Reviews for HBO Max: Stream TV & Movies

No longer casts to my TV/Chromecast set up. Multiple other streaming apps worked, tried restarting all hardware and uninstalled and reinstalled the app. Still nothing, the logo screen appears with the little thinking wheel then it quits. Shows will play on my phone but would like on my TV at night. Very disappointed, used to […]

right now I have to give this streaming app 3 stars because of the volume of the commercials are not on the same level as the show or movies..the shows are so low you have to turn up the volume and then when a commercial pops up it’s so loud it makes the whole family […]

ads still play with the top tier subscription, horrific quality drops after going forward or backwards on the TV app, and audio cut out on only the HBO Max TV app that makes everything unwatchable. Tried all the recommendations on the website and nothing works. sometimes the audio cuts out constantly, sometimes it’s rare. In […]

Edit: I was watching a show one night and got a call. I couldn’t close the HBO app, it just downsized to the bottom of my screen. Now there’s several dark boxes similar to screen burn on my phone screen! They show up in screenshots, but go away when I’m watching HBO. Nothing else removes […]

This is the worst streaming app. It literally takes me 10-15 minutes to log in every time I try to use it. Most of the time I just go watch one of my other streaming apps that actually works. *edit Who would have thought it was possible to make this app worse. As if it […]

Update: I honestly wish I could give this app zero stars. It really is mind boggling how terrible it is. You can’t make it 30 minutes into a movie or show before the buffering starts, or my favorite, it will just randomly pause itself. Then it’s the inevitable crash that always results in having to […]

The app does not even let me log in properly. I enter the email and the password then it takes me to where I need to connect my provider then it just takes me in circles. It acts like it connects to my provider but then tells me I need to connect it again. This […]

I would love to give it 5 stars but I can’t. I love the available content, but when I’m connected to WIFI, the app doesn’t load very well on any of my devices: tablet, phone, or Fire stick. It actually runs better when I turn off the wifi and use my phone data. This is […]

Of all the streaming platforms I have, HBO Max (or whatever it’s called at the time you’re reading this) has the worst, buggiest player. It’s often lagging, closing out of the app, not auto-playing the next episode of a series and instead playing something unrelated. Also, there’s no way to navigate from the homepage to […]

I used to love this streaming service, but for the last TWO MONTHS, I haven’t been able to watch anything. First, the video freezes, yet the audio continues playing. Then, if you try to rewind or restart, the video buffers and will not play no matter how many times you try. I have done all […]

This is the worst app I have ever downloaded. Every time I come back on to watch it it takes me back to an old episode. It never saves the right position I’m in. Also, the little skip intro box pops up on the TV and it stays there during all the episodes. It doesn’t […]

The content is great.. but it crashes EVERY TIME I watch anything. Seriously, I cannot watch an entire movie without it buffering and the white circle/black screen of death, or just crashing & exiting to the tv menu. It’s the only app I have that does this, and it does it every time. Trying to […]

I’ve been using this app for quite some time and it used to work fine, but now I literally can’t watch any of the shows that I pay for this app to watch. it lags so bad, glitches and usually within the first 10-15 mins of watching the show it crashes completely. what’s the point […]

When one issue is fixed another appears. For a while I couldn’t choose an episode past #10. Then the skip button would always be displayed. Now everytime I come back to watch a series it takes me to the same episode instead of keeping track where I’m at. There’s been many others too. The only […]

Continues to “stream” after I have told my chromecast to stop. I have watched 1 episode of the Wire, but stupid Max thinks I’m on S2 E5! And I cannot “reset” it back to the first episode so that the “continue watching” feature is accurate. This has happened with other series and it’s incredibly frustrating. […]

Having the same problem as in other reviews, where the app keeps crashing, the screen goes black, the audio goes in and out, and it buffers constantly. Maybe consider fixing the app when enough people are having the same issues instead of leaving “troubleshooting tips” under each review and just blaming it on the consumer? […]

I’m not sure why it always takes forever for this to load, I don’t think it’s an internet issue because this doesn’t happen with any other streaming service, but it’s quite frustrating. It takes about 10 minutes to start watching something on Max, and that’s IF it loads at all. Not even the home screen […]

One complaint: although you can download content, this app will not start without Internet access. I downloaded a bunch of stuff for a flight, but I wasn’t able to watch it. That makes the feature much less useful. I know the app wants to check for a valid subscription on startup. It could cache an […]

I remember when HBO would list several great shows/movies and brand new ones as well. Now when I log in, I can barely find anything worth watching. And when I do, the ads, man😒. Sitting there like, “huh, it just came back onnn!” & realized there are ad blocks ever 5mins! They’re commercials at that. […]

Absolute Rubbish. Every time I click to watch anything, I get a black screen with a white circle and audio, not even a moving one that means it’s loading. It completely freezes my phone. I can’t exit out, I can’t use the power button to turn off the screen or turn off the phone, nothing. […]