CheapCharts - Movie & TV Deals

I’m sorry but this app used to be great, but now it’s absolutely slow. Been slow for the longest time and when I saw the update I was excited that they FINALLY fixed the issue. Nope! Still incredibly slow. You tap on a movie to buy and it shows the logo in the center with its animation until you get so tired of it not doing anything and you end up going to Apple TV and buying the movie without using the app. Wish the developers would just fix this app for once and get it working. Right now it is absolutely useless. **EDIT** The developer responded to my review and said that the app had an update and is now blazing fast. I don’t know what planet this “blazing fast” app is on, but wherever it is, I’d like to have that app because this app is still excruciatingly slow. It’s not fast at all. Pages load as slow as ever. I’m constantly getting the RELOAD dialogue at the bottom of the splash screen. It stays on the splash screen for ages until it decides to load. And when tapping on a movie or tv show to view more, it gives you that load screen of death as the screen darkens somewhat and you have the animated logo telling you that it’s loading. Well I just cannot use this app anymore. Not until this phantom “blazing fast” app finally shows itself because this app is not blazing fast at all. All other apps work great. This one is not working hardly at all.

Update 3 (Aug 2022): App and web login are now fixed. Update 2 (Aug 2022): stopped working entirely, on iOS, tvOS, and web. Sad. Update: the interface is getting worse. There is no rhyme or reason to the grid shifting unpredictability between 3 columns and 4 columns. Then, you are constantly missing half of a column on the right hand edge. Very sloppy developers, no user testing, obviously. On iOS, there are two different menus to switch between movies, TV, books, music, etc. This is needlessly complicated. This app is useful in that it provides information that the iTunes Store should really provide much more readily. Unfortunately, the app suffers from a fixed, non-customizable display with only four titles shown per screen on Apple TV, which is way too few. Also, the scrolling on this app is not well calibrated using the remote, for some reason. This makes navigation very difficult and frustrating.

I basically live on the road. So I rely heavily on downloadable content vs streaming content. I started building an iTunes library a couple of years ago. I wish I had known about this app then. It has already saved me a bunch of money just by building a wishlist and waiting for things to go on sale. The pricing history is one of the best features because it gives a better idea of when to purchase an item. Say if a movie is $12 but goes on sale for $8 but frequently goes in sale for $5, then I’m gonna hold out until I hit it for that $5. Yeah I know I’m cheap but that’s kinda the point. While this is a fantastic app already, if I had one request it would be to be able to set a price and get an alert when a particular title drops below your price threshold. Worth downloading for sure!! Stop overpaying for content!!