ONE-STAR READER— back to the wireEntertainment
Hulu: Stream TV shows & movies
United States
4.57★ from 1,429,651 ratings · version 9.38.0 · 54 of the last 57 written reviews are one or two starsExcessive ads interrupting content
12of the 54 read22%
Too many ads, too frequently, making shows unwatchable and ruining viewing experience despite paying for subscription.
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“Ridiculous — Releasing anime episodes without subtitles and excessive ad drops. How do I open the episode to an ad, and then have to watch another ad after the intro? I could rate 0 stars I would.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Adds — To many long adds :( I hate them. You can’t even enjoy watching a movie” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Horrible — to many damn adds. i would give a 0 but that aint possible. I shouldn’t be blasted with 4 adds that are each about 2 minutes long for a 25 minute episode.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English
App crashes, freezes, or fails to load
8of the 54 read15%
App frequently crashes, freezes on blank screens, fails to load, or requires repeated restarts to function.
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“Worst app ever — Hulu support admitted they invest hardly any time into the AppleTV app as well as other apple platforms. It never loads after a 30 min break (restart), the navigation is an absolute mess. Must restart 10-20 times a day. What an absolute mess this sad excuse for a streaming app on AppleTV. Invest in it or lose subscribers.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Trash — This app is absolute trash. They need to rename it “We’re having trouble playing this.” That is all it ever shows.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Fix the bugs — The app is great and set up well. However very very often when you launch the app it glitches and crashes or doesn’t load.” — ★★☆☆☆ · English
TV app buffering and error codes
4of the 54 read7%
Apple TV app constantly buffers, displays error codes, and requires force stop and restart between every show.
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“Great on iPad, horrible on tv — On the tv after EVERY SHOW OR MOVIE it buffers and buffers and results in error code. I had to force stop and reopen the app between every tv show or movie. I’ve reinstalled and updated ,no change. I’ve finally changed to YouTube tv before I go insane.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Horrible TV App Quality and Auto Play — Constantly has issues with the TV app and auto play. The TV app will not add subtitles even when it says they are on, regularly crashes, attempts to play a different show when there are more episodes of the current show. They keep raising their prices for what? Worse performance? I will be cancelling my subscription and watching my shows elsewhere. Why pay for this when they do…” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Fix the Apple TV app! — It keeps crashing during live events / matches. Several times. It even logs us out of the app entirely. I’ve called customer service and this was all noted down. And nothing. Fix it!” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English
Login and account access failures
4of the 54 read7%
Cannot log in, stuck in login loops, account recognized but access denied, subscription validation errors.
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“Wow, buggy garbage — Can’t log in. Paying customer. The app takes me in circles. I just resubscribed, I’m a glutton for punishment. I can’t get signed in because I’m caught in a loop. Hulu recognizes I have a paid account but won’t let me use it to see any content in the app. What kind of sadists write apps like this?!” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“terrible navigation — We bought a subscription after about 30 minutes of trying to figure out how to set up an account and when we logged into our account on the television it keeps saying an error has occurred and that our subscription is invalid. They still charge us and when we cancel the subscription (after we pay and are charged for a whole month worth of subscription, our subscription instantly get cancelled…” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Doesn’t work most of the time — When the app works it’s fine. Lately it never loads. It will show no connection at the bottom whether I’m on WiFi or cell data. Constantly has to buffer or load. Now I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app and now I can’t even log in. Never gets past the password screen. Oh and it’s not just my phone app either. Happens quite a bit on my PlayStation, laptop, etc. it’s not my…” — ★★☆☆☆ · English
Poor interface and navigation design
4of the 54 read7%
Confusing navigation, minimizing shows unexpectedly, incorrect video aspect ratio, missing restart option, broken continue watching.
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“Horrible interface — Before the show ends the interface minimizes the show and you try to see the last 20 seconds and you can’t. Just trash bring back cable. Cheaper and no garbage interface.” — ★★☆☆☆ · English“This app cannot handle rewinding correctly — I will rewind and then it just continues to skip right back to where I was. Terrible app for 2026” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Horrible experience — You either have to watch the content with black bars on all four sides, or you zoom in and cut off part of the video. Apps like Netflix does it correctly. I can fill the screen without cutting off the image showing the content like it was originally made. You know like any other device on the planet. Which makes watching content on Hulu pointless on an iPhone.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English
Content removed or unavailable without explanation
3of the 54 read6%
Shows removed from library, episodes unavailable for no reason, or content restricted in certain languages.
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“why did you remove nana — nana is my favorite anime of all time and suddenly one day i hear hulu removed it off of hulu! i go a check and what do i see..no nana..DUDE WHERE ELESE AM I SUPPOSED TO WATCH IT NOW? :( pls add it back i’m begging yew ;(” — ★★☆☆☆ · English“Worst streaming app ever — Literally makes you watch 1000 ads to watch one episode of a show and it is playing every single thing except this one episode of a show I want to watch it says it’s unavailable for no reason. Horrible set up of choosing what to watch as well” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Mid 2026 and barely no multi language support — No Spanish, French, mandarin support on 90% of the catalogue. Complacency and incompetency in the big 2026…” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English
Apple app performs worse than Android
3of the 54 read6%
App works well on Android but fails on Apple TV and iOS with constant crashes and glitches.
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“Horrible TV App Quality and Auto Play — Constantly has issues with the TV app and auto play. The TV app will not add subtitles even when it says they are on, regularly crashes, attempts to play a different show when there are more episodes of the current show. They keep raising their prices for what? Worse performance? I will be cancelling my subscription and watching my shows elsewhere. Why pay for this when they do…” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Another apple fail — Another app that works great on android but doesn’t work at all on apple!” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Worst app ever — Hulu support admitted they invest hardly any time into the AppleTV app as well as other apple platforms. It never loads after a 30 min break (restart), the navigation is an absolute mess. Must restart 10-20 times a day. What an absolute mess this sad excuse for a streaming app on AppleTV. Invest in it or lose subscribers.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English
Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 54 most recent negative ones. Newest review 3 days ago (06.09.2026), last collected 2 days ago.