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InstantBits Inc · 70,140 ratings · ★ 4.8
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Top complaints - extracted from 53 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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"work"
11 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "doesn’t work anymore. I’ve been using this app for months and while sometimes slow, it works. Now I’ve been trying to watch an episode of a show for an hour and it keeps buffering no matter how many servers I try. Basically useless" - Quiesent
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"update"
8 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "New update ruined the app. After the new update every time I try to watch a video on the app it says “Your browser security context does not support this player. Please refresh or use a modern browser”. Also so so tired of trying to stream on my tv and videos constan…" - Kennethmsmith
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"doesn"
7 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "doesn’t work anymore. I’ve been using this app for months and while sometimes slow, it works. Now I’ve been trying to watch an episode of a show for an hour and it keeps buffering no matter how many servers I try. Basically useless" - Quiesent
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"works"
7 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "doesn’t work anymore. I’ve been using this app for months and while sometimes slow, it works. Now I’ve been trying to watch an episode of a show for an hour and it keeps buffering no matter how many servers I try. Basically useless" - Quiesent
5
"useless"
7 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "doesn’t work anymore. I’ve been using this app for months and while sometimes slow, it works. Now I’ve been trying to watch an episode of a show for an hour and it keeps buffering no matter how many servers I try. Basically useless" - Quiesent
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"every"
7 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "New update ruined the app. After the new update every time I try to watch a video on the app it says “Your browser security context does not support this player. Please refresh or use a modern browser”. Also so so tired of trying to stream on my tv and videos constan…" - Kennethmsmith
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"video"
7 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "New update ruined the app. After the new update every time I try to watch a video on the app it says “Your browser security context does not support this player. Please refresh or use a modern browser”. Also so so tired of trying to stream on my tv and videos constan…" - Kennethmsmith
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"casting"
7 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not supporting surround audio. This app used to be the best casting app ever which used to support surround audio output. But now it's not giving the 5.1 output which is a big glitch" - Dhebba
📋 All 53 negative reviews
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doesn’t work anymore
I’ve been using this app for months and while sometimes slow, it works. Now I’ve been trying to watch an episode of a show for an hour and it keeps buffering no matter how many servers I try. Basically useless
Didn’t work on Hisense tv
This app wouldn’t work on my tv, which has airplay capabilities. I am able to cast directly to my tv using airplay but subtitles don’t carry over, wanted to try this third party app to see if I could get around that. No luck, it can see my tv as a device but will only play audio and only for a moment. This is after watching several ads though. Completely useless.
So many ads
Can’t select local files I downloaded from Chrome and other browsers
Subtitles
The subtitles do not carry over
New update ruined the app
After the new update every time I try to watch a video on the app it says “Your browser security context does not support this player. Please refresh or use a modern browser”. Also so so tired of trying to stream on my tv and videos constantly just not playing through the tv- it will try for a second and then give up.
Update sucks
Cannot cast from twitch.
Not supporting surround audio
This app used to be the best casting app ever which used to support surround audio output. But now it's not giving the 5.1 output which is a big glitch
Update didn’t help
The only site I use, chaturbate, hasn’t worked for three months. Sad
useless
doesnt work on apple tv
Subtitles
For the last few months, subtitles are very off and aren’t even useable.
Doesn’t work
I’ve had this app for years and now it doesn’t work. I just wasted 30 mins trying to figure out something that should be simple
Sudden paywall makes app unusable
The app creator has suddenly locked things like Adblock behind a paywall, which makes this formerly free app unusable unless you pay for their “premium” tier
Needs updating
I’ve had this app for over a year and have yet to update it there’s tons of bugs in the app I paid for no ads I still get ads unfortunately I had to undownload and reinstall only for me to try and restore my subscription and nothing the app become unresponsive when clicking on web pages forcing you to restart just to get a video/movie/show to play
Used for years now buffers everything…
Used for years now it buffers like crazy…
Basically unusable
Works at best 20% of the time. Absolutely terrible app.
This app is not good at all
It barely works and is very laggy
Horrible
This app started working great and after awhile stops working and doesn’t let you watch movies and all these virus ads pop up! Not recommended!
Inteusive ads every 10 clicks
Worst intrusive ads in the middle of looking for videos. Every 2 minutes
Ad doom
When I started using the app it opened a full screen ad that locked me in an endless loop.
Terrible
Had it for about six years now literally have to stop using it every 2 to 3 months now the app literally does not work at all. I even paid to remove and block ads and I still can’t watch anything. Everything just loaded waste of money.
Ads even w paid premium
Paid for premium and am still being spammed with ads. Devs need to fix this!
I wish i could leave less stars
Most useless app ive ever seen, it might as well not even exist what is wrong with you people
doesn’t work
it doesn’t work
Worked great for years
No longer works
Ads
The ads are getting excessive.
Ads ruined this app even with paid version
The ads are horrible paid for the premium years ago and some how last update ruined it
Ads!!
The dang ads are not interrupting the video casting!! It crashes every 10mins of video.
Outside of that there’s just so many ads in general now. Can’t click anywhere without ads ads ads ads!
Outside of that there’s just so many ads in general now. Can’t click anywhere without ads ads ads ads!
90% doesnt work
Works occasionally, but usually just plays all the ads on your tv, then plays the actual content on your phone
Didn’t work for me
Wasn’t casting to my android tv
Terrible
When i started using it, it was perfect no buffering no troubles casting it. But after a year or two of using it, it has began to do all of those things. If i could rate it lower i would!
Hd
I don’t know what’s with this app but it randomly stopped letting me watch videos in HD
ads
was once my fav app. too many ad popups
Can’t close ads
There are ads that are impossible to close out of. That is really frustrating.
Always fails to sync video
Always fails to sync video but loves playing adds. I swear this thing only works about 10% of the time.
Videos don’t work
App used to be great, now every single time without fail i que a movie, show, or video it’ll play fine for 5 seconds than infinitely load. Absolutely garbage app.
Too many ads
Even if I don’t wanna pay for no ads it shouldn’t be to the point where I can’t touch the screen!! It’s so bad
Used to be good now it’s sucks and useless
Ruined casting app
Or what it used to be
This app was good but after a while it became just horrible never connects always says internet issues or something. I have the strongest WiFi that is out there and live alone so it’s only me using it and yet it’s always something with this app everything else runs fine except this. Always a buffer or the app just won’t open
WOAHH Volume at 100 - WHY?!?
Why the HELL does this app have volume on my Samsung TV cranked to 100 EVERY DAMN TIME??!
if I use another app then switch back to it, it does it AGAIN.
I’m not in the habit of being ready for an app to do something this STUPID so the entire house/street gets woken up.
Great job on making an app to blow out your speakers, but stop
marketing it as a video casting app.
if I use another app then switch back to it, it does it AGAIN.
I’m not in the habit of being ready for an app to do something this STUPID so the entire house/street gets woken up.
Great job on making an app to blow out your speakers, but stop
marketing it as a video casting app.
no
Do not buy it shows inappropriate THING DO NOY BUY!!!!!
bs
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Unusable after update
This used to be a good app with a few bugs (that never got addressed) but the latest update 23 Dec 2025 makes the app completely useless. The video control screen is just completely blank and then crashes. I spent a lot of time building bookmarks & playlists that are now worthless. It’s absolute buffoonery to release a buggy update right before the holidays.
Update
The latest update ruined this app. Goes to a black screen.
Fix ASAP
Used to love this app, recently ads have been integrated... making the app useless
Volume
When casting to the TV if you press volume up button once it instantly turns the TV to 100 Volume!!!! WTH!!!!!
Doesn’t work!
Never connected my phone to the chromecast
App is currently unusable.
App went from constantly buffering to not detecting any videos. WiFi is fine. Please fix so I could continue using your app.
Would be nice if it worked consistently
I love the concept but I have issues with streaming more than it works. It’s always buffering every 10 minutes or the title/progress bar doesn’t disappear.
Ads
Too many ads
Buffering
My movies and shows are starting to buffer and skip scenes all of a sudden. This used to be my favorite streaming app but now it’s not worth the headache of figuring out. Please fix
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Sentiment summary
96%
Positive (4-5★)
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Neutral (3★)
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Negative (1-2★)