Stream movies and TV shows, plus 300+ live TV channels, instantly, without a subscription. Free streaming with Plex makes it easy to watch all of your favorite TV shows, popular movies, and live TV – all in one place. Plex lets you watch for free, anywhere, from any device.
Your favorite movies, at your fingertips. Stream movies free from A24, Crackle, Paramount, AMC, Magnolia, Relativity, Lionsgate, and more! Watch full-length movies from every genre from anywhere – action, kids movies, dramas & so much more. On Plex, you’re sure to find all the video content everyone will love.
Watch TV shows and stream video content across all of your devices seamlessly. Easily watch your favorites and discover new ones with over 50,000 on-demand titles available. There’s something for the whole family from food to news, sports to kids, international content and more!
Live TV and news broadcasts are just a tap away with Plex. Watch24 free news channels including Newsy, USA Today, Euronews, Reuters TV, and People TV instantly. Get the latest local news sources for most U.S. markets. Live TV streaming with over 300+ channels available for free, instantly.
Stream and curate your personal collection of movies, TV and music anywhere on all your devices. With Plex, you can seamlessly organize all of your media in one place. Free music streaming and podcast live streams let you listen to all your favorites.
Steaming just got better with Plex. Stream live TV, watch free movies and discover new shows today!
PLEX FEATURES
STREAM TV SHOWS & VIDEO CONTENT:
– Stream TV and get access to over 300+ channels of free live TV
– TV for the whole family! Watch kid shows, news, sports, and more
– Live stream news from CBS, Financial Times, Euronews, local news channels and more
– Watch and record local shows, news and sports when you upgrade to the ultimate TV experience
– Watch TV with free streaming movies and free TV shows
STREAM & WATCH MOVIES FROM ANYWHERE
– Movies on demand, anytime, anywhere, at your fingertips
– Stream new movies, cult classics and other on demand movies for free
– Start streaming free movies instantly with tons of categories to discover
– Watch action movies, children movies, anime movies, dramas, comedies and more right from your device!
WATCH TV CHANNELS & SHOWS
– Live TV streaming and on-demand TV shows at your fingertips
– TV show series favorites are yours to discover with shows perfect for the whole family
– Free Live TV streaming just got better with six new channels from AMC Networks
VIDEO STREAMING & MUSIC SERVER:
– Plex scans and organizes your files, automatically sorting your media beautifully and intuitively in your Plex library
– Organize personal content, search your favorite podcasts, discover new ones, and stream free music
– Store all your personal media such as music, movies and shows, and stream them on any device
Visit https://www.plex.tv/free for more information.
Note: If you’ve already purchased the app through Google Play Store or you have a Plex Pass, you do NOT need to purchase again! Your previous purchase will be automatically detected.
Note: Media playback from your Plex Media Server on mobile devices is limited (one minute for music and video, watermark on photos) until the app is unlocked. To remove playback restrictions, upgrade to Plex Pass -OR- make a small, one-time, in-app purchase. If you have a Plex Pass or you’ve already purchased the app through the Google Play Store, you do NOT need to purchase again! Your previous purchase will be automatically detected. Streaming personal media requires Plex Media Server version 1.18.3.0 and higher (available for free at https://plex.tv/downloads) installed and running to stream to other devices. DRM-protected content, ISO disc images, and video_ts folders not supported. Some features of this app are supported by interest-based advertising, to learn more about this and your choices regarding it visit the Plex Privacy Policy.
Absolutely incredible! Thought it was a little annoying having to pay for activation, but it was worth every penny! With this amazing app, you can stream terabytes of HD video from your server… anywhere you have internet! Only gripe I have is… I wish it was easier to switch display modes, such as filling the display, notch/hole punch and all or black bordering. Having to go through the menu is a little tedious. Pinch to zoom would be preferable. Other than that, love it!
I love what this enables me to do. It’s really easy to setup, there are even advanced features and options you can setup. If you want to put your movie collection in once place, which turns it into a professionally sorted library. The media library of You. I love using it to watch TV shows that I have purchased and have digital copies of. Want to lend a movie to a friend? Easy.
Update: Latest version has potential to be the most buggy release yet. WOW. Problems with loading and resuming video, and with maintaining progress. Very painful! And don’t dream of touching the subtitle button–it only brings pain! They just break stuff constantly with new features, and seemingly fix nothing! There’s always something misbehaving. New features added, yet years-old bugs ignored. Just wish they’d fix bugs, and adequately regression check future releases.
I have been a premium member for a long time and over time the mobile experience has only gotten worse. Constant crashes, terrible load, and resume speeds playing media back. Downloading media to devices has never reliably worked. Now I can’t reliably start playing with a crash due to encoding errors on the app side. PLEX, please address some of these and maybe you won’t lose loyal customers to Jellyfin or other more reliable options.
What an absolute disappointment. Plex used to be the #1 app for playing local media across all devices, but they’ve shifted focus. Key features like media syncdownloads has be broken for over a year, & they seem to be abandoning local media to focus on adding streaming capabilities at the expense of their core reason for existing. I bought a lifetime Plex pass somewhere around 2011, but I’ll be using Plex for long enough to testmigrate to an alternative like jellyfin or emby.
*NOTE* Be sure that you restart all devices after installation/linking/syncing to ensure everything works correctly!! If you do, then everything should work like it’s supposed to. In my opinion it is definitely worth $5, because it lets you take your entire media collection with you everywhere you go – it is only limited by your cell service. I used tonido for years, and this is a much better replacement, except I just realized you cannot download your files without a subscription.
Not good. Used to be, but very buggy and each update seems to break things more than it fixes. Always have to spend time fiddling with settings or restarting devices to fix some new annoying issue. Used to work flawlessly for years, now it’s a constant pain to use. Even when it’s stable for a while, and usable there will be annoying little things that should seemingly be easy to fix, like automatically starting a movie where you left it on one device, or the video always freezes while the audio
I do like Plex for the variety of shows, one thing I wish (as with all other providers) is that when it comes down to commercials, the sound is at the same level as the show! This is very irritating to me as I’m sure it is with other users, that the commercials most of the time are twice as loud! Plz do something about this
I’ve been using this for a few years, and each year they add more and more features that I don’t need, that hog up all sorts of space. As on this review, I no longer have any sort of UI on my screen while playing. no pause. no search bar, nothing. All i ever needed this for was to cast media from my PC. now it can’t even do that. But I can watch a bunch of live TV that I didn’t ask for or want. The fact that you want to charge a season pass for this garbage is a joke.
As a way to view your own movies – this is a 5 star app…. But as a streaming service – 5 sets of 150 second commercials for a 45 min show. What is this? This is 2X+ worse than other services! Moreover, commercials can fail and replay! I was stuck in commercials for over 300 seconds until I relaunched Plex. This is bad and the devs should feel bad. At least have some human decency and do 3 90 second commercials for an hour long show. As is, I won’t use anything I see a commercial for on Plex.
Absolutely horrible app. Paid for plexicon and yet the servers are always down, the support channel on their website is entirely unhelpful, and you cannot get ahold of anyone to fix it. It’s a huge POS app, skip it, you might as well stick with whatever service you’re already using. At least Netflix does it job.
great to be able to listen and watch remotely but some significant bugs in the Android Auto interface. Voice commands don’t always work. once a track moves forward to the next track, it acts like nothing is playing and you aren’t able to pause only skip ahead or back. wish multiple matches to a voice play song worked instead of always choosing the potentially wrong track.
Supported the developers for 2 years at $5/month for Plex Pass. App never really improved. Constantly loses its place in the show/movie if paused for too long. Can’t fast forward or rewind smoothly. Good if you start a movie from the beginning and play with no interruptions. Terrible if you need to pause for any reason.
What the heck has happened to the android player? If you turn on subtitles from a playing show it stops playing the show. If you leave the plex app and come back into the app, the subtitles stop working necessitating stopping the current play back, then finding the show again to start playing. Sometimes the app leaves the navigation bar for gestures up on the narrow side during playback. Sometimes you can’t click on items in a library because plex didn’t load the art.
Love this app, it has plenty of content and a lot of variety. The only downside is that there are up to 7 ads, per “ad break”. Some don’t make sense, like a car commercial on a split screen with a basketball game or something. I still recommend this app for streaming movies and shows.
So this is a *paid app* that’s been out for years, but still doesn’t have full Bluetooth control? Wow. Seriously, it will pause but not start again. And the sidebar setup/organization is still awful after all these years as well. Otherwise, it’s a pretty elegant app and platform.
great quality movies, but I finally had to uninstall it… The commercials were getting excessive, and I don’t mind some commercials, but they didn’t even run right, sometimes stuck in the middle of a commercial had to close the app start movie over only to get another commercial. So it takes me 30 min. to get home, I was trying to watch an old TV series. I never once saw the show, I spent the whole 30 minutes with ads that would start then stop and never come back. That’s sad.
I love Plex, but this app is atrocious. I’ve been using Plex for quite a long time now, and for what it is I love it. I bought the lifetime pass some time ago. One of the things that lifetime pass allows you to do is download versions of your video for on the go. 1 problem though, you can’t. It doesn’t work, there’s constant errors, stoppages, or it says it’s downloaded but it isn’t? I can’t figure it out, it doesn’t work. For something advertised as included in a paid version, you should probab
Perfect for recording OTA programming. And now you can enjoy free content streamed directly to your favorite devices. My personal library has grown to over 150 TV shows and movies. Probably one of the best PVR solutions available. 10/23/22: I started using Plex so I could record and watch OTA TV. At some point, this functionality stopped working, so it has become worthless. Sad, it used to be a great PC and Android app. So long, Plex. You will be missed.
Latest version of the Android phone app hangs up on the splash screen for what seems like forever. Like watching water boil. Very slow, but it eventually loads. What’s weird is that this only happens when connected to my WiFi. Doesn’t happen on 5G. Nothing is wrong with my network configuration. Checked that thoroughly. That all said, when fully working, it’s a sensational product. Excellent enrichment of my personal media. A “must have” app for your personal media collection.
I’ve heard that the Plex Amp app works better, but I don’t have a paid account to use that one. This free version is pretty good, though when I put an individual song on loop, there’s a bit of a hiccup in playing when the song restarts. That’s all I’ve noticed though. I don’t use other apps to connect to personal servers for streaming, so I’m not sure if the time it takes to connect to the server is typical compared to other similar apps.
Edit: In addition to the original issues that still stand, the app (and browser) now fail to find any results when using the search function. The app fails to respond to media controls over bluetooth (both software and hardware), and often fails to properly display playtime and/or ID3 tags through the same connection. Could also use the ability to show all songs from all albums after selecting an artist, rather than having to constantly go in and out of each album.
What an amazing app for those with your own content. Even just to load up family photos to share with relatives. The support community is incredible for helping you set up as well. I had no problems setting things up for home use but the remote connection can be a little tricky. All the problems I had were through my AT&T router (port forwarding) but I have it up and running great! I’m having a hard time finding any faults..
Unreliable and buggy. I paid to get the full android app, and unfortunately I think it was not a good investment. Two big bugs bother me often: 1. Casting to Chromecast loses connection often, or the app stops responding, and then it is almost impossible to reconnect the app to the streaming on the Chromecast. I have to kill both this app and disconnect Chromecast so that it works again. 2. The 10 second rewind does not work. It ALWAYS rewinds to the beginning of the video.
This is more than just an app its a lifestyle. Being able to just run Plexamp in my phone and have it randomly play the music I own and love has changed my life. I highly recommend the app and the service. The app works incredibly well. It could be a little simpler to use, but it’s easy to figure out and it’s super user-friendly with TONS of options for customizations. The app is only one part of a complete Plex ecosystem that is damn near perfect. I can’t even think of a single complaint.
Overall works great, not super obnoxious about ads and is pretty easy to navigate, but more often than not when I want to use it with a chromecast I end up having to delete and reinstall the app for it to let me cast it just says it can’t find anything to cast to. I don’t have the same problem with any other apps on the same device and wifi network and I couldn’t find any information related to it in the app or on their website.
the app is a UX disaster. having to re login all the time is frustrating. different looking buttons doing the same thing. adopting a different order of subjects for your server then the web app. EDIT It gets worse. I walk away from Wi-Fi for a minute my playing stops and now I have a flashing “an error occurred while playing this item” in the bottom of my screen that won’t go away until I reboot. And now it doesn’t work on Wi-Fi but it works on mobile data just fine. Jeez
Perfect for my own server. Not sure why so many are complaining since I haven’t had a single issue with the app on mobile or on my roku tv. I created my own server, linked it to my tv, done. Everything is organized, plays perfectly, nothing is cluttered, and I can add friends if I wanted to. (UPDATE 9/29/22) The only issue I seem to find is the download feature for Plex is horrible. Episodes and movies never download fully without getting a error. Doesn’t matter if I’m on mobile or wifi.
I’d give it 5 stars if it was easier to load files from my computer, and if the photo albums didn’t start over when closing another album or picture. when I load a play list and play it, the songs will often stop and the list must be restarted. I love being able to play music and my personal home videos, or share my pictures with family and friends anywhere I go from my phone, right over the internet.
I hate Plex so very much. Have not been able to watch any of my movies on there. All I get is Error unable to play video, but the trailer for the movie or deleted scenes will play just not the movie. This happens all the time, or the movies or TV shows will not load. It says no internet connection when I have one. It’s nothing on my end.
For iPhone, 5 stars. For Android, 2 stars. Playback experience is not great at all for Android. I use gesture navigation and trying to change video aspect ratio is horrible. 85% if the time, I’m swiping to another app or closing the menu. Subtitle positioning is also broken, low medium high doesn’t do anything.
I’m using this primarily to stream music, and holy hell is this thing riddled with bugs and half-baked implementations. Album collections are broken, it crashes every time I try to reorder a song to the top of the queue, radio stations only get 5 songs, and Bluetooth control (i.e. in a car) breaks after the first song. Went to the forums and was told to “try” Plexamp, which – surprise! – requires a Plex Pass subscription to use. None of these problems happen with the web app.
Plex is a fantastic system. Works across all platforms. The Plex interface allows easy access to my 3 video servers along with access to one of its tuners. Along with the servers, it displays all channels from my tv antenna. All you need is Wifi and your right at home with access to everything from anywhere. The new music features for adding your own music library along with loudness Leveling and sweet fades are SWEET along with Plex channels and video’s. It’s a solid, well built app.
More ads that most free streaming services. I calculated 18 minutes of adds during an 140 minute film, not including the long waits as certain ads (Jenny Craig, Anderson Windows) repeatedly took exceptionally long to load. Even worse is there seems to be no algorithm or any sense used to determine when an ad break occurs – including smack in the middle of the climactic battle scenes. Still get 2 stars because it is functional and other than the ads, the movie itself did not have playback issues
Too confusing to find my files. They should be the first and easiest thing to find, but Plex wants to show you what THEY have instead. App is too unreliable. I usually get a “server cannot be found” or suffer delays, or stuttering on my music. Movies usually have very bad audio sync issues.
Terrible app. Installed, had issues logging in but after logging in its just stuck on the Plex splash screen. Have to close the app and reopen a couple of times for it even to try to load movie list, not to mention there’s no way to access a local or shared library on it. Opening the web version on Chrome is infinitely better than this experience.
Watching a movie, the countdown timer keeps adding time. I was willing to tolerate a few ads to watch a movie not available on other services, but I watched the timer jump up several times in a row. It started by saying there were 48 seconds of ads to watch, and then kept bumping the time up as each ad finished. I know advertisers have deception in their blood but this was a pretty cheap trick for Plex to play on people. Uninstalled, laterz Plex.
The “watch from these locations” feature “beta” is total garbage. I literally only care about movies on the plex server, and I have no other streaming accounts connected to the app, so now I have to do several extra clicks to do basic tasks. Take it out. Keep it simple. Downloads aren’t working either.
Been having constant h4 errors since ~ May 2022. App stops working for a week at a time, probably half the time since May. Updates, uninstalls, et al don’t resolve it. Stopped auto updating since the updates seemed to be when it broke, but haven’t had luck with that either. Love the app, hate the recent instability. Seems like we need more version compatibility to deal with the frequency of updates? Getting really frustrated as this is my main app for media consumption, so having a huge impact.
Had it for over 8 years now, if not more. it has its issues and their TV app versions are sub par but overall, for the money I paid (75 bucks for lifetime), it has easily been the best streaming service I’ve ever signed up for. easy recommend if you are even a little tech savvy.