I like the app on my android phone. I enjoy the variety of movies available throughout the year. There are romantic, heartfelt storylines with diverse casts and locales. I can stream from the app to my tv, but have to disconnect and reconnect after each movie if I want the captions to appear. Also, I noticed the "Last Chance to Watch" movies won't play in the app at all.
The app is excellent on my phone. But it won't stream to a TV for more than a few seconds. Then the movie stops, even on my phone. I don't think it's a problem with my equipment, because Disney Plus and YouTube stream all right. Can Hallmark's technicians double check the app to make sure it can sustain TV streaming for the duration of a whole movie?
I love the idea of this app. But it frequently freezes and quits playing movies. I use this app on several different devices and it gives me issues on every platform (iPhone, Android, firestick, roku). The selection of movies is ok, but given that I've been paying for it for several years and it isn't getting better, I'm rethinking keeping it.
The streaming is really bad with Chromecast. I wish support had admitted that sooner. It would have saved me a lot of time. Every time I watch a movie I have problems. It buffers, hiccups, the audio is off from the video, stops for no reason etcetera... It's just unbelievably bad. Hopefully someday they'll figure out a fix; until then I'm just watching on my phone
App is useless as is. Once upon a time, i could pause and fast forward or rewind on the app. Now that I've restarted my subscription, and actually want to use the app on my phone, that seems to be no longer available. So i basically have to be prepared to sit down and watch the movie straight through, without interruption, NEVER wanting to pause or rewind or anything? That's crazy! What kind of dark ages streaming is THAT?! Now I updated the app and the Christmas movie section is Gone!
First of all I'll say, I didn't sign up for to watch anything on my phone. However, I watched on my t.v. until recently. It says I have to update app which I've looked into (t.v. does automatic updates). So I'm still paying for an app I can't use. I can't figured out how to stop payments. Half the time the app didn't work. I wasn't able to watch movies most of the time, it wouldn't load movies or I would finally get a movie to load and no sound. It's very frustrating when you pay for services.
It started out fine. Could only search once or twice. Then had to restart and try again. Or the crash on changing from one screen to another. Now some idiot cut the amount of movies on the watch list. Seriously!! You have tons of movies and I cannot remember them all. It should be an unlimited watchlist. Also, you don't put all episodes of your series in order of being watch. Like with goodwitch, you have the two part episodes as movies. Instead of putting them in the proper order.
REVIEW UPDATE I use to love this app, because I love watching Hallmark. The streaming is absolutely horrible now! If I pause a show when I go back to it the screen is black, and you can only hear the show. You have to exit and restart it several times before the picture will show again. Sometimes it does it when you first hit play on some movies. It's VERY frustrating! I've always loved watching the Hallmark channel so I was so happy find there's an app. It runs great and very clearly
App is poorly designed and freezes often. If I click on a movie to read the description then want to go back to the movie list, it takes me all the way back to the sign in page to sign in again and start over. Incredibly limited movie and show content, especially compared to all that Hallmark channel produces every year. Do not be misled, this year's new Christmas movies will not appear in the app.
The whole reason I got it was to watch a specific movie that I saw on the hallmark channel but it was already half way through. To my disappointment the app doesn't have that movie. Or hardly any movies that I've been browsing the hallmark channel getting a list of Christmas movies I want to watch and what do you know, none of them are on here. What am I really even paying for if it doesn't have the majority of the movies that hallmark has. I have watched two movies so far. The first one was ehh. The second one I loved. I just wish it had more of a selection of the movies they are showing on tv for countdown to Christmas.
