C-SPAN Now App Reviews

Data Hungry App. This app uses a lot of cellular data when not connected to Wi-Fi. I had hoped it would offer the ability to download recorded programs for offline viewing or listening, but it does not. Furthermore, playback just stops when you sleep the screen. It should keep playing so you can listen to the audio, say, when walking or driving. Disappointing app. Removing it from my phone.

Lee comments. The on-demand feature seems to have disappeared from a few weeks ago. And no search function for what is available. very limited offerings. Two of the most important debates in the nation tonight and neither available live or later. New York or Pennsylvania. and very difficult to post comments. Every single nickname I tried was “taken“

Need a share link button. It would be great if while watching a video I could tap a button to share a link to what I’m watching via text or social media.

Great App! Very functional and smooth. Sometimes when networks release apps they are buggy, video streams do not load well or the app crashes. The C-SPAN app is just incredibly functional, smooth and easy to use. I love the live events being right in the home page, so when I want to see a vote in the House, it is right there and plays incredibly well. I like C-SPAN (even though many callers are incredibly misinformed) it provides a great public service to the country and this app helps make that service a lot easier to access.

Disappointing. It would be nice to actually watch C-SPAN via this app. Unfortunately, that is not what this app does. I wanted to watch a segment on C-SPAN 3, but couldn’t get it to open. I also wanted to see what was going on on C-SPAN 2. Again, couldn’t open it. It seems that if you want to view or listen to anything other than what is featured, you’re out of luck. And that is very disappointing.

Great App! Finally a mobile app!. This app is smooth, it’s elegant, it’s well laid out. However, I would love a way to make the video Picture in Picture so I can browse Twitter and other apps while watching C-Span. If you can do this the app would be perfect and I can update my review to 5 stars.

Unfiltered news in your pocket - C-SPAN Now. Way to go, C-SPAN! Finally an app to watch political events without TV talking heads or commercial interruptions. I love how C-SPAN just lets you see the whole thing and this puts it all on my phone to watch. Quick take: it's easy to find live coverage of events, and the Featured Clips are timely and a great way to catch-up on what's newsy each day. Best of all you get free, live access to the big political events. As with other TV nets' apps you have to sign-in to watch the actual 3 C-SPAN TV channels (I guess that's fair because that's how C-SPAN is funded). All in all I'm giving this top rating for its simplicity and for giving me what I most want to watch from C-SPAN.

Quite the improvement!. It’s shocking how much of an improvement this app is! No cable just Sling tv, but I can still at least view Washington Journal live in the app or just listen to audio. The portrait to landscape transition is awkward, compared to other apps, but it does work on iPad. It still has room to get better and be more intuitive, but I’m looking forward to more improvements.

A breath of fresh air. I’m a 23yo sick of media sensationalism and marketing (especially during election cycles)— I cannot tell you how much I am enjoying having the C-SPAN app. The ads are minimal, the UI is simple, the feeds are fast + high quality. Definitely a new mainstay for my daily news toolkit, and so cool to see the inner workings of government through an unfiltered lens

Staying informed. Love it, so glad it has finally been offered. Seeing our Government at work 24/7. THANKS!!!

Search feature?. CSpan has history programs but there’s no way to find or search for them. There is NO search feature at all. Search feature which allows one to search across ALL of the various channels for any given program. Please work on that.

Cable provider not listed. Cannot watch since my cable provider is not listed. App does not show complete list so I cannot watch Washington Journal live. Also support link is not functional. Deleting this app since it does not work. Could not locate More page or Technical support to report problem.

Love CSPAN, but horrible app!!. Wow. That's all I can say. There are so many glitches but worst of all is you do screen mirroring and instead it switches to picture - in - picture on your phone. This means on a frantic work morning at 6 am all I want to do is watch a few minutes of C-SPAN and instead I get a frozen screen, can close the app because the little Picture in Picture is bouncing around and it won't allow me to shut off my alarm, check other apps or even check the time. This app is horrible.

Great app!. Very user friendly and easy to find current happenings on Capitol Hill. Also like that you can switch between watch and listen easily. Great app!

This is what I’ve been waiting for!. I’ve loved my C-SPAN radio app for years and am glad that we finally have an app with videos of not only the long-form programming C-SPAN is known for, but also the highlights from the week too!

Not listening. To developer who responded to my original review below… Please reread it. What I’m saying is that you’re asking ppl to sign in to a cable provider in the LISTEN section of the app. Why would you have to sign in to LISTEN? I understand the watch part. I won’t bother with commentary on how C-SPAN should be provided to EVERYONE with no boundaries. That’s not the point. I’m saying your UX is wrong. Listening should have nothing to do with cable providers. Watching, maybe, but not listening. When I go to the Listen section and select a stream, it asks me to select a TV network provider to watch live. This is under the LISTEN section. What’s that about?

Archives. I wish it were possible to access older recordings of congressional hearings and the like. Otherwise I really appreciate being able “to hear it from the horses mouth”.

Not working on iPod Touch?. I love the new app. I have an iPhone 6S Plus. That’s a pretty old device, though it runs the latest version of iOS. The app runs just fine on this device. However, I also have an iPod Touch, 7th gen. This is a much newer device, released in 2019. I’ve had mine since 2020. It also runs the latest version of iOS. Oddly enough, video clips from the “Watch” page don’t play on the iPod Touch. Live stuff will play. But if I tap on a video from “Featured Clips” or “Washington Journal” or “Q&A”, the page loads up, with a blank space where the video player is supposed to be. If I tap on that blank space, I can see the video player, with the start and end time and the play button. I can tap the play button, but the video never starts playing. I hope you can test it on an iPod Touch and figure out the problem. The iPod touch is my goto device for consuming media around the house.

Add an AppleTV version Please. The app is great, but if y’all read this, please consider adding compatibility with AppleTV as well! Thank you for providing real news information.

Fantastic. Great to have both audio and video options for the live channels now

Glitching. The app itself used to work great but I don’t know what happened. After about 1/2 - 1 hour into Wash Journal, the screen goes black and stops working altogether. Deleted the app and re-downloaded, did the same thing. Please fix this. With regard to the content, CSpan Washington Journal has turned into a right-wing mouthpiece for the ruling class who want to turn us away from Democracy and toward Authoritarianism. No longer fair and balanced.

iPad support please!. I love C-SPAN, and it would be great to watch it on the iPad I have next to me while working. The iPhone view shrunk onto a horizontal iPad screen leaves much to be desired. Edit - iPad in landscape mode doesn't automatically rotate iPhone apps, but there's two gray buttons on the lower right of the display. One rotates the iPhone app to horizontal, the other zooms in. With both of those I can get full screen video on iPad 😃

Impressive. For a new app streaming multiple channels, it’s very impressive. Clear and easy to use. (Needs to run audio in the background.) Bravo, very well done.

Please make an ipad app?. I downloaded this app to my ipad to watch the Jan 6 hearings but it for sure is meant for a phone. It would be nice to have a dedicated ipad app that works the same (but in landscape mode) Thanks

Wish it was available for iOS 12. My backup device is an old iPhone 6. Perfectly functional but Apple and all the developers are withdrawing support

Saving your place. As far as I can tell, there’s no button to save your place in the middle of a video and have the video appear in a folder of bookmarked videos. This would be helpful.

This app version less features.. The most recent app version is less flexible. I cannot watch easily on iPhone. The image won't rotate 90 degrees for a better view?

Essential. Absolutely essential to view unfiltered footage of official events. The interface is a bit jumbled, but it’s still very much worth it.

iPad only version please!. I second Steve Jones March 16 assessment as to overall iPad functionality. The iPad is not an iPhone. Current complaint: Cannot return to main page after viewing video. Click video to view and the app remains stuck (no Back buttons, etc) on this page. Close/reopen the app several times without refresh success. I have to completely shutdown and restart the iPad. Device: iPad Air, 3rd Gen

Hope for AppleTV app soon!. So excited that C-SPAN finally has an app to view live government events on my phone and iPad! I’m very much looking forward to the AppleTV version of the app. Is there an expected timeline for it?

Longtime Supporter. While being a longtime supporter of C-SPAN, I was so excited to find the app. It gives me the experience I expect with on demand access regardless where I’m at during my day. The app is easy to use and understand.

Best way to get news. I really love this app. The push notifications are great and it’s very well laid out which is major for me. Big fan!

Government unfiltered — and unadulterated. The new C-SPAN app is slick, easy to use and gives me exactly what I crave: Hours and hours and hours of raw footage from government meetings and hearings. I don’t trust ANY media outlet to bring me the truth. The only way for an Okie like me to really know what the government is doing is to tap directly into the D.C. political hive-mind and inform myself. This app does that! Really hope they make a Book TV app!

Almost perfect app. Picture in Picture mode is awesome to have finally. Now please make the app fully optimized for the iPad and an Apple TV would be a bonus. Thank You.

It’s great! Do I need the C-Span Radio app anymore. I love the app, everything I love about CSPAN all wrapped up in one! I do wonder if I can delete the other app now, since I’m guessing it won’t have anymore updates

Great app, with a significant bug or flaw. Love the app, but one issue I have is that it doesn’t use the media controls that integrate apps like this into the rest of the iPhone, making it a little awkward to use. It doesn’t appear in Now Playing in Control Center, the notification screen, or on the Lock Screen. I thought it was just a problem with my iPhone, till I installed the app on my iPad, and have the same issue there. Would live to see this fixed.

Loses “focus”. This appears to be a great app. But I wish the audio would stay on if I switch to something else on my phone (iPhone). The C-SPAN Radio app does this. I was hoping there might be a setting to enable audio to stay on, but I don’t see such as setting.

The truth about this app.. Excellent. Outstanding. Amazing. THE ONLY PEOPLE who should download this app are 1. American patriots, 2. people who care about democracy, 3. people who believe in Freedom, 4. people who are opposed to corruption, and 5. people who care about other people. And 6. anyone else who is planning to vote at some point in the future or who wants to find out what’s going on.

So much potential …. As one of the first to download this app, I was enthusiastic about its potential, but it seems like they launched it and then largely ignored it. There are months-old clips in the limited menu while the actual channels continue to feature a lot of great content. The app needs to drastically expand its menus to include many more of the author interviews, history lectures, and discussions found on the cable channels.

Not what I’m looking for. Rather than a central place for all your podcasts and stuff, it would be way better to focus on your video content. I really want to see other clips that include the same speaker, or the same topic. Search and tagging could get it there.. but I sense this was designed with the intent to get all the features in the same app, which isn’t very useful. I’ll use a podcast app for the podcasts.. Update: Thanks for the response! As a mobile dev, I would say though that you’ve got a bit of a “straddling canoes” problem then.. The app is trying to be a home for a smattering of features rather than having a focused purpose. Btw, social media apps can’t do what you could do with an focused on cataloguing cspan content, social media is only really good for recent content, which seems to be also what this app is doing. Anyways, I would still love an app that was trying to have a full archive like your website does, and I would love it even more if there was an audio only option, so I can listen to speeches while I drive. Thanks!

I-pad support wanted. It would be nice if I could watch this full screen on my I-pad. It is the size of a phone screen as is. When I switch to horizontal view it gets even smaller. Time for you to catch up with tech although it is nice you have gotten somewhere you have a ways to go…

Good then Bad. Watched most of first night of RNC on C-Span, and enjoyed the uninterrupted coverage. Expected the same on second night of RNC, but they crashed! Suddenly coverage turned into a continuous rolling of names of individuals. All night long, every time I opened the app same meaningless mass of names. If same thing happens tomorrow night I’ll delete this app!

Great app but missing a few things. The app is fantastic for being able to watch so many hearings and other events. What it lacks is a way to save where you are at on a given video. What would also be useful is to have the ability to move ahead or back up a little, say in 15 or 30 second intervals. What might be nice additionally would be to be able to receive notifications to remind you that something you started hasn’t been finished. At present, an awesome and indispensable app.

Customisation. I’d welcome customisation in settings. Move what I do watch (WJ) to top of display order, featured clips and the rest of the noise to the bottom or off screen all together.

Great app. I needs 21 century features. Specifically, it needs to be able to be played in picture in picture mode so one can listen to C-SPAN 1, 2, or 3 when doing other tasks on the iPhone. It’s available in the latest iOS.

Great but please add Chromecast capabilities. Smooth, modern UI, and fast-loading. Glad I can finally browse without having to log into Safari. But please add Chromecasting so I can watch on TV!

Intuitive and on the go. Intuitive and simple to use. Clean design and most importantly helps keep me informed on the go in C-SPAN’s unique unfiltered way.

C-SPAN NOW RULES. Best app to stay up to date on what’s going on in Washington and around the world. Flawless design and great features. Do your civic duty and make up your own mind with the C-SPAN NOW app!

EVERY LIVING ROOM IN AMERICA!. Please develop and release a TVOS, Roku, and other versions of this app to help expand the access of this platform. The live and raw broadcasts without corporate twists is what Every Living Room in America needs— NOW! Thank you for many years of service!

Custom start times for video would be great. Always reliable video coverage nowhere else has

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No more BookTV weekends - it’s all US History now on ch2&3!. I used the old app for book tv on CSPAN2 weekends, but they stopped it now with this new one except Sunday and even that is just the same as the CSPAN3 American History.

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Need an iPad version for landscape view. See title.

C-SPAN radio. I like using the C-SPAN radio app when driving. Unfortunately C-SPAN now is still buggy with Apple CarPlay. For now I’ll stick to using the C-SPAN radio app but would love when C-SPAN now is able to work the same way.

Very Useful!. I love the C-SPAN app! It’s very helpful when I’m on the go.

How hard is it to make iPad sized???. Shows up small as a phone on ipad. You guys need to wake up and make an app that fits all devices. Uninstalled immediately. I watch c-span on youtube.

No search option!!. It's 2022 and a news app can't manage to add a search option to it's app! "Watch want we tell you to watch and not what you want to watch!"

Ads. I don’t want to see ads. I rather pay fair for a clean app. Data mining.

Hot Gov Action. 🔥❤️‍🔥📜⚖️🗳❤️‍🔥🔥 Good potential, but I think these meeting would benefit from a conch shell, a lot! 🐚

Won’t play while closed. Please make it play n the background so we can turn off the screen to save battery.

Convenient!. A great way to catch up with what’s happening in Congress while on the go

Bad app No stars. No stars. Ads on CSPAN. NO thanks. Plus doesn’t work well. Cuts out for no reason

Can’t watch on tv ….. Unless you have a cable provider. There’s no app for it on Hulu or Roku. You can watch it on your phone but can’t cast it to your tv. You have to go to the website and airdrop from there and hope no one calls or texts or it’ll drop it. So much for government for the people.

Couldn’t search or connect my tv provider. I know it’s a free app but… in my iPhones tv settings it says the app already has access but the app keeps asking me to sign in again. After 5 days of deleting and reinstalling the app, allowing the app to use my provider I’ve given up.

Isn't this partially govt. funded?. I have Spectrum but they want me to "upgrade" to watch CSPAN. There is not even an app to watch it on Apple TV was a joke we need congress to change this and make it accessible to all Americans.

No Apple TV app. This app is great when you are on the go but needs ported to the Apple TV OS. I used to love watching C-SPAN in the 2000s when people paid for cable tv. But, cable and satellite are dinosaurs, find a new funding method and modernize your viewership. *Updated to 2 stars for canned response of no value.

Why are there ads on this “nonprofit pubic service?”. Disgusting that the cable television industry sells casino ads against this app. The ads are a disgrace and this app is tarnishing and besmirching C-SPAN’s reputation.

I like C-Span … but the app is awful.. C’mon C-Span … hire someone to turn this into a universal app for iPad support and some of the basics. A high school kid with some coding experience could do it. It’s surprising you are stuck in 2008.

No full screen for IPAD AIR 5. Very buggy on my new IPAD. Full screen function does not work.

Kicks me out. I get so far in the app then it just kicks me off so I dont my know if it’s my internet or not

No search option. C-SPAN is great, but without the search option and clip making it doesn’t replace the website.,

Great. Entertaining

Excellent. Great app. Thank you C-SPAN

Absolutely fantastic.. Great way to see our government working without a biased skew from other networks. Now please provide an Apple TV and iPad version!

Tv provider to log in is accent. Hey Dinosaurs, younger people don’t have cable.

Livestream non existent. I downloaded this app to find a live stream of a presidential debate. I could not find the live stream as it was being live streamed. This app only showed me recordings of previous streams. Deleted!

Trump rallies. Why does C-SPAN cover them?

New NOW app software (?). Was working great. A great service. But a couple of weeks ago, every time I click a video it all crashes. I hv 6s pls with iOS 15 . What am I doing wrong?

WHY isn't there an iPad & Apple TV APP??!!!. The iPhone app is great! It's RIDICULOUS after all these years, as technology has advanced, there is NO app for Apple TV. So my 1-star review is because of that!

App notifications are heavily biased towards Democratic Party. Personally I lean conservative and I have noticed that the push notifications that the app sends out are only for things that Liberals would be interested in. For this reason, I am not pleased with the app.

Great app. Great app from an essential American company! Government as it happens not seen through different political prisms.

We Be “Blind-Folk”, ok, miserably nearsighted meets synthetic corneas.. Which is wuite common, actually. A LARGE PRINT option needs to be added! 🤓 meets 👩🏻‍🦳. If the government pages can offer the AAA in three sizes, you definitely can! Grazzi to whoever reads/thinks about it—>… Rachel The not-yet Antiquitous (But nearing 🤔😜?)

not functional on iPad Pro. All I get is tiny phone screen view on my iPad. How do I get full screen version on iPad Pro? Anyone resolve this? I love c-Span, can’t get it on YouTube Tv, and want full screen.

This app slaps. Nuff said

Keeps crashing. latest phone, latest OS-seems like every time I open this app it just crashes after a second at this point it’s completely useless

C-SPAN needs permanent camera control in the House chamber. C-SPAN needs permanent camera control in the House chamber

Ads, ads, ads!. App went down hill with the advertisements. Otherwise okay.

They promote fascism. Basically OAN in a slick suit

Corruption at C-SPAN. This new C-SPAN app no longer allows citizens to listen to all channels unless you pay for cable tv first!

C-SPAN Now does not work. The Apple App shows blank screen even though it says it’s live. This is ridiculous since most apps open right up. Very disappointed.

Have you ever heard of this thing called an iPad?. Doesn’t render worth dirt on an iPad. Very disappointing.

Good but problems. App does not remember my TV provider. My provider is AT&T U-Verse.

One-sided Democrat propaganda website. 1 star(how can I sin 0*)?

Dark Mode?. Great app! Wish there was a dark mode.

dependable direct access to live events. when i wish to see and hear events without pundit “opinions”. thank you!

Crash after crash. After crash

FULL TRANSPARENCY OF LAWMAKERS. Covers all the needs of the People who care about our DEMOCRACY!!! Get to watch the BAD ACTORS and the Lawmakers who have truly represented us.

Need to make an iPad version of this app. This app looks terrible on an iPad Pro screen

An App for All Citizens. C-SPAN is a great American institution to keep citizens informed about government and public affairs. This new app means you can be informed wherever you are. Informed citizens are the best safeguard of American Democracy.

NO Search Cspan Now. I can’t find the ability to search for a specific video presentation! This is Web 101 where is it?

Needs iPad Optimization. The app works fine; however, you really need to put out a version optimized for the iPad.

Repeats???. Why is the Cspan mobile app repeating talks,( each sentence) more than once??? This has been like this for the last 3 days!!! Anyone speaking is repeated!!