Philo User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience27.6% of reviews
Neutral14.1% of reviews
Negative experience58.3% of reviews

~ Based on 398 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Philo Safe?

Philo: Shows, Movies & Live TV appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Philo is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 68,879 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

94.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 68,879 App Store ratings for Philo.

Is Philo Legit?

Philo: Shows, Movies & Live TV appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Philo is 100/100.

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

Top reviews

Buffering

Good channel line up for the price. Unfortunately they have a lag that I can’t look over currently being a youtubeTV subscriber. Philo buffers and freezes way too often. I will stick with YTv for now until Philo figures it out.

Returning customer because it is just what we need

We had Philo originally in 2017 or so when it was dirt cheap (still is for what you get). We switched to a competitor at some point a few years later in order to get live channels without having to use an antenna. After several price hikes and paying $83 a month for the competitor, we just returned to Philo and realize just how great it is. The price is great, you can switch to a different channel and watch from the beginning (with the competitor, when you hit record, you only record from that point on). The interface isn’t cluttered and despite 720p, the picture is clearer because of a stable bitrate. Love it!
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Money

Philo made it almost impossible to cancel and provides less channels for more money

Literally THEE BEST STREAMING PLATFORM

I am Loving & Enjoying Philo so much & very Happy with it! It is very affordable with over 100 channels plus the ability to save shows. Philo has my ❤️

DO NOT DOWNLOAD

Says no ads THERE ARE ADS and they WILL charge you for a FREEEEEEEEE TRIAL!!!! Spoke with an agent and they said that’s the way it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. HORRIBLE

The worst app to see a movie

You pay 25$ and still you would have adds and not just 3 or 4 in the movie but you would have 25 by 3 minutes.

Amazing

I love this app I could go hours watching my favorite shows and so many options I’m so happy with this app

SCAM WILL CONTINUE CHARGING EVEN AFTER CANCELLATION - NO REFUND POLICY

Total scam app. I have cancelled my subscription 4 times and am STILL being charged without my consent. Customer service was completely unhelpful and told me they “don’t do refunds” despite the fact that they were never authorized to charge me in the first place. Disgusting.

Can’t cancel.. they hide it

Tried to sign up and watch a show as free only to find that I have to record it first then watch back… not fit for me so decide to cancel right away.. had 7 day trail. Tried to cancel with in 10 minutes..
been trying for 45 mins now via google now the ap..etc
This is messed up…
And it still not canceled..
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Meh. Too expensive.

would be nice if they showed stuff people want to watch! about 80% of the channels are garbage and we see enough of that in Ads alone. $28.99 is too expensive for this app.

Crashing

Love the app but problems lately. If I’m watching from the mobile app it completely crashes and I have to go back and find what I was watching again. Sucks because I play a show while I listen at work and I don’t have time to keep restarting it. App is up to date.

Too many commercials

They are everywhere

Love it except

I love it great price. The only thing that I hate is no abc nbc fox local channels

only app i found that had a movie i thought was lost media

thank you

Would be better

On my tv it lags badly, but on my phone it don’t lag. Is there a way to fix or not. If there is a way I will give 5 stars but until than it will be a 3 cause I can’t not watch on tv without it lagging and it loading.

Must have

Absolutely love this app. You literally don’t need anything else but Philo..!!! I suggest it to all my friends and family…

Good but Bad

Philo has good channels, but I have more issues with delays and stalling. It’s not my internet because I have a top tier package. Not sure if it’s the updates or what.

This is Amazing

I love this app so much It’s so nice to watch your favorite shows and movies without paying a arm and a leg For Cable my parents love this app and so do I it’s awesome

Why is there so many ads?

Please stop with the ads. You can’t tell me it’s to keep it cheap because over the 4 years I’ve used Philo it’s so expensive now. It’s gone up and up with more and more ads. I’m canceling for sure. If I’m going to pay that much might as well pay for YouTube tv with 1 or 2 ads. You got big and you got greedy
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philo

i downloaded the app didn’t like it deleted it paid for it and they keep taking money out my account and won’t give it back