It’s far from being as good as Netflix and I find I rarely open the app. It reminds a bit of Amazon Prime video where you pay a basic subscription but a lot of the content costs extra. That just puts me off so I just watch Netflix instead. Once our one year free subscription comes to an end, I doubt i’ll bother paying the monthly sub beyond that. A lot of my friends and family have made the same comments.
There is no subscription fee to use the TV app. There is a fee to watch the content in the TV+ Channel. The two things are not the same thing.
Apple really dropped the ball when naming these things and it causes a lot of confusion in people. The
Apple TV device is the physical box you buy that you connect to your TV via an HDMI cable. You install apps on it and watch content. The
Apple TV app is an aggregator that pulls in content from various OTHER streaming apps like Disney+, CBS All Access, HBO Max, Hulu, etc. It also shows you content that is available from the iTunes Store, and you can access your library of video content purchased from the iTunes Store directly in the
TV app. There is no fee to use it. But the app does offer Channels such as
Apple TV+, CBS All Access, Showtime, etc. which you do need to pay to subscribe to.