STV Player Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience20.2% of reviews
Neutral7.0% of reviews
Negative experience72.8% of reviews

~ Based on 114 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is STV Player Safe?

STV Player appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for STV Player is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 43,940 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Is STV Player Legit?

STV Player appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for STV Player is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

I’m

There’s always something good to

Boothical

Sadly the fast forward and rewind controls are not very user friendly. Comparing it to YouTube or other platforms. Otherwise apart from that does the job.

Patchy, unreliable

Good sometimes, abjectly poor at others, with regular inconsistency. Live streaming is often a gamble (especially in Sports) to Chromecast and sometimes just stops. Latest versions of iOS, chromecast etc. at present streaming does not work.

Poor quality

Buffers all the time, shocking for 2026

STV Premier Sport App is useless

We frequently can’t get into Premier Sports which we paid for via STV player, using their app, but it often says we’re streaming in another device when we’re not! A total pain, do not pay for STV player, especially the Premier Sports App inside STV player

Patchy

Good sometimes, abjectly poor in others, with regular inconsistency. Live streaming is often a gamble (especially in Sports) to Chromecast and sometimes just stops. Latest versions of iOS, chromecast etc.

THE most out of date lagging app ever

STV IPlayer need to up their game, I wish I could just watch everything I wanted to on ITV
This app lags, sticks, can’t pause it. Continues to “play” in the background when I come out of the app
Only app I have this with, STV need to get into the 21st century 🙄

Worst TV App

Continuous glitches when on TV, fails to cast when on ipad and never fails to broadcast adverts rather than the show you actually want to watch. Try to avoid whenever possible.

Terrible

This app is a massive pile of…
Easily the worst streaming app I’ve ever encountered. The developers should be sacked for creating such a poor piece of software. Completely unacceptable.

Takes an eternity to load.

Unreliable. Crashes frequently.

Search functionality is rubbish. I searched for Britain’s Got Talent and it brought up Harold Shipman documentaries.

Chromecast functionality used to be really good - years ago. For many months now this has been completely impossible. Basic functionality either fails to work or is restricted for unknown reasons.

Rubbish rubbish rubbish.
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Summertide

NO subtitles on ALL 52 episodes. Nightmare understanding the South African accent.

App issues

Keeps freezing and then won’t resume.

Doesn’t work all the time

Sadly this has then tendency of freezing. I’ve just tried five times to use it but it freezes at the end of the adverts every time 😤

Let me tell you …

It has amazing channels on it and I do it so much. My first favorite is my mum your dad it’s just terrific. There is a lot of different channels that I love as well but I probably couldn’t tell you them all. The next thing I want to point out is genres I think it is an amazing idea and I don’t think anybody has come up with that before I loved all the kids stuff for my kids and the adult stuff for me also adore the name of it. STV Player is great and also the sponsor McDonald’s is my favorite Food place. Thank you and goodbye
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Best station

I always watch this channel it is best

Passwords

Can get STV player on phone but not TV. Why ?
I’ve since found a way to get STV Player on my TV by using the QR code etc

Poor player

Love what’s on the player but it keeps crashing or I lose the sound on it and on my TV programmes

Can’t watch on tv, but could before

Can watch on phone fine, but the tv app won’t load.

Loving new layout but…..

New layout is better cleaner but since update been a lot of problems. Delay in responses and being stuck within a program when opening

Ads during rugby

Putting ads in the middle of a game is shocking. Can’t enjoy anything without something being sold to you.

Digital adds on the pitch are so distracting and look terrible, why can’t they just paint it on the pitch like they used to?

Can you

Can you play live football and rugby games