Showtime Anytime Reviews

by Attentionspan2sec

Just a heads up. This is one of the absolute worst “privacy policies” and “term of use” I have ever read in my life. Carefully read thru them. When it comes to every single thing you do online with your phone, they track it, store it and share it, once you agree to their service. Then it’s now open information to absolutely anyone Showtime decides to share it with, including BUT not limited to your internet browsing, purchases online and ALL online activity on your phone. This information can be shared with your contacts on Facebook, Google and any other companies Showtime has an agreement with at this time or on the future. They indicate you can adjust your privacy settings at EACH of any of their partners. However, you CANNOT adjust your privacy settings with them. And of course you will have no idea how many partners they are sharing your information with at all.

Unbelievable, I love the Showtime content but they have lost me as an online customer and until they offer the ability to choose to share your information with their partners, absolutely no one in my house with use ShowtimeAnytime. So disappointing.
I would give 0 stars if it was possible for signing away any form of privacy just to view content online that you already can watch at home. Absolutely Crazy.

by Franjel

I like Showtime’s content but it has the worst cable provider activation implementation I’ve experienced. On my Apple TV, iPad and iPhone I’ve installed and used 60 different television network apps using carrier logins. Showtime’s implementation is the worst and has not improved in 4 years. You can’t activate for AppleTV from an iPhone or iPad web browser. The iPhone app is required. The AppleTV app does not support integration with the stored credentials of the Television app.
The Showtime app has the shortest period I’ve experience for requiring a reactivation. Any login on the iPad app or the iPhone app only works for my carrier about 40% of the time, even at times other apps will login w this carrier. This blocks me from reactivating the AppleTV app I may have activated just a week before. Anything I want to watch on Showtime, I have to figure in 15-20 minutes extra for this horrible experience.

by Cathalii

I do enjoy watching Showtime, however, I am annoyed ShowtimeAnytime will constantly log me out. This is especially annoying since I need ShowtimeAnytime in order to watch Showtime on my Xbox One & I’ll be in the middle of a show then be told I need to log back in. I’ve already uninstalled and reinstalled ShowtimeAnytime a few times and this issue still persists. Each time I have to log back in it shows my Xbox is not a registered device and I have to re register it again. It’s just annoying and the only issue I have with ShowtimeAnytime . It happens about every two days. If it wasn’t so frequent I probably wouldn’t care nearly as much. When this issue has been fixed I’ll be more than happy to change my review :) otherwise ShowtimeAnytime works very well for me and I don’t have any issues at all.

Update: well, it no longer logs me out. Instead when it auto plays to the next episode, I will get an error message that something g went wrong and I have to back out to the main menu and then go back to the episode I was watching. I’ve done all the same troubleshooting steps (logged out, uninstalled, powered off, etc) and it still happens. Although I am not having to log back in, the issue has gone from every couple of days to every episode... so this is not hopeful progress...

by Dj7:)$,hcx

I’m not one to give 1 stars but ShowtimeAnytime truly meets the criteria. Let’s start with the positive when you can stream offline it has great picture.

Now the negative. So I am a commuter trying not to use all the data so I turn off cellular data with showtime. I will usually download episodes before I leave for work. One day I downloaded an episode and then went to leave. Well my phone display shut off and while that is normal the download stopped. This is the only streaming app where it will stop downloading unless you stare at the screen.

Next when you watch offline they really discourage that. Not only will ShowtimeAnytime crash every 5 minutes into watching it’s almost to the second of the downloaded episodes. At first I thought it was a bad download but it has happened too many times to count at this point.

My final complaint with ShowtimeAnytime is trying to log onto it with your cable subscription. Once you log on it just never loads. It’s a good thing I pay for it so I can’t watch on my phone.

Honestly for a simple app this is extremely disappointing and would never recommend someone to spend money for how often if fails.

by Ukako

ShowtimeAnytime would be great if not for two issues.
1. It happened on several occasions that I downloaded episodes, but when I tried to watch them there were no downloads. On couple of occasions it would happen right after I was about to watch the content, my phone would ring and after I was done, the content was gone.
2. Because the screen in XS Max is really sensitive, you can’t easily fast forward. When you trying to fast forward, 9 out of 10 times you are actually closing ShowtimeAnytime . There should be a 10second forward button, not just backwards.
3. The sound and picture doesn’t always correlate, making the content not watchable.
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4. The latest issue with ShowtimeAnytime is that I’m being signed off and when I try to sign in through my cable provider and go through all of the steps, ShowtimeAnytime proceeds with signing me in and then just stops and never completes the process. Therefore, right now I’m unable to download any content.
I’m sorry but ShowtimeAnytime is really frustrating to work with.

There’s just so many issues with ShowtimeAnytime, unlike some other similar ones.

by Sushi Sue

I would have rated this no stars if possible, as I’ve never actually succeeded in signing into it without getting the ubiquitous “server error”. When I checked reviews, I discovered that it’s a common problem that seems to be well known by Showtime. Unfortunately, anytime someone complained about it in their review, they received the same stock cut and paste answer.

At this point, that is not enough. There are so many choices for streaming television, you would think that they would care a little more than to just direct you to their website’s help page. I have serious doubts about that doing any good, I would think if there was a fix, the developers would take care of it. At the very least, someone could answer one of the many reviews that cite this problem with a solution.

by Jess110512

I have nothing to complain about with regards to Showtime programming content obvi or I wouldn’t be a subscriber. My problem with the application is the fact that I purchased an Apple Genuine HDMI adapter that plugs into the Lightening Port on my iPhone 7+ and its sole function is to allow the user to see what is displayed on the iPhone screen on a television. This adapter was $49usd at my local Big Box discount store; pretty pricey for a cord adapter if you ask me but it always seemed worth the money as I travel a lot and don’t like to break out the laptop and hdmi in hotels to watch Icefilms and Darewatch etc... and before the recent changes my adapter was recognized and treated the same as Apple TV however now I am blocked from viewing content upon connecting it to the TV I get a message that tells me, essentially, that ShowtimeAnytime will no longer allow me to view its content through the Apple HDMI connector but I could buy Apple TV and until I do I am free to buzz off! Nice job ...,

by Mudcat06

there are a lot of little items that other content providers have that ShowtimeAnytime doesn’t but the one that stands out the most is the fact that it has no ability to resume where you left off. Don’t get me wrong one out of 100 times it actually will surprise you and pick up where you left off but you must go back into ShowtimeAnytime literally seconds from the moment you closed it. You can download something and play the next episode, Need to close ShowtimeAnytime for a few minutes and come back and miraculously ShowtimeAnytime will resurrect the episode you deleted and will pick up at some random point. I don’t expect any app to be perfect but honestly I’ve probably reviewed five apps in the last seven or eight years and I only do so because when they are so pathetic is this one I simply have to share my opinion

by Haveabrainwilltravel

I waited with anticipation for Patrick Melrose. I watched the first episode yesterday. What I saw was a self-indulgent descent into gratuitous self-flagellation by the Producers and Showtime. I suppose Showtime feels as if it has arrived and has no further obligation to its audience, who heretofore have insisted upon shows that earn the viewers trust and admiration, through excellence (e.g. Dexter/Homeland/Billions, etc.). This seemed to be a vision of get the right star with name recognition and buzz and throw enough self-abusive, self-indulgent gimmicks in to “wow”the counter-culture avant-garde, with no real creativity or value, and that will be enough to launch another profitable series. Reputation and excellence are not as important anymore. I like counter-culture as much as the next person, provided its intelligently and well done. Your team needs to look in the mirror on this one, so far. Hopefully, you don’t just listen to yr sheep-like sycophants.

Regards, Patrick Walsh

by Killingmachine666

The cromecast button is not there anymore!! Quit telling people to go to your help page. There is no help there. And then you have the nerve to contact cromecast because it not your app. If you haven’t noticed it is not just me that is having this problem! Every recent review of your app says the same thing that I am saying. It is your app that is messed up!!! Every other app I have that has cromecast works. HBO,Netflix,Stars,etc. I have a lot more than that, and it is only yours that doesn’t work! So fix it and quit with the robo response. And just fix the thing! It worked before your last update. Why you update something that is working just fine, I don’t understand! I just have to believe with the stupid responses you give, and the fact that you take no responsibility for YOUR APP that doesn’t work. That you just don’t care. So you will be loosing my business.

by Jerimiahf

Given that I’m already paying for Showtime thru my provider, ShowtimeAnytime should NEVER be showing me promos first when I go to play a show I want to watch. I am forced to watch a 30 second promo - why? I can fast forward but seriously - I already pay you for your service, stop with the promos.

Also while we are at it, why can’t you make it so that when an episode is over you start off the next episode right after the opening intro and recap. For example, I’m rewatching Dexter and when the next episode plays I still have 3 mins to skip they every time. Save me that headache and start it right after the recap. There’s another service who does this very well, take that cue as a great feature to implement.

by TheGuin

We recently started watching Your Honor and episodes 3-7 (so far) are unwatchable. The show starts fine, the it starts to skip (random times) like an old cd, replaying the same 2-3 seconds a few times then ultimately backs out of episode, returns to the menu, and marks it as watched. It does this on iPhone and Apple TV. I’ve reinstalled both apps with no luck. Sometimes you can fast forward through it and keep watching, but usually not. We’ve resorted to watching it on demand through our cable provider, but they only offer standard definition for Showtime. All other premium channels have an HD version. So the picture only takes up half our tv screen. We’ve watched several series through ShowtimeAnytime , with only one episode of Shameless doing this same thing.

Please fix the bug!!

by Daniels313

We use several premium cable TV apps to stream and we have never had issues like we do with the Showtime Anytime App. We are logged out at least once each time we go into ShowtimeAnytime and if we are lucky enough to get our show to stream, it logs out in the middle or just quits playing. For example, while attempting to watch a certain show it just stopped streaming. No way to pause/play/etc. I tried downloading just that particular episode and it wont even allow us to do that. Ive signed out/back on. Deleted and reinstalled to no avail. I gave it two starts ONLY because when it does work, I can deal with being logged in and out 5 times a show…..but at least I can watch it in some fashion. There has to be some sort of debugging that you can do - HBOgo and others do not do this. We love Showtime. Please fix these glitches.

by Marlee.may7

I love my favorite Showtime series! The problems with ShowtimeAnytime truly ruin the viewing experience, though. Here’s a list of issues I have with ShowtimeAnytime :
- constant glitching and crashing when attempting to search for the show I want to watch (search bar/series menu)
- lack of a “skip recap” or “skip intro” button
- lack of 10 second forward AND 10 second rewind button
- doesn’t automatically start next episode or even give option to start next episode. You have to go back to the Home Screen (see next line item for the issues with the Home Screen) and/or re-search for the series you are watching.
- lagging Home Screen (for example, if I finish an episode, I have to completely close out of ShowtimeAnytime and then go and search for the next episode instead of it appearing on the Home Screen or automatically starting. Another example is the show I’m in the middle of completely disappearing from the Home Screen and I have to go search for the show in the search bar... but the search bar crashes ShowtimeAnytime )

These are just a few of the issues with ShowtimeAnytime that are very discouraging. If more come up I will add them to this list. I hope the developers use this feedback to better ShowtimeAnytime so that viewers have a more enjoyable experience watching the shows (and movies) they love! Thanks.

by Jonique7

Although I love that ShowtimeAnytime allows all of their shows/episodes available for viewing, there’s always an issue with loading up ShowtimeAnytime . It constantly freezes and kicks you off. I constantly have to close out ShowtimeAnytime and relaunch it because it keeps freezing. ShowtimeAnytime also forces you to re-activate the device more than normal if you haven’t used it in a few days. We shouldn’t have to reactivate it at all. If anything just have us put our login credentials back in. This really needs to be updated especially during these times. It affects customers view of ShowtimeAnytime which could be great, if these minor issues are fixed.

Thanks!

by Djddjfnwjh

ShowtimeAnytime is good. Just needs a few tweaks. Maybe cut down the skip back time from 30 seconds to 15. Also implement a skip forward. About 15 seconds to coincide with the skip back feature. Maybe add a “Skip Intro” as well for series. The search feature should also be accessible all the time. Not just atop the menu screen showing category's. It gets kind of annoying to have to exit out of a category to search a title, unless you don’t mind scrolling through a whole library of content to find what you want. Then it’s just me lol. Other than that it’s a really good app and if those additions ever make their way to ShowtimeAnytime I’ll change my rating to 5 stars.

by Jayhawks Rule!

PLEASE LISTEN THIS TIME. This is my serious request. When I'm watching a show on Showtime..like "Shameless" for instance, at times I may feel like I missed something that a particular character said. When this happens, I want to quickly go back a short bit (like 10 seconds) to hear again what little bit I think I may have missed. So I just want to go back a little to hear it again. But I don't want to have to go back 30 seconds just to hear the bit that I missed just a few seconds ago. And sometimes I may want to do it a couple of times. In that case, I'm having to go all the way back 30 seconds each time and wait until it finally gets to the part I want to hear again. That's frustrating! If I had trouble understanding what a character said, I may have to listen to it again three times (in some cases). So it's both frustrating and time consuming when it goes back 30 seconds, when all I want is for it to go back just a little bit. So please change the rewind icon to 10 seconds instead of 30! PLEASE!

by GypsyLove13

There’s so much I love about ShowtimeAnytime...but the biggest and by far most frustrating aspect is how it constantly and continuously logs me out of my account. I could be using ShowtimeAnytime on a Monday night, for example, and by Tuesday night, I’m forced to log in again. I don’t know why this is. My app is currently up to date, but it does this to me all the time. It also does it when I haven’t used ShowtimeAnytime for a week or so, which is still annoying, but I’m in the middle of a movie right now, and I was forced to get out of bed and re-activate my device...three times before it finally accepted it.

Other than that, I really enjoy using Showtime Anytime. I do wish the closed captioning had an option to make the font bigger, though. I love the 10 second fast forward and rewind feature, which HBOMax recently got rid of, and I’m avoiding that app like the plague until it’s fixed. Please never get rid of that feature, because sometimes I miss a detail during my show/movie, and it’s wonderful to be able to quickly go back

Overall, I feel like I’m getting a lot of bang for my buck since I pay so much a month for cable, Showtime included. Spectrum rarely has this much to offer when I look at Showtime on demand when I’m watching regular TV, so having an AppleTV opened my eyes to all the content I’ve been paying for, with no way to watch.

Keep up the great work, Showtime. I can’t WAIT to see Dexter in a few months. 😄

by ShayMcI

I am using Apple TV to view Showtime. It is working perfectly. From time to time I have to réactivité it but I suppose that may be because ShowtimeAnytime updated or something. Nonetheless, I am not experiencing any problems with it at this time. I have changed my rating from 1 star to 5 stars.

I just downloaded ShowtimeAnytime to stream with my Roku. When I try to register, I keep getting an error right after I agree to the policies. It will not go further. This tells me that if there is a problem before I even get to use it, there will be some serious problems with ShowtimeAnytime as described by the many users that gave it a low rating!

by Variety_Jones

[Update] I contacted support through chat as suggested by the Dev. They had me uninstall ShowtimeAnytime (had done this many times before) but the trick that worked was turning my ipad off afterwards for 5 minutes, then turning it back on and reinstalling ShowtimeAnytime . For some reason, that worked - I was able to login and can now watch my beloved Showtime.

[Original] App won’t even let me login through my provider account. Doesn’t seem like Showtime cares about ShowtimeAnytime, as many many others have the same issue.

by Princesslittlebutt

Wow from reading the other reviews I believe showtime is using ShowtimeAnytime to sell our information. Here is why.
Someone mentioned the apps permission and terms of service gives it access to a whole lot of personal information that it can use to make money that is unnecessary for it to need. 2. You MUST have ShowtimeAnytime to activate a smart tv. There is no other way. People mention the activation needs to be reactivated every week or so. This keeps ShowtimeAnytime on your phone. Giving showtime access to all your sensitive data a the time. Bravo showtime. Great money making idea!!! I’ll check with others to see what they think about this.

Really inconvient you have to download an app to activate a device. Other providers have a simple webpage that does this. You want me to take up room on my phone that’s crazy. Also my stepmom doesn’t even know how to install an app. I’m sure a lot of people tried to activate their TVs and failed and quit out of frustration. What if your extremely unlucky and your phone is broken? Sorry no phone - no showtime. Older people also sometimes have flip phones and no data. Whoever thought this was a good idea should be fired. Ok it’s great to have this as an option but follow from every other networks example and use a webpage. People are familiar with.

by DeShawndre

I love being able to binge and catch up on great shows that I haven’t been able to watch over the years due to not having Showtime (Shameless, Ray Donovan and Homeland are my favorites so far) but the Anytime app needs some serious updates. The biggest problem is when I’m watching downloaded videos offline (which I do a LOT), ShowtimeAnytime crashes every ten minutes or so. When I reopen ShowtimeAnytime after it crashes, it oftentimes doesn’t pick up where it left off and I have to scrub and search my place in the episode I was watching.

And this isn’t really a huge issue but you guys should consider making the 30 second replay option into 10 seconds and also add a 10 second fast forward.

by Password_1234

[Update] I contacted support through chat as suggested by the Dev. They had me uninstall ShowtimeAnytime (had done this many times before) but the trick that worked was turning my ipad off afterwards for 5 minutes, then turning it back on and reinstalling ShowtimeAnytime . For some reason, that worked - I was able to login and can now watch my beloved Showtime.

[Original] App won’t even let me login through my provider account. Doesn’t seem like Showtime cares about ShowtimeAnytime, as many many others have the same issue.

by Pasta Rocks

Billions has turned into a show I watch for the writing now. I didn’t know if they could pull off a storyline on such a topic and make it riveting, but the acting is superb and the writing is brilliant, it’s the one show I can’t wait for each week. The Chi also was a pleasant surprise and am looking forward to season two. I have watched all Homeland seasons and it still captures my interest. But Billions is to me the best show they have and hope it gets renewed for at least 4 more seasons. Just fantastic.