🏷️ About: Watch live and on demand C-SPAN's complete coverage of the House and Senate, congressional hearings, White House events, the courts, the campaigns and more from the world of politics. Listen to C-SPAN Radio and discover a variety of informative podcasts.
- Easy to find live coverage of events
- Featured Clips are timely and a great way to catch-up on what's newsy each day
- Free, live access to the big political events
- Functional, smooth and easy to use
- Live events are right in the home page
- Provides a great public service to the country
by Bocajojo
CSPANNow uses a lot of cellular data when not connected to Wi-Fi. I had hoped it would offer the ability to download recorded programs for offline viewing or listening, but it does not. Furthermore, playback just stops when you sleep the screen. It should keep playing so you can listen to the audio, say, when walking or driving.
Disappointing app. Removing it from my phone.
by SparkleSwiftie
As one of the first to download CSPANNow, I was enthusiastic about its potential, but it seems like they launched it and then largely ignored it.
There are months-old clips in the limited menu while the actual channels continue to feature a lot of great content. CSPANNow needs to drastically expand its menus to include many more of the author interviews, history lectures, and discussions found on the cable channels.
by New SMB Fan
Love CSPANNow , but one issue I have is that it doesn’t use the media controls that integrate apps like this into the rest of the iPhone, making it a little awkward to use. It doesn’t appear in Now Playing in Control Center, the notification screen, or on the Lock Screen. I thought it was just a problem with my iPhone, till I installed CSPANNow on my iPad, and have the same issue there. Would live to see this fixed.
by PatCNJ
It’s shocking how much of an improvement CSPANNow is! No cable just Sling tv, but I can still at least view Washington Journal live in CSPANNow or just listen to audio. The portrait to landscape transition is awkward, compared to other apps, but it does work on iPad.
It still has room to get better and be more intuitive, but I’m looking forward to more improvements.
by AdidasNorlax
Love C-SPAN and grateful for CSPANNow . Please make Picture in Picture available so that when using other apps the video continues in window. Scrolling for fast forward or reverse is very difficult.
by Udecker
So excited that C-SPAN finally has an app to view live government events on my phone and iPad!
I’m very much looking forward to the AppleTV version of CSPANNow . Is there an expected timeline for it?
by Unfgreen
It would be great if while watching a video I could tap a button to share a link to what I’m watching via text or social media.
by IAmDavidLM
I’m so glad C-SPAN finally released a app that allows me to watch video streams of our government in action. It’s a great app to have to watch important events while on the on the go.
My only complaint is, I wish this was also available for Apple TV. I do not subscribe to any traditional TV service and do not get any channels, so it would be very helpful if you created a app for watching on Apple TV, as well is other TV devices.
by SteveJones
I love C-SPAN, and it would be great to watch it on the iPad I have next to me while working. The iPhone view shrunk onto a horizontal iPad screen leaves much to be desired.
Edit - iPad in landscape mode doesn't automatically rotate iPhone apps, but there's two gray buttons on the lower right of the display. One rotates the iPhone app to horizontal, the other zooms in. With both of those I can get full screen video on iPad 😃
by Joenia
CSPANNow is smooth, it’s elegant, it’s well laid out. However, I would love a way to make the video Picture in Picture so I can browse Twitter and other apps while watching C-Span. If you can do this CSPANNow would be perfect and I can update my review to 5 stars.
by EliHoya
Smooth, modern UI, and fast-loading. Glad I can finally browse without having to log into Safari. But please add Chromecasting so I can watch on TV!
by Maguid
Specifically, it needs to be able to be played in picture in picture mode so one can listen to C-SPAN 1, 2, or 3 when doing other tasks on the iPhone. It’s available in the latest iOS.
by Citylightslive
For a new app streaming multiple channels, it’s very impressive. Clear and easy to use. (Needs to run audio in the background.) Bravo, very well done.
by Mazzaball94
Sometimes when networks release apps they are buggy, video streams do not load well or CSPANNow crashes. The C-SPAN app is just incredibly functional, smooth and easy to use. I love the live events being right in the home page, so when I want to see a vote in the House, it is right there and plays incredibly well. I like C-SPAN (even though many callers are incredibly misinformed) it provides a great public service to the country and CSPANNow helps make that service a lot easier to access.
by SuMaKiVa
Way to go, C-SPAN! Finally an app to watch political events without TV talking heads or commercial interruptions. I love how C-SPAN just lets you see the whole thing and this puts it all on my phone to watch.
Quick take: it's easy to find live coverage of events, and the Featured Clips are timely and a great way to catch-up on what's newsy each day. Best of all you get free, live access to the big political events. As with other TV nets' apps you have to sign-in to watch the actual 3 C-SPAN TV channels (I guess that's fair because that's how C-SPAN is funded). All in all I'm giving this top rating for its simplicity and for giving me what I most want to watch from C-SPAN.
by Fanwheel
Very user friendly and easy to find current happenings on Capitol Hill. Also like that you can switch between watch and listen easily. Great app!
by SccrWooHoo
While being a longtime supporter of C-SPAN, I was so excited to find CSPANNow . It gives me the experience I expect with on demand access regardless where I’m at during my day.
CSPANNow is easy to use and understand.
by Capanfanatic
I’ve loved my C-SPAN radio app for years and am glad that we finally have an app with videos of not only the long-form programming C-SPAN is known for, but also the highlights from the week too!
by Bill 9196
This appears to be a great app. But I wish the audio would stay on if I switch to something else on my phone (iPhone). The C-SPAN Radio app does this. I was hoping there might be a setting to enable audio to stay on, but I don’t see such as setting.
by Morisseyy
The new C-SPAN app is slick, easy to use and gives me exactly what I crave: Hours and hours and hours of raw footage from government meetings and hearings. I don’t trust ANY media outlet to bring me the truth. The only way for an Okie like me to really know what the government is doing is to tap directly into the D.C. political hive-mind and inform myself. CSPANNow does that! Really hope they make a Book TV app!
by Byrdmanic
See title.
by Zdlowe
CSPANNow provides a unique and awesome opportunity to see our government and country in action, with live feeds of important content!
by HankmK
Best app to stay up to date on what’s going on in Washington and around the world. Flawless design and great features. Do your civic duty and make up your own mind with the C-SPAN NOW app!
by CSPANfan
Great to have both audio and video options for the live channels now
by BaaBaa19
Great app from an essential American company! Government as it happens not seen through different political prisms.
by W.T. Eff
🔥❤️🔥📜⚖️🗳❤️🔥🔥
Good potential, but I think these meeting would benefit from a conch shell, a lot!
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by Kiley-Tozer
Great app. Thank you C-SPAN
by Political Gal
Intuitive and simple to use. Clean design and most importantly helps keep me informed on the go in C-SPAN’s unique unfiltered way.
C-SPAN and CSPAN2 “Listen” do NOT work for me most of the time. Not, is the ORIGINAL app fully functioning.(iOS 15.0+). I Listen and do not View nearly as much. Uses too much battery power. Not pleased that the Original is failing during your Roll/over. Also our stream provider has eliminated C-SPAN. “Not enough viewers”. (B.S. to reflect Sen. M.). Thanks. Gene
Yes. C-SPAN Now is very safe to use. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 511 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.1/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for C SPAN Now Is 65.7/100.
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Watch live and on demand C-SPAN's complete coverage of the House and Senate, congressional hearings, White House events, the courts, the campaigns and more from the world of politics.
*Access to the livestreams of C-SPAN's three television networks is reserved for authenticated cable and satellite TV customers.
Watch the three C-SPAN TV networks* and the latest episodes of "Washington Journal" and "Q&A".
Find current schedule information for C-SPAN’s TV networks and C-SPAN Radio.
Listen to C-SPAN Radio and discover a variety of informative podcasts.
