TVNZ+ User Reviews

TVNZ+
TVNZ+
Television New Zealand Ltd

Customer Experience

Positive experience4.9% of reviews
Neutral5.5% of reviews
Negative experience89.6% of reviews

~ Based on 633 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is TVNZ+ Safe?

TVNZ+ does not appear safe based on available data. AppsHunter Safety Score for TVNZ+ is 49/100.

This assessment is based on 50 user ratings, with an App Store average of 2/5.

Safety Analysis

24.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
74.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 50 App Store ratings for TVNZ+.

Is TVNZ+ Legit?

TVNZ+ appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for TVNZ+ is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

App stopped working

The app has stopped working on my iPad. Have made several attempts to reinstall it over the past few weeks but still just getting a message to say the problem is at their end and they’re trying to fix it.

Not working

Does not work with older devices that most people have

Barely functional

Just tried to watch something on the app, and streaming from the browser, and the ads and programme are completely out of sync. Several times the programme is running with ad audio blasting over it. Unwatchable.

Total rubbish

Who signs off and released this utterly shambolic app?

Terrible

Since the platform upgrade the app crashes halfway through a show and then serves you 5-7 ads when you try to get back to the place you were at. If it lets you skip forward at all!

Eoan

What a disaster
PLEASE fix it
Used to be not too bad but now!!!!! BAD +++++

Too many adverts

There used to be 1-2 adverts for about 30 seconds and not that often. I’ve just endured 5 minutes of adverts and they seem to be a lot more common. What’s the point in watching. I’ll just go back to other streaming subscriptions. Also why do I now I need to access my emails just to log in, why can’t I just use a password? It’s not like it’s a financial institution… feels invasive
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Content good but UI needs improving

Please add a “mark as watched” feature as it’s so infuriating that previously watched episodes show up as half finished or not watched at all and so shows that are completed stay in the “continue watching” list and make it hard to know where you were at.

Forced portrait is ridiculous

Forced portrait mode when navigating is diabolical. Tell your UX designer to get a grip on reality and orient the screen in a way that 99% of the population would use it. Will change review if this ever gets reverted.

Need Australia can watch New Zealand and needs to add captions

Give 1 stars

Worst update ever

This app used to function well, you could easily see what episodes you had watched, and it would sit in landscape. Then it was updated to lock to portrait and only intermittently shows progress accurately. Very rarely is there an update that can be this backwards. Do the developers even use it? Def not optimal for an iPad. Do better please.
And yet another update has happened with nothing fixed and still no landscape view.
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Lagging and crackly

Has there been a recent update? The app is performing poorly for the last couple of weeks. Adverts and theme songs are crackly and stilted. I have uninstalled and reinstalled with no improvement.

AppleTV app needs regular restarts

Regularly ‘forgets’ favourites/my list and only remembers when restarted. It’s the only way we can keep the sanity of watching the 6pm news as it feels like it is on row 30 of the news section, so “my list” gets heavy use to find the shows we depend on

Very Poor App

The app itself works ok. But there is no features like almost all other streaming apps. The ability to remove shows that you no longer want in continue watching. Yes there are long winded ways to get around this. This needs to be an essential app function. Sort it out.

Embarrassing

The app lags all the time, the screen splits into distorted green pixels.
Trying to rewatch shows such as breakfast is painful, constantly buffering and poor quality. It’s actually embarrassing in 2026 to have such a poor running app.

Still no basic controls

A start from beginning would be a jump in functionality and profiles being attached to Apple profiles instead of the shared across all on AppleTV

Worst app ever ??

This app is the most unstable I have ever come across. It keeps stalling, and gets stuck when trying to deliver ads. Multiple restarts of the Apple TV because when this app crashes it affects the device… poor effort TVNZ

Disappointing

I was able to create an account but the movies don’t work because “I’m not at the right region” I had to give it one star but doesn’t deserve any. Disgusting.

Room for improvement

Resume episode doesn’t work - starts from beginning including all the ads again 🙄
iPad starts in portrait and doesn’t recognise orientation of screen - luckily program rights itself.

Poor

The app crashes all the time. Plays the ads very well through…