# Pluto TV: Watch Free Movies/TV — user reviews > 3,198 indexed App Store user reviews of Pluto TV by Pluto.tv, rated 4.80/5 from 1,621,743 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pluto-tv-watch-free-moviestv/id751712884/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pluto-tv-watch-free-moviestv/id751712884.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,407,710 · 4★ 131,627 · 3★ 42,299 · 2★ 13,631 · 1★ 26,476 ## What do users think of Pluto TV? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎉 Excellent free streaming service - 👍 Wide variety of content - 🕰️ Retro TV shows and movies - 💻 Easy to use app - 🔍 Diverse channel selection - 🎥 Good quality video and audio **Cons** - 🔁 Repetitive ads and content - 🔀 Inconsistent episode order and continuity - 🔍 Lack of search functionality - 🔧 Technical issues like freezing and buffering - 📺 Limited live TV controls (pause, rewind, etc.) - 🤖 Buggy app performance **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes and freezes - Playback issues with rewinding and skipping - Inconsistent channel and episode order - Syncing problems between app and Chromecast - Unreliable live TV streaming **Most requested features** - Add more recent and popular TV shows and movies - Implement search and better navigation - Improve live TV controls and playback - Reduce repetitive ads and content - Expand international and foreign language content - Add user accounts and customization options ## Newest reviews (16 of 3,198) ### 3/5 — App has been reformatted *2026-09-21, version 15.25.0* Since this app has been reformatted, I have been having trouble with it. For example, sometimes the movie or show I’m watching turns black, and I only have sound. Sometimes it freezes. I have an iPhone 16 Pro, so I know it’s not a problem relating to my device. Please return to the original format. ### 2/5 — Update *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* Thank you for screwing up the app. The update is so much worse. ### 2/5 — hate hate hate new update *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* since update actually waaay more scrolling because only one or two shows fit on iphone screen, and have lost ability to cast which renders this app as worthless to me ### 2/5 — Got *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* Hey ### 1/5 — Constant app interface changes are annoying *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* Why must the developers constantly alter the way the app functions? It makes it difficult to find shows I am watching and navigate around when they are constantly screwing around with the interface. It is very annoying. And now closed captioning is gone. Nicely done, idiots. ### 3/5 — Gotten Worse *2026-09-20* It’s difficult to complain about something that is free so it’s more of an opinion. The older version of Pluto for my daily usage was superior to the newly released version a few weeks ago. The guide on the older version loaded quickly. The new version takes between 15-25 seconds to load. The guide now only gives you a few seconds to make a choice before it goes back to the active show before you have to go back through the scrolling again. The older version held on the guide. It’s difficult to decide especially if you are reading what the show or episode is about before you need to quickly make a choice. Go back to requiring a button push to clear the guide or extend the guide active duration longer. I noticed with the new release many of the local news stations have now disappeared. I have two Roku players which no longer play the shows on Pluto before stopping requiring the play button to constantly be pushed. I’ve even uninstalled and reset the Roku prior to downloading Pluto agin and didn’t fix the issue therefore I cannot watch Pluto on these TV’s any longer. One of them played Pluto 24/7. Again complaining about something that’s free is difficult but let’s say the previous free app and setup seemed to work well compared to what I’m sure cost money to develop and change and work less efficient in my household. ### 1/5 — Removed casting support *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* You removed casting support so this app is useless to me. ### 4/5 — Only 4 stars ...WHY? *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* I found out PLUTO TV is top of free tv service and I put 4 stars why? WHERE IS SUBTITLES/CLOSED(cc) CAPTION want make best of year then need add this info we will vote Pluto Tv is best ever I love to wait watch many show unless I am deaf need see cc thanks ### 3/5 — No Casting??????? *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* What happened to the casting feature????? ### 3/5 — Bad Update *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* I have watched Pluto since it started and have loved countless hours of shows I love! BUT!!! This latest update is AWFUL!! It’s harder to locate a show since they all got scrambled up. Half of my shows I had as favorites did that stay in my favorites! I’ve tried adding them back, but continuously get an error message asking me to ‘try again later’. I often watch on my phone and the screen words are just too small and unreadable now. You can only see the show currently on, unable to look ahead in the guide at upcoming episodes. Overall, the new version of the app is horrible, harder to navigate, and a huge step backwards in how great the app used to be! Very disappointed! ### 1/5 — Hate the upgrade *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* The latest upgrade is terrible, can’t find anything because there’s no program guide for live TV. I’m an I Love Lucy fan and I hate the random episodes - I like to watch them in order. I know there is that option On Demand but if something isn’t broken - don’t fix it. ### 2/5 — What happened ??? *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* Had to reinstall the app a couple of days ago. Now, when it is in full screen mode, I cannot bring up the menu to change channels. I have to either watch in half screen or close app and reopen it to get to the menu. Please fix this asap as Pluto TV is my favorite for watching shows. ### 1/5 — Please go back to the old version! *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* This app is no longer user friendly. Worked perfect prior to this update. I can hardly find my favorites and have pretty much quit watching. Oh well. ### 3/5 — Love *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* I would love to give five stars. Don’t care for the new lay out. It would be okay but most of my favorites is not in my favorites any more. It wouldn’t let me put back in my favorites. Now I have to rescroll to find them when ever I want to watch them. Even the ones left in my favorites is in different order. ### 1/5 — Used to…. *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* Man, I used to looooove this app. Then the “update”. No longer set-up for iPad even though I am on an iPad, they took away the one-swipe channel change and added 3 steps to change channels. Much less, I end up watching in half-screen due to switching channels. Time to move to Tubi. ### 2/5 — Downgraded *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* Just keeps getting worse. Ads are so repetitive and annoying, and now this update ruined the whole guide with no option to revert to a imageless guide. I don’t need images, now I have to scroll forever. And why can’t it sort like before. Why can’t y’all leave well enough ALONE! Speaking of being alone, bye. Tubi is getting my time now. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Horrible update *2026-09-21, version 15.25.0* Please change it back. You sat in your description that it’s less scrolling and more watching. You can’t easily scroll anymore. Therefore it’s making it harder to get to what we want to watch. I even have my favorites and I can’t even changes easily back and forth within the favorites tab. Please change it back! ### 1/5 — The latest update … *2026-09-21, version 15.25.0* Had removed most of my favorite channels, and I can’t re add any. On the classical channels , for some reason I can’t expand the screen …. I hope this gets fixed soon because it seems like the convenience has been extremely limited 😭 Please fix this issue. I’ve already tried contacting “customer service” - which by the way is AI and not an actual person , and that doesn’t resolve the issue. It’s such a sad shame that an app that I used to enjoy has gone downhill. It will have to be plex and tubi for now until this situation gets fixed 😢. ### 1/5 — WAS THE BEST, NOW ITS USELESS AND UGLY! *2026-09-21, version 15.25.0* This app was the most popular and best streaming app in existence, but since it’s latest update, the new format is disgustingly ugly compared to before and it won’t cast too smart TVs from iPhones using Chromecast so don’t bother wasting your time with this stupid app anymore. It’s now useless.. seriously what a bunch of morons there are running this app to take the beat app ever & make it ugly & useless. Deleting it, don’t waste ur time downloading it ### 1/5 — New layout is worse than the previous one! *2026-09-21, version 15.25.0* I use an IPAD Air 4th Gen. I would ask Siri to open the app to play on the last channel I was watching… no longer works. Navigating now is worse. In the previous version, the only thing I had to put up with that I was never able to sort my favorite list of all the channels I favorited! You would have to put your last choice first into memory and end with the most viewed channel last. It would be nice to have a list of 50 channels or more… and your most watched channel into channel #1 and then add down the list. Then maybe have an other option for automatically listing the ones you watch most to the top of the list based on channels watched over time. The default sorting of the channels was one way to find your channel faster before. Some of the commercials for PlutoTV has had very choppy poor audio. (Some setting must of gotten set wrong.) I have enjoyed PlutoTV for years cause of not able to afford Cable TV, and can’t get over the air shows where I live. So this app was my main go to IPAD App. Too bad you people don’t do testing of your newer layouts with a group of users of this app. to get feedback before rolling out a new layouts… have people test things out beforehand. If you haven’t done so already. ### 1/5 — Ruined it! *2026-09-21, version 15.25.0* This was a great app for live tv that I’ve been using for years until a couple of days ago. All of a sudden I wasn’t able to scroll through my favorite channels without mandating now that I go through the guide. I knew exactly what channels followed what. This was extremely important to me due to being severely visually impaired. Tonight I go to the guide looking for something to listen to (visual impaired) and discover that 3/4 of my favorites are gone! Struggling to see the tiny print of the channels to favorite them again I find I can no longer do that! We are limited on favs now? And to really top it off, many of the channels that I use to watch don’t even exist now! What’s next? A subscription fee!? ### 1/5 — Live TV Menu Bar *2026-09-21, version 15.25.0* Since the latest update, when you’re watching Live TV, the top menu bar that shows “Home “, “Live TV”, the magnifying glass, and profile icon WILL NOT disappear. Even when the screen view is maximized. This ruins the viewing experience by having a menu bar with bright white letters when watching your show or movie. Fix the app to remove the continuously present top menu bar. It’s not needed. This is an issue for iPad at least. ### 1/5 — Bad Release *2026-09-21, version 15.25.0* The latest release of your app is an absolute horror. Slow, laggy, completely unresponsive, destroys Apple TV responsiveness.Absolutely atrocious development work. ### 1/5 — Not good *2026-09-21, version 15.25.0* New format stinks. In my opinion, terrible job. ### 1/5 — The Manchurian Pluto *2026-09-21, version 15.25.0* 9/20/26: Take everything people want and do the opposite. The interface is clunky and not intuitive AT ALL! The channels, well you can hardly see them and only 2 at a time. Less scrolling, more streaming? Yah - that is opposite too. Someone didn’t get the memo! Oh, and for the recent reviews saying how great it is? They just have not yet updated their app or system. I just did and boy I wish I hadn’t!!! Favorites? What are those - they’re scrambled now. And having the categories at the top? What were you thinking? I can’t even imagine why you made all these changes and every one of them makes things worse. I can’t find anything I’m looking for and it is not because I just need to get used to it. I can’t believe this mess of an update got by all the upper level reviews. I’m thinking a bunch of people there looked at it & inside thought to themselves “this is going to be a disaster” but then looked up at all the nodding, forced smiling faces complimenting the new Pluto and realized there was no way they were going to speak up and risk losing their job. After all, how long was this in the making? My God at least you could give people the option of having the other layout. This is a worse roll out than ‘New Coke’ or the tone deaf Cracker Barrel changes. Please bring in the old team, people who understand the other humans living on this planet. ### 1/5 — Terrible streaming *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* Worst operating system I’ve ever seen in a streaming service. Even with great service it’ll disconnect, skip minutes ahead through a show for no reason, and buffering takes forever. But the ads play perfectly because of course they need to pay for the service. Biggest waste of time only to bring me massive frustration. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good app! *2026-09-21, version 15.25.0* I like Pluto but I'd appreciate it if you'd tone down all the pro gay ads! ### 5/5 — Worth to download *2026-09-21, version 15.25.0* I can’t believe I can watch all those movies and shows for free. This is awesome !!! ### 5/5 — Great *2026-09-21, version 15.25.0* It's a great app ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* Absolutely love Pluto tv. I never heard of this app until recently and now it’s been a fav, the ads are short and it’s free to watch anything so it’s a win win in my book!! ### 5/5 — Love! *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* For this app to be free they sure have all the good TV SHOWS, I don’t even mind the commercials bc it’s free! I’ve found so many good old shows and movies to sit and binge! ### 5/5 — Nashville *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* I’m glad I can watch! ### 5/5 — Pluto vs Netflix *2026-09-20, version 15.25.0* I started out with Netflix years ago and love that Pluto has shows that even Netflix doesn’t have anymore. Specifically, Netflix took Nashville off a month after the death of Hayden Panettiere, so I appreciate you all still having it. ### 5/5 — LB FaN *2026-09-19, version 15.25.0* Love me somebody Love Boat! ### 5/5 — I love Tubi *2026-09-19, version 15.25.0* I love Tubi!!! They have amazing TV shows and movies.. thank they they have the OG 2003 Strawberry Shortcake cuz idk what id do otherwise ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-09-19, version 15.25.0* I can’t believe I paid for cable tv all these years. Now I only watch my Pluto tv. Pluto has everything I could ever want to watch. Shows, news, sitcoms and movies. I love Pluto tv! --- *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 2026-09-24.*