HISTORY: Shows & Documentaries App Reviews

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Apple TV app audio doesn’t match video/captions. I can’t speak for the iPhone or iPad apps, but the Apple TV app leaves a lot to desire. Every few minutes of watching The Curse of Oak Island the audio repeats itself and lags behind the video and captioning. In order to fix it, you have to exit the video and start playing again until the same thing happens again moments later. Another frustration is if you choose to watch an interactive ad vs multiple regular ads , the screen doesn’t return to full size and plays the show on about 2/3s of the screen-also only fixable by exiting and replaying the episode. This is especially disappointing since this is a service I pay for. I would love a seamless watching experience please. I don’t think that’s too much to ask.

No Issues. I just finished watching/listening “The Food That Built America” via my Fios account, and I loved it. I’m working a long hours so I don’t mind the commercials because I wasn’t actually watching but more of listening. However, I do notice that the streaming process was great as there wasn’t any interruption at all. The reason I’m saying this because if I was watching my shows on my phone via fios top box while I’m home my shows get interrupted every 20-30 minute and it’s just spinning forever. I have to log back in again over and over. But watching History Channel today was no issues at all. I’m happy!

Nice to watch “Alone” episodes. I like this app being free so I can watch the Alone series. Of course, being free it is ad heavy. However, I find the ads shorter, and far less irritating than tv ads which are 40 minutes of a 60 minute show. Add in that tv shows now repeat several minutes of content after every commercial - content you already watched before the commercial - and you actually experience very little new content in an hour long show. I am just now using this app again after an absence of several years. Previously there were occasionally streaming issues, with the episodes stopping and freezing with it stuck trying to load. Haven’t had any issues so far this time. 🤞🏽 For reference, I’m streaming the app on a second generation ipad.

Streaming is still eratic. There are obvious breaks in the video where the commercial broadcast would pause for an advertisement or two. Why this streaming playback doesnt break at these points is disturbing to me. At least three times while watching the Curse of Oak Island the video would cut to History Channel’s own promotions but broke in the wrong place. And when the video resumed, it would jump back to a previous portion of the show. It’s gotten to the point where if I can’t watch it live (and even that’s problematic) I have to contend with having to cue up where I left off. And when I do that, it throws another commercial at me. I spend a good twenty minutes trying to understand the continuity of the show. Please fix your streaming capabilities. It’s still not right.

So annoying. I really like the show Alone. Unfortunately most of the seasons are only on the History App. The app has a TON of commercials throughout each episode. If you ever get off the app halfway through an episode often it’ll forget where you were. That means you have to scrub through and guess where you left off. And guess what, if you scrub through one of the designed commercial breaks looking for where you last were, BAM another commercial. Sometimes you can opt for the 30 second “interactive” commercial. I can get over the annoying Trump ads, but often the interactive part isn’t working and you can’t move forward to your show, even after restarting the app. Definitely the worst streaming app I’ve ever used.

ALONE- Commercials. I absolutely love watching the ALONE series. I have watched it since day one and I’m never disappointed in the show. This season however the number of commercials is annoying. They continually remind you of the other few series they have, which I understand but it is so repetitive that it is painful. At least maybe make the commercials survival or show relevant somehow. Or tap a couple outdoor sponsors since most folks watching this would be folks who likely purchase from such retailers and have less commercials. Please, please keep doing this show and don't change anything about it! Just a few less commercial breaks would be awesome.

Theodore Roosevelt. I am 68 years old and have visited the history of George Washington, General E. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln through your channel and am at awe over these films. I am sorry to say that I do not remember my history lessons and found history incredibly boring while in middle school, but now I find that I can’t get enough history, all because of your films. You are masters at portraying these men and I thank you for a new found memory to share with people. My mother used to tell me that we were related to George Washington and now I realize how. His mother was Mary Ball and we are Paul D. Ball’s daughters of three. I don’t know where it comes into play but it’s what she told us and we believed her somehow. Maybe wishful for bragging rights but we never said anything to anyone because you have to prove that kind of information. Anyway, thank you a hundred times for your hard work portraying those men and the times they lived in and their contribution to our wonderful country that we are privileged to live in. God Bless America AND YOU. Sincerely, Vickie L. Rademaker

Worst app ever. Where to begin with the flaws in this app? The commercials are incessant. Sometimes we can’t even open the app. It tells us we have no internet, but surprisingly, every other app on our Apple TV plays just fine. Sometimes we pause the show, because who doesn’t, and when we hit play, we are sent back to the beginning of the show and can only fast forward by tapping a million times in the 10-second increment. And how about watching the 4K TV stream as one big pixilated mess? It’s like trying to watch TV without my glasses on. And is it other apps? Is my internet slow?? Oh, no. It’s just the History Channel. It causes terrible eye strain and headaches. We love History Channel shows, but using this app is literally painful and not worth the effort.

I hated history in school. But many years later, I’m very interested in history, especially of our origins. I’m a huge Ancient Alien fan now and I’ve been trying to catch up on all the episodes that I’ve missed, but sadly they’re not all there. I’m not sure why the History Channel app would skip some of the episodes in a given season. It’s ok, Discovery+ has them, tho they only have up to season 8. Also, why can’t I watch things on my smart tv? There’s no symbol there to click on so I can change it. Please fix this. You’ll have one happy History customer and I’ll change my rating. Thx!

Death by ads. This app could be great but it really is unwatchable because of the advertisements and commercials. It’s one thing to have too many ads but it’s another for the ads to literally strangle out the shows. I have done testing and I have discovered that the history shows draw little in data compared to most Which does tend to affect video quality but the ads seem to only play in very high and clear quality. So the data is nearly double or quite often extremely high compared to the shows so they tend to freeze a lot more often. Most of the time they don’t even resume playing again so you have to restart the whole app and hope that you don’t get the same commercial that froze it last time. The Google AdSense ads are even worse because they never play straight through because they’re trying to draw so much data at once that it just freezes. I have even tried this on Wi-Fi gigabit speed‘s and it still freezes and will not continue to play. All of the ads and commercials have made this app unbearable and unwatchable. Until they resolve this issue it is not recommended that you waste your time and effort and dad are just forward to keep freezing.

I wanted to like it. This app is awful. I stream a lot and this is the only app that can never make it through an episode without buffering to no end so I have to stop and get back in, then it’s near impossible to get back to the place you were at—so you have to watch a ton of commercials AGAIN to get back to where you were. It will also freeze for no reason and then the same thing again—-commercials until you can get back to where you were. Sometimes it takes 3 or 4 tries to get back in to watch the show, it’s very frustrating and I often just abandon watching whatever I was watching. What’s the point of ‘signing in’ when shows are not saved and the app does not show what I have watched? No, it is not my ISP. This is a very buggy app. Wait until it’s fixed to download. Why don’t you take a hint from other apps that do this quite well—Netflix comes to mind.

this app is going to be history!!!. I really love the history ch and all of the shows that are on it but they really went down hill when they started to show ads. I mean I put my cable provider in Bc I already pay for it in my plan so why do I have to watch ads if I already have a cable provider that I pay for. It wouldn’t be too bad if the ads actually played, first a pop up comes up and says would you like to watch a :30 sec interactive commercial or a 3 min one. Doesn’t matter which one you click Bc they are both horrible options. The interactive commercial once it’s finished it freezes the show or it will continue the show but will rewind like 15 min so then you fast forward and on e you get to the correct spot before the commercial then it will bring you to another commercial, Or it will just freeze you out and have to close the app and restart it but once you restart it and here you go again bam another ad….. again why all the ads!!!!! If you are paying for a cable service we should be getting all these ads. Either fix it so that they actually work and doesn’t freeze up, rewind you, or just slam you with ad after ad when you have to get back to the correct location after the ad screws up the show it’s streaming. Get it together or this app is going to be history!!!

too many repetitive commercials. I appreciate the free app, being able to watch some great shows without paying for a subscription. But if you’re going to make me watch commercials, why do I need to watch a commercial for windshield repair literally 6 times in a row. I don’t understand the logic in forcing viewers to watch the same commercials over and over every few minutes. Maybe just eliminate them all together. Or advertise products that are outdoor related. Or just show one commercial per break, instead of the same Jeep commercial 2 times in a row. Particularly when watching survivals shows such as Alone, it kind of takes me out of the element.

Lots of glitches and not functional. Across all devices this app is extremely glitchy. Shows and commercials skip and loop frequently. About 20% of the time you have the option to go to the next episode at the end of an episode. The other 80%, when a show ends, it sends you back to the Home Screen and then shows are organized from newest to oldest so you can’t just pickup where you left off. You have to search through all the seasons and episodes… I’m convinced it’s a crappy app by design so you get frustrated and go pay for their shows on other platforms. Seems like these issues have been going on for years based on other reviews. I’m not sure why else they wouldn’t be fixed by now.

Country boy show. This show is watch by country boys and hunters , out door people. I think you need to make sure the contestants have the skills that allows us to learn from . The woman that left because of the hook in her had was a shame all county boys have took a hook out of their hand it’s a simple thing to do . When she lashed the knife to her arm let us know she’s miles behind the average country boy in skills . I won’t to see people that don’t just survive but thrive in the woods . They still lack the knowledge to use the fish to kill a bear . To hunt at night when the animals are walking threw their camp . I love the show it’s great Just my adopt make it better . Thanks for all you do your biggest fan . Game Man

The very best Channel & App with so many different varieties of programming.. Hats off to the History Channel. There are so many different varieties of programming, so you never get bored. I, myself, am hooked on the Curse of Oak Island, (the search for answers to an over 200 year old mystery of buried treasure on an island in Nova Scotia), Mountain Men, (Follows several different men and women who live and make their living in the mountains),Swamp People (searching for & hunting alligators and pythons where their populations become dangerous for people). Their Documentaries are brilliantly and factually recreated periods of Historical interest. It’s one of my favorite Channels on TV, my IPAD and phone. There’s plenty of other different types of programming, too. Give it a try, you won’t be disappointed.

Hi .. Apparently I’m suppose to create a review of this app or channel or Shows. It must be extremely difficult to fill a 24/7 channel with shows with an unknown projected budget from Advertising and Payed cable .From that aspect you have to deploy a budget sparingly and support certain project and kill them off if ratings come back unfulfilling .But how long to give each project a chance would be by each shows Budget . If they can not self sustain themselves by ratings and budget you would have to terminate the program. From this aspect I find your channel to be going work . I only enjoy one or two of your shows. project blue book being one of them. Thank you for the entertainment.

Viewing. Wishing I could see this without paying because my income is to low for such things. Have no cable at all. The antenna doesn’t get you hardly anything at all. What you do get is just terrible. Can’t believe they would dumb us down this way or at all. We are being influenced by what we see n hear and if you can’t or won’t see n hear you won’t learn anything at all. Our world is based on knowledge and learning for process. How are we to better ourselves without the proper information. Love this channel and miss it dearly. Just found this app and I’m watching what there is free. Thank you for that much. It’s nice and wish it were free for all of it. Commercials are to much to long. Please be considerate about this.

Excellent Shows. Well some of the shows have absolutely no connection to history some of them definitely do. I’m not necessarily against shows that have no history behind them but I must say the ones that do are definitely worthwhile. I would definitely like to see more shows that involve our history and forget the ones that seemingly have little to no connection to what I’d expect of a “history” channel. I’d also like to see more shows that are NOT focused on specific interests - shows like Forged in Fire or Pawn Stars. Just my opinion but they aren’t what I’d call “history”.

tvOS major bug. I love the history channel and the content they provide, American Pickers is probably my favorite show. But at least 5-10 times an episode of whichever show I’m watching the audio goes out of sync with the picture. I have to menu click out of the episode, then resume the same episode and it seems to work for a couple minutes then goes out of sync again. This is on tvOS, I don’t encounter this problem on iPadOS. I’m at a point of not using the Apple TV app anymore because of this. Also, holly smokes are there a lot of commercials! And they repeat over and over, if you’re bing watching get ready to see the same 5-10 commercials 50 plus times. Sometimes they will play the same one 4-5 times in a row!

History shows the successful & unsuccessful hunter/gatherers. I appreciate the fact the the History producers show both ends of the spectrum in each area of survival living. Building shelters, hunting and fishing, those with a solid plan yet the ability to adapt, versus those with a plan that can’t adapt. Every level of challenge and ingenuity that contestants come up with. This is not a survival show with a preconceived outcome or plan of challenging the people, they let nature do the most unpredictable challenge that it can come up with. Thank you for a great, natural, survival show that surprises me with the ones that fail early and those that end up tapping out in a different order than expected. Great editing and mixing.

Hopeful of a great app, semi-decent at best.. I downloaded this app onto my Apple TV when I started to watch a History Channel original series. Though I was excited to watch this series I became a fan of on History, the headaches began as I started to watch. Frequently, and multiple times per episode, audio will desync from the video. This only way to fix this issue is to back out of the episode and then to restart it, resuming where I left off. What makes it worse, is that the app does not keep track of where you last were watching, constantly hopping between seasons OR episodes within a season. This means having to search around to find the right episode. Worse yet. At times, after the episode is restarted to fix the audio, the video will change it’s ratio to a 4:3 with a large big black box off the right 1/3 part of the screen. To fix that, again, I have to stop the episode again, deal with the issues mentioned in the previous paragraph, and hope and prey to some deity that it will work when I restart it again. Overall, I’m greatly disappointed by an app that has been released by such a large organization like the History Channel. I would come to hope to find something that works a lot better for a channel this large.

Signs of the times…. The element/s I’ve LOVED have created hope. The aspects that I admire and enjoyed included dynamics of working as a team while honoring individuaI opinions… I like to learn so I appreciated gaining information about a field (archeology—not searching for treasure…)that I’ve yearned to work in but probably don’t have sufficient patience to do well… Guest experts impressed me with the range of their knowledge and their commitment to volunteering their skills. Everyone rose to the task at hand. (I was disappointed when three archeologists—all female—were “asked” to leave after two years of work! That was a “downer” for me…) Thanks! From North Carolina (KYN)!

Horrible Streaming App. The functionality of this app for streaming is horrible. Aside from having to have 5 or 6 pauses for ad breaks, the shows constantly freeze up and bounce back which causes a new ad break when you try to forward back to where you were, frequently after returning from ads the audio is off so you have to rewind a little to resync, and sometimes the show freezes all together and you have to exit the app, if it doesn’t crash on its own, then when you go back to the show it doesn’t pick up where you left off. So again, fast forward and more ads. I wish I could say that this occurs on just my iPhone but I also experience on my Roku devices so this is clearly a History channel issue across the board and not simply an apple thing.

Good, but a few suggestions.. I really like that the History channel has decided to join the streaming service community. They have a great variety of pretty much all the shows you see on the History channel through a TV service provider. However, i’m a bit disappointed that you have to have a TV Service provider in order to get any access above the very few select episodes they offer for free. I wish they would follow suit to the other streaming services and offer a monthy, tri-monthy, 1/2 year, or a year’s subscription plan at some rate for those that do not have a TV service provider, but would like access to these shows. With the vast array of streaming services becoming more and more available, I believe it is only a matter of time before streaming services completely take over from TV service provider’s. My family is finding that it is much cheaper to pay for the tailored channels and streaming services we like, often at a much cheaper rate than tv service providers. For that reason, we are trying to do away with our own tv service provider. But the fact that History Live requires you to have a Tv service provider does not make that option readily available to those following this path, or simply unable to have tv service. I believe the history channel would be able to profit much more and attract a greater audience if they offered membership rates (monthly, 3-months, 6-months, 1 year) in addition to the free option already available if you have a tv service provider.

Nonstop ads. Way way way too many ads. Nonstop ads. Repeat ads. Back to back repeat ads. Give us a friggin break from the ads. They’re not interesting. They don’t make me want to go there and buy stuff. Aside from the 14 billion ads I have to watch in one episode of a show, the app itself is ok. Nothing special. Does anyone want to hear more about the ads? C’mon, I figured watching ads is what everyone wants to do. By the way this app works, I would swear the purpose was to watch ads. Developers- if you’re sick of reading about ads, imagine how your customers feel after paying for access. This review is supposed to be about the app, but it’s little more than ads. I’m just reviewing things as I see them. This sort of approach to content is exactly why people are cutting the cord. Don’t think you are immune.

Great content, but difficult to watch. History channel does not have any applications to download on Samsung Tv, gaming consoles, etc. It makes it difficult to watch on Tv. One option is to try and stream it to a Smart tv from my phone, and that is riddled with issues. Every time an ad plays, the content will not load again without restarting the app or disconnecting and reconnecting to the tv. The other is to screen share from my phone, and the same problem occurs. If we can get through an ad break, the episode will restart from the beginning causing us to fast forward and watch through the same ads again, hoping for the content to resume after every ad break. Please add support to download apps on tv or gaming consoles that connect to tvs.

The Pickers. I am 98 years old and I am visually impaired! My daughter bought me an iPad and now I can watch my favorite shows! I have been watching the Pickers since day one and now I can watch them whenever I want! I have seen all the episodes at least 3 times but even when I watch the repeats, I enjoy it as much as the first time! Many items and stories remind me of experiences in my own life! I am so grateful to have this opportunity in my life, as it brings me so much happiness! My biggest problem though, when watching the old episodes, I can’t read the prompts on the screen and my daughter has to be around when the FREQUENT commercials interrupt the episode I am watching, so she can answer the prompt and proceed so I can finish watching the episode! I find this very frustrating and I don’t like to have my daughter spend so much time helping me watch the old episodes! I also enjoy the series of Alone and some of the other History stories. Thank you for providing such interesting programs!

Great content, annoying app. This review is for the tvOS app. No complaints about the shows on History Channel. In the tvOS app they look and sound fine. But the UX in the app is rough and riddled with bugs. 1. Constantly repeats the same show segments after an ad. I suspect this is triggered by the ad insertion system as it only seems to happen after fast forwarding through a show segment (which typically triggers a commercial). This happens a LOT! 2. So many commercials. It is almost unbearable to see the same commercial this many times. Forcing viewers to sit through the same commercial 15 times during an episode is bad business. Binge watching? I hope you’re ok watching a commercial a hundred times or more. 3. Mediocre navigating. I have to work harder than I’d expect to find what I want to watch in this app. 4. I have to log in / activate every other time I launch the tvOS app. Super annoying and time consuming. Multiple AppleTV’s have the same issue. 5. TvOS app doesn’t always remember what episodes I’ve watched so I’m constantly guessing which episode was last viewed. Add to this the issues above with fast forwarding and I’ve spent longer trying to get to the last 5 minutes of an episode than the length of the episode itself. I’m still using the app to binge some of my favorite shows but the bugs and UX issues make it a lot more difficult than it should be.

Alone. I really enjoyed alone and I’ve wased all the episodes. Sometimes I got tired of seeing blades of grass are the same clip over and over again in the same episode. I’m sure that is difficult for the participants to get good footage while trying to fend for themselves; there for making it hard for the editors to find good footage. I really enjoy seeing them put their shelves together actually catching food and solving problems. Sometimes there’s a lot of starvation scenes. Well I certainly feel for them it would be nice to see more scenes of them doing something.

Fix your app!. For the love of God, your app when I watch it on, my iPad is an absolute nightmare. It constantly stalls every time it pulls away for ads. The show will stall, it returns 10 minutes into the future of the show, sometimes it just comes back and shows a blank screen, sometimes you have to push play all over again it’s an absolute nightmare, a boy or boy you sure are revved up about serving up the same stupid ads to everybody aren’t you. If you put half as much effort into making your app functional as you did, trying to spam people with outs over and over this thing would be an absolute dream. It doesn’t matter if I pick interactive or three minutes it stalls every time. Please fix this!

Great look into past and present. Was recently on vacation in up state California and was seeing many logging trucks and lumber mills. My grand father was a lumberjack and ran a small saw mill in the 30’s and 40’s. As a kid I remember seeing some of his old hand saws and chain saws in the old barn. Watching the Ax Men series has enlightened me as to how hard and dangerous lumbering was and is. My hat goes off to people that have done and are still doing that difficult job. Many thanks to the History Channel for all the great programs they show. As for the concerns some people have about commercials, I believe it’s a small inconvenience for what we are getting in high quality entertainment.

OLDIES FOR OLD STUFF. We have loved following The Curse of Oak Island since it began. It’s amazing to actually see the progress the Lagina’s and their partners have made over the years using more and more sophisticated technology. Watching on the History Channel is as close as we can get to actually being there. I do, however, agree with previous reviewers and wish we could stream The History Channel without a tv provider and not have to watch after the initial airing of our favorite shows. We cut the cord years ago and only have antenna tv along with a few streaming channels.

Availability is good!. Right now I’m having trouble with my Xfinity account because they can’t figure out why when I record something it won’t play back. I can just hear the audio and they’ve tried several things to fix it that haven't worked. So I appreciate the fact that the history channel puts everything on its app and you can go there and watch it. I was able to watch the show that didn’t tape properly just by going there. What frosts me is Xfinity is now having shows taken away and put on an app that you have to pay for and when the show doesn’t tape it’s not even on the app!! (D+) Thank you history channel for not being so stingy even though ads have to play.

Review. I love History Channel and the app is very good. However, the fact that I cannot cast the episode from my phone to a bigger screen like my Samsung TV keeps me from rating five stars. Also the fact that the Samsung TV History Channel App never loads and always gets stuck on the start up screen doesn’t help either. I have gone through various troubleshooting methods including software updates to the TV itself, uninstalling and reinstalling the app on the TV, etc. In regards to the Chrome cast, it works fine with Disney Plus, Netflix, Discovery Plus, etc. I am only having trouble with the History Channel app. Minor complaints but thought I would share to better help future performance of this app. As I mentioned, it would have been 5 stars if it weren’t for those minor complaints.

The commercials make watching any show very annoying!. I really wish the History channel would fix the issues where the commercials cause the sound & video to be out of sink. It’s constant & the only way to fix it is to exit the show & restart it where u left off. You have to do this about 4 or 5 times during the show in order to get the sound & video to sink back together. It’s so aggravating that I stopped watching all shows on the History channel for many months. I love the shows on the History channel, but sometimes it’s just not worth the headache & annoyance that the commercials cause. I watch a lot of different apps that also have commercial breaks, but they do not have this issue. The commercials play & the show always stays in sink with the audio. This issue is specific to the History channel app. I watch this channel on two different Apple TV’s & on my iphone. All of them have this same issue. Please fix this!!! I cannot express enough just how annoying it is to try & watch a show with a lot of dialogue (which most History channel shows have) that is constantly out of sink with the video.

Love the Past. I can only say that when we studied things like the “Roaring 20’s,The Depression,The Boston Tea Party,The Roman Empire, right on back to when the Dinosaurs roamed the Earth” and we as children could not escape from the exciting things we were being taught, only a lot of the ways we were taught was matter of factly very boring. I really liked it when there was a film, even fact filled documentaries were great. As valuable as a books knowledge can be, they’ll never be as interesting as someone else doing the reading and telling about it. Ever since I can remember and before is how far back my true desire to be next to GOD goes. Now with that being said, Please History Channel Accept My Full Hearted Thankfulness!!!! You Make History Fun!! I Sincerely hope that you continue to be a large part of the knowledge that we seek the most. Knowledge of Ourselves!!!!

Commercials 👎🏼. Way, way, way too many commercials. And they are way too long, and you play the same one two, sometimes 3 times in a row. I already pay for the provider. Collect money from them and make your commercials much shorter. And don’t play the same one, over and over again. I got the message the first time. Just annoying and unnecessary. Please fix this ASAP! I love the shows on here, but the commercials, come on! I’m able to fast forward through them on my cable box. I’d like that Same option when watching on my phone through this app. Other than that, Great shows, keep up the good work. Please do something about all these long overly played commercials. Thanks

Outdated and bugs galore. I have tried to keep this from being a review. I have sent the support a message twice now about a specific advertisement that will not play. It freezes on the first frame that conveniently has the drugs name on it Trulicity. I close the show or force close the app and try to resume the show but guess what happens? It tries to start that advertisement for trulicity again. It took three days before I got to watch the end of the five episodes that got stuck at the finale commercial break. Please I love the almost every show history has to offer. But the stupid trulicity freeze frame advertisement and the time and date error that locked the whole app is getting old.

Fix the commercial interruptions!. I downloaded the app and tried watching a show to catch up on it however I was only able to get through half the episode. The episodes are interrupted by commercials every five minutes. At one point I there were five commercials back to back and then the screen went black without the episode resuming. I then had to close down the app and reopen it to watch my show. The video resumed without issues, unfortunately it was the commercials that started playing again and not the episode. The same thing repeated itself, several commercials and then a black screen! I repeated the process twice more with the same results and then gave up. There's no point creating an app like this if these are the results! Don't waist your time downloading it!

Worst streaming app ever!. The History channel streaming app for Apple TV is the worst network television streaming app ever and has been for several years. All of the issues others have listed are true, and still occurring after years of complaints. Let’s take my experience tonight as an example. I thought I would try to catch up on Forged in Fire. I think I was four episodes behind. During each of those episodes, when the show reaches a commercial break the app either simply crashes, or better yet, skips over the whole section of the show and goes into the next commercial break. These issues didn’t happen occasionally, they happen at every commercial break. This isn’t the first time I encounter these issues. I only have enough patience to use the app maybe once a month. Every time I use the app these issues reoccur. Luckily for you, I have the solution. Fire everyone involved in app development, everyone from upper management to ground level developers and testers, and start from scratch. With how long the app has been so horrible it’s obvious no one cares to give their customers a quality experience. And if I’m lucky I’ll get a reply to this review with their canned response to email them for assistance. Tell me this, how is your support going to fix this for one user, why not actually produce a quality product for all of your users.

Washington, Series. I just finished watching Washington, on my 10 inch iPad, while on vacation. It was fantastic. It is such a pleasure to be able to relax in the comfort of your bedroom, and watch such a moving story, in beautiful HD. It was like reading a good book, in bed, at the end of a busy day. I had tears in my eyes by the end. The acting was excellent, as well as the whole movie production. I particularly liked everyone of the historians, they added such realism to the scenes. And not having an overwhelming amount of commercials was really appreciated. I will spread the word about this show. Every American needs to see this, and get a refresher course on how this country got started. Thank you.

Not bad but could be better. The app and idea behind it is not bad. I like that I can easily catch up on shows that I haven’t seen. That being said it could be better. I use streaming services to avoid commercials. When using the app it has quite a few commercials in one block and it doesn’t have much variety. With a 45 minute show, I see the same series of commercials about 5 times. I understand that the app is free and that for some shows you don’t have to pay to be able to watch them, but the amount of commercials is slightly excessive. I also experience problems with the videos playing on my iPhone 6. Overall I am very happy with this app as I enjoy a fair amount of history channel shows.

Way Way Way Too Many Ads. Where do I begin? This is the first app I have ever given less than 5 stars. The History App has it all: the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good part is that I can watch the shows I love anytime I want anywhere I want. The bad news is that sometimes the app is glitchy and I have to restart my Apple TV to get it to work properly. The ugliest piece of the puzzle is the exhausting amount of ads as of late. I was completely OK with 3 (often repetitious) ads during each break, but now it has doubled to 6 (often repetitious) ads during the 5 breaks on a 40 min show. After reading recent reviews, I find most customers are feeling the same way I do. However, I do not believe History knows or cares what the viewers want. If the app continues down this path, then I fear that soon it will finally live up to its name and become HISTORY!

Too much commercial. I love History and also love this app, but felt like it too much commercial on the 1 episode. pop up every break time for 3-4 commercials in one break. it made me feel got interrupted more than enjoying. I don’t really mind much for having commercials during the show(maybe 1 break for 1 commercial), but this way is too much to take it. Worse case is sometime, I want to stop and end up with the show. that’s sad because I’m never get bored or want to give up for studying about History, but this app can make me feel on that way. Anyway, thank you for the good stories that you’re sharing.

This app is an ad-filled disaster. In theory, this app is simple, watch History Channel content on Apple TV. In practice it borders on unusable. Video streams repeatedly glitch out and repeat the last few seconds, after which the audio completely loses sync. To fix it you need to stop the stream, exit the app, go back to the stream, exit the stream to the episode menu and then restart the stream. I’m exhausted just typing all that. Now imagine having to do that it every. few. minutes. If that were not bad enough, once the video starts you call look forward to 8 or 9 ads in a row, you guessed it — every. few. minutes. Often it’s the same ad, 9 times in a row. If the goal is to make me hate a product and the History Channel brand, then mission accomplished. Recently they added a NEW ad feature. Now they completely pause the program to ask me if I want an “interactive ad” instead of the 9 usual ads. If I say yes another ad runs, then makes me hit play again. After which I still see, you guessed it, ANOTHER ad. So to recap, now I have to constantly use the remote just to get through an endless stream of ads in the hopes of catching a couple minutes of a show here and there. It’s ridiculous and unwatchable.

Commercials always hang. I understand that in order to provide a free app and the programming the commercials are necessary. I have no complaints about having to watch them. I do, however, have complaints about those commercials getting stuck in a loop in which the same commercial plays over and over again (5 times in a row. Why?). Or a block of commercials plays but the last commercial in the block plays 2 seconds and then hangs. Restart the app and the same block plays over only to hang 2 seconds into the last one again. Doesn’t matter if I watch on my phone or iPad. Same poor performance. Were it my app I would make certain the thing played the ads, the source of revenue, flawlessly. This app does not. Very frustrating.

Love history, the app is hit or miss. I use this app on my Apple TV and it glitches on every single episode. When History Channel app first came out, I watched all the time because I could stream all my favorite shows WITHOUT COMMERCIALS. Now, commercials are integrated into everything and I’d rather pay more to not have them than be inundated with crap that I don’t want or need and doesn’t even pertain to history. The commercials are probably why it glitches so much now. I have to stop and reload the episode to fix the sound/video glitches and even force closes the app to make it run at all. Now, the app on my phone runs much better, but there’s no pop-out option for the video, so I can’t multitask on my phone. Please get rid of commercials and fix the glitches. I’d rather not watch tv than have to interact with commercials or do so much to get the episodes to play. Sincerely, Frustrated

Way too many commercials. Love the History channel, hate commercials taking up so much time! Vikings is my fave, can’t get enough, but you see 2 maybe 3 scenes and then boom! you’re bombarded with umpteen commercials! Give us a break! More show, less commercials. It would also be nice to see more historical period pieces like Vikings, as there are many of us who love love love ancient history. Not a big fan of the re-enactment shows though. The History app is great, but there is a lot of black screen and once again, those horrid commercials! When something is first run on TV, advertisers are getting their commercials on at that time. Why do we have to endure the same thing online? There should not be commercials on any shows that are viewed online. It’s advertiser greed. Libertylovr

Good content, terrible app. I have the app on my Apple TV to watch History Channel shows. The app will freeze and you will have to either back out of the program and try to start it again or sometimes you won’t get the chance to try that because the app will close itself completely. There are a lot of commercials, they offer ‘interactive’ commercials where you only watch a single commercial but you have to interact with it to close it. Problem is that after interacting with the commercial it will still show you more commercials anyway. All that is nothing compared to the audio constantly coming out of sync with the video. The audio will glitch and jump backward 15-20 seconds, but the video keeps going. The only way to fix it is to back out of the program and go back in. It will happen over and over again in a single episode. Sometimes every 3-5 minutes. I like the content on the app. But they need to fix the bugs.

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Mostly commercials.. I like several of the shows on the history channel and this is a way to catch up on those i have missed. But the number and repetition of the commercials has driven me off of this app. I too have experienced the black screen malady but i had to delete the app and reload it to regain control of the app. I thought seriously about deleting the app altogether but haven't done so yet. However, i have not used the app since that time principally because of the number and repetition of the commercials. I was no even able to fast forward through the commercials nor even be able to see just how much time they ran. Sorry! If i need the memory this will be the first app to go. How are they going to get their commercials seen if the viewers do not use the app?

Interactive ad feature is not compatible w AppleTV. I would start watching another one of your series, but with this experience, no way. 72 commercials for a 44 minute show is ridiculous!! With the app on my iPad, I stream to my AppleTV, because the app says it is "Apple TV compatible." However, the "Interactive ad" feature is not available through AppleTV. So instead, I have to watch 6 commercials (many repeating) then get a black screen. Seems like it s waiting for a response but there is no interacting w AppleTV... just an error message. Try to find a work around and adjust where I was in the show, and I have to watch the 6 commercials again and there's 5 commercial breaks... 72 commercials for a 44 minute show is ridiculous!!

Audio Lag Issues Fixed. Love the shows available on the app but when watching them on Apple TV, the audio will sometimes lag, or loop twice for a few seconds and then lag. I have to exit out of the episode and resume it again, countless times during the episode. The app also crashes in the middle of the episode sometimes and takes me to the Apple TV home screen. I hope someone on your team can fix these issues. Update: No more audio lag. Thanks!

Amazing! But I have an idea for a new feature. I Absolutely Love This App! But, I Hate Typing To Search For A Show. Why? Because I’m Too Lazy. So How About The Ability To Save Shows. Like for example: I Find A Show I Like And There Is A Save Button I Tap The Save Button And That Show Is Saved To A Tab Called “Saved Shows” So When A New Episode Is Out I Can Just Go To The Tab And See The Episode. Maybe Even Add The Ability To Add Folders e.g. “My Favorite Shows” “Travis’s Favorite Shows” I Hope I Can Look Forward To This In The Next Update

Love the app, HATE the commercials!. I completely agree with some of the other reviews that I have read here regarding the commercials! I absolutely love the HISTORY app and all the wonderful shows that they provide but the commercials are ridiculous! I can understand throwing one or two in there throughout the show but the amount of commercials is too much! We are viewing online not on live television where the advertisers have already promoted. So that is my one suggestion for making the app better! Thank you for all of your wonderful programming with shows like Alone, Mountain Men, Vikings, The UnXplained and many more!!

Limited Episodes Availability. I was hoping to continue watching “The Curse of Oak Island” after my satellite carrier dropped all the earlier seasons on demand. I just found this show on Directv today with over 40 Episodes on demand. I watched the first 3 Episodes of season one and really enjoyed the series then I took a break to fix dinner. When I came back to my tv to continue watching, there were no episodes on demand any longer. I am aware that season 5 started tonight but I will not watch season 5 until I can watch the previous seasons and since only the first 3 Episodes of season 1 are available on the History Channel, I will not be watching the rest of them. Therefore, I will not be starting any more series on the History Channel.

This has to be the world’s worst streaming app!. Went back to the app after a year away to watch the new season of Alone. I was certain that after a year they must have finally fixed the bugs, but I couldn’t be more wrong. When casting, it freezes on buffering mode. You have to just keep closing out the app in hopes it works next time. You’ll be in the middle of an episode and it’ll just crash, then you have to reboot the app a million more times until it works. It also never restarts the episode where you left off before crashing so you have to watch every ad over again. The whole experience is so awful we plan an extra 30 mins of app issues into our watch time.

Love the shows, but the app needs work. Using on an iPad that I do keep updated and reboot at least once a week. Starting two days ago, the progress bar has stopped progressing past the first dot that indicates commercials. Not a huge deal, but it doesn’t progress to the next episode in the series as smoothly either. The numbers for the amount of commercials and timing still get garbled and unreadable. Can you please find another interactive commercial customer besides T-Mobile? It’s past monotonous and into obnoxious the amount of repetitive ads we have to watch. I’ve stopped watching the shows because it has become so annoying.

Very little substance between ads. Streaming the History Chanel shows would be great if the producers didn’t so badly underestimate their viewers intelligence. I find it almost impossible to stream due to each episode of a series formulated so that in 45 minutes you get 5 minutes of new content. For example, 2 ads, recap of last episode, 2 ads, replay of the recap, a narration of that replay, finally 3-4 minutes of new material, 2 ads, replay of material just before the ad break, 2-3 minutes of new material, narrated recap of new material either, replay and by the end of the episode you’ve seen about 5-6 minutes of new film footage and about 15 minutes of ads and the rest all replays and recaps!

Not a great TV app. Seems to be okay as an iPhone app, you can pick up where you left off on episodes but I primarily only use it as an app on my tv and it’s not great for that. Even being logged in to your profile, it won’t save the shows you’ve been watching so you have to search for them each time. Sound often cuts off during the ads which, who cares, but will carry over as no sound when the show comes back. Will not auto play the next episode. Freezes and then says connection error. You back out and press play again and it’s fine. Very annoying app and yes, it plays the same ads over and over and over.

Annoying interactive ads. Let me start off saying this review is in regards to the app on my Apple TV. I don’t know if it works the same on the iPhone or other device. The ads are annoying! The ads on this app are interactive and do not go away unless I interact by pressing continues and even then I gotta push another button on my remote when it’s over to play the show again. Every ad is like this and it’s the same ad like every 5 minutes it seems. I’m not always with my remote it’s just background noise most of the time tbh. Please stop those dumb ads because it makes me not want to use the app and I don’t want what’s being advertised if they are paying to annoy me.

Crash Test Dummy. This app….this. Every time an update appears I’m hopeful it will be better than the last and I am most often disappointed…again. Ongoing issues include the live TV feature not working and the app freezing up. Also the stream jumping when trying to play through Airplay. The only way I’ve found to reliably watch the History channel is to do so through cable tv. I have similar issues with the app on other streaming platforms and on the website. History Channel I love you but Im about ready to bail from the frustration. Please sort yourselves out.

Ad issues. I was recently trying to continue to watch an episode of Forged in Fire. I had to watch advertisements before the video would start. When I fast forwarded the episode too far I triggered another advertisement (still haven’t got the video to start playback yet) and the commercials were the same that just played. Once they finished I slide the timer back to where I stopped watching, and moments after the video started it went to another commercial again! I get that the ads are part of watching for free but if I have to watch 6min of the same ads, just get it all out of the way on the front end and let me scroll through the episode and watch 5-10min of content before force feeding the same commercials.

We’re having a hard time. App just reads “We’re having a hard time downloading shows. Please check your network connection And Make Sure your device is set to the current time and date”. Checked the current time and date and it is correct. Deleted the app, rebooted, and Re-installed. Still the same message with the correct date and time. Over a month since I wrote the above review, updated the app today, and the same message comes. If the shows aren’t available then please make have a message say “shows are not available now, please check back later” instead of wasting user’s time to check the time and date.

Great Series. The Curse of Oak Island and Skinwalker Ranch are both incredible series and i hope they both continue for years to come! The only real suggestion i have is that the History Channel makes their Site and app available independent of Cable Providers. I plan to eliminate my Cable Provider completely except for their WiFi/Internet connection and i hope to be able to access these great series soon without a Cable provider.

Good shows, too many ads. First I’ll say that I don’t dislike the shows that are available, I actually like them a lot (Only reason this doesn’t get a 1 star). That isn’t the issue here though. The amount of ads that play during a show are ridiculous though. I’ll go over just a single episode of something I watched recently. At the 11 minute mark I got my first ad break with 1 minute of ads. No problem there At the 24:30 minute mark I got another ad break, with 2:30 worth of ads. That was a quick jump. At the 28:10 minute mark I got the third ad break with 2:55 worth of ads. That’s almost as much as the 3:30 of show I watched since the last break. Then I got an ad break at the 34:30 minute mark with 3:05 worth of ads. Finally at the 38:10 mark I got another 3:05 worth of ads. It’s honestly crazy how many ads I got, and how frequently. If your ads add up to over 25% watch time of an episode, it’s a huge problem. It will never be fixed probably, but that’s fine since I won’t be using this service anymore.

Does not load the episodes on fire stick and too many commercials. I was watching project blue book. After signing in with my provider. I watch about half of them. Then all of a sudden it will not load any episodes. The loading sign just sits on the screen forever. It loaded before. But now it is just does not work. Other shows will load. Just not project blue book. Also the commercials are ridiculous. Too many and literally the same horrible bud light commercial over and over 5 times in a row. Then the next block of commercials is the same bud light commercials again and again and again and again and again.... and then again and again and again and again and again.

Not Surprising. i assume this app was made right alongside with the lifetime app and am not surprised with the glitching. it does the same stuff the lifetime app does. never saves to the right place when i stop watching an episode, constantly buffers, has an excessive amount of adds (that would be bearable if everything else wasn’t so upsetting), will glitch and it skips to the end of the episode (when i never watched it in the first place), and skips to random parts of an episode. it just kept skipping to the end of an episode that i haven’t watched yet! it would automatically skip to the end when it’s done loading. it does this when i watch it on my phone and even more with chrome cast. just disappointing

Help. I love the History channel and am so grateful for the app as it is not always possible to be right in front of the television when a program is on. I am very frustrated though with the problems I am encountering as I try to watch a show on the app. It “freezes up” sometimes during a show but most often after I have chosen to watch a 30 second commercial. Then I must exit the show, re-enter it, watch another 30 second commercial and hope the program does not “freeze” again, which it sometimes does. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, FIX THIS ISSUE!! Thank you—Vicki

Great hunting education. We have been able to re-learn old hunting methods of our childhood and share with our grandsons and great grandsons. History puts these stories together in such detail that it brings the details of our teenage years clearly to our mind. We have studied hard the blacksmith programs from History as we have trained and turned over our blacksmith shop to our grandchildren and now are doing the same thing with our trapping and hunting equipment. Thank you History for such excellent, authentic, programming!!

Worst streaming app ever. I don’t mind ads. I understand that’s how broadcasting companies make money, but the way this app handles the ads is bad. Sometimes they load, sometimes they take a while to load, sometimes I have to re-start the app. Ads are spaced out and you can see where the next set is by little dots on the run line. There have been several times an ad set runs and it fast forwards me to start on the next dot. Then you go back to where you were. Another set of ads pops up. This app does not seem to save where you were in watching a program. So you have to find it, then watch the ads, then scrub to your approximate starting point. Then watch more ads.

Not good on Apple TV. This app is very flaky on Apple TV. It doesn’t keep track of the correct last episode watched and where in an episode it was left, it skips within episodes over entire sections and jumps to next commercial break, I’ve had audio from two different episodes playing at the same time while on the home screen. Doesn’t integrate correctly with Apple TV+ app. Oak Island, Alone, Mtn Men have all had same problems. Latest Apple TV with current update. iPad app doesn’t seem to have problems. It’s okay to use for watching shows, but you have to keep a close eye on where in the episode it is playing and what your last watched episode was.

Love the App. I love project blue book. I love Curse of Oak Island. I like Ancient Aliens, but lately the episodes are highly rehashing of previous episodes without much significant NEW subject matter. Last episode further material from Roswell that was new subject matter but all we could discover i# things are better done by aliens: new composits with further than possible purifies than on earth. There i# no speculation as to the purpose of the composit, such as is it structural, electrical/electronic or some other purpose. App works very well streaming.

Old app better. Too many adds. Since the app changed format I can no longer watch the show that is currently playing on the history channel, I no longer have a show schedule for the current day, I do not have access to informative short clips that my child can learn from and use for school projects and studies, and the commercials are irritating. If it wasn’t for the fact I work a crazy schedule and the history channels has a couple new programs that are truly history and not pawn shop or picker drivel I would not even have the app.

Having technical issues with this app again. After watching the multiple shows about the Templars I recalled another History channel show about Templars and a pirate connection. I used the app to locate the show and I am now experiencing technical issues. The app worked well up to the second set of commercials in the first episode. Then the app crashed and ended in a loop of showing me two commercials then crashing. I decided to login with my TV provider in an attempt to resolve. It is still stuck in the same commercial loop then crashes. I deleted the app and down loaded it again. I started watching the same episode from the start again and this time it entered the same commercial loop at the first commercial break.

Not user friendly. The app has a feature that allows an interactive ad or a normal 3 minute ad which does not work like it should. The interactive ad works fine but when it is over sometimes it goes to a black screen and I have to close out and restart. But most of the time after the ad it will not take you back to the spot you left off on in the video. It’s very time consuming to watch the ads and then figure out where you left off in the video. In reality the video is about 40 minutes long and it take me about an hour to get through. It feels like the developers made changes and then didn’t test to make sure it works right. I love the history channel but their app stinks.

Love to learn. I love the way the history channel enables me to learn about things in a way that is informative and also entertaining. I find things on this channel to be very well done. I just finished watching how food built the United States and loved every minute of it. What I don’t like is the number of commercials and especially how commercials seem to repeat constantly. Having said that, it is not enough of an annoyance that I would stop watching the history channel.

Keeps shutting off during commercials when Casting to Roku. Airplay “seems” to work ok. It would play the video, but within a “frame” within the 16x9 on the TV, but the commercials would be fitted full-screen. But then the App is unable to continue playing on Airplay on Roku, as it cuts off at the commercial every single time, and I have to keep hitting the Control Center to get it back - but then I have to get back inside the App, fast-forward or click on the section ahead of the commercial that cut it off and start playing again. The cut-off never fails, as the Roku TV screen thinks the video is finished playing and shows the options screen for Airplay-HomeKit. It’s really frustrating

It’s The Best!. Well, to start off with I’m a history nerd. I have been since I was a kid (60 now!). So I’ve always been an avid viewer of this channel. For me, it just doesn’t get any better. Their coverage of different eras in world history keeps it fresh. And, they’re not afraid to take on difficult topics sometimes. I respect that in a media company. I may not always agree with their view or final conclusions, but I wouldn’t expect to 100% of the time. But for viewing interesting shows about the history of our country and world, you can’t get any better.

Unwatchable More Commercials than Shows. Terrible. Don’t waste your time. Literally unwatchable. Shows are cut into short, 2-3 minute pieces and you must watch commercials before EACH segment that are almost as long as the video. HOW can they get away with jamming commercials down our throats after we authenticate (sign in with the credentials of) the provider we PAY for? We all need to let our providers know this is not acceptable and has gotten out of hand. I am a long time subscriber who loved the history channel since it started. No more. so many ads and interactive ads, the shows are literally unwatchable. Far more ads than when watching with DIRECTV. Why? I understand how ads work. We put up with them most of the time but The history channel has gone far beyond anything reasonable not to mention the obnoxious interactive ads which make no sense. I don’t know anybody who responds correctly so. Any advertisers using the results as market research are getting skewed results. The whole history channel experience has been, ruined. - SHK

I love it, but audio lag is bad. I would have given five stars, but the audio lag gets so bad that it makes the shows unwatchable at times. I have to stop the program, close out and then open it back up and resume. Even after doing that it’s not long until the lag is back. It does it on my Roku TV and the app on my phone, so I know it’s not the hardware. Please, please fix this and make this a five star app. People have been complaining about this for a long time (at least a year) and it hasn’t been fixed so I’m not getting my hopes up.

Needs a steaming service to access all content!. I love History channel, but we cut cable a couple of years ago. We subscribe to a couple of streaming services to see our favorites, and I really wish History channel would offer that service. Right now, the only way to see the entire line up of my favorite shows is to log in with a cable provider. In my opinion, that’s counter to the whole point of having an app.

App and Website are not running properly. I just downloaded the app in anticipation of the premier of Project Blue Book. I made a profile and got the free 3 credits. But I decided to try and then gain access to full library by selecting my TV provider. When I selected the button for the list of tv providers, the app just loads indefinitely. When I try to sign out of my account, the app loads indefinitely. I tried to go through the website and when I opted to sign in with a TV provider, the website just loaded the homepage again. Not great service for customers if it’s virtually impossible and doesn’t cooperate. I don’t even want to try and use the free 3 credits, not confident those will work either. I will be deleting the app and I guess I’ll have to find another way to catch episodes.

Content unwatchable, Don’t bother. Stay away if you have an Apple TV. This app will only frustrate you. The novelty of being able to binge watch shows you missed in the past is completely stepped on by the repetitive commercials and audio sync issues. History Channel has amazing content but they really dropped the ball here in multiple areas. I went through all of the troubleshooting suggestions and currently this is still happening on an Apple TV 4K that I bought 2 hours ago. Just stay away to save yourself from falling into a rabbit hole trying to get this app and its content to remain watchable for more than 5 minutes.

N F Nevada. I love the History Channel App! I can take all my favorite shows with me anywhere I go. I stick my cell phone in my back pocket and can listen to a show while Im walking my dog or doing yard work. Then later, The same episode is available for my viewing it at anytime. The delivery of my favorite shows is always clear and no issues with the down loaded shows. On my phone it’s like having a small tv with on demand features available 24/7. Five thumbs up History Channel!👍👍👍👍👍

Enjoy the shows. I love the History channel. It has such a variety of shows to watch. I have just recently started using this app. I will continue to use it. However, I think there are too many commercials. I guess that is a small price to pay for free shows. Also, I think that locking some of the episodes and shows because you don’t have a TV provider is a shame. I quit watching regular TV because of the trashy shows, I refuse to pay for trash. I wish the History Channel would change that standard.

No cross platform sync, too many commercials,  tv app is worse.. The app on iPhone doesn’t sync with the Apple TV app so when you start a video, you have to wait through at least 5 commercials before you can get to the spot where you left off at? That’s if the screen doesn’t go black and you need to restart, then more commercials. The Apple TV app is even worse, they updated it and it no longer shows new episodes available. I have to scroll down to each show to see if a new episode is available now for each and every show. The app also logs out of my dish subscription and I constantly go days before it will let me log in again.

Ad handling needs work. I love the History Channel shows. The way this app handles ads is so frustrating. When it comes to a commercial break there is a pause, then it plays the the first few seconds of the next segment, then it loads the interactive/long ad choice screen. It usually takes several touches before the screen reacts to my selection. Often when I select the long, non-interactive option (because I’m running on a treadmill) after the ads, the program video jumps ahead 5 or so minutes (like it continued to play underneath the ads). Then when I go back, it makes me watch the ads AGAIN. Maddening.

Some great shows but viewer needs TONs of work. It’s great to be able to watch Vikings to catch up but with so many commercials, and the app/video playback crashing randomly (so you have to watch repeated commercials) it can take 75 plus minutes to get through an episode. It starts to make it frustrating to watch the show and not worth the effort. The playback viewer needs a lot of work including compatibility with Apple TV and continuous playback while the phone is locked besides the crashing/ failing issues. All in all just over a score of don’t even bother. If it’s your only way to watch the new season, have your stress ball at the ready.

Love the History Channel!. I really love the shows the History Channel produces. Being able to watch them on my phone is just too cool. Even includes a few commercials but far fewer then when watching tv but what I don’t like is the limiting of how many episodes I can watch without including my tv service provider. Why? If I have the app why can’t I watch the programs I want to watch? Either make people pay for the app or let them watch the shows. Keep Up the great programming though...I love Vikings and now Knightfall but just watched Ancient Impossible. I will be looking for that on the tv as I really like it.

Excellent Content, But…. It is extremely painful to sit through the mass quantities of advertisements during any History Channel streaming show. 3 minute commercial breaks, 5-7 of them, per each 45 minute episode. Edits that recap the previous content after each commercial break. Freezing ads that crash the app, require a restart, and then feed another cycle of ads at viewers. I would be much more engaged and happy were there not 25 minutes worth of commercials for 28 minutes worth of content. Otherwise, it’s an excellent app 🤓

No Watchlist/Recents/Favorites?!?. I downloaded the app to binge Ancient Aliens which has 15+ seasons and 170+ episodes. For the life of me, I can’t figure out how to add your favorites to a watch list . And why isn’t the show in recently viewed /searched? Also if I pause a show halfway thru and come back to it later, it won’t resume where left off!! So I have to open app, sometimes log back in even within a 24 hr time frame, search for the show, the. Scroll thru every season and episode to get to what I was JUST watching yesterday. Not worth it to deal with all the commercials and frequent buffering issues!! ! Please fix these issues !! Many people have complained it seems it’s time to meet the demand of your customers! Thanks

So many commercials. I get that they make money on advertising, but really!? Are so many commercials needed. I watch more commercials than shows. The ads are in Spanish half of the time and I can’t even understand them. How am I supposed to even be interested in the ads you are cramming down my throat if I don’t even understand what is going on in the ad? Tell marketing to get their stuff together. The other issues I have are with the tech department: When switching from show to commercial, the volume gets unbelievably loud and physically hurts my ears. The transition back to the show does not go smoothly and usually ends with me having to close and restart the app because there is no audio after a commercial break. Please get it together.

Love being able to watch on my phone. I love being able to watch various shows that I am interested in by taking my phone with me. My only issue is the non variety of ads. It is annoying to have the same ad 3-4 times in a row, and then in the next break, the very same ad repeated again. I am from the older generation, so have high tolerance for ads, but that is just a bit much.

Love/hate. I love the history channel programming, but I absolutely hate this app. I’ve seen better designed apps by kids. It’s not user friendly, it doesn’t keep track of the shows you have watched or your progress of what you are watching if you have to pause and step away. It plays more commercials than if you were watching live and tends to play the same commercial several times over and over again. I saw the same Buick commercial 6 times in the same commercial break, literally 6 times over and over again. If you enjoy watching more commercials than programming then this is the app for you!

Mountain men. I have learned so much from each person in the show. It is so interesting and never boring. Learning how are ancestors made things and lived it makes u realize they were tough and they had to have skills because a store wasn’t around the corner. I like u show the good and the bad just like in real life. Thanks to all for a great show I hope keeps going. I miss Marty and his trapping but I respect that he wants time with his family and he did what he thought was right for his family. Good for them.

Just one problem. I’m so excited to be able to binge watch forged in fire and eventually explore the other shows as well. The only downside is that when I’m watching it just skips over parts of the show. I have no idea who won the last episode I watched becuase it skipped to the end. Sometime it skips over parts of the testing as well and that’s one of the best parts of the show. I’m kind of scared to try other shows like documentary’s or anything else because I’m afraid it will skip over something and then I’ll be confused. If that can be fixed then I’d give it 5 stars.

App freezes A LOT. So the commercials are a little annoying but I get it. But my problem is that sometimes it gets stuck in a never ending loop of commercials, sometimes the exact same commercial. Also the commercials freeze the app. Literally have had the same episode freeze on the exact same commercial 5+ times just now. Which is why I’m here writing this review. Killing the app does not fix the problem. It plays a set of commercials and once it’s back to the one it freezes on... BAM. Frozen and won’t load. Fix this app. History channel makes enough money to provide a half descent app. If you can’t I’d rather you not even have the app as an option.

So-so. The History Channel is what I watch most of the time and I love it. However, the app leaves a lot to be desired and I will be deleting the app. 1. Way too many ads even when you are logged in under your provider’s account. I’m not usually annoyed by some commercials but, they just have too many. I feel like I’m watching commercials with a little bit of documentary in between. 2. They offer no way of creating a watch list to be able to find your favorite shows easily. You have to search for them each time. 4. I pay for Discovery + and the History Channel shows available on that app are not available in the History app and vice versa. 3. The majority of the shows offered do not have full seasons. 4. Can be glitchy at times. I’d be willing to pay a few bucks to watch without ads but, the other things mentioned above will also need to be there. I hope that is something they will consider improving on.

Great Content but volume spikes during Ads.. I love the History Channel App! All of my favorite shows are available, many all the way back to season one through current season. I HATE THE VOLUME SPIKES WITH EVERY COMMERCIAL! I can’t get it turned down quickly enough to keep from blowing my ear drums if I am wearing my ear phones, or awakening the entire household if it is playing through speakers. SHAME ON YOU! Surely you have the wherewithal to prevent this, so I can only assume it is intentional. It is disrespectful of the viewers to have the sound blast without warning. If you had a visitor over to your home, and out of the blue she started yelling as loud as she could.... then returns to a quiet conversational voice until the desire hit her, and she started yelling again, you would be shocked at her rude behavior! And when you realized she was trying to get you to buy a vacuum she was selling at her garage sale, you would probably throw her out of your home on her ear. Well this app is just as rude. And that’s exactly what I’m going to do: throw it out.