# Old – DISH Anywhere — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of [Old] by DISH Network LLC, rated 4.38/5 from 49,114 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/old-dish-anywhere/id378924512/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/old-dish-anywhere/id378924512.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 35,498 · 4★ 5,990 · 3★ 2,280 · 2★ 1,369 · 1★ 3,976 ## What do users think of [Old]? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Fast and responsive - 👍 Convenient remote control functionality - 🔒 Secure access to content **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 🔍 Difficult navigation and poor UI design - ⏱️ Slow loading and buffering issues - 🔌 Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions **Commonly reported bugs** - Guide not loading or showing incomplete channel list - Recordings not available or unable to be deleted - Frequent app crashes and login issues - Compatibility problems with iOS 11 and newer **Most requested features** - Restore previous app functionality - Improve guide and channel selection - Add picture-in-picture support - Enhance remote control capabilities ## Newest reviews (17 of 50) ### 3/5 — Bad update! *2020-10-11, version 20.3.40* Since last update, the guide no longer shows all my subscribed channels and also no longer shows the channel number! Guide on app now useless! Please fix. Update: i finally just tried signing out of app and back in and this worked so I now can see all my subscribed channels and their numbers. I then got an email from developer telling me to reset receiver, but I did not have to do that. Please make sure to test app updates better in the future so end users do not have problems. This app remains one I do not rely on to always work correctly. ### 2/5 — Hate the update *2020-07-16, version 20.2.80* I have been a Dish customer for approximately 15 years and have zero complaints with the service. There have been a few channel outages that have been frustrating but I completely understand that at times it is needed to maintain cost. The Dish Anywhere App use to work perfectly until the App was redesigned. Now programming is delayed from when it’s recorded until it’s available on the App. The functionality and ease of use of the App has a less user friendly design and I truly wish I would have not updated the application. As I travel for business I use the App frequently and have considered changing service providers to another service provider with more user friendly and functional app. I really hope Dish considers fixing these complications soon. **Developer response:** Hello, BigAl2196. We appreciate you sharing your feedback and we will pass this feedback along to our teams for review and consideration. We are aware of the issue with the recordings showing on the app delayed. Force closing the app and reopening may help bring in the recordings sooner. If this does not work, please send us an email at danyprod@dish.com including a brief description of the issue, your device type, device operation version, DISH Anywhere version, and is the decive connected via Wi-Fi or cellular data, please? ### 2/5 — Could be better *2020-06-08, version 20.2.50* I absolutely used to love this app but ever since the new update it has been wonky. When I go to fast forward or rewind it takes forever to load. When I want to watch a recording almost every time it says another view is watching on this receiver would you like to take over, it used to ask if I wanted to watch on the tv or my device but it doesn’t anymore. And if I am watching a show it doesn’t show that I am watching on the app. Overall it has a lot of glitches that I hope will be solved in the next update but I still watch this app everyday and can handle the glitches. ### 3/5 — Rating upgrade *2020-05-30, version 20.2.50* When this new design was released a couple of weeks ago, I gave it one star because it just didn’t seem like it was very user friendly. I am now upgrading to 3 stars. I have found that it is stable, but sometimes videos that have been transferred don’t want to play. I will need to fully close the app and sometimes turn WiFi off/on or play something live and then switch to transferred videos. So, I have gone from 1 star to 3 stars. Hopefully the bugs that remain will be taken care of in future updates. ### 2/5 — Lousy since the update *2020-05-26, version 20.2.40* I use this every night and a recent update changed a lot of the features. It seems like they changed things just to be different. It certainly did NOT make it better. The skip buttons are much harder to use. They’re too close together and they have a delay now for some reason. You can’t scroll through a show anymore. And you have to minimize the screen to go back to the list to sort through by season to find the next episode. It also doesn’t begin at the beginning if a show is recording at the time. It plays live and will not rewind. It’s way less efficient than it used to be. Very disappointed. I’ve actually been using a different streaming app more lately just because of the annoying changes in this regrettable update. **Developer response:** Hello Opslately. Thank you for your feedback. We are always looking for ways on how to improve. We will share this with our team for review and consideration. ### 1/5 — What happened to dish anywhere? *2020-05-09, version 20.2.20* I have used dish anywhere for years so that I could watch exactly what is on my tv whenever I wanted. I loved it. I tried to log in last night. The site has COMPLETELY changed. And absolutely, not for the better. The home page looks like a streaming service with extremely limited options. The guide only shows about 20% of the channels I subscribe to. None of my recordings are available. No local channels are available and when I tried to watch one of the recommended shows, I had to watch almost 5 minutes of ads before I could even exit from the program. Such a disappointment. I called customer service and the very nice woman said she never heard of any problems with the new download. We are looking into direct tv. Maybe we’ll be eligible for those new customer perks that dish never offers us because we have been loyal customers for 20 years **Developer response:** Hi, Maryj99. We definitely appreciate your feedback on how we can improve our service. Make sure the guide is set to "All Channels". Are you missing the DVR Icon? If so, click on "More", and you should see the option for DVR. ### 1/5 — What a degrade to the application now during the Covid period *2020-05-07, version 20.2.20* When every streaming media is trying to be helpful to the people in quarantine, Dish adds agony to its customers. They just messed up this application and removed very critical features which they used as an attraction to gain customers. Dish removed these features in a dictatorial manner with arrogance. No more remote UI. No more transfers of the recordings and many more. On line customer support is itself is perplexed to answer customer grievances. Come on Dish CEO, are you punishing your customers due to their loyalty during these COVID days. You should be ashamed for leading an insensitive product team. Please rollback the old version and let us live in peace ### 1/5 — Horrible update *2020-05-05, version 20.2.20* This update is awful. Can’t say enough negative things about it. It is slow to respond, skip forward/backward buttons are in a terrible location and too close together making them hard to use successfully, not easy to navigate from show to guide/dar menu without exiting app altogether. I like to use this app on my iPad while on the treadmill and having to take at lot of precaution when pressing forward and back skips or wait for the app to respond and no way to pause while viewing a recorded show or figure out how to navigate between menu screens is incredibly frustrating! Dish, you should have left well enough alone! Please fix this app!! ### 3/5 — Previous Version *2020-05-05, version 20.2.20* I’m not sure what happened to the previous version of this app but it should be brought back. A couple of weeks ago the app that I loved automatically changed to this new updated version. It is not as fast and the controls are inconvenient to use. Previously controls to back up or go forward in the program were on the actual show screen. Now they are above the screen and it’s just not good. Nothing about my home set up or equipment changed so I’m still not sure why the dish anywhere app changed. Most app updates are positive but I really don’t like this new one. Please go back to the old app. ### 1/5 — Thank a lot for screwing over your customers Dish! *2020-05-04, version 20.2.20* I have loved this app for several years now until today I find out that my Dish Anywhere app. doesn’t support my old receiver anymore because my receiver is too old and I have to use a sling module to connect to the internet...how thoughtless and myopic of you. Why are you squeezing your customers that have paid you tens of thousands of dollars over the years. So because I’m a long term customer, I am being forced to upgrade to Dish Hopper and either pay more for the same service or downgrade my package. Thanks for putting the screws to your valued customers; what a crappy thing to do. Isn’t this what Apple did to its older phones where they slowed them down to force people to buy new equipment? It’s just wrong of you to do this to your customers. ### 2/5 — Forced update *2020-05-02, version 20.2.20* After the Dish app updated to the most current version all on its own I’ve got a few comments and issues. -I’ve seemed to of lost the ability to tune my TV to the program I’ve selected in the guide. In the old version it was simply the tap of a button when the program was selected in the guide. Now it wants to stream the program on my iPad instead of tuning to the program on TV. -the newest update didn’t save any of my favorite channels, not a biggie, just annoying. -selecting your favorite channel list isn’t as easy as it was before. -the look of the app isn’t what I’d expect from an update, fonts are different in the channel guide than what I had before. I actually thought the iPhone app had downloaded by mistake rather than the IPad app so reloaded again. Keep in mind I didn’t execute the initial app update, it occurred by itself by asking for me to log into my account, little did I know that this would be the result. I’ll never see a response to this if the developer should choose to ask for more information, so just know I’d prefer to have the ability to go back to the previous version. **Developer response:** Hello! We appreciate you for bringing this our attention. We here at DISH are Tuned In To You! We will be sure to forward this to our Tech Ops team. We are collecting feedback from our members so that we can resolve things as soon as possible. Can you send us an email at danyprod@dish.com including your device type, device operation version, and DISH Anywhere version please? ### 1/5 — Bad upgrade to app *2020-05-01, version 20.2.20* You have ruined dish anywhere. It won’t load the guide, it doesn’t show the connection like Living room 1, the recordings can be seen but they won’t play. It is not a usable interface. The only channels that show on the guide are what an antenna would have public tv. No local or cable channels are listed. You must let us go back to the last version that worked over a week ago. I will be complaining to DISH network and if this isn’t back to normal in two weeks I will leave DISH network as a paying customer. You have ruined it. There is no way you all tested this. It is ridiculous. This app was the only thing that differentiates DISH from DirecTV. Very unhappy customer. Susan ### 2/5 — Not what I expect from Dish *2020-02-13, version 7.31.0* Dish “anywhere” should actually say “anywhere you have an internet connection”. Often the app requires me to re-sign in in order to watch shows I have already downloaded to my device. Latest “upgrade” did away with the skip forward feature. I know the advertisers probably wanted this and paid for this but as an app user I liked the skip forward feature and hate that it was removed. Also with the latest “upgrade” I get several errors in which stop whatever it is I’m watching and I have to close the app, re-open it and start the show from the beginning. And without the skip forward feature...it’s a pain. ### 1/5 — EPIC FAIL *2019-12-22, version 7.28.0* I really only want one feature from the app: to be able to remotely schedule new recordings. More often than not, I’m greeted with “Error ... please try again later.” What kind of a garbage user experience is that? I’m forever amazed how huge corporations — especially media corporations — put out such awful apps, often with basic functionality, troubleshooting, and support completely absent. They clearly do not respect, let alone appreciate, their customers. Is it any wonder, then, that media piracy is so rampant? Or that New Media players like Netflix are eating Dish’s lunch? There is no way the 4.4 out of 5 rating on this app is genuine, by the way. That’s clear to anyone who has actually used the app. Maybe Dish could invest more in app development and maintenance than in juicing the App Store ratings and reviews. ### 1/5 — Favorites? Nuh uh! *2019-10-07, version 7.28.0* I’m just trying to use the app as a guide. To that end, I chose Favorites, using the hearts next to the station. It worked just fine for a few months then started misbehaving once in a while. Now after a few months of minor problems followed by worse performance frequently, it’s useless. Right now, the Guide page is stuck at “Loading” . . . But it’s not loading. And the lingstanding problem is still there. If I tap Favorites, I get a popup saying that I have not designated any Favorites — but I have — and it tells me I can designate Favorites using the hearts next to the station — but there are NO hearts. Help! Update: This app has become totally useless, but now I can’t even use the dotcom version because it tells me to download the app. As noted above I was using the program for the Guide but now I’m using TV Guide, which works. **Developer response:** Hey there, Data Flunky. We are actively investigating this issue. For now, our only work around is to close the app completely then reopen or reset the device. ### 1/5 — Hello IOS 13.1, Adios Dish Anywhere *2019-10-03, version 7.27.4* Today is October 3rd, 2019. I’ve been reporting the IOS 13 crash issue for well over a week via online chat, email, and now the App Store review process. The app is broken. If it loads at all and gets to the home screen, it may twink out and try to login again, and fail, or of it stays logged in everything but the “guide” function works. Select “guide” and the app disappears from the screen, but continues running in background. When you try to bring it back, it goes back to the login process. Please fix, and please don’t respond with a reply time-stamped as being sent a year ago that says “we’re working on it...” ### 1/5 — App Still Works Poorly with IOS 13 iPad upgrade *2019-10-01, version 7.27.4* I see a similar complaint from another user about the iOS upgrade for iPads from last Saturday. It works somewhat but when I hit the guide button (as opposed to all the other buttons on the bottom), it kicks me out. And when I use the “search” function, it will get me to the first program I choose but then if I want to change a different one, takes me back to the same one. DIsh Anywhere is my favorite program out of Dish...if it continues to have functions that don’t work properly - especially at the prices we all pay - I may need to look at a competitor who is always sending me deals in the mail. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Now closed captioning on by default *2020-12-28, version 20.4.30* Is it possible for your developers to make an update without screwing something up. Now, closed captioning us turned on by default if I stream live. I turn I off and the next day it is back on. Why would this be. Annoying. Still waiting for a reason why Transfers were moved to a separate tab so it takes me about 4 steps instead of one to get to the feature I use the most. Do you actually have real customers test functionality before release. One of the worst customer facing UI I have encountered. Well, this app just got even worse. Now, with IOS 14 the app will pair to my Hopper but goes no further. Screen says logging in but stays on screen with Dish logo. Same with my iPhone and the Dish Anywhere app. Come on developer. This cannot be that hard. I have shows I want to watch offline and this app is now completed unusable. Seriously thinking of switching providers. Just updated to new version and all shows I had transferred to my iPad are gone. Great job Dish. Again, do you people not test anything before putting in production. How is every update a downgrade. Received a developer response which was nothing more than a canned response with a series of steps and questions. It was obvious no one actually read my review. All the transfers I had are gone. Nothing I can do to get them back. Also, still would love to know why transfers was moved off the main menu. **Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to let us know you are experiencing this issue. This is certainly not the experience we want you to have with our DISH Anywhere App. A lot of times resetting the app and your device helps with this issue. If you've tried these steps and are still experiencing issues, please send the following details to danyprod@dish.com: 1. Device type/model 2. iOS version (Screenshot from phone Settings) 3. DISH Anywhere App version 4. Is the device connected via Wi-Fi or cellular data? 5. Specific error message or behavior (Provide screenshot of error message, if available) 6. What were you doing when you saw the message or behavior? 7. Are you seeing a similar issue on your receiver? ### 1/5 — Update not working *2020-10-30, version 20.3.51* Was told I needed to have 800kbps and 4 mbps and tried right in front of hopper in my home and it still didn’t work correctly. So speed doesn’t seem to be the main problem. It is a poorly redesigned app. Worked great last year and beginning of the year. Should have kept it the way it was This used to work great. Now it stops streaming constantly and it isn’t very clear. Tried calling and we uninstalled and reinstalled and it still didn’t do anything to fix connection to hopper while traveling. Very disappointing since I travel a lot. Couldn’t get items deleted from prime either while traveling. Whatever update has been it doesn’t seem to be working correctly for me.n ### 1/5 — Old app was great *2020-10-27, version 20.3.51* When you read the reviews sort by “most recent.” You will see almost 100% one stars. The most common problem is slow buffering. Please just give us the old app back as an option . I loved the old app. It worked like a dream. Unfortunately, I had automatic update turned on in my most used iPad. What a mistake. I see with the latest update the skip forward, pause , and skip back buttons have been returned to their rightful place. Now, if you could just put the remote icon back for those of us who watch live tv. Here is what I found after having to research. Select All Channels. Select Live Stream. Select the program you want to watch. Select the play icon. Four step now instead of one. I have thought for months that I could no longer live stream. Fortunately, I had auto update off on an older iPad thus I moved that one Into my kitchen. Now will turn off auto update on this iPad until I read reviews. Just make this easier FS1 dish lovers and restore the older app ! Update. I spoke too soon.i had one device that had update turned off and had one device that worked great. I hit the update all button and now see in real time how awful this new app is. My programs stop and start or freeze. The old app did not do this. **Developer response:** Hello, Sailvic. We are aware of this issue and are currently working on a solution. We are collecting feedback from our members so that we can resolve it as soon as possible. Can you send us an email at danyprod@dish.com including the issue you are experiencing, your device type, device operation version, and DISH Anywhere version please? ### 1/5 — No Control *2020-09-27, version 20.3.30* Are you ever going to bring back the functionality of controlling Joeys and Hoppers from the app? Even the outdated graphics being used on the App Store lead consumers to believe this is possible. Many of your customers have asked repeatedly for either access to the old app, or inclusion if this feature. I’ve been monitoring the updates and diligently installing them with hopes of the feature being restored. I disabled the auto update feature after being so disappointed with the new app version. I note that since you released the new app your reviews have literally been nothing except 1, with many indicating they’re considering a change of service or that they would have rated this a zero if they could have. Are you planning on restoring this feature? As it is now, the best use of this app is only as a guide to see what’s on, and even that requires effort. **Developer response:** Hello! We are always looking for ways to improve our service. We truly appreciate your feedback and we are happy to get this forwarded to our Tech Op's team for review and consideration. Additionally, the previous version is no longer available. ### 1/5 — Horrible Update *2020-09-21, version 20.3.30* The latest update (Sept 2020) is just total trash. I’ve never had the app buffer so much, even with my slightly slower than average internet. Now it not only buffers horribly, when it does stream, it skips ahead. When I attempt to skip back to see what I have missed, it instead jumps ahead to LIVE regardless of which control buttons I use to go back 10 seconds. The version before this one wasn’t as “pretty” or streamlined as the look of the new one, but the functionality is just garbage. It’s useless. Thanks for nothing, Dish. Don’t you think your customers pay enough for your services that you could actually offer useable services? ### 1/5 — Poor app tech support *2020-08-18, version 20.2.101* No CC now for several months. Every time I complain I’m told they are working on it. Someone needs to be held cannibal for fixing this app. I would give it lower than one star if possible. With no Closed Caption this app is useless to me since I am deaf. It is also useless to the deaf community. Please fix it. Update, just hear from support, they said they are working on it. I guess 4 months is not enough time to get this problem fixed. Sounds like lip service or generic answer “ we are aware of the problem and are working on it “ amazing how many times I have heard the same response. Just hear back again from developer telling me the same, they are aware of the problem and are working on it. And again ask me for what platform I am running and what software. I’m done sending them the information as they don’t seem to give a dam about the problem of no closed caption. It’s been 6 months now. Been since March, maybe by next year they might get it fix, or they just don’t give a dam about the deaf community. Wish I could give this a lower score maybe a minus 5 stars. **Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to let us know you are experiencing this issue, Rrs110. We are aware of the issue with some customers missing the closed captioning feature on the app and are currently working on a solution. Thank you for your patience with us. **UPDATED RESPONSE** Hello, Rrs110. We appreciate you for bringing this our attention. We here at DISH are Tuned In To You! We will be sure to forward this to our Tech Ops team. We are collecting feedback from our members so that we can resolve things as soon as possible. Can you send us an email at danyprod@dish.com including your device type, device operation version, and DISH Anywhere version please? ### 1/5 — New app awful *2020-08-01, version 20.2.90* The new app is 3 months old I was hoping you would improve it! The pause button supposedly in the middle of the screen (no button shows you have to guess) only works have the time. The fast forward button in upper left hand corner is made for children’s fingers, half the time you are trying to fast forward and you hit go backwards by accident. When watching shows it just quits playing goes to black screen you can’t get it to react so I close out of window, then 10 minutes later you will hear it playing in the background with nothing on the screen so now you have lost your place in the show. Ugh! Nothing on my end has changed with WiFi or my iPad it is this new app. More than half the time when I try to record something in the future it gives me one of several different error messages (yes tried multiple times) so then I miss shows because I don’t remember when I go to room with Dish box to tape. I have been dish customer 13 plus years this is worst app yet. Please work faster to fix stuff! ### 1/5 — My patience is over, time for executive escalation *2020-07-12, version 20.2.80* The week’s release introduced a new ‘HTTP error” on my iPad (but not my iPhone) which required me to delete the app and reinstall. Does Dish even have a quality control team reviewing these releases before they go live? While I appreciate that Dish has someone responding to each review, I am sick of reading “We are aware of the issue and collecting feedback.” How many times has that stock answer been copied and pasted into a review response over the past several months? This morning I sent an email to three executives at Dish Network, the person responsible for Customer Retention & Executive Escalations, the VP of Customer Care and and VP of Retention. The next time I send an email it will be to the CEO. This situation needs executive intervention. My patience is over. ### 1/5 — This version is horrible *2020-06-29, version 20.2.70* I use this app all the time. I have poor vision and being able to use the guide on my iPad vs. trying to see the tv across the room is a huge plus. But after the last update, about two months ago I find the app almost unusable. I have a hoper and 4 joEys, I used to be able to use the app to control all of them any time but one day I woke up and the only thing it sees is the Hopper. I also can no longer choos e a program in the guide and select watch on TV, I can only watch it on my tablet. I communicated to Dish these and other issues bug have heard a peep. I am so incredible disappointed with this app that I use every single day that it just is horrible now. ### 1/5 — Terrible!!! *2020-05-11, version 20.2.20* I’ve never written a review for an app before but there’s a first time for everything and this is it! I use the Dish app on a daily basis to watch television. This new update is absolutely terrible, almost to the point of being unusable! All of the recent comments about features being removed or being placed in locations that make them extremely hard to manipulate or unusable or having to reconnect multiple times throughout a show are absolutely true! I won’t repeat all those issues here as Dish already knows what the problems are. I’m not sure how it works in the world of App versions, but would Dish at least roll back to the previous version while they fix this hot mess! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I hope there’s a fix! *2020-04-27, version 20.2.20* So, abt the new version, was there a problem? Well there sure is one now. This new version is extremely user unfriendly. Was so easy before. Now if I try to fast forward thru my recording, it’s gone. Well, not gone but states it has ended. “Live tv or start over?” Sometimes just total blackout. Great...and good luck getting past the ads. So many bad ideas, however I think you found and applied them all! If you were going for worse then you achieved it. ### 5/5 — CAN’T GET GUIDE SINCE UPDATED TO ISO 13 *2019-10-01, version 7.27.4* I am so frustrated since updating to ISO 13 and this app not working. I’ve tried everything to fix this problem, right down to resetting my iPad! Yes, I updated the fix for the bugs and still nothing changed. Now I see I am not the only one with this problem. I go to Dish Anywhere. First, the app loads VERY SLOWLY. Then when it comes up it is unable to load the video in the upper right-hand corner. I can view every other option, but the minute I hit GUIDE, I am bounced out like no tomorrow!! I tried the other Dish app that is not for iPad, it works and shows the guide, but since I am on an iPad, I can’t really see the guide because it lays portrait wise on the screen and makes it too short to show much of the guide. PLEASE GET THIS FIXED!! BTW, I did not update my husband’s iPad to ISO 13 and his DISH Guide setting works perfectly fine. ### 5/5 — Better then direct tv *2019-02-18, version 7.21.7* I was a direct TV customers, I switch to dish too see how you’ve have change, I had dish in the pass about 15 years ago. I’m very impressed with your Go anywhere dish app it’s fast and I can watch anything I want from my iPhone or iPad. Dish Liability Connection is very Impressive. I love the voice remote and backlight Didn’t have that 15 years ago! If I had may make a few suggestion 1. Make the voice remote understand more commands 2. Get rid of those SD channels I hate watching my Old show in a small square box on my HD TV,s on DirecTV no matter what you watches it’s in HD and fills the tv screen. And I will say DirecTV has a better Quality screen clear and crisp. ### 5/5 — Viewing *2018-11-30, version 7.20.0* Yes, I am enjoying it. However from time to time it will freeze up and won’t not let me watch my shows or say it’s unavailable or my favorite, my server is off online or there is no Internet. I have Internet and my dish box is always left on at home. Sometimes I have to wait the next day to watch something. It’s been like this ever since this app started. Aside from that it’s very convenient especially with my travels. ### 5/5 — Dish *2018-11-28, version 7.20.0* I really like the very clear picture that we get with dish and enjoy dish anywhere, great when traveling; however, I’m very disappointed that we are not getting one of our local stations, and now we are not getting Cinemax or HBO, when we signed up with dish a lot of our decision was because we could get all the local stations, I understand about contract negotiations between dish and our local abc station, but it is just about the last straw not getting both Cinemax, hbo and the local abc station, seems to me that dish has broken their contract with me by not providing what I signed up for, being disabled the hbo and Cinemax was our main form of entertainment, and the local abc affiliate carried quite a few on the college football game I wanted to watch, I think dish should bite the bullet and pay the networks and provide we consumers what we signed up to receive, it’s not our fault that it is going to cost dish more money, they should have to honor the contract that we, the consumers, wanted to watch, I know that there are options and have started to check into them to replace dish, not my first choice, just want what I signed up to receive ### 5/5 — LOVE MY DISH *2018-10-10, version 7.18.9* From the moment I realized I could watch DISH on my iPad, I have definitely become more productive and stayed more informed at home. Especially in the mornings, I find that by taking my iPad from room to room, as I get on with my day, and get things done around the house, I no longer have to sit tethered to the TV in order to hear and see the news of the day. That has been very freeing and definitely adds value to the my overall DISH experience! ### 5/5 — Still has Issues *2018-08-19, version 7.17.2* I truly love this app and use it all the time. It had settled into a nice routine and has recently been back to some bad habits. It has started to fail to open correctly...blank screen with voice only (my phone has that problem more than the iPad) and recently the iPad starts out telling me I have no favorites set up (I have for years) and I then see a really shortened list of channels I don’t recognize. May take two restarts to get past these issues. I need this to be reliable. If I take it on a trip, then how will I know where the problem is when there is a problem? A usually satisfied customer ### 5/5 — Dish Anywhere great until Jan 2018 updates *2018-02-19, version 7.9.0* Like another reviewer Dish Anywhere was working great until the latest iOS and Dish Anywhere updates. Was using it with hdmi adapter to view on tv while vacationing and now it’s not working. Can still view recordings on my iPad mini but stops when I connect it to hdmi adapter to view on tv screen. What a disappointment. Been bragging about this feature to all my friends but not any more. —————— Update-rating is 5 stars again. Another update for the Dish App came through. Once I did it, am back in business again. Can view my recorded programming just like before. Thank you! **Developer response:** Our newest update, 7.9.0, has a fix for this issue. Please update your App at your earliest convenience. ### 4/5 — The developers responded! 😊 *2020-06-10, version 20.2.50* Ok.... I’ve been with DISH for 10+ years. I have given 5-star ratings for most versions of the app, including up to the Fall of 2019. Then the developers re-designed the app and it performed absolutely horribly (no sugar-coating it- it was BAD!). This occurred for a few versions after that. They even took away the fast-forward “skip” button. Ok, this last version fixed most of the issues. There still is the design issue with the location of control buttons and bugginess at times with the operation of the app, but due to their efforts (including the restoration of the “skip” forward button), I’ve revised my 1-star rating to a 4-star. I consider a 5-star near-perfection. If they relocate the control buttons, make them larger, and get input from users in advance (or use the program a while themselves before releasing it), they'll get my 5-star rating. **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback. We are always looking for ways on how to improve. We will share this with our team for review and consideration. If you experience any further issues, please chat in at www.mydish.com/support/contact or by visiting us on Facebook via Facebook Messenger at https://www.facebook.com/DISH/# and Twitter @DISH_answers. **JUNE 16th UPDATE** We are collecting feedback from our members so that we can resolve it as soon as possible. Can you send us an email at danyprod@dish.com including the issue you are experiencing, your device type, device operation version, and DISH Anywhere version please? ### 4/5 — Dish over direct *2018-12-07, version 7.20.0* I was a direct tv customer since the early 90’s. Yes, back when you had to buy your own satellite. After AT&T became involved everything changed so much- customer service, policies, system glitches, (send me emails in a foreign language? Months to fix). Just so much of a mess that I switched to dish. When direct tv dropped beIN sports which has a lot of soccer. Dish carries that channel. Dish only gets 4 stars because a month after we started the service they dropped Univision. Very irritating, since we had specified that beIN and Univision were the reasons we chose Dish. --- *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.*