Pocket Beacon Reviews: Is It Legit?

Pocket Beacon
Pocket Beacon
Critical Role Productions, LLC

Customer Experience

Positive experience27.7% of reviews
Neutral28.4% of reviews
Negative experience43.9% of reviews

~ Based on 278 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Pocket Beacon

Is Pocket Beacon Safe?

Pocket Beacon has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Pocket Beacon is 67/100.

This assessment is based on 366 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.3/5.

Safety Analysis

47.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
19.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
33.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 362 App Store ratings for Pocket Beacon.

Is Pocket Beacon Legit?

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

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

Top reviews

Enjoy the experience but a couple issues

Very aesthetically pleasing design and easy to use but The app constantly logs me out whenever I lose cell reception so can be a bit of a pain having to log in all the time as I listen while driving around a lot for my job.

Dream of a Brighter Day

It’s not Dropout. I don’t watch everything on it. In fact, most of it I don’t watch. But it’s a way to directly support CR, one of the positive beacons (heh) in my life, and maybe someday it’ll be a total and emphatic knockout, rather than a heartening extras section for CR. Not a bad thing they’re one of the only ethical streamers out there.
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Randomly stops

The video playback keeps randomly stopping. Same with the Apple TV app.

HOW DO I SUBSCRIBE

Literally where is the button I have been through every interface on the app and nowhere is there a button I can click to give them my money wtffff.

Breaks my ipad and forces restart

Suck

Huge fan still needs work

The interface is glitchy and pages just don’t load well. The player needs to have speed options. I need 1.25 speed for my brain. I love the entire rest of the app and hope the development team keeps iterating improvements.

Fantastic improvements

Looks like they’ve fixed some of my biggest frustrations so far! The point you’ve watched to in the video gets saved now, so there’s no reloading when you lose reception or swipe out. The embedded video function works really smoothly and keeps playing when you turn off your screen, which is great when I’m driving or puttering around the house. And they just enabled downloading episodes!! 🤩 much love for the continued tweaks and improvements, well done! 💕
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Finally able to offline view!!!

I can finally rate this app 4 stars now that we can download videos to watch offline 🙏!! The last thing that keeps this from being 5 stars is that it loses my place in the videos sometimes, and it’s hard to find where I am in a campaign (hard to find which episodes you’ve already watched quickly when looking at campaign view).
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Not as bad as they say

I’ve been using this app since the beginning, and I don’t really have the bugs that get mentioned in other apps. Offline watching has just been added as well! This app is the only way I watch CR now, and even an occasional bug is well worth it.

FINALLY CAN DOWNLOAD

After the feedback and frustrations for the past few months/years with this app, looks like it’s finally shaping up to be usable. You can FINALLY download episodes and Many of the bugs have been/are being addressed.

A glitch or two but a good start

Every so often the screen goes dark, so there’s a missing setting to note that the app is active while displayed through Apple TV. I keep having to click something to make it realise I’m watching. This was within 15 minutes of starting an episode of Sallowlands, age of Umbra

Incredibly buggy.

Chromecast function works for about a minute then gets stuck in a constant one-second loop. App also gets stuck when viewing content just on the phone.

I feel like CR has the money to make a better app.

Longtime fan, but cannot stand the app

It gives me so many headaches. The latest issue is now suddenly the screencast functionality has stopped working so I cannot watch anything from the app on my TV anymore.

Content is awesome, app less so

Love the content, but this app is frustrating, along with it not keeping me logged in, it doesn’t integrate with auto populating usernames and passwords, and I currently can’t even log in, it stalls out after entering my credentials.

Content Value is High, Please Stop Logging Me Out Mid-Show

Love CR and the shows they produce, but the app is a bit of a nightmare. Constantly logs me out mid-stream and sometimes blocks me from logging back in. It also crashes quite a bit.

Love the Content, Fix This Bug

I’ve been a fan of Critical Role Since Campaign 1 and have fully watched every mainline episode of each campaign. I will consume any content they put out, but if I have to login 1 more time, I might explode.

Great content, bad app

The app logs me out 3-4 times a day, has no mechanic to remember my email address so I have to type it manually every time, forgets my place within episodes, and eats up massive amounts of battery life. Still preferable over watching on YouTube with ads, but seriously, please fix this app!

Buggy Still

Constantly getting kicked out/logged off of the app. Many times the episodes will just stop playing and take me quitting the app to resume. And often times when I pause an episode to come back to later it picks up at a lot earlier of a spot in the episode. I do badly want to like this app but these are all major issues with being able to just simple enjoy content. And it’s unfortunate that there is still no download/offline option.
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Barely runs

Lags constantly, logs me out every time I use it just the same if not more as it did months ago. Kinda crazy to have this much of this same feedback here for this long and even acknowledging it for it to just be seemingly worse than before, kinda feels like a slap in the face especially if I’m paying for it as long as I have been now, ill just go back to monday crew if it keeps up not everyone can afford to ignore and deal with this every month with their subscriptions.
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Awesome content, awful app

This is my third time being prompted to login for the day… I thought you guys had fixed this?

UPDATE on my fifth login now