“Horrible ads — I’m being forced to watch political ads for Los Angeles when I live two thousand miles away. And non stop commercials asking for money. Besides the horrible ads repeatedly playing there’s not many good titles and way too…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 560 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.6 ★137,803 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
134 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Plex is the free social and discovery app for movie and TV lovers. Discover your next watch with Plex. Find shows and movies to watch, see what's trending, get ratings and movie reviews from friends you trust, and stream free on-demand movies, shows, and live TV. Connect all your streaming services (including Netflix, Max, Paramount+, Prime Video, and more) to Plex to browse them all from one place. If you can stream it, we can find it. Watch over 50,000 free movies and shows across every genre from A24, Paramount, AMC, Magnolia, Relativity, Lionsgate, and more. Your next binge is waiting. Stream 600+ free live TV channels featuring live sports, news, kids’ shows, and more. Save your favorite channels for later or start watching now. Find movies and shows from anywhere, add them to your Plex watchlist, and keep everything you want to watch in one place.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 2026.19.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2026.19.0, updated 2026-09-28.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 2.99 to USD 979.00 — a 327x spread across 8 items
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 16 distinct reviewers (2.9% of 560 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“WAAAY too many ads for LIFETIME SUBSCRIBER! — UPDATE: THIS IS STILL HAPPENING ‼️ Lifetime Subscribers should NOT be seeing all of these darn ads! 😡 | I paid for a lifetime Plex Pro subscription, yet when I watch shows on Plex there are…”
“Great but the ads are awful — I use it mainly to watch stuff from my computer when I’m on the road. Sometimes it doesn’t see the movie on my computer but they are sometimes available free with ads. But there are 2.5 minutes of ads every…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2026.19.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown6
Lowest$2.99
Highest$979.00
Monthly Plex Pass$6.99
Monthly Remote Watch Pass$2.99
Yearly Plex Pass$69.99
Yearly Remote Watch Pass$29.99
Lifetime Plex Pass$979.00
Show 1 more purchase
iOS App Activation (enable streaming playback on iOS devices)$4.99