Adilo Recenzje 

If you are a course creator relying on Adilo to protect your hard work, look elsewhere immediately. Their DRM feature is fundamentally broken, and their support team’s lack of urgency is staggering.

Nearly two weeks ago, all of the DRM-protected videos for my premium course abruptly stopped playing. Students who paid good money were met with spinning loading wheels. Facing furious clients and thousands of dollars in potential refunds, I flagged this as an urgent, priority-one issue to Adilo support.

Here is what followed:

- Abysmal Response Times: It took almost three days to get an initial reply.

- Incompetent Support: Their first response asked for information I had already clearly provided in my original email, wasting even more time.

- Zero Accountability: When they finally investigated, they blamed an unnamed "external service provider" for an ongoing outage. Because a third party holds the encryption keys, Adilo is completely paralysed. They can't fix it, they can't migrate the videos, and they refuse to provide any timeline or ETA for a resolution.

- Unacceptable Delays: It has been almost two weeks, and the issue is still ongoing. Support just keeps repeating the same canned response: "We are waiting on our provider."

Because of Adilo's failure, I was backed into a corner. To stop the bleeding and prevent a mass wave of refunds that would destroy my reputation, I had to completely re-upload my entire course - which took me years to produce, without any DRM protection. Thanks to Adilo, my intellectual property is now entirely exposed and at risk of being pirated on torrent sites.

They claim your content is "safe," but it isn't safe if nobody can watch it and you are forced to strip away the very protection you paid them for. Avoid Adilo at all costs.

Absolute scam. all accounts are moving to a subscription including lifetime ones. Scam 200%.

Do NOT trust these people. Canceling a lifetime deal. If they do that, why would you want to trust them to host your content? Because you obviously don't have the control (or the respect from the company). BEWARE!

Absolute joke! I signed up for lifetime deal as an early adopter. Now I have a message in my dashboard saying:

"Switch Your Subscription Within 60 Days
Your account will be restricted after the 60-day grace period on August 28, 2026 if subscription is not updated".

Basically, they are ditching lifetime customers, the very people who invested in an unknown company, a company that used their investments to grow. A company that has now decided to throw their early adopter under the bus.

If this is what they do to customer who put their faith in them when they needed money to get going, beware that they can do in the future.

AVOID ADILO!

Canceling a lifetime license is simply unacceptable. On top of that, the platform never really worked well. There were always issues, little to no support, and many features never functioned properly.

Complete scam!! BUYER BEWARE DO NOT WASTE TIME/MONEY. Sold thousands of lifetime memberships but forcing people to subscription??? Clown company pulling a rug pull 🤡

Deceptive and unreliable.
This site has constant problems, videos dont play, not configured properly in players, amongst many other issues (too many for this thread).

I dealt with all of this because it was "lifetime hosting". If that was not the case i would have left back in 2024 when i signed up.

The real issue is the lifetime deal that was purchased is now not lifetime any longer? I happened to check my spam and saw the email demanding all of the lifetime members to pay for a subscription or content will be deleted in 30 days? I emailed the owner maybe idk but someone named mark replied and said...

"We have honored the lifetime deal since 2024 but we now have to move everyone to a subscription"
That is a ridiculous statement in itself. Lifetime is lifetime ? How can you honor a lifetime deal for 2 years?

Very poor and deceptive business practices. Moving all of my content to Vimeo (reliable and professional)

I purchased what was supposedly a lifetime deal for what was advertised as unlimited video storage. Upon purchase, it turned out to not be unlimited but was at least relatively generous.

Today however the full bait and switch was revealed. Not only was it not unlimited, it wasn't lifetime either. All lifetime users are now being forced onto a subscription model. A more ethical business would consider respecting the purchase terms and grandfathering the existing customers. Unfortunately this is not the case, and anyone not switching will have their content wiped. This is despite actually offering a free plan on their website, but apparently not to lifetime users.

Oh and their email actually announcing this change? Went straight to spam. It's a good thing I check spam regularly.

The lifetime pricing was the one point of difference between Adilo and more established video hosts. That point of difference no longer exists. I would have felt better had the platform just been shut down.

I purchased a life time deal only to be informed I would have to pay a monthly fee to continue using Adilo they have now deleted all my files

Dont buy from Adilo or Appsumo when they say Life Time Deals. Adilo recently announced that they can no longer afford the Life Time Deal they offered thousands of Users. I did not only purchase the Life Time deal I also purchased 105 Professional Licenses. So Appsumo blocked my messages on there forum today 11 May 2026 because I questioned what due diligence they used in vetting these companies before and after the sale. I have now lost thousands of dollars based on empty promises and breach of contract. Appsumo just expects us to suck it up because its not their company running a loss. I told them I will refer this matter to the FBI as fraud because this is not the first time a product was hyped by Appsumo and afterwards the Vendor disappears and we have lost money, time and frustrated customers. As a lawyer I will carry this through because I might as well have been scammed because thats how I feel when they allow companies like Adilo to screw the honest clients out there. Adilo should expect a knock on their door soon and their co-founder Emi Ngwu should explain these unscrupulous business practices.Their call center sits in Nigeria and that was a disaster to start with because you complain today and maybe 2 weeks later you get a flimsy reply. I should have taken action then or seen the writing on the wall because they had a non existent back up support.

¡Son unos auténticos sinvergüenzas!
Pagué un plan vitalicio de nivel 4 en julio de 2021, que se actualizó a un plan vitalicio de nivel 5 en enero de 2022.
Ahora, Adilo ha cancelado unilateralmente el plan vitalicio, lo que ha resultado en la pérdida de todo el trabajo que he realizado durante estos años, y exige un pago anual de 499 dólares para seguir usando su servidor.
Adilo se queda con tu dinero y no cumple el contrato.
No son de fiar.
¡Unos estafadores!
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They're complete and utter scoundrels!
In July 2021, I paid for a Level 4 lifetime plan, which was upgraded to a Level 5 lifetime plan in January 2022.
Now, Adillo has unilaterally canceled the lifetime plan, resulting in the loss of all the work I've done over these years, and is demanding an annual payment of $499 to continue using their server.
Adilo takes your money and doesn't honor the contract.
Fraudulent bunch of crooks!

Normally I come on to Trustpilot to give a poor review for a product that didn't live up to its hype. But this time I'd like to reward a product that does. I've had my Adilo account for several years now and it has always performed at least the way I expected it to. AND I continue to find out things it can do that are above and beyond. I love my Adilo account. Thanks, Adilo, for being one of the good ones.

Do not trust Adilo. I purchased unlimmited lifetime access only to be informed after trusting them with my content that if I didn't start paying a high monthly fee they would delete ALL of my critical content. They wouldn't even honor our request for a little more time to complete moving it. It's as if they were trying to ensure we'd have to pay them more. I had to devote several of my team to get our content to safety. This whole ordeal felt criminal. DO NOT TRUST ADILO WITH YOUR CONTENT. They care nothing about you. Once they have your content they will use it to extort more money from you.

GARBAGE - No video ever worked on any website. They promote one thing and support sends you to the "tech team" which does not exist! Waste of money and time - do not recommend!

I purchased a Business Lifetime plan from Adilo in 2021, fully paid upfront (€354.55), clearly advertised and invoiced as lifetime — no renewal, no subscription, no recurring fees.

In February 2026, Adilo unilaterally suspended my account unless I agreed to migrate to a paid subscription.

Their justification is that the lifetime model is now “unsustainable” due to infrastructure costs. While that may be a business challenge, it is not a valid excuse to retroactively break a paid agreement.

What makes this worse is how it was handled:

No meaningful alternatives.

No proportional compensation.

No acknowledgment of ethical responsibility.

Just repeated copy-paste references to Terms of Service claiming absolute discretion.

The platform still displays my plan as “Business Lifetime – €354.55 / lifetime”, yet the service is suspended. That contradiction says everything.

This is not about technology or costs.
It’s about trust.

Early customers who supported the platform with upfront payments were simply discarded once they became inconvenient. A “lifetime” that only lasts until the business model changes is not a lifetime — it’s misleading at best.

I chose not to pursue legal action because the amount is not worth the time and stress. But future customers deserve to know how Adilo treats users when commitments become inconvenient.

Proceed with caution.

Adilo offered a lifetime deal I paid over $400+ and now I am being charged a subscription fee? This is a bait and switch tactic Adilo. Do not trust this company. Everyone must also email App Sumo and keep them accountable for working with these scammers. App Sumo needs to sue Adilo and get everyone their money back.

This is a disgrace. I dropped over $300 on a service that promised to be 'lifetime,' yet they don't even deliver the bare minimum.

You wanted reviews? Now you’re going to get reviews.

From now on, AppSumo needs to clarify: 'Lifetime access... as long as the vendor feels like it.' Adilo is fully responsible, sure, but I paid AppSumo—and just like me, so did hundreds or thousands of other people.

I wish you the best personally, because professionally, you have a lot of room for improvement. I no longer trust any product you sell.

Good luck on the journey.

Deceitful.

I've been very happily using Adilo as video hosting for almost 4 years - Initially through an Appsumo lifetime deal then directly upgrading through Adilo for another lifetime deal.

Cue Nov 2025 "We're no longer supporting lifetime deals" So move to a subscribtion or we delete your account. Criminal.

I understand everybody's costs have risen however this is commercial blackmail and I fear a huge mis-step for Adilo - Imagine if Apple turned round tomorrow and said "BTW if you don't own a iPhone 17 and pay us $30 per month we'll brick your phone" basically commercial suicide - If you have cash flow or commercial issue you resolve them by improving your offer , attracting new and more customers - Generally you don't improve your business by trashing your reputation.

A great shame as Adilo is a great video platform, generally very reliable and has many features others don't. Unlike other's experiences I've always found support helpful and quick - however I'll not be gouged and blackmailed into parting with more $

Adilo are scammers. They offered lifetime accounts and now they're canceling them all; there's already a thread about it on Reddit. They broke their agreements, and I don't recommend anyone use them.

I've been using Adilo since Sept 2023, created numerous video products for my business and the businesses of my clients. Like many AppSumo users did. Now they terminate accounts at their sole discretion. You can never trust this SaaS to be your partner for your business!!!.