Watch TNT Reviews

Firstly, I don’t understand why the smart TV TNT app would exist just to require you to download the phone app to cast onto the TV. Secondly, WatchTNT is awful. Trying to watch a show while casting will randomly switch to a different live video without even pressing anything. It allows you to do other things on your phone while you use WatchTNT but then will also randomly switch to live video. You are unable to see what you have recently watched or resume the video it randomly exited out of so you have to scroll through the video and try and find where it left off. I would like to delete and no longer use WatchTNT as soon as possible but unfortunately I can’t watch the show I want to on any other service without paying for another extra subscription. This needs to change. I don’t understand why this has such good reviews.

EDIT: Have checked all the suggestions after the developer response and am having the same issues. I even tried using WatchTNT on a different phone and the issues still occur. If you exit WatchTNT , the video you’re watching will stop and switch to a different video. Since for some reason there isn’t a feature which saves your place on the video that you have been watching, we have to restart it and scroll through to try and find where we left off. Still do not understand why it has 4/5 stars when so many people in the recent comments are also having issues with WatchTNT .

Update 3/1/22 - still the worst app on WatchTNT Store. And now all the issues that plague WatchTNT also plague the browser experience.

Edited this review after the developer response, to say that NOTHING CHANGES AFTER REINSTALLING! Nothing has changed in 4 years. It is a total disaster and frustration to use. I watch fewer NBA games because they are on TNT and i know if I try to watch a game on WatchTNT I’ll miss half of it restarting the stupid app and trying to get it to work. And if the game is close, you can bet it will crash or freeze at the end when there’s a commercial break every 10 seconds. Developers: try using WatchTNT yourselves before releasing it. Original: I have been “watching” nba games on the tnt app for 3 or 4 years now. The great app team at TNT continues to produce an astoundingly bad product which malfunctions in the same ways year after year. You want to change the volume? Get ready for WatchTNT to freeze, and then to restart the 135 seconds of ads it serves up when you try to watch something. Those ads will also freeze and restart from the beginning. Video quality is worse than it’s ever been this year regardless of the quality of your connection. The ads however are crystal clear HD. It’s just disgusting how terrible WatchTNT is. Good luck catching the game on TNT!

EDIT: I wrote the scathing review below last year. I got an email from the developer apologizing for my user experience, promising improvements. But this year WatchTNT is somehow worse!!! Now not only does it freeze constantly and play a 30 second commercial upon reboot (making you miss game action) but it just randomly rewinds by minutes. Seriously, this is THE WORST app I use. With all the resources TNT has, why the eff is their app this pathetically awful?

I see the tnt app has a good rating. What?!?!?!?! I’ve found it to be the most buggy, least reliable, most frequently crashing app I use. As if the CONSTANT crashes weren’t bad enough, they play a 30 second commercial every time you have to reopen it. Which is doubly obnoxious when you’re watching the nba. I thought the problem might be my older iPad and Apple TV. Of course, I didn’t have this crashing problem with any other app. It was time so I upgraded. And STILL this is the buggiest, crashiest, most annoying app I use. Also, no Apple TV app makes me sign in more often. And the iPad version doesn’t have a volume control. It can’t just be me who has WatchTNT crash constantly. But they have a good score. I don’t get it. Hate. This. App.

I was glad when I thought that I could be able to watch the NBA playoffs with AT&T app on the go as well as at home but to my dismay I found that WatchTNT is a strong need of an update in connection control. Countless occasions WatchTNT will crash while in the middle of watching a game and it takes forever to reload. It also then claims to have connection problems with my Wi-Fi and mine phone Internet is completely fine. For this to be a major channel for NBA they really should do a lot more effort into fixing WatchTNT altogether. I was glad when I thought that I could be able to watch the NBA playoffs with the TNT app on the go as well as at home but to my dismay I found that WatchTNT is in strong need of an update and connection control. Or countless occasions WatchTNT will crash while I’m in the middle of watching a game and it takes forever to reload. It also then claims to have connection problems with my Wi-Fi and my phone Internet is completely fine. For this to be a major channel for NBA they really should do a lot more effort into fixing WatchTNT altogether.

I’ve read many reviews on WatchTNT before using and, while all apps have their shortcomings on one device or another, it works flawlessly on my IPad. The necessity for the extent of the commercials within ALL programs I have viewed to date is certainly contrary to one of the premises that individual video apps should be aspiring towards but, I suppose, the marketplace and it’s costs dictate such...don’t they? Or is this company simply trying to garner profit at every possible quarter without regard to building allegiances with their patron? The world of modern entertainment is rife with such profit vs duty to consumer questions. The company who finds, builds and delivers content withOUT the interruptions during the delivery/viewing will be the company who ultimately wins loyalty in their users. But surely the directors of such media stalwarts know that, right? Or is it simply about securing an ever increasing profitability and stock value? As I said, so many questions in simple delivery of something so simple these days...

Absolute garbage app. After months they finally fixed the bug that would log me out of WatchTNT at random multiple times an hour. Now it lags 10-12 minutes behind the actual live feed. This is incredibly annoying when trying to watch any live events as the rest of the world is that much further ahead of anyone stuck using WatchTNT. Magically you can stream fine if you log in via a web browser or desktop computer... but I want to watch these events on my Apple TV hence why I downloaded this broken app in the first place. Have tried to get TNT’s attention about this on social media and have been ignored... so I guess 1 star review here it is.

Update: Weeks later it is still broken and TNT still ignores anyone who brings this up via reviews or social media. It’s bad enough that it lags 10 minutes behind, but now it will randomly play part of a live event extremely fast to “catch up”. So not only are you behind, but now you miss part of the show you’re watching on lag. The developers of WatchTNT should be fired and never allowed to design an app for anyone ever again. They are clearly incompetent.

I use this to watch snowpiercer exclusively. Can someone tell me why download a tv app if it makes you download the phone app just to cast. I wouldn’t be complaining if the casting to the tv worked. The first week I had no issue and cast to tv worked well with my 2019 Samsung UHD. Second week I tried but cast would not work. The video never started only buffered then disappeared. I tried redownloading the apps but to no avail. The only way to watch this episode was to screen mirror. For some reason in screen mirror snowpiercer showed in what appeared to be litterbox mode? When the ads played during the break it showed in full 4K. Mind you the ads also sometimes freeze in between each other so you have to restart the ads over. Third week same issue as second. Until the tv app is fixed to be independent from WatchTNT or the casting to tv works flawlessly every time and the ads stop freezing, this is gonna be a 2 star review. I only give 2 stars because casting worked to my Samsung the first time and I did not have another tv to test.

I’ve been using WatchTNT for the past several weeks and have enjoyed it so far. Haven’t had any problems with streaming on my iPhone 6+ (I do have 300mb with 5G wifi). I agree with the repetitiveness of the same 6-7 commercials, but it would be worth it if I had access to the back catalogue of shows & seasons. Why would I be interested in watching The Last Ship, for example, if I cannot start at the first season? It is highly annoying to jump into the middle of a good series and not be able to start from the beginning season. TNT has invested too much into great writing and production of its series not to proudly put them all on display, cancelled series included. Please consider this, or at least disclose why they cannot be shown. It was the only reason I downloaded WatchTNT in the first place instead of streaming through my provider.

I like WatchTNT a lot, I only use it to watch NBA games so I’m more than happy there. But the amount of ads that pop up are crazy.
I know there are autoplay ads basically everywhere now, but WatchTNT takes it to the next level. If I want to watch a game on my phone, I open WatchTNT and have to sit through an ad before the game comes up. Fair enough. But ANY and EVERYtime I leave WatchTNT , I have to sit through another ad to watch the game again. If I take 5 seconds to text someone, I have to open WatchTNT again and sit through a 15 second ad. If I just want to look at my notifications or the time, another 15 second ad. Even if you close the game but stay on the TNT app, still another 15-20 second ad before watching the game again. Every single time.
This gets really annoying when you are missing live game time for an ad you’ve seen 8 times already, or when you sit through one just for the program to come on right as it’s going into a commercial break.

For the past 4 years or so I have used the TNT app to watch NBA and movies. Everything is stable and smooth such as linking my TV provider, searching through movies, and the overall video performance.

However, the only problem I have and would like to encourage the devs to push new features for WatchTNT . For example, most other video focused apps now allow you to switch over to messages without interruption to the video. Where there is a mini player whenever you exit WatchTNT .

I think adding this feature would enhance WatchTNT and improve everyone’s viewing experience if we could switch over to another app during a commercial break but still could watch without missing anything.

The UI isn’t the most intuitive, no way to rewind even a little bit. You need to watch an ad before you can stream live tv, but the worst part is it resets you EVERY TIME you lose focus on WatchTNT , meaning watch the ad again.

You want to reply to that text you got? Too bad, the second you do, your show stops and 15 seconds of ad revenue later you can watch. Want to flip apps to look up that actor? Another ad. Want to simply adjust the brightness of your phone without even leaving WatchTNT ? NOPE! Ad time baby! Video freezes and you need to go back to show selection without even leaving WatchTNT to select the same show as before? WATCH THIS AD AGAIN! Did your video just bug out and rewind two minutes earlier suddenly? Either rewatch those 2 minutes or BUY THIS PRODUCT. It gets incredibly tedious to not be able to do anything without it forcing you through the loading ad. Every. Single. Time. You. Touch. The. Screen.

WatchTNT has been bad for years now. All I wanna do is watch the game and, more importantly, the inside crew’s reaction to the game. Unfortunately WatchTNT would rather play ads then the content it’s supposed to provide. Just now the broadcast cut off in the middle of a Laker’s possession just to show two minutes of ads, then it rewinded the game like 4 minutes and made me watch the whole series again before cutting to more ads and eventually a live feed which let me see 30 seconds of actual live footage at the end of the quarter. Oh, and even when you dont get idiotically timed ad breaks, you also arent ever watching truly live footage. They ALWAYS make you stare at a stupid sponsorship card before everything you watch, so it’s always on at least a 5-10 second delay. The inside crew deserves a better app than this. You’re better off watching highlights in the morning. WatchTNT is truly infuriating.

I just bought a brand new iPhone 11 Pro Max a week ago and WatchTNT works ONLY if you have full 4g/5g.. one I got good service, it would play but the screen was black, then I’d have to close out of everything to open it back up upon doing so I hit play, then received a call I was visiting with someone on the phone then it started playing in the background of my phone call, this causing me to end call, stop the show then recall the person, once finished with the call I clicked WatchTNT , it played for a couple minutes, then black..no updates available for WatchTNT either.. also if you close WatchTNT to make a call or check a text or anything for that matter upon opening WatchTNT it says sorry and comes up with something that says we cannot watch this and then you have to back out of the show you were watching and then re-click your show to start watching again

1. WatchTNT refreshes constantly while trying to watch hockey. I never have that problem with the MSG+ app. 5G, 4 bars, iPhone 12. I missed a goal and an entire fight while the wheel of death was spinning. 2. You can’t close the phone and play WatchTNT in the background. Again, I can do this with the MSG+ app and listen to their broadcast if I can’t watch the screen. 3. WatchTNT broadcast is minutes behind the live tv broadcast. 4. WatchTNT at one point spontaneously skipped back about 2 minutes in the broadcast. I had to close and restart WatchTNT to go live. I ended up using the NHL app and just listening to the game. Never had this many problems with MSG+.

UPDATE: With 2 minutes remaining in the game, the stream jumped back to the 5 minute mark. I switched back to the NHL audio feed, then deleted TNT when it was over. The Developer Response below seems to have missed the part where I said I was on 5G, not home Wi-Fi. If I was at home, I would’ve watched it on TV. 🤯

Unfortunately, as a soccer and NBA fan I have to use WatchTNT fairly often. I will say: when it’s working, it’s great. Consistently good image quality and they indicate how long ads will run. Nice touch.

However it hardly ever works. During a single match or game, you have to anticipate WatchTNT cutting out 6-10 times. Meaning if you’re casting, you have to to disconnect and reconnect, over and over. Or if you’re watching on a device you need to restart WatchTNT entirely, over and over (which often doesn’t go smoothly).

Maybe not a huge inconvenience, but when you’re trying to watch the Champions’ League or the NBA playoffs, you’ll almost certainly miss potentially huge moments at any random time. I don’t have this issue to this extent with any other streaming app, so it’s a head-scratcher why the developers can’t keep a stream up for more than 20-30 minutes. Especially when you consider the magnitude of the games they are broadcasting.

I use an lightening HDMI adapter to watch TNT on my TV through my iPhone.(I don’t have a tv that supports AirPlay, or Apple TV, whichever it’s called) Most apps work great but with WatchTNT the streaming is terrible while connected. It’s play sound and no screen, I’ll have to watch commercials a majority of the time because I have to restart WatchTNT to get it to work. I’ll have to start it up on my phone and connect it once the show already starts playing on my iPhone. I have to tap the screen to keep it on before my iPhone screen dims bc it won’t keep it on.

App in general is great, when just on my iPhone it streams perfect. The problems arise when I connect is to my tv via HDMI. Would be 5 stars if this wasn’t a problem.

WatchTNT has got to be the worst streaming option for any on demand or live game viewing period. It’s been over 2 years and judging from the 15K one star reviews the developers at TNT must not really care at all to fix the issues that everyone as a whole is seeming to be experiencing. Constantly have tried to re download WatchTNT or refresh it and still no difference and on top of that WatchTNT will just kick you out and state that it’s experienced an “error” or is having trouble playing whatever title. This happens on both WiFi and data service so the response from the developers stating that could be it is just false. I have no idea why the nba is partnered with TNT for this streaming service or maybe they just need to hire better developers because they are at the bottom of the heap in their platform at this current state. Very disappointing and seems as if they really could care less like I stated earlier.

I have only used WatchTNT to watch the NBA live, and boy does it make me want more games on ESPN. WatchTNT fails both in functionality and in design. The fact that WatchTNT has to completely reload the live stream if I have a lo battery pop up, use the drop down menu on my phone, etc. is a terrible design flaw albeit it incomprehensibly seems to be an intended feature. But this is a minor issue compared to its technical failings. From randomly jumping back 2-10 minutes further back in the game. Playing ads well past the play resuming, ads playing in the middle of gameplay, are just the most common issues and needless to say this is awful for watching live sports. TNT please fix this garbage app if you so choose to be the “presenter of the NBA” or whatever deal is. Every game I watch on WatchTNT makes me hate you, and it doesn’t have to be like this.

I’ve been using the TNT app for multiple years to stream basketball live. I have to say, it took me a very long time and plenty of tantrums to write this review. I tend to ignore a lot of my text messages due to that fact that I cannot reply through my iphone’s notification bar without stopping the current stream leading me to unwanted commercial breaks that sometimes replay itself twice and even a third time.. of the same exact commercial.. I sometimes want to turn the brightness down but that also leads me to more commercials! I gave up on this NBA season after both of my teams lost but still curious as always, want to watch any basketball game and realize that WatchTNT on my iPhone - even after re downloading WatchTNT , using WiFi or LTE seems to give me a frustrating experience.

PLEASE fix the live streaming services. I’d love to watch some live basketball without petty interruptions.

WatchTNT will load one time and allow a sign on to the tv provider which is reported as successful. However it blocks access to any content because selecting any content pops up a “sign on to your tv provider” window. The sign on button is disabled however the Watch Later button is active and takes you back to the content catalog. Clicking on any catalog choice brings up a nice black screen with TNT proudly displayed on the center. Only recourse is to close the window, but then restarting WatchTNT takes you back to the large white TNT on a black screen. Apparently waiting 24 hours is the only way to get back to the content catalog.

One would think that the developers would have tested WatchTNT on IOS 14.4.2 but apparently that was beyond their skill level. This is a great app to pump up your frustration level as well as eat up time.

I use WatchTNT for movies and tv show occasionally but mainly for streaming the NBA games. It doesn’t matter if I’m on Wi-FI (I get 200Mbps download) or am on LTE, the live streaming of NBA games is simply horrible. I have to continually relaunch the frozen app. It gets stuck on the “Commercial Break in Progress” screen about 1/3 of the time. Almost every time it signs me out of my tv provider despite allowing it to use my TV provider through the TV app on my phone and by going into the TNT settings and signing in (and saying remember me). The video playback, when actually working, is glitchy. It jumps forward and then back 30 seconds randomly and and the video quality is extremely blurry and pixelated. I won’t even get into how other streaming services allow for much more functionality (rewind, pause, etc.) during live streaming. Lastly, it’s been two months now since the iPhone XS Max and XR came out and it is still showing the video on the smaller size screen with the black bars to either side. I have never had a good experience with WatchTNT. I am a software and app developer myself so I understand bugs, errors, etc. and want to give the developers the benefit of the doubt. That being said it has been the same experience now for about two years of me hoping and waiting but now I have to simply review what I’ve seen.

Have to re authenticate every other week. Stream often fails and app crashes. Sometimes live tv fails to play and you have to switch from east to west or vice versa. Stupid “ad” before you start a live stream, so if WatchTNT crashes and it’s in the middle of a basketball game, you have to watch that 30 second intro ad again before you can start the live stream. Maybe have that intro ad once per 24 hours? Issues trying to re-authenticate when it’s in preview mode, clicking sign in doesn’t do anything but pause screen you have to force close and try again. Can’t sign in during the dumb 30 second intro ad so once you authenticate you have to watch the ad again. Even though Apple TV is a few feet from router with 100mbps connection, stream often comes in and out in low quality. All in all a terrible app for the Apple TV. Doesn’t run much better on iPad. Oh and it’s not iPhone X compatible yet.

I can never stream the playoffs smoothly without having WatchTNT crash and say error we are having issues playing this video right now. Then when you click to watch again itll always make you watch a 30 second advertisement. Absolutely horrible, every 2 mins it crashes and i have to watch a 30 sec ad while im missing crucial parts of the NBA playoffs. WatchTNT has never seem to run smoothly. They need to remove the advertisements if WatchTNT is going to crash every 2 mins. And they claimed to have fix the sign in issue but it always signs me out my provider and i have to sign back in just to watch. WatchTNT is just horrible . The watchespn works perectly smooth without buffering and without no 30 second advertisements every time and itll also let u listen if ur connection is poor instead of freezing. I have a iphone 7 plus and WatchTNT still cant work right

I prefer to cut my budget lower by having only basic cable. Which means I miss a lot of channels. WatchTNT is one of the few that allows me to watch movies and a few shows (mainly I watch The Alienist which I recommend). There are small glitches now and then, but it quickly fixes itself. Overall I think it’s a great app because it’s usable, has good content (could use more shows like Major Crimes reruns), and it even plays live tv for non cable subscribers which I like.

I had problems with it too, long time ago. We use fire tv and Apple TV, when it freezes on commercial I go back out of the show and straight back in, when it restarts right before the commercial that’s when I pause it, forward it just after commercial point and start it again. It’ll jump to commercial and freezes. That’s when I press menu button /back button/, it’ll resume commercial, after commercial it jumps to the show but it freezes that’s when I press play. I know its lit’ complicated and really annoying but it works like magic. As I mentioned earlier I had this problem long time ago but it came back again today. So I just pause, forward, back and play every commercial.
That said, I’d expect for paid network to provide easy to use and trouble free app, take some of our money and actually build a well working app!!!

I wish I could give WatchTNT as good of a review as I would the content on TNT. I love Claws. Please start making the seasons LONGER!!!

Anyways, the Apple TV app is a joke. The custom playback interface is screwy when using the skip forward or backward function on the Siri remote. PLEASE START USING THE APPLE STANDARD INTERFACE. Also, WatchTNT often crashes when resuming from a previous session. For example, if I’m in the TNT app on Apple TV, then I navigate to another app for a little while, then come back... WatchTNT crashes at launch. So cheesy.

WatchTNT constantly needs to be signed into with my provider. I have deleted and reinstalled, and still the same old thing.

Navigating around in WatchTNT feels SO sluggish compared to navigating around tvOS (Apple TV Operating System).

And only if that were all but, TNT doesn’t even include all of their content in WatchTNT. What you do include usually expires after a short period of time.

Reliable, rock-solid TV. This is what people want. Why, oh why, after a long day of work, can’t we get something like this with ease. Especially since we can’t even get access to this content without paying Mediacom, or Comcast. I have to have two subscriptions!!! Why don’t you folks have DirecTV Now available to sign in with?

WatchTNT must be a network hog. I submitted a ticket for it not streaming properly and always telling me that it could not play the video at this time. The tech tells me in an email that is must be the connection may not be good enough. Even the ESPN hog app will play live video and the TNT app will not. Very frustrating. Make WatchTNT simple so the level of connection does not matter. Would rather watch video than get a message every time I turn on WatchTNT that the live stream “Cannot play that video at this time” message. Do something to make this better. Have not be able to watch live stream for a long time and have just about given up on TNT and TBS and will not be watching those stations from WatchTNT or TV soon because it is too frustrating to try and get WatchTNT to work and hours worked don’t allow me to watch the shows on TV.

I use WatchTNT and cast to my TV via Chromecast. Which would be great if it reliably worked. I can stream the live broadcast of NBA basketball games for a continuous 5 to 10 minutes. After about that much time the live stream freezes and the TNT logo shows up, like when you first connect WatchTNT to the Chromecast. If you try to start playing the stream again, it gets stuck with the spinning wheel, and plays nothing. Have to disconnect from chrome cast then close and re open WatchTNT for it to start casting again. Really, really frustrating to do this. It happens on both my Chromecast devices in my home. I have plenty of WiFi bandwidth and speed to stream without issues, and None of the other “castable” apps I have and use do anything like this.

Casting from WatchTNT to a TV is a great feature but please get it working better ASAP. Thank you!

JDA