RTÉ Player

RTÉ

Contains ads

About this app

RTÉ Player is the home of must-see TV in Ireland, live and on-demand. Watch 1000s of your favourite RTÉ shows. Full series of gripping drama from home and abroad, soaps, live sporting action and entertainment shows everyone’s talking about.

Browse and switch between RTÉ channels - RTÉ One, RTÉ2, RTÉ News and RTÉ Kids on the go.

Entertain little ones with RTÉ Player Kids. A world of fun, learning and entertainment with the best RTÉjr programmes live and on-demand.


KEY FEATURES
-Discover the most-talked about shows 
-Access shows with in-vision Irish Sign Language (ISL) and Audio Description (AD)
-Sign in to RTÉ Player to continue watching shows and pick up where you left off on any device.
-Sign in and get recommendations tailored to you, making picking what to watch easier than ever.
-Watch later. ‘Favourite’ a programme to create a watchlist to return to, so you don’t miss RTÉ’s most talked about shows.
-Share your favourites with friends through social sharing.

Ratings and reviews

Works for a while then suddenly crashes for no reason and has WAY too many ads, also, casting to a TV on this app is really poor, the UI can be seen, audio comes through the TV but the visuals don't display, it essentially turns everything into a podcast. As well as this, live TV doesn't work on this app when it is downloaded onto a smart TV. The app mostly works for watching on a phone or laptop but is in general quite poor.

Frustrating app to use. Currently watching a series and it keeps trying to play episodes a whole season ahead. If I have a break halfway through an episode it jumps to the end and skips to the next season when I try and continue watching. Can't rotate the screen the other way by tilting either. I understand the ads as it's a free service so no complaints about that.

2024. Still the same rubbish. Streams won't play. Google TV version doesn't have Live TV feature. 2017. Laggy, poor quality streams. I pay my TV license, fix the app RTE. 2020 still crashes regularly during programmes but weirdly not during Ads. So you get to watch loads of adverts. Terrible app