with other apps just to make sure and they all worked fine. The app you can download from your smart tv(I have a Samsung). Let’s you sign in just fine. Then proceeds to get stuck in the loading homepage phase. I left it up 30 minutes and it never finished. Pretty basic app that is basically just cloned now a days and it’s super surprising it doesn’t even function half the time. I wouldn’t download and I’m going to cancel my subscription. Do not pay full price for less than full product people. They profit while we “wait” for what the apps is suppose to do in the first place. ### 1/5 — Okay when it works, terrible otherwise. *2022-07-14, version 2.6.2* I’ve been using this app for a couple months and about the only thing it has going for it is the library; you have a vast catalog of shows to choose from and that’s great. What’s not great is the fact that I frequently find myself having to close and reopen the app to POTENTIALLY get to watch a singular episode because of how completely broken the ads are. I have literally spent more time watching ads than I have a show before because the app will get stuck trying to load more ads halfway through the episode leaving me with no other option but to close and reopen the app, sit through a barrage of ads just to get back to where I was in the episode, to then run into the same issue that made me close the app in the first place. Some days the app will actually work but other days I’m caught in this insufferable loop that leaves me beyond frustrated. I would love to continue using the app but it’s hardly worth my time if all I’m actually going to be using is an app that’s a advertisement marathon in disguise. ### 1/5 — Omg *2022-05-02, version 2.6.1* Literally I was on Funimation and an attic him and of course I was a little angry because I wanna continue my show but that wasn’t the thing I wanted to complain about when the ad popped up in the attic finished I cannot press out of the app so I went back to the screen press the show again and the show starts again but then another ad pops up and then happens the same literally I can’t exit out so I have to do it again so I do this about four times and then it just gives me six ads six ads and now you want me to go through around 10 and to go to a show and also why do they give you six ads for seven sometimes lake hbo or other sites give you like two and this is just an anime site hello this is an edit this is the same day I am watching these six ads literally when I wrote this it was like two minutes from now I was watching those six ads right so the six is finished and I’m like OK fine show me the show that I’m wanting to watch and then right when the show goes on it gives me another six ads so you’re telling me I have to go through more than 15 ads just to watch one show oh my God I get the site lake two stars now I’m giving it one because really trying to get my money here like oh my mother trucking God ### 1/5 — Terrible, No Good, Very Bad *2022-04-03, version 2.6.0* First of all the subtitles for your Nintendo switch app is all the way off the screen so you can’t even read it. Secondly every time I try to watch a video on your web browser it says “video is not found.” Thirdly your phone app crashes just while you’re trying to put shows on my watch list (then again so does your Nintendo switch app). Every app you have no matter what device is extremely laggy. Fourth I pay for premium plus and I’m still getting ads, I don’t care how short it is if I’m paying for no ads I should get no ads. And the fact you bombard ad payers with 20 ads within a minute in of a series is ridiculous. Fifth this is a pathetic excuse for an app I honestly cringed when I found out you bought crunchyroll. I sincerely hope you do not ruin crunchyroll the same way you’ve handled your mediocre app. Do us all a favor and continue moving all the shows to the crunchyroll app and completely remove the funimation app from the App Store. And don’t you dare change a thing to crunchyroll besides adding new shows. The apps are perfect as is. ### 1/5 — Terrible customer service *2022-03-24, version 2.6.0* Funimation is a decent app for a decent price. It allows you to watch some anime, with some convenience, and is really cheap. However, if your looking for quality content backed by a company that actually cares, then look elsewhere. Upon getting my account hacked, and email/password switched, Funimation had zero customer support in locating my account. They failed to find my account via email address, account name, credit card, or any other means that would normally locate ones account. They instead shifted all responsibilities and to blame a third-party payment system, insisting that they could only help if you used a credit card instead of the Apple payments. As petty as it may seem, I was robbed out of my billing cycle payments, forced to create a new account, loosing all data and history associated with Funimation. It isn’t worth investing hours of your life into an app that cannot securely safeguard your account, nor keep records on file regarding your account details, and insisting that you should start a new subscription and refresh all your account preferences including the lists of content you intended to watch. After reattempting this service, I found I was getting ads on multiple episodes for multiple different shows. Upon contacting customer support, they simply said they were looking into the issue and never came up with a solution. ### 1/5 — This truly hurts to write *2022-02-10, version 2.5.1* I love Funimation, and I don’t just mean this app. This app has possibly the best selection of anime outside of finding it illegally online, but it doesn’t matter how great or how many shows you have if you can’t watch them. I always just assumed that I (along with every other person writing bad reviews) just had crappy phones or bad WiFi, but I now have the iPhone 13 with the fastest internet speeds you can get, due to working from home, and I STILL get MAYBE 3 episodes into something before this app refuses to play the next episode. The crazy part is, I’ll go try to play another show and that will play no problem and I’ll try to go back to the episode that I was trying to watch in the first place and it still won’t load. Whenever I read reviews, I always think to myself that the people writing them had ONE bad experience and now they just want to complain, but I have been paying for Funimation for YEARS now, and I can honestly say, this is an everyday thing. Every time this app has an update, I get so excited thinking that just maybe, this is the one that fixes the streaming issues, but it still hasn’t happened. Please Funimation, I am begging you while literally throwing money at you every month, PLEASE fix these streaming issues.. I’m not going to continue paying for something I can’t use, that’s why I left my ex. ### 1/5 — The worst streaming service/app. Constant wait. *2022-01-24, version 2.5.1* Not even kidding. I’ve been using this app for 3 months now, it’s the worst streaming service/app. I’m not sure if it’s the app or the streaming service itself, but it’s terrible. Can barely do simple functions other streaming services do such as continue next episode and replay. Can’t remember where user left off on an episode. The worst part is trying to start an episode. It will start to play the first 7 seconds, then waits…and waits…and waits. It’s stupid. I can run every other streaming service without delay, yet Funimation can’t provide a working streaming service. So if you get stuck on the wait, start over (you’ll have to do it another 5 or 6 times before it’ll work) then you can watch your show. It’s a mixture of luck, fast forwarding before it gets stuck on a wait, and where/when on the episode to press play; otherwise you’ll be on the wait again. It’s annoying to do every episode. I’m canceling and never coming back to this ridiculous company. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Still the only platform I’ll ever use. Latest update the pause feature doesn’t work *2023-12-05* I just wanted to let the developers of this app know that the pause feature is not working for me and the only way to pause a show is by using my Bluetooth earbuds. I would appreciate it if this was resolved. As for the overall review of the app, This is something I’ve said before but I’ll say it again, I’m a 90s baby and have grown up with Funimation incorporated into my life so to hear that this app will be moving over to crunchyroll, (whom is in the middle of a class action lawsuit btw) it made me cringe. I don’t think it’s the best decision for the platform as a whole or even for Sony to force people like me, who finds Funimation a very nostalgic and fun concept that has been woven into their life and wish to continue to be, over to a platform that we will never fully embrace or commit to because let’s be real. There’s a lot more people than just myself who will not be making the switch and that’s a lot of lost revenue for Sony and Funimation. The second this app stops working is the day I will be going old school and watching DVDs and watching other platforms. Crunchyroll will not be one of those things. ### 5/5 — I have a question about one piece *2023-01-22, version 2.6.4* Your platform your entertainment platform is a 10 out of 10 but I have to wonder why is it whenever you get one piece in English and I watch it like I watch the same episode but it takes you it says it’s in English and Japanese but when I click on it, it says this is not available in English I don’t like like why are you going to get my hopes up being like hey there’s a new episode of one piece better go watch that to just then realize that you have to wait like a couple weeks for them to actually have the episode out. And it’s annoying like like if you don’t have it in English just don’t until it’s done stop getting my hopes up. I am in it with one piece only so just don’t get my hopes up. If you don’t have it ready yet you don’t say that you have it ready that’s just called being a jerk ### 5/5 — Sorry but... here’s the truth *2022-03-06, version 2.6.0* Funimation I have always loved your app, but you have to pay to like watch a episode you can’t, unlike this app Crunchyroll still has ads but you can watch all the Japanese or dubbed anime on there and you don’t have to pay. I love watching my hero academia on here. But I don’t enjoy paying for stuff I want to watch. Also let’s talk about katsu, katsu gets the episode on a few hours after it’s released. I’ve been waiting to watch season 4 on my hero academia. BOOM it’s comes out after so long but I have to pay for it. I love your dubs but please let everyone watch the episodes for free and pay for something like watch offline, or get free merchandise. I will still use this app. But not as much as I use crunchyroll. I will edit this if you make some changes. Edit: Back to five stars :3 this was written in 2020 (I’m pretty sure) so here’s ur five stars back lol ### 5/5 — Please add Mexico as a region so I can watch more anime’s *2021-08-10, version 2.1.0* I love funimation so much! It’s a great app and I love that I can watch it in dubs. The quality is amazing and premium is so worth it. I would say funimation is way better then crunchy roll but the only problem is that I moved to Mexico a few days ago and I went onto funimation and it says “Funimation is not available in this region but we’re adding new regions all the time. Check back again soon!” So can you please add Mexico. The only reason I’m asking is because I LOVE THIS APP, ITS GREAT TO WATCH ANIMES but I have premium on there and it’s going to waste because the app doesn’t allow Mexico to use funimation so like I said can you please please, please add it! (On safari I searched up if Funimation allows Mexico to use the app and it said like “Funimation will be adding Mexico soon” which was in like 2020.” So please add Mexico as a region so I can watch more anime! 😄 ### 4/5 — Ads and more (again) *2022-12-01, version 2.6.4* This app is a breeding ground for ads. If I watch an episode of something, I have to watch an ad, there are at least 2 ad sequences in each episode, and I feel like it is ridiculous. You have to watch at the very least 5 ads each episode. One before you get into the episode, 1-6 ads after the intro, and then another one, maybe two ad sequences after that. Not to mention that after you look at an ad, sometimes you get a black screen and then you are forced to go to another ad sequence like a checkpoint. This company seems money hungry, and is too focused on earnings and ads, than the quality of the app. I feel like they only say they don’t even read the reviews, to see what people feel. In fact, they are so focused on earnings, they made another app, which basically has the same properties and problems of this app. The ads are the main issue. I could understand if the company mitigated the ads down to 2 per sequence, but they don’t. ### 4/5 — Great app but *2022-09-14, version 2.6.2* This is a great app. It has a great user interface and has a lot of different animes! I mostly came here for dragon ball because it has it dubbed. It’s very nice to watch just there is one problem, ads. I load up an episode, ad (30 seconds so far) I skip past the intro, 6 30 second ads(210 seconds). I get about halfway, 6 30 second ads(390 seconds). 6/8 through, 5 30 second ads(540 seconds). And when the episode is about to be over, 6 more 30 second ads. In total that is 720 seconds of ads which is 12 minutes. So the average episode is 20 minutes. So I spend more than half the length of the episode watching ads. There are two ways to get around it. Subscription or ad blocker. If your on your phone I suggest using a laptop or pc. If your on a laptop or pc download an adblocker because the amount of ads you get is crazy. ### 4/5 — Great app to watch anime on but some things *2022-01-18, version 2.5.1* So I got this app last year and I decided to look at the reviews and rate the app and people were saying that there are adds but I don’t get any. I think this app should have a better rating but there are some things. 1. Some animes aren’t finished on Funimation and some are premium but it said that with premium you could watch new episodes after being broadcasted in Japan. So I didn’t get premium just for that. 2. I love the app (ik I keep saying that) but I feel that you could put more animes on this app so it would be better. Also I’m a kid writing this review but pls put why the age ratings are what they are because I was watching “The future diary” and it showed breast naked and the age rating was 14. I watched anime on Netflix before and when the shows said nudity I would search up why and watch it if it was ok. I’ve watched aot and kakegurui before but those are just some examples of the animes I’ve watched that said they had nudity. Usually the nudity would be just like butts or partly covered breast. I know it’s not that big of a deal but it upsets some people like kids like me and parents or just anybody. Those are some things that i think you could do for this app and the people that use this app. But all summed up I think this is a good app. Thank you for reading this rating/review :) ### 4/5 — More English Dubs *2022-01-03, version 2.5.0* I have been subscribing to Funimation for years. And I’ve looked into other apps that stream anime. I think this app way better than most. Your watching a episode and you have the option in the middle of your episode to switch from Japanese to English Dub. Crunchyroll can’t do this. Some people say the app is glitchy, well I’ve had more problems from Netflix than from Funimation. The old format did have some flaws but that’s gone now. The New Format can be approved upon. I get that selection for Animations can be frustrating when your looking for something and can’t find it. But As far as English Dubs go Funimation is the way to go. They have Season's of English Dubs that most other apps don’t have. I Would Like To See Some of the older shows that just have the 1st season in English done; get the second season done in English also. **The cool thing with this app is you can set a Language preference!** So when you select your shows English will play if it’s Available! If Your looking into getting Funimation. Give it a try. It does work a little different than most streaming apps. But to sum it up I’ve been with them for years and I like it better than Crunchyroll, Hidive, Retro,… just to name a few. . ### 4/5 — Ability to skip *2021-12-10, version 2.4.2* I love Funimation on my phone it works great but my one complaint is you can only skip 10 seconds ahead on a episode and you have to spam click it. There’s a lot of times where I rewatch episodes or try to figure out where I left off, so I skip through episodes. Most websites or apps will either let you drag the bar to the exact part you want I believe it’s called (scrubbing) through a video or a website will have it to where you click it multiply’s so first click is 10 seconds ahead then 20 s and so forth making the process a lot faster. I rated this a four stars for this reason. I love Funimation been using there website and watching tv shows on there app pretty much since they became a business. If not for this one flaw it’s a perfect five stars! ### 4/5 — Wow it’s improved *2021-12-02, version 2.4.2* I’d like to start my stating that this is purely a review of the app itself, not content or the company. I have used the Funimation app for about three years now, and I must say that I am pleasantly surprised by how much improvement has been made over that time. About three years ago the app was unusable, quite literally. It often would simply stop working or close, along with general loading issues. I mean it when I at that literal pirating websites had better reliability than the app. BUT I am glad to say that has changed. The recent improvements are wonderful. The app looks nicer, no longer that terrible white background with the harsh sharp corners for everything, and the search aspect now works reliably. The app is useable and is good for everything I need. It lacks a lot of things in the quality of life department, but it seems they are currently prioritizing functionality over the good looks. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*