Crackle - Movies & TV

I use this app a lot, I have a boring job so I watch movies on it when I’m at work. I like the movie selection, I like how it has a lot of good movies from back around the 90s and early 2000s since that was the best era of film in my opinion. I don’t mind the advertising breaks, it’s just like watching tv. But a lot of times after the ads are finished, the X, “Learn More” link at the bottom and Ad Length time in the top right corner gets stuck on the screen and it’s annoying. You have to close out of the app, reopen it and find your movie again. It’s the only way to get everything off the screen. It saves your point in the movie though so it picks right back up where you left off which is a plus. I wish there was a fix you guys could do for that. Then it would be totally fine.

I’ve got this app on my phone and AppleTV. I don’t use it on my phone except as a means to get it on the tv. I’ve found quiet a few titles that just won’t play. At the moment they have an Aliens channel. I was excited to start a little marathon. alien played fine. But Aliens has refused to play for three days. I’ve rebooted the appletv. Removed and readded the app. Signed out and in. Rebooted again. Reset my router. No solution. So I contacted crackle tech support. I’ve gotten emails saying they’ve sent it to their engineers. Ya da ya da. It works fine on the phone, but I don’t want to watch it on my phone. I want to watch it on my tv. Pretty unenthusiastic about the slow and seemingly endless process of getting this issue resolved. Yeah I know. It’s a free app and it plays free movies, when they actually play.

When I first downloaded this “Crackle” app, my sole intention was to be able to watch the classic movie “Die Hard”. It had only been a couple days since I had watched the former mentioned blockbuster, I decided that I needed to watch such a fantastic film. I proceeded to visit this app and noticed that it was not on the home page as usual. After a few worrisome moments I thought of the idea to search to for film. After typing the entire title into the search bar, it finally settled on me that Die Hard had ran it’s course within the “Crackle”. Why would an app with so few “watchable” movies take away such an addictive film. For this sole reason, I am only rating crackle as a three star app.

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For the last version app update Crackle was really awesome! I end up using it more than Netflix because there selection for movies is better. Netflix focuses too much on drama and gore movies (ended up watching Freeform more for Halloween). Crackle's selection is more thrillers and comedy. But I feel like every other update someone misses something vital before the update and the it's back to zero with this app. This time its the Casting feature. It seems to always be the casting feature! This time the Casting feature is just gone! I thought it was an internet issue but it wasn't and i can cast from all other apps. But for what ever reason the casting icon is just completely gone from the app. Meaning using the app isn't that great anymore. I use Chromecast. Wish I never updated the app.

I don’t hate this app. I used to love it!!! I was hooked on the 1st episode of Snatch season and 2. They had a good selection of show and movies. Things looked great then started the upgrades. They created glitch after glitch and just got progressively worst. Then I noticed the this great Sony collection was very small. After 18 months no new movies or shows. It like Sony is broke. These 2 things, lack of new/original content and glitches just made me give up on this app. I still have the app. I check occasionally, to see if Snatch season 3 will ever be made/air, if there are new movies but there’s nothing new on there.