Kanopy Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience71.9% of reviews
Neutral7.7% of reviews
Negative experience20.4% of reviews

~ Based on 818 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Kanopy

Is Kanopy Safe?

Kanopy appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Kanopy is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 152,801 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

95.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
1.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 152,540 App Store ratings for Kanopy.

Is Kanopy Legit?

Kanopy appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Kanopy is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

“Not Verified for MacOS” Please fix!!

Love the Kanopy app, and it worked well on my iMac until I updated to the latest OS: Golden Gate 27.2. Please fix: I’m only getting a spinning orange circle and the app won’t open anymore. Then I’ll return to give you 5 stars! It’s previously been an amazing app with no issues whatsoever. Thank you.
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Free access with my LA library card

As someone who doesn’t want to pay for all the streaming services, my local library card gains me access to watch a few flicks. I love it. No ads, no marketing, just film.

Annoying

I was forced to download the app because a desktop website was not allowed. Each time i tried getting support, I was redirected to the app i was forced to download and no support was actually provided. I just kept getting rerouted to their home menu. They clearly just want downloads. I just want to watch the required documentary for a class and delete the app. We should not be forced to download an entire app when their website should work perfectly fine.
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I wish I discovered it earlier

Excellent quality movies included in my Library subscription!?! Am I dreaming?
Also app works very smoothly and you can watch it online as well.

Syncing issues

I run into audio syncing issues all the time with the Apple TV app. By the time I get to the end of a movie, the audio lags the video so much it’s unbearable. No other app does this and I can’t understand how it could happen with Kanopy.
On the upside, the awful search has been updated to use the standard Apple search UX and it is waaaaay better. Nice job.
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Need trailers & an “Are you sure?” button

Dudes and dudettes - thank you so much for bringing us one of the few truly bright lights in media today. You all are amazing. The app desperately needs two things: (1) Trailers! Right now we need to go elsewhere for trailers, and toggling back and forth is a hassle. (2) An “Are you sure you want to spend X tickets on ___________ [name of title]” button when you hit play. A “warning dialogue box” it might be called? It’s wayyyy to easy to accidentally hit the play button or think it’s a button for a trailer, or …… Sometimes I don’t realize a movie costs four tickets and a warning would be awesome. I’ve also hit the play button accidentally, as well. I think every online service that costs the user something has SOMETHING that makes a purchase a two-step process. A quick example: if you tap “Pay with Apple Pay” when checking out online you still have several steps to take after that before you spend any money. I have the service through my public library and don’t get many tickets per month (12) and have to use them very carefully.

Those changes would really make the app top notch (for me, anyway). Keep up the awesome work, Kanopy. Thanks for bringing this service to the world.
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Can’t open in Mac OS

Despite multiple attempts to open the application on my MacBook after downloading it, I was only able to launch it successfully one time out of roughly 20 tries.

Netflix without all the corporate entertainment

It’s the library, with sound and pictures!

Bill W Conscious Contact

This new documentary provides encouragement for those wondering about AA . Shows founder open minded, neither religious nor dogmatic even tried T.M in 1969.

Freezing

Kept freezing on a 2 minute skit: Ave Maria Bamford comedy and using up the monthly subscription. Boo!

Doesn’t work if you’re logging in through university

If you’re attempting to log in through an institution it won’t connect just refresh the app. effectively useless app.

EO

Human beings have used animals in lot of ways, made use of them mércilesly, and seen themselves in them in symbolic way, I mean mostly male from loin to Donkey, females are content being Cat simile, In EO hero sees himself as a Donkey with ‘Dhid’😊[potbelly very visible in sides] for real and compared to beaute of stallions, a runaway Donkey who remebers love of a gentle female, yet on his journey meets only crooked ones wanting to take him in, I couldn’t see the end bit as it got frozen on another female whose relationship the narrative froze.
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Lots of great movies

I wish I had more than 9 tickets

Real gold

Dig around this site for the gold waiting for you.

Big fan

Enjoying the varied titles available

An undervalued resource

Free! And so much quality content. If we all spent our time learning about the world and civilisation, art and literature, instead of lazily consuming violence and exploitation, we’d be in better shape.

Better than the 2019 version

This was made in 2017 and then there was another movie of the exact same name made in 2019 that was absolutely terrible. Sony stole the whole premise of the movie and copied this 2017 movie and then they had a sequel to their copy a couple years later. Anything to make money…just steal from a much better movie and no one says anything about the title or the plot!? if I were the writer and director of this movie, I would be extremely angry at Sony
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Error message

Unable to watch anything. Only getting an error message now

Not offered at my library

I live in Cheyenne, Wyoming and it won’t let me sign in using my library account

Great selection BUT…

The new update doesn’t open on my MacBook, running 27.0.1. Just the spinning wheel ad nauseum.