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Rumble: Livestreams & Videos
Rumble Inc. · 522,822 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 40 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"rumble"
15 negative reviews mention this · 38% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Disappointment. The app has been stagnant for years now. It’s clunky and somehow X is a better video platform than rumble. Search function is dumb (literally), crashes constantly, the seek function can also cause crashes or the video to close. Video playba…" - Harry tha Reviewer_
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"video"
9 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Update ad advertisements. Don’t do this update it only adds advertisements to the videos." - Machine_Gears
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"constantly"
6 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Freezes constantly. Horrible app. are your developers high?" - hendrik277
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"while"
6 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible time trying to renew premium subscription. Third time I've been told my renewal couldn't draw. Nothing wrong with my payment method however my settings were changed to paypal for some reason I do not use paypal or even have an account. Have just decided to cancel rather than go t…" - Bettemommy
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"videos"
5 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Update ad advertisements. Don’t do this update it only adds advertisements to the videos." - Machine_Gears
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"listen"
5 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible update. Your updated app is it’s terrible. If I come to the live stream late, now, I can’t move it back to the front and start listening to it from the start. I have to wait till it’s completely finished. What what a shame and a stupid idea that wa…" - lac100000
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"been"
5 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Disappointment. The app has been stagnant for years now. It’s clunky and somehow X is a better video platform than rumble. Search function is dumb (literally), crashes constantly, the seek function can also cause crashes or the video to close. Video playba…" - Harry tha Reviewer_
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"platform"
5 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Disappointment. The app has been stagnant for years now. It’s clunky and somehow X is a better video platform than rumble. Search function is dumb (literally), crashes constantly, the seek function can also cause crashes or the video to close. Video playba…" - Harry tha Reviewer_
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"find"
5 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible time trying to renew premium subscription. Third time I've been told my renewal couldn't draw. Nothing wrong with my payment method however my settings were changed to paypal for some reason I do not use paypal or even have an account. Have just decided to cancel rather than go t…" - Bettemommy
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"doesn"
5 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fix your app. I pay for Rumble premium, I seem to get a subpar app. It pauses constantly, if my screen is off it just doesn’t restart so I have to go back open my phone and hopefully start the video again. It randomly loses track of where I was in the vi…" - beardedMcBeardsly
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"freezes"
4 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Freezes constantly. Horrible app. are your developers high?" - hendrik277
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"show"
4 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Working out kinks. When you block accounts they still show up on your feed. I wish they showed more content on your feed based on your search history." - opinionated 2
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Freezes constantly. Horrible app
are your developers high?
Glitches
I’m watching channels & I try to make a comment & the page freezes, I have to shut my phone off & go back in, cannot always make comments. I am paying the9.99, wondering why I pay it ?
Loading screen
It almost always never loads no matter how many times I re-download the app and no it's not my internet connection
Update ad advertisements
Don’t do this update it only adds advertisements to the videos.
Terrible update
Your updated app is it’s terrible. If I come to the live stream late, now, I can’t move it back to the front and start listening to it from the start. I have to wait till it’s completely finished. What what a shame and a stupid idea that was. When are you gonna put it back so I can move to the front and listen to the whole thing from the start.
Disappointment
The app has been stagnant for years now. It’s clunky and somehow X is a better video platform than rumble. Search function is dumb (literally), crashes constantly, the seek function can also cause crashes or the video to close. Video playback, when you get there, is typically good, but most functions are antiquated in 2026. Vimeo 10 years ago is comparable to this app besides the memberships and paywalls that rumble provides.
Total Confusion
All I wanted to do was enter the code to log into Rumble on my Roku TV. Endless do-loops and circular algorithms prevented my success. I really want it to work, but right now it seems hopeless. Well, back to YT with it’s user friendly interface.
Terrible time trying to renew premium subscription
Third time I've been told my renewal couldn't draw. Nothing wrong with my payment method however my settings were changed to paypal for some reason I do not use paypal or even have an account. Have just decided to cancel rather than go through support again (which I can't find the link to this time). Got much worse with the AI enhancement last year. I did enjoy my commercial free viewing of my favorites for a while but will watch elsewhere. I agree with everyone else that the commercials are super scammy.
Boycotting rumble till their quartering contract is revoked
Jeremy Hambly is responsible for a YouTubers channel coming down and started a flagging censorship war. As someone with a contract with rumble this is anti free speech and everything rumble claims to stand for. Additionally he used his censorship campaign to direct people to use rumble instead. This is not a good look for rumble and I won’t be using it until they have cut all business ties and contract with the quartering.
Hard to find
Love the idea behind Rumble. But I find it difficult to locate the shows I’ve saved to listen to or watch.
Rumble as a platform
This isn’t so much about the app but more about the website itself. Rumble could’ve been a great competitor to youtube and been something amazing. The downfall was when only a very select group of people decided to ingest the website as just being all politically fueled. The right wing love to say nothing should be political, but the vast majority that is pushed on rumbles algorithm for new viewers is conservative slop. This is why rumble will never take down youtube because what has mad youtube completely enduring is that the variety of content from fun to informative to educational to learning world events, there’s no other video streaming site in the planet that’s been able to emulate that.
Just let us use the app
Stop forcing us to pick from your preselected categories to continue with our account, and stop forcing us to follow at least one of your suggested accounts in order to let us use rumble. Just let us use rumble. That move there made me not go premium so great job.
Videos freeze while audio keeps working
Every 5 to 10 mins or so the video will freeze while the audio keeps going. If I pause the video, skip ahead or backwards the video will sync back up with the audio. This happens on different channels as well so it’s not the individual channel videos
Bad app
Hi Rumble Team,
My account is verified with a phone number, and my videos are original with no monetization label. Monetization is also currently suspended. I do not violate any policies or rules, and my videos get more than 1,000 views. Despite that, I do not receive any money from the ads that you place on my videos
Where is the problem?
My account is verified with a phone number, and my videos are original with no monetization label. Monetization is also currently suspended. I do not violate any policies or rules, and my videos get more than 1,000 views. Despite that, I do not receive any money from the ads that you place on my videos
Where is the problem?
Rumble sucks
Too many adds can’t listen in the car anymore
Add a guest request like TikTok
Add a guest request feature for new people on this app
Unwatchable wall of click bait
I wanted to watch several of the conservative commentators on this app. Big fail. It makes YouTube look like a gentle babbling brook. Glad they’ve invented AI to be their nanny. These brainiacs are going to need it.
Censored
Enjoyment Disrupted Too Many Times
Doesn’t show premium renewal
Doesn’t pick up Apple renewals for Rumble
Woke Right blocks people on this site
Dan Bongino partly owns this platform and is the only person that has me blocked/muted. He’s a loser with zero FBI arrests and didn’t like my comment wow what a weak punk. Other podcasters that aren’t right wing always pause on me or app just shuts off. Shady app being exposed. Back to YouTube with better commercials
Still…
Video and audio keep getting thrown off and since rumble has come out they have done nothing to fix this problem. Not even on their website is it fixed so seems to be something deeper. Hope they aren’t using DEI hires like everyone else. Sure seems to be that way.
Not seeing a better product than youtube here… won’t be surprised if we find out Rumble has been collecting and selling our info just like the tube…
Not seeing a better product than youtube here… won’t be surprised if we find out Rumble has been collecting and selling our info just like the tube…
Great Content, Frustrating App, Audio and Video out of sync
Update:
As of 2.17.1, video freezes while audio continues playing. Happens often. Restarting the stream resolves it temporarily.
Still an issue:
Lip sync problems; the audio and video drift apart over time requiring me to stop and reload the content to force it back in sync. This will work for short while until I need to repeat. Watching their iPad app with all OS and rumble updates.
As of 2.17.1, video freezes while audio continues playing. Happens often. Restarting the stream resolves it temporarily.
Still an issue:
Lip sync problems; the audio and video drift apart over time requiring me to stop and reload the content to force it back in sync. This will work for short while until I need to repeat. Watching their iPad app with all OS and rumble updates.
Full of maga
🤮
Fox new programs
As of late the shows I watched faithfully I can no longer find The Ingraham Angle Jimmy Faila Kudlow I am ready to delete rumble it sucks
Refresh problem
I have to constantly close the app to refresh to listen with the screen closed and almost every time I go to another app and come back it doesn’t remember what I was watching.
Long Time Unresolved Bugs
Rumble works great on my Samsung tablet and TV, but it hasn’t ever on my iPhone 17. Every single video I watch has the video constantly freeze while the audio continues, and frequently it completely freezes with long or endless loading. Shorts can’t be excluded from the feed, and a new bug just popped up that doesn’t allow another video to be selected to play after one ends without force closing the app. None of the bugs I’ve encountered have been fixed after 6 months, only additional ones added.
Privacy policy 👎👎👎
I would given 5 stars but you do not need this very personal information for any reason whatsoever unless someone has a channel and gets paid for that channel.
Sensitive Personal Information. We collect Social Security numbers and tax identification numbers only for limited purposes, with your consent, and as permitted under applicable laws.
Sensitive Personal Information. We collect Social Security numbers and tax identification numbers only for limited purposes, with your consent, and as permitted under applicable laws.
Insane amount of ada and crashes constantly
Useless app
Nick Fuentes is your most popular streamer, yet I still have to scroll amd look for his name daily?
Shadow banning your top platform guy?
Super buggy
App signs me out automatically, videos crash the app, live streams don’t load half the time. Terrible terrible terrible.
Add bombardment
I understand the need for adds but this format is most excessive.
Working out kinks
When you block accounts they still show up on your feed.
I wish they showed more content on your feed based on your search history.
I wish they showed more content on your feed based on your search history.
Needs work
If you can’t start a live stream exactly when it starts when it ends Prepare to be cut off and lose your spot when it ends even if you’re an hour behind . Then you have to wait until it’s available again and try to figure out where you were cut off. Might as well just skip the whole live and catch it on the replay.
Rate
I believe some accounts are throttled
Sad
Sad
Can’t upload
After the new update, I can’t upload anything anymore
Bongino Show
Every day I lose Dan Bongino around the one hour mark. I have to restart the program and bring him back on. It is only Bongino’s show that this happens. And it’s only when I use my iPhone. On android I don’t have any problems.
Fix your app
I pay for Rumble premium, I seem to get a subpar app. It pauses constantly, if my screen is off it just doesn’t restart so I have to go back open my phone and hopefully start the video again. It randomly loses track of where I was in the video frequently when it does this and if I shut my screen off while a video is playing I have to hit play manually on my lock screen. Fix your app! I support Rumble because I support free speech, but it’s hard to support free speech when I can’t even listen to it cause of app issues.
Needs polish and QOL updates
Gets the job done but it can be frustrating to use, I’d love to see future improvements to smooth out the problems.
Here’s some issues I’ve had that make it annoying to use vs other video apps:
-Has issues syncing with iPods, says it’s connected but sometimes doesn’t play any sound… same thing for the Bluetooth in my car. Never had that happen with any other app.
-Doesn’t auto-pause videos when someone calls, I have to answer the call then go pause the video.
-I’ve unsubbed from channels, but still see them in my feed. Then tried blocking them, they’re still in my feed.
-Skipping around a video or livestream causes video to pause or buffer indefinitely, making it so I have to close the app completely to refresh.
All in all it’s not bad, but it’s not great, and not always functioning as I hope or prefer.
Here’s some issues I’ve had that make it annoying to use vs other video apps:
-Has issues syncing with iPods, says it’s connected but sometimes doesn’t play any sound… same thing for the Bluetooth in my car. Never had that happen with any other app.
-Doesn’t auto-pause videos when someone calls, I have to answer the call then go pause the video.
-I’ve unsubbed from channels, but still see them in my feed. Then tried blocking them, they’re still in my feed.
-Skipping around a video or livestream causes video to pause or buffer indefinitely, making it so I have to close the app completely to refresh.
All in all it’s not bad, but it’s not great, and not always functioning as I hope or prefer.
New to this…
I find this harder to get around on than u tube. I am not young so it is harder for me to navigate and save my shows. It would be much easier if there were obvious directions on the screen next to the show like Save, Finished, Delete, Add to List, etc.
Most of the choices are for the 20-40 age group. I like the old radio dramas from the BBC when the acting was great and some of the scripts were top-rate. But Rumble gets a new show once in a while from the BBC so I am still considering becoming a member. We’Il see.
Most of the choices are for the 20-40 age group. I like the old radio dramas from the BBC when the acting was great and some of the scripts were top-rate. But Rumble gets a new show once in a while from the BBC so I am still considering becoming a member. We’Il see.
Great idea but..
I love the idea, a truly open platform, but the ads are almost all ai scam ads for ed pills and vitamins, and the video player sucks, it raids you out of a live you joined late even if you’re 20 minutes in, it pauses for no reason frequently, also will play for no reason, and locks up periodically. For all the large influencers it is quite unrefined.
Sentiment summary
94%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
3%
Negative (1-2★)