Watch TBS Reviews

by MaddiGrace2021

Including TBS, I have 12 streaming apps on my phone (which is ridiculous and defeats the point over cable) and TBS is by FAR the worst. Chrome cast struggles to connect, the pause/stop function isn’t easily accessible, streaming cuts off and won’t allow you play approximately 30 seconds for EACH episode I try to play. It’s a super frustrating user experience, especially when those 30 seconds happen to be the “big reveal” that the show is building towards. In addition to all of that, the captions are pitiful. They seem like someone with a WPM of 20 was given the task to write them and the first try was what they went with (seriously, I would LOVE to fix them). They’re strife with spelling errors and typos and are functionally nonsensical.

Unfortunately TBS has some shows that aren’t available anywhere else, so I’m hoping they improve WatchTBS experience before the shows become no longer worth the hassle.

by Islander4250

The only explanation that I can think of for this buggy and clunky app is that no one at TBS has ever streamed anything. It is the only explanation for how WatchTBS continues to be as terrible as it is. Having to sign in randomly multiple times while watching a show, having the show randomly restart if you make any adjustments to your screen, randomly switching to live tv while streaming, and the awful opening page that only gives you the option to watch the advertised episode with no way to click through to the show page are only a handful of the reasons that WatchTBS is by far the worst streaming app out there. It’s only saving grace for me is that there is very little that I actually want to watch in their library, so I rarely use WatchTBS . I have deleted WatchTBS in frustration more times than I can count.

by Agogobot

Seriously. Such a bad streaming experience. Streaming quality seems like it’s barely ever above 240p-480p level, I have yet to see it stream in anything near 720p for more than 5 seconds, constant stalling, crashing, the pre-roll commercials every time you open WatchTBS (or the stream fails and you have to reload and see another of the same ad) is just appalling and literally no other app that carries sports does this (when you turn to TBS on TV, do you auto-cut to commercial 5 seconds in during a program? No. Don’t do this here either please). Also the commercials crash half the time. I will literally not ever consider LoanDepot as a service simply because I’ve seen their ad over 200x times in one series of baseball and it’s now a rage trigger lol. Stop it, please, you’re literally hurting your partners by pre-rolling the same ad over and over and over and over. MLB and the playoffs in particular deserve far better than this garbage experience for their fans. Especially as paying cable customers. Fox Sports is your North Star, the difference between the two experiences mind blowing. You can do so much better, please do that.

by Eatchikinmor

Whoever’s idea it was to force a 30 second ad in on every livestream load should seriously reconsider it. The amount of time I’ve wasted having to sit through Loan Depot’s ad on postseason baseball this year is irrational. So much time in fact that taking the two minutes to type this review out feels brisk, and inconsequential. Close WatchTBS ? 30 second commercial. Minimize WatchTBS ? 30 second commercial. Accidentally start to minimize WatchTBS ? 30 second commercial. Inadvertently bump to another stream trying to navigate your (sometimes frustrating) ui? 30 second commercial. I could go on (like your app) but I think I’ve driven the point. And they’re all the same! What makes it worse is the stream starts, and then your commercial cuts in after you’ve watched the stream for a moment. I will never ever consider Loan Depot for any future borrowing now, in fact, because of the volume of frustration I now have subconsciously associated with it. Which I imagine is the opposite effect advertisers are after when funding you for such endeavors. No one else does this even near this aggressively.

by Climardo

I first downloaded WatchTBS to watch 2020 MLB playoffs. I experienced problems upon launch. I was prompted to allow notifications and declined. Then WatchTBS hung on the splash screen. I thought, this is crazy... if everyone else hd this problem then WatchTBS would have an even loower rating. So I restarted my iPhone - same thing. Delete and redownload WatchTBS - same thing. Then I thought, let’s see what happens if I accept notifications and what do you know? It launched past the splash screen and to the EULA or terms of service or whatever. I finally get to watch the game on my phone, but before it will play the live stream, I have to sit through a 15 second ad. Every time. If I leave WatchTBS to respond to a text? Ad. If I swipe down to check my notifications? Ad. That’s so greedy it’s crazy. They still show the TV ads and sometimes they show different ads while TV ads are playing, just trying to squeeze out every bit of revenue they can. Greedy. And lastly, there is no PiP support, yet. Fix this stuff. The ads issue is worth 2 stars and the other issues are 1 star each. Good luck.

by Katnip1979

This is my first App Store review. I tried watching the MLB post season NLDS through WatchTBS and I’m greeted with constant bugs. I have to keep restarting WatchTBS to work. The MLB games lag and the video pauses then tries to catch up and action is missed. I had to watch a home run off the opposing team three times because WatchTBS couldn’t catch up to live play. Even the commercials don’t work. Imagine watching 5 secs of a commercial five times during a break and never knowing the end. I don’t like commercials the same as the next guy, but cmon. Have to watch the same 15 sec commercial every time WatchTBS has to reboot even in the middle of an inning (see first comment above). Since there is no set top box app for Apple TV prior to 4th gen, I tried using AirPlay. The video on the TV displays boxing all around. This is a format/ratio issue that other video apps don’t seem to have an issue with. My impressions of TBS is very low after using WatchTBS. These are things the developers could fix if given the time, resources, and/or training.

by Wavejumper416

WatchTBS is SO AWFUL I only use it to watch the post season baseball. And at that, it only crashes 40-50 times a game. Rewinds itself back minutes at times. Just shuts off goes black. Closes itself. It’s like whoever screwed up the Obamacare website when they got fired all started the TBS app. So far as I write this it’s stopped 4 times. The game is in The first inning and I’ve had to restart it over 10 times tonight. Piece of garbage. As big as TBS is you would think WatchTBS would be solid. And it isn’t new. This has been like this for at least two years. Oh. And if you want full content on your smart tv app, you have to download it to your phone and cast. So even the smart TV is garbage. I’ve made zero reviews on streaming apps. That’s how BAD WatchTBS is that I took time to even write anything. It’s complete garbage. Beyond garbage. If I made an app like this I would be fired for incompetence. TBS, GET IT TOGETHER. It’s 2020. People use apps and expect they work for the most part. This is a joke.

UPDATE: about 15 minutes after I posted, no joke, it’s crashed at LEAST another 20 times and done all kinds of weird stuff rewinding. I can’t believe a major network’s app is so horrible. It’s so frustrating. I’ve had it on 4 devices over the years and does exactly the same thing. How anyone can rate this anything but a 1 surprises me. iPhone 8S plus. 6S Plus. iPad Max. And iPhone 11. All the same problems. Garbage. Just complete garbage.

by Jane&Paul ITunes

review 2

I want to thank TBS WatchTBS stalled 10 times during tonight’s MLB playoffs it reversed during a commercial break and went back to the beginning of the inning I had just watched- it stopped and would not restart 5 times causing me to miss several very exciting parts of the game and since i cannot pause reverse or fast fwd the live game I had to guess what happened!!! WOW WHAT A WONDERFUL AND COMPLETELY FRUSTRATING EXPERIENCE THANK YOU TBS thank Google sponsor of the game thank you to MLB for providing such a totally disappointing and horrific way to experience America favorite sport !!!

review 1

I have had the exact same experience as the first review listed and I agree do not buy the rights to broadcast a game if you cannot deliver. We stream a lot of movies and TV we stream from the internet from our iphones (6&6+) we have good internet download speed we screen mirror through Apple TV and we have never had as many issues as we had with TBS APP while trying to watch the MLB playoff games. Stalls shows more commercial breaks than live tv and it hands during the breaks and misses parts of the game you cannot pause or reverse or fast fed nothing and we do have a provider so we are actually paying for the service we are not getting it free !!!! So it is a major rip off !!! Sending this same review to MLB and T-Mobile which was the major sponsor for the game so they are both getting ripped off also!

by NJacuguy

… guarantees that I’ll delete WatchTBS once the playoffs end. Such greed. If you watch on WatchTBS , they make make money not only through your cable subscription and regular commercials, but by selling your data unless you opt out (which few know about).

But thats not enuff and you have to watch a 30 sec ad EVERYTIME you start WatchTBS or even if you go to another part of WatchTBS and come back. And when they app hangs, it only does so AFTER playing the 30 sec ad. On other channels I’ll watch most of a playoff game then switch back and forth between other apps, but here I’ll only watch if the game is close in late innings b/c of the excessive ads.

They have such a weak programming lineup but actually saw a show was interested in for the first time since they started airing baseball. But b/c of their greed, will not watch it and am after deleting immediately once the playoffs end… bye bye!

by BrianDaly

Freezes and resets every 5-10 minutes, an entire batter behind the cable stream during playoff baseball, constantly have to be working on your phone to watch tv, have to log back into my cable account every night bc it won’t remember it. Horrendous app, incredibly inconsistent, better off refreshing twitter to find out what’s going on. WatchTBS would start out great, but slowly lag more and more before freezing and resetting, only for you to find you’re 4/5 minutes behind live tv. I never thought I would dislike my favorite team going to the World Series this much but congrats TBS, you did it. You created the biggest tease of an app that will show 4 minutes then freeze and make you spend another minute getting it back again. Nothing like staying up until 1 am go watch baseball only to spend the night rebooting this catastrophic app 284 times! Great job TBS!

by FlyersNfillies

Tried watching the AL postseason for baseball and WatchTBS continuously froze and had to be restarted...while I had full att service also there’s no play or pause options and everytime I had to restart WatchTBS I had to watch the same advertisement being played instead of going straight to the game. Also Streaming from the TBS website is just as horrible sitting at home with perfect wifi on my computer and the same problems with WatchTBS take place on the site add that to the fact it takes half an hr just to get it to start playing. Then out of curiosity I tried watching a TBS tv show the “guest book” same horrible streaming app continues to freeze and had to be restarted at least with the tv shows there’s a pause and play even though you can’t get through the show without it freezing. You’d think a broadcasting company like TBS could afford a decent app.

by Father Of Ida

Open WatchTBS , a commercial plays. Then the event/show you’re trying to watch doesn’t. But that commercial will seamlessly play again. Then in the event your event/show does play, it will stall out and just stop playing. And then you have to close and open WatchTBS again. And watch the commercial again. And Lord forbid you’re at the end of an intense sporting event that’s about to have its epic conclusion and — wait, it stopped. Hurry, restart it so we can watch the game there’s only 13 seconds left. Sorry, you’re gonna have to watch this commercial for the 97th time before we can get you back to the conclusion. And now that we’ve got you there it’s already over. Broadcast has ended. And now you can watch this commercial again on your way out.

Just a terrible, terrible, terrible app. Or as Charles Barkley, a frequent face on Turner would say, turrible.

by FCBrown00

WatchTBS is awful. It stalls for extended periods. If I rewind a little it replays 3 minutes of commercials that it just played seconds before. It continues on with the dialog of a scene while commercials are playing over it. It stalls over and over and OVER right after 3 minutes of commercials, then plays ALL the commercials over, then stalls, more commercials, etc. sometimes up to 18 min of commercials before the show starts again. It’s interesting that the commercials never stall. Only the show.
Casting from tablet to TV - another mess.
On my tablet - the shows play in a logical manner (when WatchTBS is functioning). The commercial breaks occur at breaks in the show’s action. When casting and watching on a TV, the commercial breaks ALWAYS occur in mid-sentence when a character is talking - then 3 minutes of commercials - then back to the rest of the sentence.
An epically terrible app.

by Sonnetjie34

WatchTBS is truly not user friendly or easy to access on Apple TV. Firstly, you have to sign in through the provider every time you want to use it. Secondly, there is no search function (like seriously?). Thirdly, once you are able to get to the episode you want to watch (having made peace with the very limited content of the series in question), access issues are encountered more often than not. WatchTBS unhelpfully points out that “oops, it has a problem playing the video”, and then takes me all the way back to Home, which I had to navigate around in a number of clicks and scrolls to actually get to the content I want to watch. Please help, as online watching is supposed to be much easier than this.

by Dub_B

Honestly this is the worst app to stream a sport game. I get that you have sponsors and contracts that lead to commercials and ads. Every time the stupid app freezes and then starts playing again I have to watch a 3o second ad? Bottom of the ninth Freddie Freeman hit the game-winning hit and I miss it because a 30 sec ad decided to start playing. I am extremely thankful to be able to watch my Xfinity subscription via the TBS app for the MLB playoffs. But you guys got a fix that ad s*it. If my cell phone gets knocked from my lap to the ground I have to watch a 3o sec ad - anytime something interrupts the stream.. whether it’s my fault or freezes on your end.. I have to watch a 30 second ad I’ve already watched it, why do I have to watch is 77 times during one baseball game, it’s a joke.

by RefToo

I spent more time watching commercials than I did watching actual content. Furthermore, the commercial countdown continued to increase instead of decrease with each new commercial. A single commercial break that started with a 150 second countdown ended up being 225 seconds long by the time it was complete. My beef is not with the commercials themselves. I understand why the commercials are there. My issue is with the ever increasing countdown.

My other complaint is the number of crashes WatchTBS experienced while I was watching. Many of these crashes happened during commercial breaks, so after restarting WatchTBS I’d have to sit through another set of commercials to get back to my show. In the end it took 45 minutes to watch a 22 minute show. No thank you.

Two stars for effort because, believe it or not, I have experienced worse apps.

by Jawqqqq

Just to be clear WatchTBS normally would receive a 5 Star but I’m giving it a 2 star until this recent issue is resolved since the feature I use most is useless to me now. Ever since may 4th I have not been able to stream the live streaming of TVs for the east coast and small problems with the west coast. I updated WatchTBS and the problem still persists. This has never been a problem in the past, just recently. I have and older version of chromecast so I might buy a new one with better connectivity/signal strength but that can not be the only issue as I said before it worked perfectly before. May 3rd I was able to stream WatchTBS east coast channel live most of the day and there was no issue what’s so ever. Love WatchTBS but this has become an annoyance and I hope it is resolved soon.

by Soulphreak

It’s just not TBS you can’t watch old episodes of American dad on any app WatchTBS is OK I only put it on so I can watch American dad episode but they only run like 5 episodes anerican dad used to show American dad in the afternoons on TBS but now the show is young Sheldon I mean come on guys you’re going to show reruns of friends all morning and young Sheldon in the afternoon you have so many good reruns and shows that you could re-run and even original shows that you guys made over the years that you can broadcast instead you broadcast friends during the day. Now instead of running 35 episodes of Friends from 7 am till 2 pm and young Sheldon from 2 till 7 pm you should split it up your time slots 7 AM to 10 AM your can run friends, from 10 o’clock to 2 o’clock you could run young Sheldon from 2 o’clock to 3 o’clock you can run an hour Bob’s Burgers then from 3 o’clock to 5 o’clock you could run two hours of American dad come from 5 o’clock to 6 o’clock you could run an hour of family guy from 6pm to 8 pm you run 2 hours of The Big Bang Theory then from 8 PM until 10 PM central standard time you’re on your new shows like miracle workers and OG then Goan after that at 10 PM at 10:30 you’re on Samantha bee on Wednesday nights and on the other nites of the week your run an hour of Rick and Morty then its 22 pm so run more big bang theory or maybe another rerun Those are just my thoughts and suggestions. But definitely run more American dad on WatchTBS .

by HeatherCaitlin

It’s easy to fast forward, rewind, and pause shows while watching which I really appreciate, since I usually watch before bed and resume the next eve. I like the selection of shows available and how ads don’t overwhelm the watching.

However, I wish WatchTBS kept me signed in— it seems to automatically sign me out overnight, or after a few hours so then I have to go back in and click through sign-in again. At least the sign-in is fairly easy. Also wished it moved the shows I was watching to the top instead of having me cycle through the list to find each one again.

by Jackthryedlexxi

I use the optimum app very often- and often that app crashes and freezes. It’s refreshing to have an app such as this TBS app, which streams very smoothly. Never has it froze or crashed on me. I can watch my Seinfeld episodes in peace, with smooth playing from beginning to end. 👌🏾 As someone else has pointed out, the only downfall I see is the limited number of episodes I can watch. If I am paying for this channel, and this channel has already showed many episodes of a series, why is only a limited amount of episodes offered at a time? ie, only 4 episodes of Friends. Maybe at least 15 episodes at a time can be available.

by Killakillll

TBS is quite possibly one of the least efficient live streaming services I’ve ever used. The entire NBA Playoffs it seemed like their app wasn’t capable of handling the amount of traffic that games of that magnitude drive in. The result: terrible video & sound quality, ridiculously long loading times, and multiple instances of freezing that require you to restart WatchTBS . Now it seems that same ineptitude has bled into the MLB postseason. Here I am with full service on Sprint’s LTE network and I can’t get anything better than a choppy baseball game that looks like it’s in 180p quality (same goes for when I’m on the WiFi). I have ONE MESSAGE for TBS: STOP BUYING RIGHTS TO GAMES THAT DRIVE IN TOO MUCH TRAFFIC FOR YOUR GARBAGE APP TO HANDLE!!!! Leave it for a company that cares enough about quality and reliability to make sure they’re ready to provide an enjoyable experience to their audience!!!!

by Mister MirZda

This Apple TV app is the the worst. Literally THE WORST app interface in the whole TV app store! It doesn't use the standard interface that every other app uses. You cannot use the basic touch interface of the Siri remote. It reacts to literally ANY touch. It constantly pauses/play. You cannot use the simple skip 10 seconds click on the left & right of the remote.
This overlay or whatever it is that you are using is not working. Please use the basic Apple TV controls. PLEASE!
I also hate all of the issues with having to constantly sign-in that others report. I’ve also noticed it happening more when WatchTBS is launched from TV app. If you play the show from within the TBS app directly it doesn’t happen as often it seems.
This is 1 star ⭐️ until something changes for the better.

by Neverrevieweduntiljustnow

I never review stuff like this. WatchTBS is absolute junk. Downloaded it to watch the MLB playoffs and immediately upon opening WatchTBS I'm met with a "Sorry, we're having trouble loading content right now" which is a terrible sign given the first playoff game featuring two of the biggest markets in television. I go through the usual rigors of closing and reopening to the same infuriating message until finally by the grace of God I get some live action...for a whole three minutes. Then, black. No picture, no sound, but somehow still connected. I gave up and decided this was a terrible enough experience to go out of my way and write a review about it. Please TBS, stop kidding yourselves and let the networks that can actually handle stuff like this do so. You're just making yourself look bad.

by Jaredk16

The video quality is great. However, I downloaded WatchTBS so I could stream the MLB playoffs while at work. I have great LTE connection, but the stream fails at least once per inning every game. The video cuts out during major action in the game, and the worst part is that I cannot simply press play and join the stream instantly, but I am forced to miss an additional 15 seconds of ball play to watch an ad! How ridiculous is that?! WatchTBS has a lot of potential, but you guys need to work on the load your servers can handle on each stream. I can understand ads between innings and perhaps when you open WatchTBS , but why must I watch an ad each time I reopen a stream without even closing WatchTBS ? You're killing me, Smalls!

by Eemmoooooo

I don’t understand my TNT or USA or SYFY apps all work just fine I can stream to my tv through my chromcast device but I can’t never stream this TBS app to my tv never it works for a few minutes and it just drops stream signal out the blue always never fails! What the heck #TBS fix what ever bug WatchTBS has I don’t understand why WatchTBS keeps crashing ...... all my other apps work just fine but while I want to stream live tv or the Big Bang it never works longer then maybe 5 minutes and that’s me stretching it. Please fix been like this for a few weeks now. About a month ago in had no problems I got an iPhone 8 Plus good Wi-Fi and all my other ya apps work just fine but yours! Come on????

by Simiannojob

The new app has a great fresh look but functionally is somehow worse. Streaming live tv has constant stuttering and freezing. Sometime the audio continues but the video is frozen.

Now they’ve made it so you’re not really watching live TV. Instead, when there are designated commercial breaks on “live TV” it plays a set of pre-loaded ads that are the same few ads over and over. This is regardless of the actual ad duration for the live TV - thus your ads will finish and then you will return to the live stream having missed a random portion of it.

There also still isn’t an option to select favorite shows for quick access for on-demand shows.

by Huntergirl77

The issues I was having before seem the be resolved. WatchTBS still buffers and freezes, but I’m hoping the most recent update will resolve that. Also I’m hoping the update will fix the repeated “Are you enjoying the TBS app? Will you leave a review” after I obviously have left a review...

I have always enjoyed TBS & the programming. I like WatchTBS interface also, it’s easy to find what I want & watch.