I’ve been using Roku since they first hit the market and I love it. I highly recommend Roku to anyone who wants to enjoy great TV content. I’m using my Roku right now to watch football on Sling and along with a few streaming services I can watch football games that are not available in my area, which makes my wife happy because we can watch her Lions game today which is not available in our area. I can also record other games I want to see while watching her game. Happy wife, happy life. With one of my few steaming services I am able to watch and record motor racing from Europe that is not otherwise unavailable in America so I’m extremely pleased with all of the programming I can enjoy with Roku, Sling and the 4 streaming services, two of which I get free with my AT&T fiber internet access and my Walmart+ account. Most of all I love my Sling account that I have on my Roku which allows me to watch Fox News and other premium channels for a low price and I have unlimited recording so I can watch my favorite shows whenever I have time. Regular network news either lies to us, twists the truth into their socialist propaganda or simply do not report the news I want to know about. Roku makes all of this programming available in one place at the push of a button. I love it.

I use to absolutely love this app, it worked perfectly and there were very few problems I had with it. Now if i would like to listen through another device, I have to manually connect it, and that shows me an IP address that when i enter to manually connect, it is invalid. No amount of restarting fixes this. I have gone to the FAQ and did ALL of the things it showed that said it should help. It did not. Even if it did I would have to keep the app open because the moment I turn the screen off of the device that it is playing from, it will close the app ENTIRELY. Again I have gone to FAQ for this issue and nothing. I have no idea what is going on or why this is happening but it is genuinely so annoying and so frustrating. I thought it might be because I need to update the app or that I needed to reset my Roku. I checked for updates, none. So I just reset my Roku and only then did it “fix” things. This is also happening to the rest of my family who all use this app and listen through it instead of through the tv. I understand that resetting can seem very little to some but it is very frustrating that JUST TO CONNECT TO MY ROKU, I have to entirely RESET SAID ROKU. Please fix this.

I got the Roku app for one reason, and one reason only, The Rich Eisen Show. Despite the app not being user friendly and being able to find the live version of the show difficult at best, I enjoyed being able to live stream the show, so I put up with the issues. For example, despite their being an icon with The Rich Eisen Show logo on the hoescreen, I could not watch the show directly from there on the mobile app. I have to search “The Rich Eisen Show”, then go to that link where I could actually watch the live show. But the functionality of the app has gotten worse over time, especially with the most recent updates. Not only is the app constantly freezing, but the recent changes to where the live version of The Rich Eisen Show is NOT on the Rich Eisen Channel, but you have to go to the Roku Sports Channel is not a good improvement. I enjoyed being able to go right from the live show from 9AM-Noon EST, and into the replay of the same show directly afterwards. That way, if I missed anything from the live show that I wanted to see/hear, I can watch though the replay right away. Now, the only show being replayed on The Rich Eisen Show channel is from the previous day, not the current day like it used to be, AND there is no more immediate replay of the current day’s show. I wasn’t a huge fan of the app to begin with, and now I am even less of a fan.

Their are so many problems with Roku, the remotes and this app you can’t list them all, 3 stars because their products are fine at best and Roku doesn’t care to have a product better than that and it’s glaringly obvious. Even with 1k upload and download and brand new devices (been using Roku for over 10 years because it’s affordable so I guess that means they don’t have to care or try right?) the app crashes all the time especially if you use the “play audio through the phone” they update the privacy policy more than their actual products. When the typing feature does work you’re fighting a heavy delay. The only reason people love the app is because they design their remotes to be the most easily lost thing on the planet. The app will try to connect to a tv you used once at a friends house before it even lets you consider using your own device. By that I mean a device that is on and connected to the same isp as your phone shiny register as on for up to 20 minutes. Roku does not care, 10 years later and all they fixed was the problem where Roku decided it didn’t want to connect to your internet for a few hours.