This review is for the TV version of this app. It looks nice and the content layout is nice. It has lots of potential. Unfortunately it’s currently riddled, and I do mean RID-DLED with bugs. I haven’t seen a TV app this bad in probably 10 years. It freezes; it kicks you out, even when watching something; it can’t keep up with you as you move around in the app and will often send you the opposite direction that you’re trying to go; if you pause what you’re watching long enough for the tv’s screen saver to start, when you hit play again, it will kick you out of what you’re watching; recently it’s started throwing a “IP restriction This content is not available from your current network” error (will be happy to provide Hallmark devs with that excessively long error #, just reach out to me), yes, I can dismiss it and carry on, but that’s not the point; when you back out of an Always On channel, it bumps you to somewhere else on the home page instead of just backing you out of that channel; and speaking of the Always On channels, they need more info than just the title, but even that tiny bit of info has disappeared this week; and BACKGROUND app refresh seems to be non-existent as it’s pretty much in your face, constantly, as you try to get around the app. Also, there needs to be an app-wide setting for closed captioning so that you’re not always having to turn it on in everything you watch. I thought these issues just applied to the Apple TV app but no, same issues with the Roku app. So glad I signed up during the 50% off annual subscription instead of paying full price. Hallmark, if a seat at the streaming table is important to you, if your digital products are as important to you as your store products, if your customers are important to you, fix this mess ASAP. Apple tvOS 26.6/Hallmark+ v8.161.2, Roku TV v15.3/Hallmark+ v9.141.2
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