C-SPAN Now

Name: C-SPAN Now
Rating: 3.9 (627 reviews)
Author: C-SPAN

by C-SPAN

iPhone

Active Last checked 31 Jul 2026

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What it is: Store information collected; independent summary not yet available.
At a glance: Free to download

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Official categories

News

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News & magazines

Key functions

Function	Availability	Access	Scope	Evidence
Free app	Yes	Free	—	Store published

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Pricing & paywalls

App Store

Free

Last verified 31 Jul 2026

Ratings & reviews

App Store

3.9 627 ratings · App Store

3/5Not what I’m looking for
Rather than a central place for all your podcasts and stuff, it would be way better to focus on your video content. I really want to see other clips that include the same speaker, or the same topic. Search and tagging could get it there.. but I sense this was designed with the intent to get all the features in the same app, which isn’t very useful. I’ll use a podcast app for the podcasts.. Update: Thanks for the response! As a mobile dev, I would say though that you’ve got a bit of a “straddling canoes” problem then.. The app is trying to be a home for a smattering of features rather than having a focused purpose. Btw, social media apps can’t do what you could do with an focused on cataloguing cspan content, social media is only really good for recent content, which seems to be also what this app is doing. Anyways, I would still love an app that was trying to have a full archive like your website does, and I would love it even more if there was an audio only option, so I can listen to speeches while I drive. Thanks!

seth with cat · 31 Jul 2026
5/5Unfiltered news in your pocket - C-SPAN Now
Way to go, C-SPAN! Finally an app to watch political events without TV talking heads or commercial interruptions. I love how C-SPAN just lets you see the whole thing and this puts it all on my phone to watch. Quick take: it's easy to find live coverage of events, and the Featured Clips are timely and a great way to catch-up on what's newsy each day. Best of all you get free, live access to the big political events. As with other TV nets' apps you have to sign-in to watch the actual 3 C-SPAN TV channels (I guess that's fair because that's how C-SPAN is funded). All in all I'm giving this top rating for its simplicity and for giving me what I most want to watch from C-SPAN.

SuMaKiVa · 31 Jul 2026
4/5Not working on iPod Touch?
I love the new app. I have an iPhone 6S Plus. That’s a pretty old device, though it runs the latest version of iOS. The app runs just fine on this device. However, I also have an iPod Touch, 7th gen. This is a much newer device, released in 2019. I’ve had mine since 2020. It also runs the latest version of iOS. Oddly enough, video clips from the “Watch” page don’t play on the iPod Touch. Live stuff will play. But if I tap on a video from “Featured Clips” or “Washington Journal” or “Q&A”, the page loads up, with a blank space where the video player is supposed to be. If I tap on that blank space, I can see the video player, with the start and end time and the play button. I can tap the play button, but the video never starts playing. I hope you can test it on an iPod Touch and figure out the problem. The iPod touch is my goto device for consuming media around the house.

vgtredgyhgf · 31 Jul 2026
5/5Great App! Very functional and smooth
Sometimes when networks release apps they are buggy, video streams do not load well or the app crashes. The C-SPAN app is just incredibly functional, smooth and easy to use. I love the live events being right in the home page, so when I want to see a vote in the House, it is right there and plays incredibly well. I like C-SPAN (even though many callers are incredibly misinformed) it provides a great public service to the country and this app helps make that service a lot easier to access.

mazzaball94 · 31 Jul 2026
3/5Great app, with a significant bug or flaw
Love the app, but one issue I have is that it doesn’t use the media controls that integrate apps like this into the rest of the iPhone, making it a little awkward to use. It doesn’t appear in Now Playing in Control Center, the notification screen, or on the Lock Screen. I thought it was just a problem with my iPhone, till I installed the app on my iPad, and have the same issue there. Would live to see this fixed.

New SMB Fan · 31 Jul 2026

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Accessibility

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Versions

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1.10.0
This release brings you directly to a specific video from a push notification (if you don't already get push notifications, sign up today!). Plus, it's now easier for you to use C-SPAN Now to stay on top of the midterm elections. The new Campaign 2022 section features key speeches, debates and campaign event coverage.
1.11.0
- improved accessibility features including buttons labeled for use with VoiceOver - additional podcast features
1.11.1
Bug fixes and Improvements
1.11.2
Bug fixes & Improvements
1.11.3
Bug Fixes
1.11.4
Bug Fixes and Improvements
1.11.5
Bug fixes & Improvements
1.11.6
Bug fixes and Improvements
1.11.7
Bugs and Improvements
1.11.8
Bugs & Improvements
1.11.9
Minor improvements & Bug fixes
1.12.0
Minor improvements & Bug fixes
1.12.1
Minor bug fixes and Enhancements
1.12.3
Minor bug fixes
1.12.4
Minor bug fixes
1.12.5
Minor bug fixes
1.12.6
Minor UI improvements and bug fixes
1.12.7
Minor bug fixes
1.12.8
Minor bug fixes
1.12.9
- Minor bug fixes.
1.13.0
- Minor bug fixes.
1.13.1
- Youtube TV integration - Minor bug fixes
1.13.2
- Minor bug fixes
1.13.3 · 5 May 2026
Minor fixes
1.9.0
Minor adjustments and improvements

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Alternatives

Truth+ — Same category + similar ratings
ProPublica — Same category + similar ratings

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