# JustWatch - Movies & TV Shows — user reviews > 669 indexed App Store user reviews of JustWatch by JustWatch GmbH, rated 4.70/5 from 29,556 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/justwatch-movies-and-tv-shows/id979227482/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/justwatch-movies-and-tv-shows/id979227482.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 24,682 · 4★ 3,119 · 3★ 696 · 2★ 279 · 1★ 780 ## What do users think of JustWatch? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Excellent for finding streaming content - 👍 Helpful for discovering new movies/shows - 💡 Useful for tracking what's available across services - 🚀 Accurate information on availability - 👍 Reliable and dependable app **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy and crashes frequently - 🐛 Inaccurate information on availability - 🐛 Watchlists disappearing or not syncing - 🔒 Privacy concerns with data collection - 🐛 Clunky and unintuitive user interface **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent crashes and freezes - Inaccurate information on movie/show availability - Watchlists not syncing or disappearing - Inability to log out or change privacy settings - Clunky navigation and poor user experience **Most requested features** - Add ability to track when titles leave streaming services - Improve search functionality with advanced filters - Allow custom ordering and organization of watchlists - Integrate with more streaming services, especially international ones - Add support for tracking progress on TV shows ## Newest reviews (10 of 669) ### 2/5 — Not working as it used to *2026-09-04, version 26.35.1* Used to love this app but recently it’s stopped working as it used to If I search for a title, the title shows up and it shows icons below it for the services it’s available on, but when you click on the title and it goes into it, now only the pay to view services are shown and not all the services where it can stream as were shown in the previous icons. ### 3/5 — Great service - terrible scrolling *2026-08-29, version 26.35.1* I love this app but the scrolling on my watch-list has always been so bad. It stutters and jumps about after you've scrolled a bit through a long list. It's the only app on my device that does this. Maybe you don't test on long lists so don't realise how bad it is? Also, as others have requested, having a list of the new additions from your list that have become available would be great too. Basically just the list of notifications you've sent. Otherwise a great app. ### 4/5 — Un peu compliqué. *2026-08-18* La recherche n’est pas simple. Largo winch séries, S2E4 en français mais S2E5 le texte est en anglais. Merci pour votre logiciel qu’a le mérite d’exister et d’avoir une version gratuite et ils sont rares. Continuer 👍👏 ### 1/5 — Garbage *2026-08-03, version 26.31.1* This app is impossible to like. It’s wonky. The UI stinks, lists disappear, there is no update support or development. ### 1/5 — Now requires email to use *2026-08-02, version 26.31.1* Can't even create a watchlist or search for movies/tv shows unless you give them your email address and set up an account where they can track you. Literally worthless now. Most recent update added so many ads you can't see the movie list. Deleting - so sad since I've had the app for years. ### 4/5 — Hide title option *2026-07-31, version 26.31.1* I’m tired of seeing certain serious multiple times, especially series with many seasons since they get posted individually. I’ve used the ‘dislike’ button to not see them again but don’t like the idea of that, it just bothers me seeing same titles over and over again. ### 4/5 — Sound Control *2026-07-29, version 26.31.1* Great App, but could you please stop turning my music off when I use it? Keeps me away from the app when i got my earbuds in listening to music. ### 3/5 — Please get rid of the video ads!! 🙏 *2026-07-27, version 26.30.1* I’m a long time user and lover of this app, but the video ads are killing me. I appreciate that the sound is muted, but not having a pause or disable option is insane. They slow down my iPad instantly and make using the search extremely frustrating. I can search maybe a handful of things before the app freezes up from having to load in the videos on every single search result page. No pause or disable option sucks from an accessibility standpoint too. And as always I am begging for y’all to figure out a way to exclude the freebie episodes for tv series that are behind paid subscription add ons. I have prime, I don’t have amc, mgm, Brit box, etc. I don’t want to see shows from all these services in my feed just because technically prime offers you a single episode for free and then the rest are locked behind an add on sub. Prime was the worst offender but it’s popping up on other services like Roku now too. It’s making browsing tv shows increasingly more frustrating when half the stuff that comes up isn’t actually available on my selected services. ### 4/5 — Scrolling doesn't work *2026-07-27, version 26.30.1* Love the idea, one of my most used apps. But the scrolling has always been janky literally for years. Maybe I just have more items than the developers test with so they've never noticed. Would be great if they could fix that bug. Thanks ### 4/5 — Very Good App with Great Potential *2026-07-25, version 26.30.1* The idea of this app, which allows me to view new release movies for rent and added to streaming platforms, and to choose year of release, is critical to my function of work. But it has room for so much improvement too. -Almost daily, several movies are either not linked or incorrectly linked to IMDB titles -The year of release slider doesn’t appear to work as movies released outside the range I select still appear and when checking the time range selected, it always reverts to 2026-2026. This would be better being a manually written field rather than a slider too. -The option to remove movies leaving streaming platforms to view only newly added ones would be very helpful -The app also experiences temporary hiccups, such as not displaying movies for a selected streaming and renting platform for a period of time, but these are resolved at present and usually are some weeks after I report the problem. Cleaning up these easily fixed app issues would encourage me to consider paying for Pro in the future. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Deceptive privacy settings *2026-08-27, version 26.35.1* Good luck disabling marketing cookies. Deleting the app after being unable to tell how to disable their over 90 cookies. ### 1/5 — Hard to use *2026-08-25, version 26.34.2* So many ads popped on top of what I was looking at I struggled to use the app to search for a show. Kept needing to close an ad to see anything. I recommend using the web site instead. ### 1/5 — Abysmal UI *2026-08-25, version 26.34.2* This app has one incredibly simple feature / purpose for existing, which is to tell you which streaming services have a particular show or movie that you search for. Bafflingly, they’ve somehow managed to over-complicate and screw up the UI so much that it cannot even reliably do that. You’d think it should be as simple as: search show/movie -> receive list of matching streaming services; evidently not. There are now promoted services that often don’t even have the searched movie (maybe they’ve fixed this, but it’s happened to me before) and apps that do have the movie are often omitted. I’m pretty sure this is mostly technically user error, and if I sat down for 20 minutes to thoroughly familiarize myself with the interface I’d be able to use it effectively, but there’s absolutely no reason whatsoever that this shouldn’t be the simplest and most straightforward app/feature on the entire planet! I shouldn’t have to go in and set which services I have before you’ll show me if that service has the movie; just show all matches by default and have an option to omit them for people who want it. I know every app/site on the planet has to be inundated with junk and ads and promotions and whatnot so they can make money, and also I’m sure this is technically my fault (subscribed to Hulu to watch a show that’s also on Netflix, which JustWatch neglected to mention), but my point is that this concept is so exceptionally simple that it literally should not be possible to have an ambiguous or unclear UI that is anything other than exceptionally simple and intuitive. ### 1/5 — Interrupts background audio *2026-08-22, version 26.34.2* Stops background audio from playing as soon as you launch the app. Why? ### 1/5 — Intrusive Third Party Access *2026-08-15, version 26.33.1* I have used this app for a long time and found it to be one of the best, but recently the app wanted to access other devices on my network, and the app sought approval to plant cookies for 98 (yes, ninety-eight) third party vendors to access all kinds of information on the device. It's now deleted. ### 1/5 — Account? *2026-08-13, version 26.33.1* How come now i need to create an account? So basically the app is just holding my watchlist hostage, trying to force me to create an account when i was able to use lists for YEARS without one? Thanks but no thanks. ### 1/5 — NOT PAYING FOR THIS *2026-08-12, version 26.32.1* Unreal how greedy - now you have to pay to see what’s new?! Been using this for years but no more. Sucks that you have to pay for the least little thing. Not everyone wants a million paid subscriptions. ### 1/5 — This is bs *2026-08-09, version 26.32.1* It says just watch but you can’t even watch anything unless you have the subscription ### 1/5 — Wants way too much data *2026-08-09, version 26.32.1* Like the title wants way too much data for an app that just tells you where to watch something. Started it up and it like is and our 98 third party providers. You have lost your mind if you think this is okay. Saw that laughed out loud and immediately deleted the app. ### 1/5 — UX *2026-08-07, version 26.32.1* Quite sub-standard experience for those who own a premium device like Apple and have come to expect a much higher quality. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Must have *2026-08-28, version 26.35.1* This app is absolutely great and necessary. If you need to find out where and when to watch any show, movie, specials and other things this is where to find out! ### 5/5 — My first go-to *2026-08-27, version 26.35.1* This is a really helpful app for when I quickly want to find which streaming service a film is on. ### 5/5 — Muito bom *2026-08-23* Excelente ### 5/5 — Essential *2026-08-16, version 26.33.1* Best ever way to track down film and TV. ### 5/5 — Such a handy app *2026-08-16, version 26.33.1* This app is useful for finding which service a show it isn ( my husband otherwise guesses and we spend 5 mins going though each service) AND suggestions on what is popular across all the paid and free services. ### 5/5 — Life Saver *2026-08-13, version 26.32.1* Especially for stoners, who have cable🙋🏻‍♂️ and can’t ever remember/know what shows I watch online🤷🏻‍♂️ 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ ### 5/5 — Customer support *2026-08-12, version 26.32.1* Steven at customer support was amazing and helped me with all of my issues in a timely fashion! ### 5/5 — The Telly Brain *2026-08-07, version 26.32.1* I can now keep track of what to watch and where. Wonderful application. ### 5/5 — Helpful *2026-08-06, version 26.31.1* Use it a lot ### 5/5 — Great Service *2026-07-26, version 26.30.1* I’m a convert after TV Time closed. I had some problems importing my zip file but after contacting the help service, they quickly and efficiently solved my issue. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-08.*