7 Free Streaming Apps That Are Actually Worth Downloading!

Free streaming services are becoming more popular than ever! You can watch some live TV, plus thousands of shows and movies -- without spending a single penny. In today's video, I break down the best free streaming apps. Which service is your favorite? Leave a comment and be specific about why you like that particular service over the other free options!

CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro to Best Free Streaming Channels
0:16 Pluto TV
2:06 Freevee
3:28 The Roku Channel
4:46 Peacock (No longer free to new subscribers)
6:02 Tubi
6:46 PBS
7:38 YouTube
8:49 Viewer Picks
9:01 Almost Free Option!

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[MichaelSaves]

Thanks for watching! What are your favorite free streaming apps and WHY do you prefer them?

[sockhopsinger]

Great video as always. Now, let's try and stump the channel creator. :) Which streaming service(s) offer the most content with audio description? Thanks in advance.

[calcham]

One problem with Peacock: It does get frustrating because sometimes you pick out what you think is a free show, only to find out that episode 2, or season 3, are paid premium channels, as the author mentioned. I just want to point out that it's not always so clear because I've been caught in the previous scenario. And I'm the type that, if I knew the binge channel show would eventually become paid (ie A.P. Bio had 3 seasons free, 4th season premium), I probably wouldn't have started watching in the first place.

[devaallen]

I love the PBS app! Have a great day. Thank you for the video.

[SilverSergeant]

I recently bought a Roku.... I really, really like Pluto

[magic_fruit_bat]

I like how Pluto tv has unsolved mysteries in both English and Spanish too.

[buffylife]

Can you please do a video on Philo adding the Weigel channels (START and Decades)?

[Red-]

It’s all free. I say download all of them and just toggle around. I have all these free services and it’s surprising how much content you can access.

[jamiemorgan]

I don't really have a favorite because I use all of them and have them all downloaded. But I would say I use Tubi and probably Pluto TV the most.

[ReadyRumble]

For me some honorable mentions would be Spotify, Twitch (Twitch not on Roku), Vudu (Vudu has a big free section) and CW.

[Sky]

We use the mute button when watching these networks. They tend to BLAST AT FULL VOLUME the commercials so we just mute it all till they come back from break

[marios.sanchez]

Currently I get Pluto TV and Tubi and yes they have ads but the ones you pay for including cable have ads too! Pluto has massive content, a great line-up and easy selection format. Tubi is really good for movies and have a much larger selection of movies. Love them both😁

[RockysFunAndHelpWorld]

Watchlists on streaming services make them useful than writing down notes with the names of the shows you want to watch

[Bless-mz]

I subscribe to YouTube premium, but I did that so I could see YouTube videos uninterrupted (with /out ) commercials- can I also—- watch YouTube tv uninterrupted with premium YouTube?
I cut the cord and added sling for tv channels-
So I have Netflix, YouTube, sling—- one older tv has Roku.

[jimtrue]

I have all these free apps, and I do watch them occasionally. However, after 25 plus years of being able to skip ads (first with VCRs and later with DVRs), even short, occasional ads irritate me.

One thing you mentioned is short 10 minute episodes of some shows. With streaming videos, where there is no time slot to fill, there is no reason why all episodes have to be the same length. Let content dictate length. No more do writers have to pad stories to get a 45 minute episode if the story can be told in just 35 minutes. Or maybe some episodes deserve a longer length. With streaming, it doesn't matter.

[michaelwyckoff]

I have these apps and I agree 💯 they are good.

[gwine]

What drives me crazy about apps like Tubi is not the commercials, it's that you keep getting the same commercials over and over.

[acratone]

Adds on Youtube movies: I have watched a few Youtube movies. There were no adds at all. These were movies hosted by Youtube itself, not private uploaders. I was using Firefox browser with 3 of the popular add blocker browser extensions installed. I believe the add blockers on the Edge blocker will probably work too. Not surprisingly the add blockers on Google Chrome blocker did not seem to work nearly as well.
Example very recently: Its a Mad Mad Mad World. 3 hour movie, not one single add.

[akfreed]

Pluto TV is really cool BUT I was watching Saving Private Ryan for free and there were commercials every 3 or 4 minutes apart .

[jamiemorgan]

8:22 For me Redbox free content had the most ads for me, it was so obnoxious and so frequent that it made me uninstall the app.