# Popcornflix – Movies & TV — user reviews

> 51 indexed App Store user reviews of Popcornflix by Chicken Soup For The Soul Entertainment, Inc, rated 3.90/5 from 5,512 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/popcornflix-movies-and-tv/id493605531/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/popcornflix-movies-and-tv/id493605531.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,158 · 4★ 724 · 3★ 432 · 2★ 245 · 1★ 953

## What do users think of Popcornflix?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 🎬 Extensive movie selection
- 💰 Free to use
- 🍿 Good for action and horror movies

**Cons**

- 🚨 Too many ads and commercials
- 🔍 Difficult to find specific movies
- 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezes
- 🗂️ Poor organization and navigation
- 📺 Outdated and low-quality content

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Movies freezing or restarting during playback
- Ads not loading properly or getting stuck
- Chromecast and other casting features not working as expected

**Most requested features**

- Add search functionality
- Implement a 'watch later' or favorites list
- Improve content organization and categorization
- Expand movie and TV show library with more recent and popular titles

## Newest reviews (15 of 51)

### 3/5 — Disappointed.

*2020-08-06, version 4.32.0*

Hi! Recently there is no sound when you play certain movies. That is very disappointing as I had never had any issues watching movies or shows since downloading the app.
The movie Portals has really good rating and it’s disappointing that the dialogue of the actors is missing. I do hope you will fix this issues quickly. 

Thank you.

### 2/5 — Some movies don't have audio and ads are too long.

*2020-05-10, version 4.30.0*

I wanted to watch the horror found footage film called vhs and vhs 2 but the vhs 2 was strange.  It had all the audio EXCEPT for human voices throughout the movie. I even forwarded to multiple scenes but still the same result.  Just people’s mouths are moving only.  I watched the same scene in an official trailer and it does have audio for human voices. I don’t know what but it’s just something that Popcornflix messed up on and needs to get it fixed ASAP.

Also the ads are WAAAAAY too long and too frequent.  Every 10 to 15 minutes, I get 2 ads which are 30 seconds long each.  Sometimes even 40 seconds and the other 30 seconds.  If I’m lucky I get 1 ad which is just 5 seconds and the other 30 seconds but this is rare.  It just destroys the mood of the movie.  Even if it’s free, I’m considering deleting this app due to its heavy repetitive ad system.

### 3/5 — Advertising

*2020-03-29, version 4.29.0*

I get that advertisement is a big thing for promoting others, but having nearly 7 groups of ads playing before 40 minutes of a scary movie I try to watch ruins the whole feel of a scary movie. Not to mention it’s the same ads constantly.

### 3/5 — Great app

*2020-03-06, version 4.29.0*

The is great and endless movies to watch my only down side is the casting feature doesn’t see to work for me cause after awhile of trying to watch a movie on my phone it gets kinda old if the feature was fixed it would be great

### 2/5 — Where are the buttons.

*2019-12-27, version 4.27.1*

Even though the movies play seamlessly and I don’t have problems with the ads (I get like three per movie) I give it a two star because it doesn’t have subtitles, rewind & fast forward buttons and it needs many easy friendly improvements.

### 4/5 — Good content but hard to find movies

*2019-11-17, version 4.26.0*

This has many movies but there is no organization other than genre. I could not find the shining but there were many other great movies.

### 3/5 — Not bad

*2019-09-07, version 4.24.0*

I’d give it a 5 star rating if the search feature worked, it says it doesn’t have certain movies yet when I google “(title of movie) Popcornflix” it shows up so it is on there but just doesn’t show up in search feature. Pretty annoying. Other than that big thing, it’s a pretty awesome site,yes,you have to watch ads but hey I’m getting movies for free. I like it. But please fix search feature.

### 2/5 — Mark movie as watched

*2019-07-21, version 4.24.0*

I quit using because I am tired of finding a move and watch it for a few minutes to find out
I already watched the movie. They need a way to mark a movie as watched. This has happened to me so many time that when I find a movie it is to late in the evening to watch. I quit.

### 2/5 — Low on Current Content

*2019-07-13, version 4.23.0*

The app has really improved but I think your app is behind on movies and series. I believe this is 2019, but I haven’t even seen 2018 movies. Movies like “ The Lion King”,  “Captain Marvel”, “The Hate U Give”, “Aladdin” etc should be there and series like “Blindspot”, “Grown-ish”, “Blackish”, “Stranger Things”, “Games People Play” etc should also be there. I believe that if you can add these types of things to replace your old content, it would be much much better.

Thank you, and I hope you take this into consideration 🤗

### 2/5 — The major downfall to this app

*2019-06-07, version 4.22.1*

This is honestly a good app, with a lot of movies. However, there is no search bar which makes it beyond difficult to find movies and even movies you’ve already started watching. It is a waste of time searching for a specific movie or any movie of that matter and it is a major downfall for this app.

### 4/5 — Review

*2019-04-28, version 4.22.1*

Found several movies I enjoyed. The worst is when commercials come on and the volume they play at, gonna blow speakers! Be prepared to watch with remote in hand and mute as soon as it goes to commercial! With that being said I enjoy Popcornflix free movies & shows 😁👍 4 stars due commercial volume 😡

### 4/5 — Xbox?

*2019-04-21, version 4.22.1*

I love this app cuz of the good selection of movies and shows, especially for being free, but why aren’t the same shows on the Xbox? I just got PopcornFlix on my Xbox One and tried watching Rango, but all the good shows including Rango, Friday the 13th, and 21 Jumpstreet weren’t there and was just a bunch of bad b movies. Now I’m not saying all b movies are bad, but it was just really low quality stuff

### 3/5 — Pretty okay

*2019-03-27, version 4.22*

It’s got a decent amount of new and old movies and shows some would like to see but it’s not the best option if you’re looking for Disney movies or movies like Venom or Spider-Man into the Spiderverse. Still good for those who want to watch all sorts of other movies though!

### 4/5 — The movies I watch starts over every time.

*2019-03-19, version 4.22*

The past few days I watch a film, and sometimes the content after over 15 minutes returns to the beginning of the movie. This is the problem I expected.

### 4/5 — Nice content - not so great app

*2019-03-17, version 4.22*

This has a lot of variety in content. The problem is that it’s really hard to find what you want. There is no search function. While there are categories, they aren’t organized, not even alphabetically within a category. And there is no watch list so you can’t find and tag something to watch later. Also categories aren’t consistent between the iPad app and the Apple TV app. I found something on one that I couldn’t find on the other. If you don’t mind searching A LOT, you’ll find some fun nostalgic content.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Don’t wast your memory.

*2024-02-08*

Too glitchy to be worth it. 
Too many commercials for themselves. 
“Ad Break 7/7” 5 of the ads are to watch movies you are already watching. The other 2 gun control ads. 
“Ad break 5/5” all 5 commercials are for movies you are watching. 
You get 5-7 minutes of movie for 2.5-3.5 minutes of commercials to watch a platform you are already watching. 
App will hang up halfway through a movie always at a an “Ad break”. With only way to watch the end of the movie is to start over at the beginning. Only to have the movie hang up halfway through again. 
All the free movie apps are bad. This one is the worst. The most commercials for amount of movie. 
The most freezing up. 
The worst layout to find a movie. 
The worst selection of movies. 
Every update makes the app perform worse than before the update. 
Save the memory and stay away from the app. You aren’t missing anything.

### 1/5 — Not bad but....

*2023-01-23, version 7.22.6*

Definitely needs work. My goodness an video streaming app, though be it free. That doesn’t have a favorites so you don’t have to hunt down what you want later, is just...well....stupid. Makes no sense! I can see why they have no search engine. They don’t have enough content to do this. A lot of their stuff is old but free. Plus they need to at least alphabetize their content. The way it is now is just a category with a mishmash of content. Idea of app...great. Format....is  terrible. From what I can see, there's no real support either. When you click on it..it jumps takes you to their other apps in the App Store! Bummer

### 1/5 — Horrible app

*2022-03-09, version 7.22.6*

This app is absolutely horrible I couldn’t give it a zero so I gave it a one literally no movies that you wanna watch and other terror movies instead of normal movies I searched up so many movies I wanted to watch and they didn’t even I have them on there don’t get this app at all it takes five hours to load and there is literally ads every three seconds.

### 1/5 — PopCommercialsCornTV

*2021-06-04, version 4.35*

The idea is great, I won’t knock that. A 90 minute movie (1 and a 1/2 hours) quickly becomes a 17 hour movie to get through with the commercials. I HATE commercials as we all do, but a commercial about every 2 minutes for a 90 minute movie makes the movie 100% unwatchable. Maybe if they offered a subscription for a couple of bucks a month that would be okay, but to have to sit through a movie that is extended from 1 1/2 hours to over 3 hours because of commercials is like watching TV, only regular television has LESS commercials. Until that gets fixed this is an immediate uninstall. After the first 35 minutes of trying to watch a movie I just gave up. It’s really just a waste of time at this point. I get that app developers need to make money, but with thousands of viewers there’s no way you aren’t making enough money to at least take half of the ads out. Uninstalled!

### 1/5 — You get what you pay for

*2021-02-15, version 4.35*

I am legally blind. When I tap on the picture of a movie or TV show it does not say the name of the movie or TV show using voiceover on an iPhone. It is very easy to make an app making sure that it is accessible to the blind. And as I said you get what you pay for it since you didn’t pay for anything you don’t really get good content. All the sci-fi movies are horror. Not bad but terrible even horrible. I don’t think I will be keeping this app. I went through the reviews and I only found one or two that were halfway decent reviews. Of the dozens of reviews I read only one came five stars and even that person complained about it.

### 1/5 — Disappointed

*2020-11-12, version 4.34*

After reading the reviews on this app I thought I’d give it a try. After downloading and signing up it crashed. every time I try to click on the app to sign up it would say that my email was already in use so I will go to sign in and it would crash again leaving me disappointed and forcing me to uninstall and reinstall thinking that was the issue but it wasn’t. I don’t know why it keeps crashing but I’m done and frustrated. Uninstalling this app.

### 1/5 — I give this app zero stars

*2020-05-15, version 4.30.0*

FIRST OF ALL i am really mad bc i cant watch the simple movie bird box i jave watched the move like two times but idc. i typed in the movie four times! i even went to categories and it still didnt show up i consider deleting this app bc it didnt give me the expierience i wanted and even if i do get a movis i wnnna watch therer is WAY TO MANY ADS and ut gets on my nerves😒 o and im writing this review and im forced to give it at least one star this app doesnt even deserve that😡

### 1/5 — Unusable

*2020-03-24, version 4.29.0*

I’m able to search for a title in the app but no way to save to a watch list or anything. 

Chromecast doesn’t work - you can hear the movie but an ad shows over top and doesn’t go away. 

The Apple TV version of the app offers no way of sorting and the categories are incomplete and mislabeled. I was never able to find a title in the tv app that I easily found in the iPhone app. And since Chromecast doesn’t work, I couldn’t watch it.

### 1/5 — Movies or series from this century please

*2019-06-13, version 4.23.0*

Ok I’m not a person who usually writes reviews, but on this app I had too. I was trying to look for a good series to watch after I had finished all the dance moms, Abby lees ultimate dance competition and raising Asia seasons and I downloaded this app but when I got on too the app seriously no movies or series kids or adults from this century would want to watch so if there was something possible as giving a 0 star rating I would. Thank you for spending your time reading this review I’m glad my voice was heard.

### 1/5 — Screen keeps going black and ads freeze

*2019-02-05, version 4.21*

Used to be an enjoyable app until the above issues, making it very irritating and unwatchable. The screen keeps blacking out tho the film is still playing and can hear the audio but can’t see squat. Also, when ads come on they freeze indefinitely and I need to exit the movie and try to resume again. Fix these recurring issues, please!

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Unlock the Latin America region.

*2021-09-19, version 7.18.703*

Dear, for pleasure only for your country the United States that they prefer you and you love it! Tired of using VPN app, enough is enough. I am an American, I am living in Latin America. 
Until when are you waiting to unblock the region in Latin America? Please

### 5/5 — Where I go to watch action films

*2021-08-16, version 7.18.5*

Popcornflix is hands down the best library of action and thriller movies. Their horror selection is pretty good too

### 5/5 — No Subscription Just Click and Play

*2021-08-13, version 7.18.5*

Some very interesting Horror and Sci fi I didn’t see any where. The best thing not having to sign up for anything.

### 5/5 — Lots of Content, But No Watch List or Search

*2021-07-27, version 4.37*

This app is made exclusively for impulse watching. There’s no Watchlist to save titles for future viewing. There’s no search function in the version for Apple TV to find movies you might want to see. There’s also no alphabetical or age organization; only titles in random order by category. That makes it terribly inefficient for busy viewers. For instance, if you find out a movie is available on Popcornflix using an app like Just Watch, it could take hours to actually find the movie in the Popcornflix app.

The iOS version permits you to register an account, but, since the Apple TV version does not contain a signin means and neither version permits a Watchlist, registering in the iOS version serves no purpose. 

The app is simply not ready for prime time.

### 5/5 — ME 💖💖

*2019-10-28, version 4.26.0*

have more and more movie’s on here like it takes two and parent trap and child one and child two and me before you and the greatest showman and and more for me thanks

### 5/5 — Great

*2019-08-22, version 4.24.0*

This app has vastly improved over the first time i saw it, its absolutely bursting with movies a huge improvement over the limited selection before and with a huge selection of sci fi movies and horror movies i love this app sure the programs could be better organized but with such a huge selection of programs i’m not complaining plus its all free what more can you ask for.  👍 👍

### 5/5 — Popcornflix

*2018-09-29, version 4.13*

Thank you so very very much for the blessings of free movies and tv shows.
I am a grandmother{60},disabled, surviving on a small monthly income...so naturally I cannot afford cable tv or any other pay tv. I solely depended on a couple of DVD’s at retail price from Walmart every month. I commend your service and you, because it has truly been a huge blessing for me.
I did my research about Popcornflix, and Google gave you a 100% rating.* Thank you*

### 5/5 — Lots of commercials BUT

*2018-08-30, version 4.12*

Although I’ve gotten frustrated with how many commercials interrupt the small variety of movies there is, it’s an awesome app. Variety may be small but some super good movies with good quality!

### 5/5 — Too many advertisements😭

*2018-08-29, version 4.12*

It’s good but there are way to many advertisements . It makes the experience a drag, literally.

### 5/5 — Super like!!

*2018-07-28, version 4.12*

This is the best movie app! I could stream them from my phone and just cast them to my smart tv and it works even after you exited the app already. Super fast and clear! I’m so happy i found this!! Thank you!

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