STV Player: TV you'll love

STV Group plc

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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 over 6000'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 our broadcast area (Central and 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, NFL or Football - we got it covered.
• Catch up on most shows for up to 30 days.

The Small Stuff
For watching 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 the other live streams, many on-demand shows and our archive programmes & box sets.
For anything else, please check out the ITVx.

Ratings and reviews

Overall, the app works well. The reason for the low score is the inability to sync between devices. If I start watching something on our smart TV app, then try to finish the episode on my phone's app my progress is completely lost, and the episode or even the series does not show on my continue watching. Then, whilst trying to find where I got to anytime I move the progress bar I have to watch ads, even if it is not an ad break in the show.

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.

I'm still over the moon that I get to watch Brookside from the beginning. But it is still saying 255 episodes under its name. Even though you are adding more episodes, this will confuse people thinking that's how many shows there are available to watch unless you click on the show