Lifetime: TV Shows & Movies Reviews

by Shddjs

Ok so I actually only got Lifetime to watch one show that I couldn’t watch for free anywhere else and honestly I’m happy with the show that’s great but the ads are unbelievable. Also the quality.

1. The ads. I have already seen a lot of reviews about this and the ads are just crazy, every 5 minutes there’s an ad, and it’s not just short 10 second ads they are the lost 30-45 second ones or longer!!! Why would you put so many ads in a video, it’s really getting annoying at this point. And the fact that it’s the same 5 ads played over and over again just makes it more annoying!

2. The quality. Now I know that if the WiFi is really bad and all it will get bad but come on. My WiFi and data are perfectly fine, some of my friends that have come over have said that my WiFi is great. But really sometimes I will have to watch it off data (with unlimited data) and the quality will be so bad that I can’t tell who is talking on the screen!!!!!!!

Recommendations
- ok so when I first go into Lifetime it shows 3 boxes of 2 shows I will never watch and then my show. My recommendation is that you put the show they last left on at the very top of the screen so they can just click on it and instead of scrolling actually keep up with where they’re at so they can just click on their show then press continue where left off.

Other than the things listed I love being able to watch my favorite show
- thanks

by Glowing Filly

Ok so I have loved Lifetime and I have been using it for almost a year and have had 0 problems with it. So last night I was watching the only show that I watch on there (Dance Moms) and was enjoying it and all of the episodes were on there. You're probably confused about what I mean so I will say it what happened this morning! I got on there and I tapped on Dance Moms but I noticed on all the other shows and mine didn't have the episode numbers on there. So when Dance Moms popped up it had nothing on it other than the white I mark and the sign that said Dance Moms and Abby looking on the ground that had rose petals. There was a little note it said " Sorry there are no videos on this show come back soon!" Then I got mad so I got off Lifetime and swiped it then I got back on still looked the same so then I reseted my device still looked the same then I deleted Lifetime and got downloaded it again STILL LOOKED THE SAAAAAAAAME!!!!!!!!! I am very frustrated with Lifetime! Please Please Please Please Please fix Lifetime I will give it 5 stars if this gets fixed! THX! FOR! READING!

by Blah Blah What 421

I appreciate that Lifetime allows you to watch this app’s shows for free, however, there are way too many issues with Lifetime to make it worth anyone’s time.
For one, there are way too many advertisements for any episode length. The advertisements make up about 1/3 of the show length. If I watch a show that is 45 minutes long, there is at least 15 minutes of advertisements, maybe longer. The same 4 or 5 ads play over and over on repeat. You can not start the show without seeing at least 4 ads. An ad will play every 5 minutes.
Next, if you decide to cast your show to a tv from any device, you have to do it before picking your episode. Once you begin a show, you can no longer cast. This is a simple, frustrating issue that should be fixed.
Lastly, after exiting Lifetime you can no longer begin where you left off. You’ll have to keep track of where you left off in order to resume from your spot in the episode. If you open Lifetime , you’ll notice Lifetime believes you are in the middle of an episode you watched previously.
Overall, Lifetime possess features that are not user friendly, and has advertisements that are outrageously long and unnecessary. It is nice that users can watch episodes for free of their favorite show, however, it is not worth the download if you have a short temper or the time to deal with all the faults.

by Destig

I totally understand you want to put adds but it’s unacceptable how many adds there are there is at least 6 to 7 adds every five minutes an episode is usually 40 to 45 minuets long and every five minutes you get an add and it’s not like there are different interesting adds every time it’s the same adds over and over again it makes no sense I don’t want to hear the same information every second I’m trying to watch something Lifetime is completely unorganized and needs to improved quickly I do not recommend this terrible app due to the adds that are useless , apps like these deserve plenty of bad reviews until they fix it I don’t understand one bad review should be good for this company to think “oh maybe there to many adds let’s try at least try to fix this problem” but no this inconsiderate company needs about 2 to 5 bad reviews to able to think about changing and maybe not even, maybe they just ignore these reviews and continue to have the worst app that has ever been created Lifetime is good in no ones eyes and should be fixed without a doubt I am incredibly disappointed and unsatisfied with this terrible app. I don’t mean to have been so harsh and rude but if that’s the only way you will understand then that’s what all of us people need to do to help better your app.

by Fanie18

Let me start with saying Lifetime DOES get the job done. However, Lifetime itself has made the viewing experience so frustrated that I’ve given up watching some of my favorite shows. The main bug are the ads. They’ll literally start in the middle of a scene. Not like regular tv where you can tell it’s about to go into commercial. No these ads are very unpredictable, they’ll come up whenever. But the worse part is that they’re sooooo repetitive. It’ll literally be the same Ad on reply 4 or 5 times sometimes and it’s extremely annoying. Especially when I have guests over.
I cast the episodes on my tv and it’s almost impossible to rewind and forward, I would tell my google home to rewind a minute and it will either rewind way too much or go all the way to the beginning. I try using Lifetime and it’s the same thing plus you have to deal with ads every time.
If you get off Lifetime it won’t save where you left off or it’ll save on the wrong spot. If you try to forward you have to watch Ads to even start the episode and even more Ads to forward to the time you left off at.
I have since stopped watching this app shows in general. Hoping Lifetime can get fixed soon.

by Nosirrahm

Lifetime needs some help. Stop asking me if 👁 want the 3 min ads or interactive. The button response is slow so it takes almost the whole countdown before it acts. Once commercials start, you can’t pause or exit to the show list which is a pain. One McDs commercial played 7 times in a row. The only way to stop it was to close Lifetime since you can’t exit the commercial. Some commercials are totally stupid - the Basis commercial? The voice and video are out of sync (I’ve seen it 9000 times). There are a few commercials that have no text or product. Literally 👁 sit there confused as to what 👁 saw (commercial with a kid trying to open a marker(?), someone off screen reaches for it and the kid hands back the thing and it ends. There are no words, no product you can see and it’s about 15 seconds.)

Going from one device to the next doesn’t work. The continue watching option is always 3-4 episodes behind. When you search your show, you see your show progress, selecting it always starts from the beginning. So note how much progress you made so you can slide over to where you were. It also started this problem of starting the next episode about 45 min In. Why? 👁 have no idea. You have to slide the dot back to the beginning of the show.

by Yoyadf

It’s insane how they have yet to fix Lifetime after years of it messing up and with all the ads. If you don’t finish an episode and exit Lifetime , next time you open it, it will have an episode you already watched on the main screen ready to watch. I was in the middle of episode 6 of Married At First Sight but didn’t realize exactly which episode I was on. I had to exit out Lifetime . Went back on and the middle of the 4th episode was waiting for me. I was confused when watching it. I tried to fast forward to see if I watched it. Ad after ad each time I fast forwarded it a little bit. Super annoying! I just exited and looked at the episode list. I think I’ve watched about 30 ads within the last ten mins trying to find out where I left off on. Oh and the 6th episode took me back to an earlier point in the episode than I was. this app get it together already! Edit: If you press pause, you have so much trouble getting it to actually pause. After ten tries, I thought I actually paused it. Then it started playing on it’s own. Support team wants me to contact them but what good would that do. FIX Lifetime !! Super frustrating! I rather long in with my cable service than for Lifetime to be free with all the glitches.

by MGMdawg

Lifetime itself is amazing but it won’t let me log in. I was logged in, but for some reason it logged me out. I’ve been trying to log in but it won’t let me so I tried to make a new account. It said I had to be 13 or older to receive emails even though I put 2003 as my birth year. I tried it again with out clicking “Receive Emails” but it still said the same thing. I tried to log in with Charter Spectrum (by making a new account) but it said my Street was wrong even though it was a choice for the places that I could choose from. Overall, this app is a good app but logging in has given me troubles to unlock the last episodes of my Fav. shows. I also think there are too many ads. You can’t exit out of them without having to exit out of Lifetime ! They repeat over and over again until I just stop using Lifetime . Like 20% of the episode is ads and the rest is the episode. Please fix these things. PLEASE!

by Mzthng

I made an account like it says so that I can start from where I left off when watching from any device. It worked maybe twice. Now it constantly picks up on the same episode no matter how many times I try to run through an episode to show it that I’ve watched the next ones, which doing that is a pain because then you have to watch what feels like hours of ads. If I start it from my Apple TV app it takes me to the next episode before I can finish the one I’m on. I’ve never experienced an App that can’t even pick up where you have left off. I can’t even start from where I left off when watching from the same app on the same device the next day!

There also needs to be a way to chose to not have any ads. If you have it synced with your cable provider why make us watch ad after ad after ad, which aren’t ever relevant to where I live or my interest and play sometimes the same ad 4-5 times in a row. I would almost prefer a subscription model to possibly even pay a small amount to get it with no ads, which would actually let me watch a 45 minute show in 45 minutes instead of an hour and a half.

Lifetime needs work big time.

by Tayloyo22

I love the this app app, although so far I’ve only used it to watch one show. I don’t have too many complaints about the ads, they are actually pretty normal and I know that’s what makes this app free. The only issue I have is with other devices. When I watch on my phone no matter if I’m at home on WiFi, or in my car using my data, I get absolutely 0 lagging or buffering. Somehow when I try to watch on my Samsung smart tv or my laptop, it will be fine for the first HALF of the episode, and then will start lagging and buffering. I’ll pause the show to let it catch up, one time for an entire HOUR, and yet it will still play for a few seconds and then continue to load and buffer. My tv and laptop are on the same WiFi as my phone and I have no connectivity problems with any other app or anything. This is really annoying because I would love to watch my show on an actual tv instead of just my phone but I can’t deal with watching it for a few seconds at a time with a large pause in between. I would love to change my rating if this can get fixed!

by RacheEm83

I've been using my this app app for a few years. I changed my rating from 4 stars to 1 star when Lifetime changed awhile back because the commercials were ridiculously long (once I timed one at 11 minutes and 24 seconds). Now, I’m changing my rating again because I feel like you listened to all the complaints by giving the interactive commercial option. I love that option and use it every time it’s given. I only rated 3 stars, though, because I wish I could choose the 30 second option every time. Some shows give me the option frequently, while others never do. I still do not like that I have to start playing the video to see the episode information. Plus, I’m always logged in, yet it doesn’t always show which episodes I’ve watched already and which ones I haven’t. I’m hoping you’ll continue making this an easier watching experience!

by DanceMomHolly

I love Lifetime, all of the shows are free with is amazing! One thing that I’d like to point out is the ads. I know apps can’t stop ads cause that what keeps the ads free cause there advertising Lifetime or company but there’s a lot of flaws about how the ads run etc. For example, I’m watching my show and there’s ads. I usually don’t have problems with ads but with these there repeating themself in a row and not just after the last add the show had but right after that ad. To be more specific the same car ad or stop and shop ad keep popping up repeatedly and it gets boring after seeing an ad replete it’s self frequently. Another thing about this ad problem is that there going on for a long time and there multiple ads in one sequence so it gets the person aggravated cause they just want to watch the rest of there show. One more thing I’d like to point out about the ads is that they keep pausing with a reload sign after almost every ad and it shows the first scene and then switches to a totally different ad and it gets annoying cause people that have perfect internet get annoyed cause the ads keep having to pause then switch. If people are fine with ads popping up constantly then get Lifetime cause otherwise it’s great! But if u hate ads like me, don’t get Lifetime.

by Xx.ultraviolet

Lifetime is great the issue is the ads! Like the Kia ad either has no sound or it’ll be only be a black screen when it’s time for commercials and the ad doesn’t start just shows a black screen when I click the black screen it opens their Kia website it doesn’t play the ad and I have no potion to exit out of my show and go back to the this app home page so I have no choice but to force close Lifetime and go back into it and then some of the ads will play over and over so for example the same Nisan commercial played back to back 5 times but I guess the algorithm counted it as if the video only played once so I still had to watch 4 other ads on top of it. I wouldn’t commented if this was a once in a blue moon situation and I haven’t because this has been going on for 2 months now but it’s now becoming an issue every time my show goes into commercial break 🙄

by Stay Happy You Are Loved

Ok so first off I’d like to mention that Lifetime is actually really good and it’s all free and I really appreciate that and I’m pretty sure you can watch like anything that comes out on this app on Lifetime well except for movies but I’m pretty sure they have another app that’s for specifically this app movies but anyway that’s not the point Lifetime is really great and but I just like to mention that there’s a lot of ads like so many like it’s just gets repetitive you know and it’s kind of annoying how many ads there are and also the ads just go on for like so long and you know sometimes I feel like there’s more ads and there is video but other than that it really is a great app and if you don’t mind ads then I would really recommend it and this is no hate to Lifetime it’s just constructive criticism I’m just mentioning things that could be improved and obviously yes I do know that companies can’t stop the ads because this is what keeps them able to make everything free but it’s just I feel like there could be a just a tad bit less ads I’m not saying completely no ads at all I’m just saying less ads I’d also be really nice if they could add like different ads in there instead of just all the same ads over and over again it would just make it so much better but yeah that’s all thanks for ltakimv your time to listen to my review.

by Nickname Dc

Yes it is free that is a huge reason why I decided to give 3 stars. I am still able to watch my show that a few seasons is only available on this app. I’d rather pay a few dollars to remove the obnoxious ads. It’s the same ads over and over again. The ads are repetitive in the most annoying way possible. They pop up even before the little bubble that tells you when they are coming. It freezes for a moment before and after the ads as well. Also I get a notice every 3-4 episodes saying Lifetime was having difficulties and I have close and re open then bam another set of ads. Then it didn’t show the spot I left off on so I need to fast forward and yes of course you guessed it multiple ads. I wish my show was available elsewhere. You also cannot let the ads play in the back round Lifetime must be opened to play unlike most streaming apps out there. I think Lifetime needs major updating.

by Jaleesakj

I’m in love with Lifetime . I’ve enjoyed rewatching my favorite shows like dance moms and bring it. I am disappointed that not all of the episodes are available for the show bring it. Seasons 1-3 is missing 5-6 episodes a piece. Besides that why are there so many ads so frequently? There’s a commercial and there will be 6-8 ads adding up to 3 minutes or more. I might as well watch it live on tv and watch the same 3 minute commercials. When I come to stream I really don’t want to deal with a whole lot of commercials. I understand the ads is what is keeping Lifetime free but honestly I’d rather pay for a premium version just so I can get away from it. It’s starting to get extremely frustrated. If I rewind because I missed a part there’s ads. I fast forward to skip the intro there’s ads then 2 min later commercials break there’s 7 ads after I just sat through 5 ads previously. I’m over it. So annoyed with Lifetime.

by Lynda Conde

So I would rate this a three because the ads that keep coming on the same ones over and over and it’s really hard for me to watch my shows and especially they get really annoying the ads that go over and over I would at least like to have ads that are different but I’m also giving it a three because I love watching dance moms I can watch it clearly hear everything nicely so there was no other problem other than those ads I really would like Lifetime to change the way the ads are because it’s very annoying that I just keep coming and coming and they’re the same ones over and over I really don’t like the fact about the ads that come on and I see every like kind of review they say that they don’t like that the ads are just going and going and I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who’s annoyed here I really hate the fact that I just keep going and going same ones over and over and I just wanted to say if you’re going to download Lifetime you have to make sure you like adds a lot like come on always and always and always I tried doing something to stop the ads but it’s not capable so

by Hdmansv

This is an amazing app to use on your phone! But there is a few things I will like to share about this the may make you change your mind. The first thing is that sometimes there is some glitches and bugs that makes me exit the whole app and do not save where I was in the show. The second thing is that there is a lot of ads in between the show. Another thing is when I press rewind 10 or forward 10 I have to click it multiple times and when it finally works and I press it a lot of times it goes back to the start of my show. One last thing is that when I press on a episode it said that it had expired but when I try on let’s say my iPad it works fine. Also it still Dosent work when I exit Lifetime .

by Z⃨o⃨z⃨o⃨g⃨i⃨r⃨l⃨s⃨o⃨c⃨u⃨t⃨e⃨

Now to start off, I see many reviews complaining about the ads but there are going to be ads in your life and clearly no one understands that. Maybe buy this app movie club and you can get out of the mid-show ads! Personally I’m perfectly fine with ads, out of the 37 years of my life I’ve completely gotten used to it and I ignore them and use that time to think about the show! Next, why this app is the perfect! this app is one of the best free apps out of my phone. I can watch this app on the go, in bed, and at work! I can watch MANY shows and can enjoy them. It’s amazing. Finally, the small thing that’s wrong with this app. this app may be awesome but a tiny thing that annoys me is when the shows don’t load. I was trying to watch S2 E9 of “Married at first sight” But it wouldn’t load. After a few minutes I then powered off my device and turned it back on and still nothing, I eventually gave up and the next day it was working.

⬇️⬇️DEV RESPONSE!!😄

by XxGrace221Xx

In my opinion, I think that Lifetime this app is such a great app. I decided to download Lifetime after an anonymous user replied to someone saying that this app is an app where you can watch many different shows that would usually cost money, for free.

One thing many people have been complaining about was the amount of ads that Lifetime gave when you clicked on an episode to watch. In my personal experience, I only had to watch one ad in the beginning that was about 15 seconds long. The ad’s from then on were divided fairly. I feel like there are ad’s in almost everything digital, so it was not that big of a problem for me personally. I think most of the reviews were pretty outdated, and this app saw the reviews, and decreased the amount of ad’s they showed. I think that the amount of ad’s shown were fair especially because of the fact that you didn’t have to pay to watch these exclusive shows.

I overall really like Lifetime, and love that I could watch dance moms here!

by Abearden

Lifetime is has a lot of problems. I’ve always use it on my phone and then I got a Mac and started using it on there and even made a profile hoping that would help with all the problems. I watch a few shows on here but MAFS is the main one I watch and it’s a 45 min show and it takes me 2 1/2 hours to watch it due to the advertisement and also due to it buffering really bad in the adds. It’s gotten really bad the last couple of weeks where I couldn’t even watch the show because it wouldn’t play threw the commercials. And there are like 10-12 commercials each time it goes to a commercial and it take like 30 mins to get threw them all. It’s really frustrating. It also lags really bad during the show and buffers. It’s not my phone or internet because nothing else does it on it only the this app app. It’s crazy and these problems really need to be fixed.........

by Tcbgc

I never write reviews but my frustration has boiled over! It’s nice to have an app to watch the shows, however there are WAY to MANY ads! It actually is obnoxious and makes it not worth it. There are also a ton of ads for this app, uh I’m on the this app app, I don’t need to see an ad for it. Yeah I’m sure it’s commercial slots they haven’t sold but it’d be nice to just not play anything and get back to the show! The absolute worst part is god forbid you touch anything in anyway, like the button to rewind it the 30 seconds, they use that as an opportunity to have another commercial break! Had I not pushed the 30 second button, there would not have been a break. It just makes it unenjoyable to use and not worth dealing with! I use lots of apps with commercials with no problems, I also have ones that I pay to use with no commercials. Just be decent, if we weren’t using Lifetime to watch shows then companies would not pay you to advertise, so we should matter and so should the quality of your app!

by Cocosavs

Please please please fix these ads. Sometimes it’s minutes of ads- which isn’t even the worst part. Oftentimes time I watched the same ad FOUR TIMES IN A ROW. It just keeps playing over and over during the commercial break. I get needing to have ads, but if you’re just playing the same one over and over again (during the same commercial break!) what’s the point? Play it once and let’s move on- hearing the same annoying ad on repeat is enough to make me go crazy, or at least give me a headache.

Secondly, please fix the problem where Lifetime doesn’t keep track of where you are in the season or episode you were watching. If you close Lifetime in the middle of an episode and come back later to watch, it’ll be in the wrong spot (making you watch another 8 mins of the same commercial repeatedly when you try to move it to the correct spot) or it’ll be on the wrong episode completely.

by VeeBee081504

I just downloaded Lifetime not even a week ago. I am happy that I can access the shows on this app that I haven’t been able to see in a while.
However, every time I click to the next episode, it does not start at the beginning. It starts anywhere from 15-30 minutes into the show. I have to wait for the commercials to go through, manually back track or I have to disconnect Lifetime from my chromecast and wait for it to buffer to play it again. It still does the same thing when I connect. It continues to start at the 15-30 minute mark. And then I have the option to scroll back. This is tedious and it shouldn’t take 10-15 minutes just to get to the beginning of the next episode that’s only 45 minutes long until I have to do it all over again.
I hope this can be fixed.

by Michaelalexschultz

I absolutely understand the concept of ads dispersed throughout the shows I’m watching on Lifetime . However, the ads are often ~ 3 minutes or more! So 3 minutes of ads which happen 5 times in an hour long show is quite ridiculous. In addition, Lifetime crashes very consistently thereby requiring you to watch 3 more minutes of advertisements just to resume playback even though it was Lifetime that crashed! I’ll also say that Lifetime on tvOS is super glitchy when it comes to fast forwarding through segments of the shows. Often times I can’t seek using the remote and have to manually skip forward 10 seconds at a time to reach the point I want. All around, it needs a ton of work and that starts with reconsidering you advertising strategy within the application.

by Our Voice Matters

I love the this app app. I only watch a few things on there and I think that it is fantastic if you like their shows. You can watch them as many times as you want. The only issue I have is that it has so many ads that go on for so long. I love the interactive ad feature but I have gotten that one time and I have used Lifetime for approximately 6 months. I think that if you can handle 20 ads for every 5 minutes of the show your watching then it is great, but otherwise I think that maybe a little bit less ads would be beneficial. I do understand that the ads make them money but I think that you could get higher ratings and more downloads if you improved on that. I hope this improves in the future.

by Imsa07*

i got Lifetime so i could watch full episodes for dance moms and i like how you can watch them for free but there are ads at least every 5 minutes and it’s not just one there are 3-5 at a time and that gets rly annoying. also they play the same ads over and over and over again so it’s not as interesting as like seeing different ones every time. but i would recommend Lifetime i guess it’s completely free but that’s the only thing i like ab Lifetime. again WAY to many ads i would love Lifetime if it had no ads or just one 30 second ad in the whole episode.

by Kristinafh

I am a faithful Project Runway viewer and until two months ago, I always watched episodes via my Direct Tv app. I was having issues with that app so I downloaded this one.

What a pleasant surprise! The interface is clutter free. It was easy to find the exact show I wanted to watch. Because I am a direct tv subscriber, when I validate my credentials, it remembers what episodes I’ve watched via Lifetime. For me, there are zero commercials. I don’t know if this is an app thing or what. When I used to watch via my direct tv app - there was always commercials.

I’ve taken the time to watch some other shows/episodes that I have never seen. I don’t watch much television but the television I do watch has mostly been via Lifetime.