The CW Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience10.9% of reviews
Neutral13.4% of reviews
Negative experience75.7% of reviews

~ Based on 358 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about The CW

Is The CW Safe?

The CW has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for The CW is 66/100.

This assessment is based on 21,719 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.3/5.

Safety Analysis

51.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
10.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
38.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 21,719 App Store ratings for The CW.

Is The CW Legit?

The CW appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The CW is 93/100.

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

Top reviews

Useless

You cannot stream any local sports that are being broadcast on TV. I will be deleting

Lost a great show

I love the CW, but the main reason why I got the app was to see the entire librarians franchise now that they’ve taken it off and not 100% sure if I wanna stay

Commercials and restarts

Sometimes an episode of a show will repeatedly restart after watching the episode for a while - typically, it restarts around the same spot in an episode. Also, there’s been times when commercial breaks happen minutes apart

Not working

App no longer works on AppleTV

Installed and zero content. Literally zero.

Added this app and created an account. All menus for content are blank. No shows nor live tv. I’m concerned about so many reviews about relentless ads but right now I’m not even getting a single show displayed. Not so great CW.

Unbearable ads

I downloaded this to watch PBR Teams. Not only do you have to watch commercials while the live event is minimized, muted and playing in the background, you have to watch 2 minutes of ridiculous ads every 5-7 minutes. And the other reviews are also true to where if you rewind at all, it makes you rewatch the same ads you just finished watching
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Ads on ads on ads

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY ADS and why are the ads SO DAMN LONG Im just trying to watch all American and it feels like half the episodes is just ads

Canada sucks

Don’t support anything with Canada ties. The CW is really a Canadian company operating in America. Don’t watch them.

Slow

This app is very slow and has way too many adds attached to it.

This app SUCKS!!!

I deleted this app and opted to wait and watch my show a week late on YouTube because it’s better than this garbage app. It doesn’t matter what platform i use it doesn’t keep track of my progress and locks up on EVERY single commercial segment and it takes literally twice as long to get through a set of them. I have complained about this to you repeatedly and you can’t even respond so you and your app can go to hell. Thanks for Nothing..
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Traumatized by the amount of ads

while providing free access to tv shows, you will get bombarded with ads. I would rather pay a monthly subscription than to watch shows with this many ads.

Can’t watch shows

I’m tryna watch certain shows but it won’t let me

ADS, ADS, & MORE ADS

I wish corporations were held more accountable for the greediness and corruption they commit to their subscribers. Most of their bad reviews are about ads and instead of maybe creating a subscription based service for no ads, they just continue to put 20 million ads per episode. Unbelievable. I’m willing to bet anyone that they do not use their own platform because no one (not even Jesus Christ) can sit here and watch 5 ads every 5 minutes.
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Excellent!

This app is right up there with tubi & pluto free-streaming apps! Actually easier to use than Pluto's live channels, though a bit less content than pluto. Terrific app...Highly recommend!

False claiming

Yeah no this app is blatantly lying about what content they have I’m not one to leave bad reviews or even leave reviews but I’ve been trying to find a way to watch the perks of being a wallflower for free in the US this app was listed as the top free app to watch the movies then when I went back and clicked the link listed on google it brought me to a completely different movie in the app please just don’t false advertise
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Audio

The audio keeps cutting out on random parts of what I’m watching and it’s not a quick cut out it’s almost a minute and the captions are way too far ahead when they are talking. So I miss what is said or even just enjoy the whole show.

Awful update

New player has tiny forward, backward controls. More ads, longer breaks.

Ads are OUTRAGEOUS

I am so glad the show I am watching only had one season exclusively on the CW app because it is truly awful. If you try to rewind, the app will force you back to the last commercial break and it will be the same 3 commercials you’ve been watching every 5 minutes. After just one episode I can promise you will be swearing on your grandmas life that you’ll never use the companies advertising. I now truly loathe ADT, barbasol and even 811. I would rather be robbed and held hostage than sign up for ADT, as long as they don’t make me watch that commercial again. Would you look at that, the app just froze, CW did you know I was sharing your awfulness?! I can’t wait to watch another ad!
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Cut the commercials

You need to cut the commercials out bc I’m about to stop using this app I only use it all American I’m tired of dealing with 3 minute ad every 3 minutes

Way too many commercials

Way too many commercials. Great that’s it’s free but there’s more commercials than show.