STV Player: TV you'll love

STV Central Limited

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About this app

We have a huge range of hit shows and dramas - not shown on the main channel but available here - All for FREE and for everyone in the UK.

What can you do with the STV Player?
• Search and browse 1000's of hours of Box Sets and Movies from UK favourites to International hits.
• Catch up with old favourites from the archives - including Taggart, High Road and Brookside.
• Watch on your tablet, smartphone and the big screen (via Chromecast or Google TV)

If you live in Central or North Scotland, you can also:
• Live stream and restart the STV and STV+1 channels.
• Watch Live STV Sports - Whether it's Horse Racing, Rugby or Football - we've got it covered.
• Catch up on most shows for up to 30 days.

Choose to subscribe to go ad-free or to access even more live sports with Premier Sports.

The Small Stuff
• To watch the STV live stream and some of our other programmes, you’ll need to be resident in our broadcast region.
• If you are elsewhere in the UK, you’ll still be able to watch a huge range of box sets, movies, documentaries and soaps for FREE.
• Watching ad-free or Premier Sports content will require a paid subscription.

Ratings and reviews

Mainly a good app and the addition of Premier Sports is great to see. My main gripe is that watchlists and progress are not synced between devices. If I add a programme to my watchlist on my phone, it doesn't appear as so on my TV. If I'm watching a series on my TV, the episodes I've watched aren't marked as such on my phone. Be great if this could be fixed as many of us use multiple devices to view content these days.

God this app is unbearable, you're better to use amazon prime or just watch tv... just to catch up on a movie I missed, I had to watch 5 adverts at the start, then there was 3 breaks with 7 adverts in-between! Even youtube doesn't do that and at least youtube ads are short and skippable, I think I lost minutes of my life watching those long boring ads, I get that every free app needs it's ads, but you definitely do not need this many in one sitting. Cut down the amount of ads, you're milking it.

This app is unusable. The picture is jerky and freezes every few seconds although the sound plays fine. The TV app is even worse than the phone app, it just buffers constantly. My internet connection is fast and all my other TV apps are fine, so it's definitely an STV specific issue.