Reviews for Philo: Shows, Movies, Live TV.

I originally started the free trial to watch The Green Mile. I've experienced a lot of ads for a $20 service, but nothing too overwhelming, but when I noticed that you're not allowed to skip forward during the movie, I instantly disliked it. Even free services allow you to time skip the movie and not the ads, its it's insane, and on top of that you're paying $20. Absolutely not. Made a bad first impression.

I think the app is wonderful, it has a lot of channels that I watch. It's would be a 5 star but my only complaints are that, I wish when watching shows on the DVR it would automatically jump to the next episode. Also, if u accidentally hit the fast forward button during an advertisement, the timer starts over and you are forced to watch the whole entire ad again.

While viewing the guide, when you select a channel to watch, it keeps spinning like it's loading. You have to return to the guide and re-select the channel and then it loads. Also, there has been lag (nothing major) where the loading symbol appears briefly and sometimes up to 15 seconds. I have gigabit and the device is wired. ALL other streaming services work without issues. This has been going on for 2 years! And yes, my device is up to date. Sigh....READ REVIEWS and take ownership!!!!

Update to previous: My app is up to date and no I won't be contacting support. You really need to work out the bugs with the connection to chromecast!!!! Today has been the worst and I'm considering canceling my subscription because I can't watch 10-15 minutes of a movie without the connection dropping. Don't say it's my chromecast or wifi because this isn't happening with any other streaming app. I have contacted support a few times and they do not have fixes.

I'm glad I haven't put a card to my account to pay for this. The episodes play for not even 5 minutes, then it goes to the buffer symbol. Not only that, even after making sure there was no connection issues on my end, I still have issues watching anything. Seems like the company needs to fix some bugs and such to come up with an update. I have it both on my phone and Fire TV. One wi-fi and one works with my mobile data. Having issues both ways with connection. Until fixed, I don't recommend.

The price is a little spendy for the level of stored content mixed with the commercial frequency, and the app isn't available for PlayStation users (which is my primary source). They also seemingly recently removed the "New Episodes This Week Section" which was how I decided what to watch on it. Otherwise, it's quite nice; the content isn't widely available elsewhere, and the app itself works well.

They just keep raising the price. It's cheaper to have Hulu, Disney+, Max and Netflix all together. Used to have less advertisements and be able to skip through them and now there's advertisements that last up to 5 minutes and pop up like every 10 minutes and you can't skip them anymore. They're just money driven now and don't care about customer experience. This has become the most expensive streaming app on my fire stick. I've been a subscriber for years. Used to pay 19, last month 25, now 28.

It has all the episodes of Mythbusters, which I like, since I am autistic and that is a comfort show for me. What I DONT like is that yall have so many ads that it turns a 45 minute episode of Mythbusters into an HOUR AND A HALF. You add nearly 30 minutes of ads to a 45 minute show. That's annoying, and for the price we pay, that shouldn't be the case. That's, like, 1 minute of commercial for ever 3 minutes of show. It's ridiculous. Otherwise, good app, good selection, and good price. 👍

I've had philo since 2019 and while the price keeps going up, the quality isn't. The app takes longer to load, you can only watch shows (episodes) that haven't aired recently if you save them (possibly), all the episodes of series aren't available, and there are increasingly more ads, and the SAME ads play over and over. It's the most annoying! If I wanted to watch commercials with every show, I'd just watch antenna TV. Not sure I'll be a customer much longer with the mounting issues.

17 commercials back to back! This is excessive! Especially since I pay for the service. Will not be paying for another month of this. I am paying to watch programs not commercials. I'm literally getting 10% program and 90% adds. I got the app because it has 1 program I like to watch, and at 25 dollars a month, it's not worth it, when I'm seeing more adds than program.