Upflix

Netflix’s interface changes during the past few years have made it increasingly hard to tell whether they're recommending videos my wife and I will actually like, or just videos that Netflix wants to promote. Upflix provides a workaround for this by displaying a list of videos available on Netflix along with the ratings from several rating sites (imdb, metacritic, rottentomatoes, flixter). Upflix also provides a way to use those ratings as a filter. In principle, this feature could be greatly useful. The problem - and unfortunately it's a big one - is that there's no way for the user to see a list of the filtered videos! Instead, there is just a "roulette" feature to choose one of them at random. This makes the filter nearly useless.

If you don’t have Upflix you are not using Netflix to you best ability. Everyday I get a notification to see what is new on Netflix. I click, I look, if I like something I go to Netflix and mark it. My que is always filled with stuff I want to see. Without the upflix list I would miss a lot of shows that don’t meet my logarithm criteria. With upflix I can see everything. And it is free. There is one print ad when I open the app. I x it out and done. I have access to everything released. Not sure why you would pay for “no ad”. It is only 1 ad, but whatever. .99 is cheap for no ads I guess. As a rebuttal to other low ratings, this is not an app where I would go searching for something to watch. People are asking for this free app to do so many things. Like I said, it is a list of whatevers new on Netflix that day. Not a search engine to find something to watch.

This shows every movie, comedy, etc. that is released on Netflix and it shows much more than is shown on the "New Releases" on Netflix. Ease of use is great, easy to add titles to your Netflix queue straight from the Upflix App. I also like that besides descriptions and the cast list, they include ratings from IMDB, rotten tomatoes, etc. The only reason I gave it 4 Stars is that I like some foreign films and subtitles but I wish that you could select which international films/languages you wanted to show up on your daily list. Some days the the list for the day will be a long list and they will all be foreign/international movies from countries that I am not interested in and and sometimes they don't list them as international so you have to watch the trailer to find out.

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I truly don’t get this app. It seems to conspire against everything we would really want or need in an app such as this. For instance, what if I just wanted a list of the top 10 best sci-fi/fantasy series on Netflix? Doesn’t seem to be able to do this! (A 5-second Google search can). It can’t choose between series and movies. If I tap any of the logos (Netflix, Rotten Tomato’s, etc), it will give me the top rated titles, but not separated by genre, or by movie vs series, so that’s useless to me. If I use the silly roulette wheel (why?!), I can choose the genre, but it only delivers one at a time. Then I need to spin again and it will often deliver the same title a dozen times, or cycle through 2 or 3, and I’ll never get any comprehensive list, or anything I can use. Am I missing something?

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I used to love this app and recommend it to everyone; now I’m wondering if I should stop using it. I love the ability to watch trailers. For the last several months if I watch a trailer there is no way to go back or forward. Only option is to close the app and reopen it. I have allowed ample time for you to fix it, but I’m tired of waiting. Possibly the makers don’t know the difference between iOS and android—where users have a back button. Don’t you use your own app or at least test it before releasing it. Get off your arrogant buts.