The Roku App (Official)

Roku Inc.

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About this app

Get to know the must-have streaming sidekick!


Use the free Roku® mobile app to:
• Control your Roku devices with a convenient remote
• Use your voice or keyboard to quickly search for entertainment
• Enjoy private listening with headphones
• Stream free movies, live TV, and more on the go with The Roku Channel
• Cast media files from your phone, like videos and photos, to your TV
• Add and launch channels on your Roku devices
• Enter text on your Roku device more easily with your mobile keyboard


You must connect your phone or tablet to the same wireless network as your Roku device to use certain features of the mobile app. Some features require a compatible Roku device and may require logging into your Roku account.


Feature availability:
• Voice search is available in English in the US, UK, and Canada. It’s also available in Spanish in Mexico and the US.
• The Roku Channel can be viewed in the mobile app in the US only.
• Some channels require payment, can change, and vary by country.

For more information, go to http://support.roku.com
Privacy Policy: go.roku.com/privacypolicy
CA Privacy Notice: https://docs.roku.com/published/userprivacypolicy/en/us#userprivacypolicy-en_us-CCPA

Ratings and reviews

Love it! The app does what I want, and gives me the freedom to watch what I like, away from my TV. It's intuitive and user friendly! There's 2 reasons it's not 5 stars: 1) the app's tendency to hijack my TV's audio when I'm watching on mobile in another room 2) the need to back-out/restart a show, sometimes episodes later, if app hangs due to connectivity issues.

Update: having issues w/ app. No matter what I type in search bar, says nothing available. Even just the letter B: nothing. That's impossible. VERY frustrating. Can't search anything as of today • close to perfect for me. The only things I'd like to adjust would be to the app's remote. It'd be great to separate the buttons or *set them up in a way that makes it possible to use them w/o having to look all the time* like the real remote allows (the directional and round OK button)

Heaven help you if you let your phone go to sleep with the app open, or if you use another app for too long (generally more than a minute). Every time you do, the app WILL freeze without fail, fruitlessly searching for either Internet or the last connected device. It will NEVER find either, so you'll have to close and reopen the app every time.

What's new

- Fixed an intermittent error trying to open some certain channels.
- Fixed an intermittent error trying to update the Save List with some certain content.
- Other minor bug fixes and performance improvements.