SBS On Demand User Reviews

SBS On Demand
SBS On Demand
Special Broadcasting Service Corporation

Customer Experience

Positive experience50.0% of reviews
Neutral8.0% of reviews
Negative experience42.0% of reviews

~ Based on 386 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is SBS On Demand Safe?

SBS On Demand appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for SBS On Demand is 95/100.

This assessment is based on 175,822 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

95.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 174,800 App Store ratings for SBS On Demand.

Is SBS On Demand Legit?

SBS On Demand appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for SBS On Demand is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Great shows great app

So easy to use either phone or tv.
Great selection of shows.

Always on

Always something to watch, very diverse, great TV

Diego

You guys rock thank you for all your efforts a for democratice entertainment and quality content thanks for keeping a healthy society

Too many adds

Too many adds

Cycling commentary is now boring

Boring. Boring. Boring. Bring back the professionals.

Yeah for diversity

More than happy for my tax dollars being spent on such a broad and vast selection of movies. Can we include some even more fringe/ underground/ marginal films and documentaries please? I love watching things I don’t agree with or know about.

Unable to watch anything

Constant fails and unable to play anything

Good App, But…

I love the SBS app. Easy to navigate and easy to watch. But there’s no streaming for chrome anymore. I tried all the troubleshooting, but couldn’t get it to work. Might be a glitch?

ADDS EVERY 30 SECONDS..

YES.!!

EVERY 30 SECONDS

UNWATCHABLE..!

Home Screen is useless. Where is settings link ?!

Useless.

Too many ads

Would rate higher if there was less ads

Please fix this

I would like to control the volume on SBS demand on my phone using my Apple Watch ultra. This allows me to not have to touch the phone in order to control the volume. The phone is merely the viewing platform. The watch on my wrist. Allows me to control the volume and pause or play please fix this.

Great content but the most appalling and annoying advertising interruptions not worth it!

I have been trying watching SBS since 1980’s such a incredible station the rich diverse programming as been second to none, but unfortunately due to the longest most annoying and appalling adverting interruptions I had to stop watching broke my heart… but enough is enough I have written countless emails giving up… I understand why to fund new content production but literally prime video has less ad interruptions on there free movies SBS on demand is just not worth the endless interruptions they will play the same mindless ad over and over and over again so lazy and good bye!
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App now broken

Great choice of programs, but the
resolution could be much higher. Very pixelated & blurry.
Update May 2026, app just tells me something went wrong?! Unusable, have deleted.

August 2026. The “playback error” has returned……
Was fixed for a while. 🥺

SBS ON DEMAND

Great shows

Gone from non commercial to so many ads it’s unwatchable

Terrible how they ruined this sbs. sometimes now it will play a series of ads say there’s only a certain amount remaining and then play another series. I’ve taken the finding other ways to watch shows that are on SBS because they’ve ruined it with the ads.

Priceless!!

As always SBS On Demand supplies a great selection of local and international films, tv series and movies. Both old and new. The app is great to use and there is always something great to watch. And with streaming services charging more it’s great to have SBS on Demand.

App keeps shutting down

Consistently shutdown when transitioning to the ads. Very annoying

Confused

Not sure how to use it

No longer working on 5th generation iPad

Update: very prompt response from SBS confirming iOS17 or above required to open the app. A simple workaround was given to login through their website. Happy again and very appreciative of the support.

Just stopped midway through binge set with error Sbs apiclient errordomain error 10003. After many tries to restart device and app I noticed that IOS 17 is now the minimum required. The latest for 5th generation iPad is 16.7.16.
Great app (best of all the free-to-air channels) but now useless.
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