A free streaming service hailed as ‘brilliant’ by users will be shutting down for good next month, but fans can still watch for free on Amazon Prime Video.
Freevee is Amazon’s free, ad-supported streaming service and gives users access to thousands of movies and TV shows without the need for a subscription.
It was launched in 2019 as a FAST (free ad-supported streaming television) service under IMDb, before rebranding as Freevee in April 2022.
Amazon first announced its intention to shut down Freevee in November 2024, citing plans to consolidate both its free and paid streaming offerings in one app, Prime Video.
Now, Amazon has confirmed when the free streaming service will close for good.
An in-app message has appeared, notifying users of the change. It says: ‘Prime Video is the new exclusive home for Freevee TV shows, movies and live TV.
‘The Freevee app will be accessible until August 2025. Continue watching your favorite free originals and our library of hit movies, shows, and live TV on Prime Video for free, no subscription needed.’
This means that while the streaming app is disappearing, the content on it won’t be.
Instead, fans of Freevee can access the same shows and movies for free, with ads, at their new home on Prime Video.
An Amazon representative previously told Variety: ‘To deliver a simpler viewing experience for customers, we have decided to phase out Freevee branding. There will be no change to the content available for Prime members, and a vast offering of free streaming content will still be accessible for non-Prime members, including select originals from Amazon MGM Studios, a variety of licensed movies and series, and a broad library of FAST channels — all available on Prime Video.’
Freevee’s most popular content includes Emmy-nominated reality sitcom Jury Duty, which explored the inner workings of an American jury trial through the eyes of one juror, who doesn’t realise that everyone except him is an actor.
There’s also Australian soap Neighbours and the Alex Rider series, which is a thriller following a teenager who finds out his late uncle was a spy, as well as Judy Justice, starring Judge Judy Sheindlin.
Freevee also has Bosch: Legacy, a sequel to Prime Video’s Bosch, and plenty of classic shows such as Hell’s Kitchen, Mr Bean, Skins and Benidorm.
For films, Freevee viewers can watch Me Before You, the 2013 re-imagining of Carrie, The Nice Guys and many more.
Online, Freevee users have shared their thoughts on the app’s closure, with some disappointed by the change.
Reddit user Useuless said: ‘This means no dedicated Freevee channel so you can only browse it’s content, instead you have to wade through paid for content as well. Essentially it still exists, but now with ads and a more time consuming interface.’
philosofova added: ‘Will be kinda missed, I mainly liked it for the channel surfing aspect which I missed when I just wanted to watch random stuff.’
And tunachilimac wrote: ‘I am watching a couple things on Freevee and installed Prime because of this. The Freevee UI is much better than the Prime Video UI. It’s weird they aren’t keeping the better interface at least.’
Others were less bothered, however, with Shap6 writing: ‘I was looking through it just the other night out of curiosity, terrible content selection even by free streaming TV standards’.
Lithogiraffe added: ‘Go ahead. Nearly everything there is also on Tubi free’.
Nevertheless, Freevee received hundreds of positive reviews during its time, with fans hailing it as ‘brilliant’.
On the Amazon website, reviewer Angel Eyes wrote: ‘It’s brilliant. It allowed me to catch up on all the episodes that I had missed. There’s a lot of great content on there and the picture is amazing. The ads are very brief and not at all intrusive.’
And John Chewter said: ‘I am now hooked and am finding some very good Australian and New Zealand crime drama series I had never heard of and that are very good!’
Another reviewer added: ‘Unlike the other free movie channels, this one has only a few short ad breaks and does not bombard you with them. Use it all the time.’
To find Freevee’s content on Prime Video from next month, users should browse the ‘free with ads’ section of the Prime Video website and app.
Users won’t need to sign up or pay a subscription fee to access the content in this selection.
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