Crackle is gone???
I am leaving this review at the end of August 2024 to confirm that Crackle has boarded up its doors and turned off its lights. Servers are down and no longer stream content. While it wasn’t the best viewing platform by far, it wasn’t the worst either. Crackle offered movies (and shows) for free that were hard to find anywhere else. There were definitely a large share of B movies or worse (especially the shows), but every now and then you’d find a classic gem. It was finding these diamonds in the rough that kept me coming back. Crackle, I’m going to hold out hope that someone will come along and get things rolling again. In the meantime, you will be missed. Hope to stream again!
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Horror movie ads
I love crackle but the only problem is even if I set my account to teen it still shows horror movie ads and and if I don’t want to watch the horror movies why are the ads for them shown on teen AND kids accounts? If you could please please make sure horror ads don’t play on teen or child accounts 🙏 thank you
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HOW TO REMOVE THE SUBTITLES!!!
Subtitles are on by default for all videos but I finally discovered how to turn them off. Long press towards the bottom left corner until you can see the progress of the video. The subtitles icon is to the left of the progress bar. You will have to be rather quick as the progress bar is only visible for about two seconds.
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Needs Work
Great content but needs works. You need to manually turn off subtitles on everything you watch. Very ANNOYING! Most apps allow you to turn them off in settings.
Great Family friendly tv app!
I only have a few streaming apps on my tv that's Family All around friendly . What I mean by that is, you can scroll through each categories, and find a good movie without seeing other "raunchy rated X y and Z " type movies pop up!!!
I don't need my kids reading or seeing the name of a movie that shouldn't be on a streaming app or my family or Friends see that...
And the layout is pretty simple and easy to navigate. They have great selection of movies to choose and I come here for the Holiday movies. The total movie library have so many titles I've never seen before. Lots of movies I never heard of I end up liking and enjoying them. Must download
I don't need my kids reading or seeing the name of a movie that shouldn't be on a streaming app or my family or Friends see that...
And the layout is pretty simple and easy to navigate. They have great selection of movies to choose and I come here for the Holiday movies. The total movie library have so many titles I've never seen before. Lots of movies I never heard of I end up liking and enjoying them. Must download
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Annoying
Was going to give crackle another chance, but since then I’ve had bought a new TV and it is so difficult to connect anything with Crackle and I’m a pretty savvy app person. I don’t even know if the things I mentioned in my earlier review are still pertinent because I just got frustrated dealing with the app.
Really good titles and I understand the need for advertisement,But the app freezes during the ads and you can’t go forward or go back or stop you have to just get out of the app and start over and go through the whole collection of ads again
Really good titles and I understand the need for advertisement,But the app freezes during the ads and you can’t go forward or go back or stop you have to just get out of the app and start over and go through the whole collection of ads again
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Response from developer
Improvements to the iOS apps are currently being developed. We would be happy to further troubleshoot this issue with you by emailing support@crackle.com.
Terrible streaming!
First time I watched this app it constantly froze or just went out. Every time I would restart it was always back at the beginning of the program and had to repeatedly rewatch ads only to have the program not restart and have to go through it all over again. I will NEVER watch anything on this service again!
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Adds
I would give it a five star if the ad volume wasn’t so inconsistent! You can be watching a show at a reasonable volume and then an ad pops up at 100% volume absolutely ridiculous!
Good
Would love to be able to reduce the screen while viewing the movie or show. I work on other things-multitask-when watching on my tablet.
Other than that, I have no complaints.
Any way of solving this problem? Thank you.
Other than that, I have no complaints.
Any way of solving this problem? Thank you.
Free is nice but what is the point?
Why why why must we be assaulted with some random video playing while we search for something that we actually want to watch? This could NOT be more annoying! Moreover I have one show that I watch here. It is very difficult to locate. Other than this, rarely find anything I would want to watch on this app. This is not true of all free streaming apps, this one just gets a lot of trash movies.
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Good Movies & Shows, BUT…..
WHY IN THE WORLD WAS THE AUDIO ON THE DISCOVER COMMERCIALS RECORDED AT MAX VOLUME???
It’s INSANE!!
We’ve started a GREAT series - “Line of Duty,” and we’re streaming to an LG monitor. It has no remote, which means someone has to sit close to try to turn down the volume (even with the volume setting to “1,” it’s better, but still loud)! And…
This particular program freezes quite a bit. (We’ just started episode 1 so I’m hoping that won’t be the case going forward)! I’ve watched several movies via Crackle & had no issues.
PLEASE make sure that audio volume issue is fixed going forward;’we’d hate to “quiet quit” on you, because we really love what you have to offer!
You’re truly a godsend in the midst of the writers strike!
Keep up the good work, but please make sure other movies & videos don’t have the same problem as the Discover commercial audio issue.
It’s INSANE!!
We’ve started a GREAT series - “Line of Duty,” and we’re streaming to an LG monitor. It has no remote, which means someone has to sit close to try to turn down the volume (even with the volume setting to “1,” it’s better, but still loud)! And…
This particular program freezes quite a bit. (We’ just started episode 1 so I’m hoping that won’t be the case going forward)! I’ve watched several movies via Crackle & had no issues.
PLEASE make sure that audio volume issue is fixed going forward;’we’d hate to “quiet quit” on you, because we really love what you have to offer!
You’re truly a godsend in the midst of the writers strike!
Keep up the good work, but please make sure other movies & videos don’t have the same problem as the Discover commercial audio issue.
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Great! But!! I hate ads
I’d give it a 5 star rating if you would give people the option to remove ads by paying 5.99 a month i guarantee you would get a lot of people who would agree with me. Your ads are to frequent to enjoy what is being watched. I get into watching and boom ads it’s ridiculous. But I’m more than likely wasting my time writing this Review!!
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Really needs watchlist and resume watching like it did several years ago
No idea why these function were removed from app. They are still available on website. Just a horrible user experience. Every single streaming app on iOS has these functionalities, except crackle. Crackle has very good content, just not friendly to the user at all.
No option to login
The app has no option to login to your account. And if it does, it’s very hard to find.
So even if you have a crackle account so that you can save shows or movies, you can’t use your account with the app. Why even have an app then? Just use the website on mobile instead. At least you can log in.
So even if you have a crackle account so that you can save shows or movies, you can’t use your account with the app. Why even have an app then? Just use the website on mobile instead. At least you can log in.
Love the old shows
Fish was one of my favorite shows growing up. So excited to watch it again
… I like but
I like this app I like the name also crackle it’s just good anyways I got this app on my Apple TV and I try to sign on but I can’t even sign it it says go to website. I do that and it says error. Fix the app! I want to sign in and stream
Unusable
Set up a new account as they requested on the website. Was able to watch a show on my iPhone in the app without being able to sign in and save a wishlist or have a record or history of what I’ve watched previously or save things to find later. As for watching on my Apple TV where I want to watch things it tells me I need to go to the website and activate the app to do anything. The website says that function is disabled so they can create a better user experience. Ah, yes…now I remember this is why I deleted the app a year ago. Still useless.
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No watchlist?
How do you even use an app for watching shows without a wachlist or playlist? I don’t jump on amd start watching the first garbage that appears. I’m looking for specific movies and shows and if you have one I will use your service. If you cannot help me keep track of what I want to watch on your service I’m not interested in using it.
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Response from developer
Watchlist is a function that is being developed and will be released future updates. This will once again allow you to save shows to a list.
They track your usage but can’t be bothered to make it useful for you.
They sell your info and track everything you watch but they can’t be bothered to give a “Continue Watching” section so you can continue where you left off. Every time I go to resume where I left off it restarts to the beginning. Crackle gives off the vibe of shady data tracker with no effort to disguise itself as useful.
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This app is very annoying!!
So buggy and laggy! And when I try to watch the last 2 minutes of a documentary, Crackle boots me off and plays a different movie! I’ve tried to reload the movie and fast forward to the ending but it keeps booting me off before it actually ends! So frustrating I will never use Crackle again. Deleting now.
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Response from developer
We would be happy to troubleshoot this with you by emailing support@crackle.com.
