Rotten Tomatoes - Movies & TV

Absolutely love the Rotten Tomatoes app! 🍿🍅 It’s my go-to movie buddy whenever I’m deciding what to watch. The layout is clean, super easy to use, and full of helpful info without feeling overwhelming. I love being able to quickly check scores, ratings, read the reviews, and discover new movies and shows that I might’ve missed. It feels like having a trusted friend who gently says, “Yep, this one’s worth your time!” If I’m planning a movie night or just browsing for fun, the app makes the whole experience enjoyable and stress free. It’s reliable, fun to explore, and super handy! This app definitely deserves a spot on my home screen! 🎬✨

The Rotten Tomatoes app on iOS is incredibly unstable and frustrating to use. It seems to go down almost every hour, making it nearly impossible to browse or check reviews consistently. For an app that’s supposed to be a trusted source for movie ratings, the constant crashes and downtime make it feel very unreliable. Another major issue is the confusing rating system. There appear to be multiple reading or scoring systems in place, and it’s not at all clear what each one means. It makes browsing and understanding movie scores unnecessarily complicated. The app would benefit immensely from simplifying things and sticking to one unified system—like the classic Fresh or Rotten labels everyone recognizes. No one using the app has the ability to choose or influence these rating options anyway, so the extra layers just make the experience messy. My suggestion: stabilize your servers and commit to one clear, consistent rating method. Until then, this app feels far below the quality standard you’d expect from Rotten Tomatoes.

I’ve been hoping for a dedicated Rotten Tomatoes app for years. Something distinctly separate from Flixster. So I was very glad when this app officially launched loud and proud. That said this app needs some work. Right now the app feels like it’s caught in between being a movie news hub, with articles and videos and trailers, and a place to write reviews. Right now the balance is off and it’s not working. One thing that was odd, a couple of my reviews were restricted and not able to be posted because they violated the community guidelines. But the reviews and question had neither harsh language or explicit language at all, this was truly puzzling. The app heals, rigid and limiting. This should be a competitor for Letterboxd and even IMDb, but that’s not the case. The profiles are extremely limited, there should be options for bio and profile pictures even links. There’s a real opportunity here to be robust and it’s not there yet. I appreciate the effort and this launch, but at this point, I’m forcing myself to engage with the app simultaneously posting a review and letterboxd copy and paste and then posting it here I’m not drawn to this yet. I want this app to succeed. I hope the developers take some time, take another swing at this app and make it even better.