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HBO Max Review: The Highest Store Rating Here

$10.99 With Ads, $22.99 at the Top

Unlike Netflix and Disney+, this app sells subscriptions inside itself: Basic With Ads at $10.99 a month or $109.99 a year, Standard at $18.49 or $184.99, and Premium at $22.99 or $229.99. The annual plans save roughly two months. Premium adds the higher resolution and more simultaneous streams. Buying in-app is convenient and usually the same price as the website, which is not the case with every service — worth checking before subscribing anywhere else. Prices are US listings. There is also no separate mobile-only tier, so the price is the same whether you watch on a phone or a television.

Brand Hubs From Studio Ghibli to Sesame Street

The catalogue is organised into hubs that behave like separate services: HBO for the drama, Max Originals, DC, Cartoon Network, adult swim, TCM for classic film, TLC for reality, Studio Ghibli for the animation and Sesame Workshop for the youngest audience. That range means one subscription genuinely covers a household with different tastes. Live sport sits alongside, with baseball fixtures listed by start time and pre- and post-game coverage, which is unusual for a service known for drama. Downloads work across all of it, which matters more here than elsewhere because the drama catalogue rewards binge viewing offline.

A 4.9 Rating, and Six Data Categories

The App Store average of 4.9 across 5.6 million ratings is the highest of any app reviewed here, and Google Play agrees at 4.8 from 5.73 million reviews — the rare case where both stores are enthusiastic. The costs are ordinary for streaming: the Play listing carries a Contains ads badge for the cheaper tier, and six collected data categories with location, personal information and device identifiers shared with third parties for advertising and personalisation. For a service that raised prices twice in recent years, keeping both store ratings that high is the genuinely unusual part.