# STV Player — user reviews > 108 indexed App Store user reviews of STV Player by STV GROUP PLC, rated 4.67/5 from 43,940 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stv-player/id508100323/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stv-player/id508100323.md ## Newest reviews (10 of 108) ### 3/5 — Summertide *2026-08-31, version 5.0.17* NO subtitles on ALL 52 episodes. Nightmare understanding the South African accent. ### 2/5 — App issues *2026-08-14, version 5.0.17* Keeps freezing and then won’t resume. ### 3/5 — Doesn’t work all the time *2026-08-13, version 5.0.17* 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 😤 ### 2/5 — Poor player *2026-07-25, version 5.0.15* Love what’s on the player but it keeps crashing or I lose the sound on it and on my TV programmes ### 3/5 — Loving new layout but….. *2026-07-20, version 5.0.14* New layout is better cleaner but since update been a lot of problems. Delay in responses and being stuck within a program when opening ### 1/5 — Sync issues *2026-07-07, version 5.0.14* STV Player needs improvement with video and audio synchronisation. During World Cup matches, the sound and picture are sometimes out of sync, which makes the matches difficult to watch. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2026-07-04, version 5.0.14* App doesn’t work on LG to ### 1/5 — Terrible app *2026-06-28, version 5.0.14* Terrible app. Buffering constantly. Uninstalled and won’t download again. BBC far better. Sadly the game I want to watch it on this app tonight ### 1/5 — Adds *2026-06-25, version 5.0.14* Too many adds makes the watching process difficult ### 5/5 — Great variety of programmes and live channels *2026-06-22, version 5.0.14* Love using this app, very reliable. Have been watching the World Cup - slick playback and easy to use. 5+++++ ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — THE most out of date lagging app ever *2026-09-05, version 5.0.17* STV IPlayer need to up their game, I wish I could just watch everything I wanted to on ITV This app lags, sticks,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 🙄 ### 1/5 — Worst TV App *2026-09-03, version 5.0.17* 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. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2026-09-01, version 5.0.17* 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. ### 1/5 — Can’t watch on tv, but could before *2026-07-21, version 5.0.14* Can watch on phone fine, but the tv app won’t load. ### 1/5 — Ads during rugby *2026-07-18, version 5.0.14* 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? ### 1/5 — Ad free version doesn’t work *2026-07-14, version 5.0.14* Despite paying for the ad free version, it still doesn’t work. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Signing out and signing in. Contacted STV customer care team and and they couldn’t help. Really poor service and disappointing that their tech team couldn’t help. They wouldn’t issue a refund either as the subscription was paid through Apple. No other streaming service has issues like this for their upgraded membership. Extremely poor STV. ### 1/5 — Poor quality *2026-07-12, version 5.0.14* Why is it only in Hd and very poor - more like SD ### 1/5 — Useless *2026-07-11, version 5.0.14* This app is horrendous, buffers constantly. BBC iPlayer is far superior in stability and picture quality, I don’t know how they can get this so wrong!! Trying to watch the world cup has been a chore, massive parts of the games missed while it buffers. The app needs fixed, but knowing that network, bet it has never been quality checked, like the news reporting. ### 1/5 — Pish *2026-07-11, version 5.0.14* Des not let you login. Utterly useless. You should be embarrassed by this app. The high ratings are obviously fake. ### 1/5 — Buffers with perfect connection *2026-07-07, version 5.0.14* Pathetic excuse for a streaming service if watching on a mobile/laptop, gutting not to be able to watch the World Cup on the move unless BBC is showing it (a service that actually works). Not fit for purpose. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Let me tell you … *2026-08-04, version 5.0.16* 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 ### 5/5 — Best station *2026-08-03, version 5.0.16* I always watch this channel it is best ### 5/5 — Passwords *2026-08-01, version 5.0.16* 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 ### 5/5 — Can you *2026-07-18, version 5.0.14* Can you play live football and rugby games ### 5/5 — Excellent app and rock solid during the World Cup! *2026-07-15, version 5.0.14* App was absolutely great during the World Cup even with me bouncing in and out of matches when not watching a full match. Got in straight away and stream quality was solid and just as good as TV. Loads of content and easy to find something you like! ### 5/5 — Brilliant programmes *2026-07-15, version 5.0.14* I love STV Player. I’ve really enjoyed finding shows I watched years ago like Brookside and Wild at Heart. And new ones too. Really enjoying Coroner which I’d not heard of before. Works fine on my phone and TV. Also get it through Sky. It has ads, but worth a few ads to watch stuff for free. Would recommend. ### 5/5 — great app *2026-07-14, version 5.0.14* good ### 5/5 — Lots to enjoy *2026-06-30, version 5.0.14* Lots of choice of programmes and easy to use. ### 5/5 — Jerky pictures? *2026-06-24, version 5.0.14* The player app seems to be very jerky (sound and vision) then go very quickly as if to catch up with the live feed. None of my other TV apps have this issue. So while the app is great it has some issues…. ### 5/5 — Great *2026-06-22, version 5.0.14* Great for the live Scotland games and good variety of other programmes too --- *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 2026-09-14.*