Crackle - Movies & TV Reviews

Is now an advertising app with some content in between.

ForceFour

Crackle has some solid content - originals you typically can’t find elsewhere (Start Up, Snatch etc). It’s always been ad supported but the amount of advertising was okay...maybe reasonable. But here is what it looks like now... - start a show..5 ads - maybe a minute or two of content - 5 ads - 5 minutes of content - 5 ads - 2 minutes of content then I pause the show for 15 minutes to do something else...return and hit play...within a minute...another 5 ads. It seems Crackle views pausing for any length of time as another opportunity to feed you 5 ads (typically the same ones)... even if your pause was soon after a set of 5 ads. Plus... - any show or film you leave partially watched will deliver you 5 ads soon after you begin your next watch without any regard to how recently you were fed your last set of ads - the app itself is clumsy and antiquated. The only items that appear in your continue watching section are partially watched films, episodes and recent spotlight trailers Crackle fed you at its own behest. The app seems incapable of putting the next episode of the show you are already watching into the continue section like...pretty much every other app that has a continue section...which is most of them. I have to remember which show or shows I am watching and then search for it just to find it. And...yes...I am signed in. - when setting up the app in iOS...it indicates it requires Bluetooth access. What?? Why??? Never did before. I did not allow and it still seems to work. Much of the worst behavior began showing up after Chicken Soup for the Soul took over Crackle. Treatment of the customer is poor, support is poor. It all seems designed to squeeze every last penny out of Crackle until they sell it or put it out to pasture because no customer is going to put up with this with better ...much less intrusive options out there (some free). Bottom line recommendation: if you can watch it anywhere else...choose that other option. If you can’t but have other things you would like to watch...watch those other things while you wait for this content to appear somewhere else. If you absolutely must watch something only available on Crackle now...do so but prepare yourself fir repeated ad blitzes and then move on to something not Cracke as soon as possible. There is no way Crackle is viable fir long in its present form.

Excessive ads

BernDono

I was trying to watch a film and as it got closer to the end, the same ad was running over and over for more than half an hour. I finally gave up trying to see the end of the film and removed this app from my iPad.

Downloaded to Watch a movie and doesn’t even play

tRexxx89

So I saw Crackle had The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio movie to watch and couldn’t resist trying it out. I’ve tried to watch it online, through the app, and through my TV and it doesn’t play. On the app & online, it’ll show in the results but when I try to select it nothing happens. Every other movie select though. On the TV I try to select Watch Now, nothing. I select add to watch later, it “adds” but then when I go to my water later list, it’s not there. It’s annoying and frustrating. Why even display it if you aren’t going to actually allow people to watch. Needless to say I’ll be deactivating my account. This is ridiculous. Just feels like it’s click bait

Froze and crashed endlessly

Freeyonpaul

I was trying to send a movie to chromecast, but the app crashed several times while trying to set it up. It did not work for me whatsoever.

Getting slowly better

Pats6xChampions

Since Sony acquired Crackle the video quality and content has been better. However the annoyance especially on a smart TV is you can’t keep the video paused as long as you need. Seems after 5 or 10 minutes the video starts up on it’s own. Also when trying to skip forward you hit stop and get 6 or 7 ads. Then sometimes after the ads the video ends up at a part you already watched. You try to get at the point the movie was and guess what? 6 or 7 more ads! Lastly as someone who has more than enough sites I’m registered to it is annoying if the connection goes awry (which it does often) and being a non registered user it makes me start the movie from the beginning, which means skipping ahead and yep 6 or 7 ads ? There are no options for resolution either! I have a 4k HDR/Dolby Vision/Dolby Atmos TV and movies look awful. Choices please!

Crackle - Movies & TV Reviews – Page 6

Is now an advertising app with some content in between.

Excessive ads

Downloaded to Watch a movie and doesn’t even play

Froze and crashed endlessly

Getting slowly better

Great

App just keeps getting worse

Fast forward and rewind

Eh

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