Hallmark Movie Checklist

I was very excited when this app came out in time for Countdown to Christmas. I was even more excited you expanded it to include Winterfest, Countdown to Valentines Day and Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. I enjoy these lists including the preview, when it’s playing and if you missed it, when it’s playing next. Spring Fever is next and I’m hoping we will have a new list for it and all the other movies going forward. “Love Under the Rainbow” isn’t on any list so far so I’m hoping it will get added to one. To really make this app even better, I think we should be able to keep track of our own reviews of the movie. For the last several years, I have kept a running list of every single Hallmark movie I have ever watched. I have it divided out by the year it was released, the title and my rating. I intend to watch every one of them ever made. I think it is fun and challenging to check a new one off the list in the app. I hope one day this app will list all of your movies ever made and we can check it off and review it. When that happens my rating will change from 4 to 5.

I love using this app to keep track of the Christmas movies I watch. I just find myself hunting for the one I just watched or wondering what is on. It would be very helpful if movies that are on the day I access the app had some distinguishing feature like they are outlined in a color or marked with a different color dot then the one that shows I put them in my calendar. For some reason today I came across two-three movies that were on but never appeared in my calendar even though I marked them as ones I wanted to watch and in my calendar. If those movies were highlighted I would of noticed one of the many times I looked at my app that those movies could of been watched today. Also, for the ones I do know are coming on, I like to look at the preview to see which one I would like to watch if there is a conflict and they are hard to find in the list of 96 or 81. If they were noticeable as ones coming on today I would of been able to locate them without a problem to check out the previews.

The app is a handy way to keep track of the films you’ve watched or plan to watch. My largest complaint, however, is that when you build the list of films you plan to watch it doesn’t change the counter at the top of the screen to help show you how many of films you’ve accomplished on your list. So for example, I only plan to watch the new premieres for this holiday season. So I created my list with the 40 films and each time I mark one as completed the counter on my list would say I’ve watched 1 of 96 films or 5 of 96, instead of 5 of 40. There’s no point of that progress bar if I have no intention of watching 90 or so movies. My other complaint is pretty small. But I wish there was a way to rank or rate the movies I do watch. Let’s be honest, after awhile the plots and character’s and oh so similar titles and actors, eventually blend in my head. So it’d be nice to have something I could refer to to help remember which ones I enjoyed. Overall it’s a good app but could use some tweaking.

As a huge hallmark movie fan, I adore this app! Works great, allows you to see what movies are new and add them to a checklist of movies you’ve watched/want to watch. But ... I only gave it 4 stars because I’d love an improvement. Some movies are sooo good, that you want to remember them and watch again. And some have really awful acting!! Maybe it’s not a rating system but rather a ‘favorite’ button that would allow you to track your favorites. Developers, please can you add something like this? Something that allows you to set the great apart from the bad in your list? Another benefit of doing this is that Hallmark publishes/ranks top (favorite) movie lists and when I read them, I think “meh, these are NOT the best movies” and wonder where they get their data. This feature would allow the company to draw a favorite list based on how many were favorited in the app and perhaps gain more accurate ranking and what the true favorites are.

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UPDATE: I cleared the ‘settings’ selection within the app before deleting the app. I also checked my calendar on both phones to insure there were no longer Hallmark events in either one. However, after deleting the app (which was only on one phone), notifications were still randomly popping up on my phones. Most often in the middle of the night. Then I discovered that events had been mysteriously added to my calendar on my computer. Again, the app was never on my computer. I deleted all events on my calendar as I do not use that calendar at all. A few days later, notifications pop up again. This time I recognize they’re also on my iPad. App was never installed there. So now I’m guessing the app got tied into my Apple ID and iTunes. I’m actually afraid this app is going to haunt me forever. Original review: The calendar events and notifications have overtaken my phone. And mysteriously also show up on a second phone I have that does NOT even have the app installed on it. I have tried changing every setting I can think of to make it stop. But it continues. I’ve gone back to paper and pencil to keep track of the movies. I’ll be deleting this app.