App Profile: Hallmark+

BeachBound13

Rating: 4/5

I love this app. I have seen so many reviews and comments about the content being older, but what do you expect? Why would Hallmark have their newest shows and movies on an app? Other networks do the same thing, it’s a business, which I understand. I love catching up on movies and shows I have not seen in years. It is absolutely worth the price, but probably won’t keep it long because there is so little content, it will not take long to get through what I want to watch. But no contracts so it is worth it!! I would love to see older tv shows on here, much like Sue Thomas. There are other family shows I would like to see them purchase and have on here, like Doc and Promised Land. They could offer more of their older movies, but they have a decent number of them. My only complaint is around functionality. It does not save the place where you left off watching a show so you have to scroll through to remember what episode you were on. It also fast forwards and rewinds weird. It skips over huge blocks of time and you cannot see scenes as you’re going so hard to find the specific spot you want. I have had it crash a couple of times, too. So far it always reopens, but it looses my spot and finding it again is hard with the way it fast forwards. Again, totally worth the money even though it has room for improvement.

secretguardian

Rating: 2/5

So first the app: the app when all is said and done it’s basically awful. It randomly will drop things off your watchlist—I think it does it if you watch it—but what if you want to save the movie for later viewing because you loved it so much? It doesn’t usually keep track of what movie you were watching in any kind of easy to find format nor does it remember where you were half the time. (Especially true if the app crashed or your battery died) It has series movies and will actually tell you if it is movie nine of 12 but it does not have an easy way to show you what are movies one through nine. Recommended related movies make no sense and appear to be whatever they are pushing. Now about the service (which is not influencing the stars rating): I was under the impression you would get access to basically every single Hallmark movie there is out there. That is not true. You get access to a small selection, maybe 100, and some TV shows. I don’t know if there’s anything current or not because I don’t know what is current but it’s not like I have months and months viewing material here. Also, many of the movies are off-season, so they are offering autumn movies in May. As I said, it will allow you to view the movie and for that he gets two stars, but it overall is a very poorly designed app and one I am highly disappointed in as well as the service.

Desert-star

Rating: 3/5

I downloaded the app a few days ago because I wanted to watch when calls the heart. However I’ve already noticed several things about the app that need work. I have to log in to the app every day, and sometimes multiple times a day. Just now it kicked me out in the middle of watching a show and asked me to log in. This is very frustrating! I have a lot of steaming service subscriptions and none of them make log in more than once, unless I try to get into my account details. The way the app is organized is also clunky and makes it hard to find things. Half the time it doesn’t bring up what I was in the middle of watching and I have to go searching for it. Also makes no sense why you would list single, specific episodes of a show as an item on the front page, just list the series as a whole. If you don’t read the fine print in the picture you won’t realize you are starting a specific episode and not going to a page about the series itself. I found that out the hard way. I think whoever developed this app needs to go and look at other streaming platforms and how they have done it. They don’t have to copy anyone, but it might help with ideas for improving the service. I’m not sure yet whether I will keep this app/service.