The CW User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience11.2% of reviews
Neutral13.5% of reviews
Negative experience75.3% of reviews

~ Based on 348 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

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

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.

HORRIBLE

This app is horrible and freezes every commercial!!!!!

Missing show episodes

The show wildfire has missing episodes at the end of season 2. There’s only 10 on the season. Can tell once starting season 3 that I’ve missed content.

All American

This latest episode was great, a very powerful storyline. Writers did an awesome job with this week episode. I’ve watched it three times since it aired. Please don’t cancel this show.

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Not working

All of the negative reviews are right!!

There are about 5 two minute long non-skippable ads per episode, and the app lags and freezes constantly!! Even after closing the app, restarting the episode, and even restarting my device, the episodes will not play.

No longer functioning

It is a real shame, because The CW has some great programs. It was always glitchy: Content Playback Error was frequent. Now that Nexstar has branded The CW, it is not working at all. Ads play, but display Ad Error. You might try to play something you like, but then it says: Content Playback Error. It is a real shame that the new media owners fail at operating. Kinda like the flaws in decision-making trickle down and ruin things for the majority. Makes me feel blue. 31 July 2026
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Good but needs help

Love that the movies and app aren’t expensive like some other streaming apps, but lately random movies won’t play at all. What is this about? It would at least be good to be able to rate the movies like you can on Netflix’s so you know which ones not to try again and remember the ones you do really like.
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Disappointed

This app needs
Some serious tweaking!
It’s hard to navigate.

Terrible

Just when you thought streaming couldn’t be worse…

trash app

i wish i could rate a app negative stars the app sucks its glitchy and almost unusable