Kanopy User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience72.3% of reviews
Neutral7.5% of reviews
Negative experience20.2% of reviews

~ Based on 733 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Kanopy Safe?

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

This assessment is based on 147,971 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

95.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
1.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 147,971 App Store ratings for Kanopy.

Is Kanopy Legit?

Kanopy appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Kanopy is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Quality films

Kanopy is superb resource range of thoughtful films.

Incredible selection for free

Really amazing catalogue. App is easy to navigate. Just wish you could download media for offline streaming like you can with hoopla…

Zed Guide Eye Dog

Quill was like my GuideDog Zed grateful dog work with me till I was unable to walk and forced him to retire even though he wanted to work… He when to Rainbow July 3, 2025 I adore him and miss him…

Ms. Potter

What a wonderful movie!

Disgusting waste of time. Don’t watch this sick garbage.

Water

Not working on Apple Vision Pro

The app stopped working with version 6.22.1 on AVP . The throbber keeps on spinning.

Be better

Better rebound after being kicked out

Interesante New, older fun & different

wide range of movies -categories choices

Many interesting possibilities!

The videos are not easy to navigate.

Headache

Only got it for school and it was an absolute headache. Headache getting an account with my library card, didn’t let me download it on wifi, had to be data, then didn’t let me watch it with data, had to be wifi. Rather have a textbook. Only giving it some stars because it had okay content, it would be nice if I could actually watch it.
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Great App

Very glad that my library recommended this, I watched some great movies, there is a great selection of International movies as well. The only negative is there is no TV shows on this app, not sure why, since Hoopla has both.

Playback issues with descriptive audio channel

More often than I’d like to experience, a movie will default to the descriptive secondary audio channel during playback. Sometimes, closing and reopening the app resolves this issue. There are times, such as today (The Soloist), when neither that nor updating the app works.

This is incredibly frustrating as points for movies are deducted without ever watching said movie.

Please fix this longstanding issue.

Thanks.
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Unable to get tickets

My library is affiliated but I can’t get tickets. It’s not ideal when my library is unable to give me tickets/tokens to watch movies etc.
Any help would be appreciated, the library can’t help!

Great content and works well!

I often watch Kanopy and made many good discoveries here

Eclectic

Site for artistic and less mainstream film streaming at no cost with accessible with just a library card. I can’t complain about that. Time limit is a 2 to 3 day loan auto returned without fines.

Get hip, baby

Kanopy is magic. Get into it.

Great

Great

Kanopy

Love the range of titles and no advertisements. Thank you!

Gothic Tale

Gothic soundtrack backs this gothic tale of love and revenge.

Great Concept But Freezes

Video freezes fairly often. I have to close the app and start again.
There are plenty of options to choose from.
It would be better if you could try out one episode before paying for the whole season.