Comparison

TV Listings Plus vs CineLobby

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

TV Listings Plus

This app provides fast and reliable TV listings for major channels across the USA and Canada. It offers detailed show information, allows users to set reminders, track favorite series, and receive notifications for new episodes. It also suggests prime-time shows and movies.

Highlights
  • Fast and reliable TV listings
  • Detailed show and movie information
  • Set program reminders
  • Custom TV program calendar
  • Add shows to watchlist
  • Notifications for new episodes
  • Prime time show suggestions
Features
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TV Listings Plus is FREE and help you get quick and reliable TV listings for all the major TV channels, networks and providers in the USA, Canada,... including cable, satellite and antenna. TV guide gives you detailed information about all the movies and shows on TV with modern, beautiful and smart interface. Keep track of your favorite TV shows with features: • set reminder for any programs you want to watch and build a custom TV program calendar help you never miss any favorite TV programs. • add shows to watchlist (My Series) and the app will automatically push notification when new episode comes out. • allow tracking status of episodes, this helps the app push notification better TV Listings Plus app also provides suggestions for TV shows and movies in prime time. Intelligent caching help saving bandwidth and increase performance. Download the TV Listings Plus for free and get everything you need to make watching TV easily!

About

CineLobby

Features
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CineLobby is a movie recommendation app built on real collaborative filtering — not a popularity list with your name on it. HOW IT WORKS Rate a handful of well-known movies — not for me, haven't seen, liked it, or loved it — and CineLobby blends three signals to build your list: • Collaborative filtering: your ratings are matched against patterns learned from a large real-world ratings dataset, the same technique behind the recommendation engines you already use. • Content matching: genre similarity to what you rated highly. • A quality signal: a statistically adjusted rating that keeps a movie with 3 ratings from outranking one with 300, so thin, noisy data doesn't skew your picks. Not enough signal yet? CineLobby asks for a few more ratings rather than guessing — quality over speed. FIND SOMETHING YOU HAVEN'T SEEN Filter recommendations by genre, decade (from classic-era film through the 2020s), and minimum audience rating. Already seen one of your picks? Tap it to swap in something new without losing the rest of your list. Tap any movie for "More like this." BUILT FOR PRIVACY No account, no sign-up, no tracking. Your ratings live on your device. There's nothing to delete because there was never anything to collect. CineLobby uses the MovieLens dataset for ratings data and TMDB for poster artwork.

Screenshots

TV Listings Plus4 screens
CineLobby4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: CineLobby at none against TV Listings Plus's shown. CineLobby also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 5 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TV Listings Plus ships an update every 5 months, CineLobby weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
TV Listings Plus versus CineLobby: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTV Listings PlusCineLobby
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (13K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings13K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB30 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPhu Tan TaKirby Robinson

Bugs and requests

TV Listings Plus

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Reminders not always working as expected
  • Inconsistent time zone adjustments for some channels

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add grid view for tablets
  • Improve search functionality
  • Extend program listings beyond 7 days
  • Provide more customization options

CineLobby

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

TV Listings Plus

No in-app purchases

None

CineLobby

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TV Listings Plus free?
TV Listings Plus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CineLobby free?
CineLobby is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TV Listings Plus or CineLobby have ads?
TV Listings Plus shows ads; CineLobby does not.
Which is updated more often, TV Listings Plus or CineLobby?
TV Listings Plus ships an update every 5 months, and CineLobby weekly. Most recently, TV Listings Plus was updated on November 8, 2026 and CineLobby on October 31, 2026.

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