“Too much ads — There are way too many ads for me to watch and all of them are the same ones over and over again with just a plain black screen. I have to watch five add just to watch my show! I don’t mind ads but that’s just too much!”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 557 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.8 ★494,702 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
66 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Watch Your Favorite Asian Dramas, Movies, and TV Shows Anytime, Anywhere with Viki!
Dive into a world of award-winning K-dramas, C-dramas, Asian movies, TV series, and K-pop performances with Viki. Whether you're a fan of Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese, or Thai shows and movies, we’ve got something for everyone. Watch for free or upgrade to Viki Pass for ad-free streaming in HD.
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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 26.19.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 26.20.0, updated 2026-10-05.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 26.19.0, not the version now listed on the store.
Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:
Version 26.20.0 · 2026-10-05
Say hello to everything new on Viki! Check out the latest Asian TV shows and movies we've added, as well as updates and improvements to your viewing experience.
What we measured
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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.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
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: Raised by 27 distinct reviewers — 4.8% of the 557 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Ads — There are a bit too much ads”
“Pretty good — Very nice movies and more opportunities than Netflix the problem is just too many adds and it starts glitching sometimes like not loading the movies”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 26.20.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown8
Lowest$7.99
Highest$119.99
Viki Pass Plus(Americas only)$11.99
Viki Pass Standard$7.99
Viki Pass Plus$11.99
Viki Pass$7.99
Viki Pass Plus(Americas only)$119.99
Show 3 more purchases
Viki Pass Standard$79.99
Viki Pass Plus (Americas only)$11.99
Viki Pass Plus$119.99