RecDek vs Criticks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RecDek
Discover personalized film and TV recommendations from friends, family, critics, and festivals. Curate a unified watchlist across all streaming services and filter by subscription to save time and watch better.
- Friend recommendations
- Critic reviews
- Festival award winners
- Unified watchlist
- Subscription filtering
- Personalized discovery
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Independent entertainment discovery. Discover the best in film and TV across all streamers by getting the best recommendations from your friends, family, critics and film festivals. All in one place. Algorithms don't suggest good shows, use RecDek with your friends and family to share your best shows with each other and find what to watch next. You can also follow your favourite newspapers to get top reviews, and film festivals to get all the award winners! Curate your watchlist across all streamers and use the subscription filters it to find something personalised for you in the time you have available. Save time, watch better. Join our community and find out about the best shows around. Download now. Tell your friends.
Criticks
This app consolidates your entertainment tracking, allowing you to review and share what you're watching, reading, and enjoying with friends. Discover new content through your social circle and create personalized lists of your favorites.
- Social feed of friends' activity
- Track movies, TV shows, and books
- Create and share custom lists
- Leave reviews and ratings
- Discover trending content
- Personalized recommendations
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Criticks is the social hub for everything you’re watching, reading, and loving. Tired of using multiple apps to track movies, shows, and books—and getting recommendations from strangers? Criticks brings it all together, with a home feed built around your friends and what they’re into. Create and share lists. Leave reviews. See what’s trending in your circle. Whether it’s a hidden gem or your next binge, Criticks helps you discover through people you trust. Track it. Rate it. Share it. All in one place. Movies, TV, books, and more to come. Criticks is for what makes you tick.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: RecDek at 5.0 against Criticks's 4.6. RecDek also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Criticks's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (47 vs 5). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RecDek holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Criticks has 47 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
RecDek ships an update every 2 weeks, Criticks every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RecDek | Criticks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 4.6 (47 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 47 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Recdek Ltd | criticks LLC |
Customer experience
RecDek
Criticks
In-app purchases
RecDek
No in-app purchases
Criticks
No in-app purchases
