# TVBAnywhere North America — user reviews > 190 indexed App Store user reviews of TVBAnywhere North America by TVB (USA) Inc., rated 2.70/5 from 763 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tvbanywhere-north-america/id1026575503/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tvbanywhere-north-america/id1026575503.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 193 · 4★ 79 · 3★ 82 · 2★ 92 · 1★ 317 ## Newest reviews (19 of 190) ### 2/5 — Too many ADs *2026-08-18, version 3.26* Seriously, how many ads on repeat do you need every ten minutes. 🤬 ### 2/5 — Needs upgrades *2026-06-27, version 3.22* Too many ads! ### 1/5 — Mostly Ads! *2025-11-29, version 3.19* The app itself is useless. You have to watch 6 to 8 ads before you can view the actual show for maybe 10 minutes. Then another 6 to 10 ads will interrupt. Sorry! I’m removing this app! ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2025-11-18, version 3.19* Ads, ads, and more ads. ### 1/5 — Too much ads *2025-11-15, version 3.19* I have been using this app to watch HK drama and no issue at all. It has been a great app until recently when they added ridiculously long ads. You have to watch 4 ads in the length of 30 seconds each five minutes after you watch the show. And another round of 8 ads will come up after every five minutes. This is NOT good, just find your video on YouTube. ### 2/5 — Is this the best TVB can do? *2025-11-05* No casting, way too many ads. ### 1/5 — Annoying ads *2025-09-30, version 3.19* Download this app if you love spending 50% of your time watching repeating ads. ### 1/5 — Annoying ad *2025-09-22, version 3.19* This app is garbage. When I am using an ，i cannot close the ad. When I’m using iPhone, watching an episode of drama, the same five commercials pops up every 5 to 10 minutes and that five commercial three out of five are the latest iPhone pro. This is absolutely ridiculous. ### 1/5 — MR Canada *2025-09-14, version 3.19* Terrible App ### 1/5 — App not useable *2025-09-12, version 3.19* Cannot watch anything because every time the add for ASB Glass Floor comes up, it freezes ### 1/5 — App is broken *2025-09-12, version 3.19* Stuck on ASB Glass Floors app for over a week. The ad doesn’t play so you can’t watch. ### 1/5 — Zillion commercials *2025-09-11, version 3.19* Zillion but same commercial on repeat and keeps crashing ….very annoying !!! Please fix ! ### 1/5 — Removed app after 5 minutes install *2025-09-11, version 3.19* Ads so frequently are unacceptable ### 2/5 — Ad crashes app *2025-09-06, version 3.19* Ad crashes app often and has to restart ### 1/5 — Add problems *2025-09-04, version 3.19* Don’t even bother There are adds on here that are broken and won’t play so you can’t even watch anything anymore. The app is broken at this point no use. ### 1/5 — No sound on iphone 16 pro max *2025-08-31, version 3.19* Everything is muted… please fix ### 1/5 — Frustrating *2025-08-18, version 3.19* Ads are expected if the app is free. However the ones, I can’t close or it’s stuck on the ad is so ridiculous. I just want to continue to watch the show. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2025-08-13, version 3.19* The amount of ads and 5 ads in a row? This is ridiculous ### 1/5 — Shows have no sound *2025-08-11, version 3.19* Sound doesnt work. Seems fundamental. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Terrible Ads *2026-07-15, version 3.22* I have no problem watching their ads if they don’t purposely make the sound of the ads to be obnoxious and annoyingly loud. The frequency and repeats are a bit crazy too but again willing to support. BUT 70% of the time after you dealt with the ads, the apps forget where you were and reset you to the beginning of the episode. With how stupid their app is, I am afraid buying ad-free will not address the issues. My parents stop using this app because the technical challenges are too much even if they are willing to watch the annoying and boring ads. ### 1/5 — Not only the ads but it keeps your login after you deleted app *2026-07-12, version 3.22* What’s troubling isn’t only the 11 ads it’s makes you watch but even when I let it track me it’s still advertisement for US mostly (ie Spanish advertisements for US companies when we can watch In Canada and not on VPN). What is worse is why I deleted the app, I went back in to double check as there was just one old show I was watching and loving that suddenly said I wasn’t allowed in my location. I reloaded the app and it kept my user and password showing. I logged out and removed. Luckily I used the hidden Apple email. Updated July 11, 2026: App updates got worse. now with same log in it won’t remember on the Apple TV app of what you watched, so you better write down what you were watching and what episode and time if you want to not repeat. (basically other devices and Apple TV aren’t really connected even when same account login). Search categories also worse than before. ### 1/5 — Get too many ads *2026-05-28, version 3.20* Ads getting too many and very unstable caused bad viewing experience ### 1/5 — Not working *2026-05-05, version 3.20* The app stop working when playing with AppleTV. Also the so many ads not to mentions ### 1/5 — way too many ads *2026-04-15, version 3.20* Way too many ads. 30 ads in total for a 40 mins show ### 1/5 — Insane amount of ads *2026-03-21, version 3.20* 9 ads in a row, followed up with another 8 ads in the same 20 minute episode ### 1/5 — Ads *2026-03-20, version 3.20* Just finished watching 6 ads? Wait 2 minutes, 7 more on the way! ### 1/5 — Ads *2026-02-22, version 3.20* More ads than content. It's ridiculous ### 1/5 — NO LANDSCAPE MODE (TABLET) *2026-01-13, version 3.20* Have both iPad and android tablets and both devices cannot do landscape mode, which is what tablets do 90% of the time watching media Absolutely terrible ### 1/5 — Missing episodes *2025-12-02, version 3.19* There are random missing episodes in all the dramas! Like “狂潮 (2) “ has episodes 66, 128, and 129 only. What happened to the rest?! Checked the website, and nothing’s missing, just not displaying in the app! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 没声音的 *2024-10-30, version 3.19* 没声音的 ### 5/5 — 平靚正app *2023-02-07, version 3.13* 可能係全世界最好app，睇野無声音（可能怕声音污染）有声時睇睇下飛去介面下载，又或者睇吓全黑屏，又免費煲剧，曾生好野，定要五粒星，有冇同感 ### 5/5 — How come no sound? *2022-01-14, version 3.11* Please add sound… ### 5/5 — can not *2021-10-28, version 3.10* The TVBanywhere app flashed back on Apple tv update version 1.9. I can't watch it. I hope to solve the problem as soon as possible. ### 5/5 — What happened to the encore tab mandarin version? *2019-03-27* Please keep the mandarin version. I don’t read Chinese but I understand the language. So please don’t get rid of the mandarin version. And some of the English version doesn’t have much drama as the mandarin version. Please keep the mandarin version and add more drama please... thanks you so much ### 5/5 — Videos should have 1 Ad only. Not 20 *2019-01-18, version 2.73* This TVB App would be perfect if they just stuck to one Ad per video, but there are Ads every 5 minutes. Its takes away the enjoyment of watching the show. Please TVB? Update this APP immediately! And get rid of all the unnecessary Ads. ### 4/5 — Too many Ads! *2021-02-04* I do greatly love and appreciate this app because I can’t go a day without my dose of TVB dramas. Would be great if there weren’t so many ads though. Not only the amount of ads but also the repetitiveness, the same ad can consecutively play 2-3 times per “commercial break”. Gets irritating when that happens several times in one episode. Feels like the ads are more ingrained into my memory than the drama itself. ### 4/5 — As a free app, it is fine *2019-06-30, version 2.81* There are lots of ads, but I understand because the ads pay for the free viewing of videos. No problem with the streaming from Roku and my iPhone X. Sometimes there is a slight lag, but I notice that the streaming improved in the evenings. ### 4/5 — Jenn *2018-07-20, version 2.652* I love the app because I get to watch all the dramas I want and when I want to❤️. But there should be improvement with bug fixes. The ads are stopping , sometimes I can’t hear and the screen goes black but overall I love this app. ### 3/5 — Too much advertising. 廣告太多了．Quảng cáo nhiều quá *2025-12-22, version 3.19* Too much advertising. 廣告太多了．Quảng cáo nhiều quá --- *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 2026-08-24.*