X3watch App Reviews

Freezes often. Closes out of the blue while using. Don’t ever leave up an important page...odds are you’ll reopen to find the homepage instead. These people are taking lots of money from customers and lining their pockets instead of making a half decent and useable browser.

Terrrrrrrrrrrabel no servise whatsoever anywhere

This app needs a serious update in functionality!

Although the web version for mac worked well, the iPhone version has been nothing but bad times. Support was terrible. Most of the instructions are not up to date and no way to contact support via phone. Very disappointed as this is a truly needed app.

ALWAYS crashes. It's completely unusable for me. This is the worst app ever.

It is blocking content for chrome and safari on my iPhone. Private browser disabled on Safari. Content blocked on Chrome. Doesn't allow blocked content on other third party browsing apps. It actually blocks its own website in app browser. App browser is worthless. Content not served in app browser will not serve on weekly report. However, if content is block, not super necessary. Lastly you want real accountability, set your spouse as partner email. Spouse will know if you remove app, and you will always have it top of mind.

I should have read the reviews!! I paid the entire annual amount up front. After all-- these people are honest. Right---- WRONG!! It never worked the first time I tried it. Signal strength was so weak it would not function. I contacted this company after a few days and got the standard statement of "Sorry. No refund. But we are striving to give better service". These people are reading these reviews and know full well their service is shoddy and doesn't work yet they continue to steal people's money under the guise of morality and decency. WHAT HYPOCRISY!! It wouldn't surprise me at all if these people in fact were the pornographers themselves cashing in on people's attempts to protect themselves against their own product!!! If I buy a lawn mower and it doesn't start or dispenses ice when I pull the cord, it either is not a real lawn mower and (or) does not function in the capacity for which it was advertised. I will be contacting the Better Business Bureau and will be buying a different porn blocking program with a higher rating than this pitiful 1 1/2 or 2. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT.

This app keeps crashing! Wth!

The old (purple) app had its quirks but at least I could use it. The new updated version won't even open 80% of the time or it crashes as soon as it does open. I hate to pay for something I can't even use. If this isn't resolved anytime soon I'm going to cancel my subscription.

You can't view videos in landscape, you can pinch to zoom in/out, search and URL bars do not have an "x" to quickly erase and re-type. I really think that you guys could work on the functionality of this app. However, the blocking and accountability works great. We just shouldn't have to let go of other browsing features to have that.

I downloaded the update and it work for about a day. Now it won't load the home page or let me search anything. I reinstalled the app and it still didn't work.

I had these guys for a year I paid for it and I never used it. The app has to have safari disabled man that kills any iOS device! Safari is a serious functioning part to any iOS device! It's like cutting its legs off! I went to use the app today on my iPad Air 2 with iOS 10 and it just closes after 5 seconds of being open. This app has not had an update in a very long time! This is a great ministry but they had terrible software for iOS! Please make this better! For the sake of all who are trying to stay pure!

App was not functional, then it got better and now this update made it unusable. It literally won't load a web page. Crashes or freezes if I try to do anything at all - even type an address. Really tired of dealing with it. About to switch to another app.

The browser does not work. Do not use this app. I asked them for my money back and never got a response. I got a response when I removed asking for my money back. I wonder what they're about...

Terrible app... When I let my phone die(like IPhones need to do here and there) I always have a 2-3 day time of not being able to use this app. I have emailed and been in contact with developed multiple times and each time saying "There should be an update soon!" That was 6-7 months ago... Will be switching soon.

Horrible browsing experience. It's like they had a high school kid design and code this app. Save your money. Find something else.

Terrible app... and not the best support.

I love the app and the concept, but as a paying customer it's hard to continue to support you when the app crashes every time I open it or try to use it. The older version had its cons, but it worked and I was content with that. Please fix this so that I can continue to use this app.

I was excited to try out this new app on my phone. I had the previous browser which was decent. However, I downloaded this just yesterday and am already completely fed up with it. It is incredibly inconvenient. I appreciate the goal of this ministry and support the vision entirely, seeing as countless men and women are in bondage in this area. Please seek to fix these issues.

This app is great on my computer but crashes each time I search something. The fact that you have to disable safari makes it impossible to open any links in emails. Would not recommend for anything other than a computer.

X3 is a wonderful product and vitally important tool for Christian Internet accountability. The desktop program works beautifully, but this app is pretty weak. The accountability is worth having it to me, but as a pastor that would love to use this product for my church, it needs to be better developed.

The app crashes with almost every attempt to search or open a URL. A waste of a subscription when it only monitors usage through the app's browser.

I love the mission of this ministry. I hate their app. X3 watch browser is beyond "bad." Terms such as "sub-par", "horrible" and "pathetic" come to mind when I think of the X3 browser for my iPhone. Is this really the best you guys could do? It doesn't interact with any other app, it's horrific when trying to browse a website. It's incompatible with nearly every website and the overall quality is just a joke. Come on guys, get with the program. Either do a browser right or stop wasting my time and money. Will not be renewing my subscription.

For an idea and an intent, this app has a great foundation. However, the execution is absolutely abysmal. DO NOT BUY THE YEAR-LONG SUBSCRIPTION TO START. The trial period of a month would have been worth the 7 bucks to find out I hated it. Instead I paid for the full year to really make sure I was committed to overcoming my porn problem but here I am a month later, 70 dollars poorer, and deleting the app and my subscription with no chance of a refund "to be fair to all users." What a load of crap. If you're confident in your product, you offer refunds for it - especially if it's just tech. I feel scammed by this app that I was hoping to use as a tool to help me in a difficult time in my life. The problems: Functionality of my iPhone diminished by probably 50%. Hyperlinks in emails and text messages don't work because safari is disabled. You have to copy the link and paste it in their garbage browser. The app crashes often. Over half of the pages I click on are blocked and send as a report to my accountability partners. I thought I would like that aspect of this app, but 100% of the reports that were sent had nothing to do with porn. I was always texting people saying that I googled something innocent and the results page was blocked and flagged. That's right. When I just searched something as simple as quotes or scores to ballgames, the app blocked them. So I was texting my friends telling them about false alarms very, very often. Doesn't send out 80% of flagged reports. Most of the time I texted my accountability partners, they hadn't even received (and didn't receive) any notification that a flag had been triggered. So it wouldn't let me view the innocent pages but it still wouldn't hold my accountable to my accountability partners. THIS APP DOESN'T ALLOW ANY SAVING OF PICTURES. No copying or downloading any of the funny pictures that I love sharing with my friends and family. The app doesn't work in landscape mode (doesn't switch over) and doesn't let you zoom in or enlarge photos on google searches. Overall, I am extremely frustrated by this app and I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. If they got their act together and made it as easy to use as Safari (I know it's a tall order but that seems like it should be a benchmark in 2017) it would be worth the money. But that's 100% not the case. I am very frustrated that I'm out 70 dollars for my subscription and I feel very scammed and that I was taken advantage of by their inability to give me a refund for their terrible service and tech. I would give it zero stars if I was able. STAY AWAY FROM THIS APP. P.S. I'm assuming that because you're here, you are struggling with pornography. I will say that a month after telling my fiancé about my problem, God has worked in my life in UNBELIEVABLE ways. Sharing this secret with the absolute last person I wanted to share it with has been the most freeing experience I've ever had and I'm so much more confident in our upcoming marriage because of the grace of God and the grace of my fiancé. Don't keep these things in the dark, let someone know so God can do his thing. I still feel tempted but not nearly as often and not even close to as severely as it once was. Aside from hating this app, I don't feel like I need it anymore and I'm so grateful for that. God bless! Good luck on your struggles and know that you're never alone. Don't limit God.

I downloaded the X3 Watch app to my iPad two weeks ago, on Sun Jan 15. It did not work!! As soon as I would type in anything into the search window, the whole app would shut down immediately. I wrote an email to customer service, and they said that "any day" (their words), an update that had been submitted to Apple should be approved and that would fix everything. To me, "any day" means within a day or two. It is now TEN DAYS since the x3 watch people said my app should be working and it still IS NOT. I just wrote them an email requesting a full refund. The thing that gets me is, I keep seeing X3 Watch promoted by them on Facebook. How dare they promote and advertise something they KNOW does not work????

I can't believe these people charge money for this. The iPhone app is crap and always crashes when I try and search for anything. I tried reaching out to request a refund since I'm not even getting what I'm paying for, but no luck. Don't waste your money, these people are crooks.

App hasn't worked for months. Unbelievable that a Christian company is stealing people's money and not providing a reasonable service. Can anyone recommend another alternative to this? It has terrible design and the "WHAT IS X3?" landing page is really inconsiderate for people who want to be discrete about not using Safari. Stop trying to reinvent the wheel and borrow the UI/UX from other web browsers. I keep waiting for improvements but they don't seem to be coming. Makes me wonder where my monthly payments are going. It's a bummer that the only company providing a useful accountability software for people are doing such a terrible job. Obviously this is a serious issue and it would be nice if x3 took their user experience seriously. Also, the filter catches a lot of random api pings that are not user generated so it ends up just spamming your accountability partners with a bunch of useless alerts. Hopefully that doesn't lead people to ignore the emails but it probably does and that problem needs to be addressed. I just wish someone was out there doing this better.

I've been waiting for an update for a while. This update has fixed the crashing issue when I tried to go to new sites. It also added a homepage feature so that I'm not stuck with their homepage. Makes it a little easier to use in front of friends, at work or on my kids devices.

I appreciate all the XXXchurch team has done but simply put, this app is horrible. PLEASE UPDATE SOON!!

I just purchases the X3 program and i have been very happy with the motivation it provides to stay on the right track. PC application works great. Runs in the background and doesn't give me any problems like the K9 web protection application did. iOS app? Very unfunctional and poorly built. I N.E.V.E.R. write reviews so this should speak a lot. Please fix the app. Last time it was updated was half a year ago. Probably doesn't support iOS 10. It downloads fine and allows me to login to my account, but that is where the buck stops. Attempting to go to any webpage, even a google search engine causes the application to crash. Uninstalled and reinstalled several times - still no luck. Please get your game together and fix this app. I love what you are doing, but most people these days use their phones the majority of the time. This is an area where you need to focus. Maybe work to develop an app which functions just like safari or runs as an add on/in the background. That way we don't have to loose all our safari bookmarks and favorites.

Do not get this or ever accountable they simply take your money and then give you a product that does not work and then tell you there are no refunds. Absolutely horrendous.

App used to work great, but the newest version constantly crashes to where I cannot access anything online on my iPhone or iPad. Very frustrating as I have been unable to get any sort of response from the maker of the app. Last year I paid for a 3 year subscription, and now it doesn't even work! I would not recommend this app to anyone.

Browser worked marginally well back in 2016 but now it won't load the home page is no longer functional.

Literally can't do anything in this app. Surprised is hasn't crashed yet while typing this revi

It would be smarter just to ditch the smart phone than try to use this app. It would certainly be cheaper. The 100+ 1-star reviews are completely earned, and I have not yet read a review that was exaggerated or inaccurate. I won't restate their problems. If you are a professional looking to keep yourself free from pornography on your smart phone, find a different way to do it. This app limits your ability to use many of a smartphone's features which will not aid you in your vocation. Not to mention, I'm sure you will not make a great impression on any of your colleagues when you open your browser to show them a site and you have to have a discussion about using a pornblocker at work. Your boss isn't going to be fond of that. X3 Watch sent me a form email when I contacted their support saying a new version had already been sent to Apple. No word on when that update will come other than "soon." Unless this promised update functions as a real browser, I will not be renewing with them at all.

Frustrating because of how much they push out via social media. The iOS app crashes everytime I use it. It's not reliable

App no longer crashes, but now doesn't do anything. Basically worthless. Searches and pages will not load. Seems to get stuck in a loop.

This app is terrible. It used to work great when I had it back in 2012, before Macafe bought them. Started using it again recently and this is now a very poorly maintained browser. Weird glitches screwing up searches and previous pages, no zoom or landscape. There are better apps to actually help you with protection from porn but are still good browsers. Don't fall for their subscription. NOT Worth it.

1. Please allow for full screen videos and photos when we rotate the screen. This is standard for all phones and browsers. 2. Put an X on the far right of the URL bar so we can quick delete whatever is in there and type in the new website. 3. Allow for pinch zoom in and out on literally any website please. This is frustrating because some websites are not optimized for mobile and we can't zoom out to see all content on the site. This app has been around for a while and is WAY behind. I will continue using it because I believe in the cause let's be real, I need it. These 3 improvements will result in a 5 STAR rating from me guaranteed. Every other feature works very well.

I never write reviews but after emailing customer support several time, being told they are working on a fix " which only affects a small group " nothing has changed in 6 months. Shame on you and this ministry. You should automatically refund our money as the iPhone version doesn't work at all.

Worst app I've ever downloaded. Hasn't functioned despite updates. Crashes instantly or can't load any webpages and freezes. Really upsetting considering the cost. It really is a scam.

Haven't been able to open a single website without the app crashing. Which makes it pretty much worthless.

I can't even get past the first search without it crashing and exiting the app. Plus what is the point of having the ability to turn off Blocking. The point of the app is to monitor activity, why give someone the option to turn it off!!

After reading all these reviews please don't go and get it anyways... it's the worst on every level. Covenanteyes has been the better bet.

Bookmarks don't work. App constantly crashes. Seems to be no progress in fixing these bugs.

I can't even do anything with the app without paying for the subscription. The "free" version isn't working at all. When I did have the free version it basically made my phone not work the way it is designed to work. Safari is built into the phone for a reason. This app makes all of your links and apps not work the way they were designed. I will be trying another app for sure.

The app doesn't crash on me anymore when trying to go to a web page, but now it won't load anything. Whether trying to use a URL or the search bar, it does nothing and the URL immediately changes back to the home page that won't load. I try going to setting and it says I don't have internet connection, neither wifi nor data work. I'm keeping the app because it's still betting than being tempted by a different web browser but one day I would appreciate it if this one worked.

Every time I try to get on this app to search something on the web it kicks me off and I have to start over. I'm a nursing student so if I need my browser I need it for meds or general question about what something is or means. This app is supposed to help people overcome porn and get past the temptation by filtering our searches. I paid for a yearly subscription and shouldn't have to worry about the app crashing. Please fix, I don't want to go back to an unfiltered internet browser. I want God to fix my addiction. It would be appreciated by me and everyone who uses it if this problem is resolved.

The browsing app does not work. It is always stuck on the fireproof website. Search does nothing and I cannot enter in a URL.