Taste: Movie & TV Suggestions Reviews

This is my first App Store review because I want to say that I am IN LOVE with Taste. I go on it literally multiple times a day. It has really pushed me to learn more about myself and watch more film which is what I have been wanting to do. If you struggle with knowing what type of genres in movies and shows you like and/or want to discover more, this is Taste for you. I love it and am constantly updating my profile.

Unfortunately, I gave it 4/5 stars for right now because I REALLY wish they would continually update the streaming portion of Taste. They were smart enough to include this super useful labeling system to label which movies are streaming where but it’s never updated!! I constantly have to go through a bunch of my streaming apps to see what movies are available that I want to watch. While you’re at this, I strongly suggest adding TubiTV and Disney+ to the streaming section. I know services like Netflix are always adding and removing movies/shows but I think if Taste can keep up with that, it would be near perfect.

If you read all of this thank you!! Again, I LOVE Taste and strongly recommend it to everyone.

I’ve spent hours on Taste. I love the concept and I think it’s super engaging and fun. I’ve gotten a couple of my friends to join me and we like each other’s reviews all the time.

A couple issues tho.

Feels like it doesn’t reward for your prefers as much as it could to keep you engaged. Could do with some sort of achievement system, something to keep you on Taste and keep you involved.

A lot of glitches in the small things.
Attribute totals don’t add correctly all the time
The interface for writing reviews is clunky and often typing out your reviews won’t work properly.
For some reason you can only add a space if your touching the word in front of you, which makes editing difficult.

I wish there was a section I could go to see what everything meant, I’m still not entirely sure what the Green number beside all the movies mean. Is it how much it thinks I would like it? Is it how highly the movie is rated on average? Just clarification somewhere would be awesome.

All that being said, I love Taste, I use it constantly and am consistently engaging with other users and writing reviews. If they improved the user interface slightly, added some depth, and maybe made it easier to interact with others, this would be a perfect app.

Hope they continue to work on it! Love the concept. Great even if they don’t make anymore changes.

-CJ

Best movie/tv recommendation app I’ve used; simple and to the point. Also seems to have gotten a critical mass which helps the system’s recommendation abilities.

I hadn’t used it in some months and when I came back the UI was a little different. Swiping left and right doesn’t seem to have specific actions anymore like marking as ‘not interested’ or saving. If it does there’s at least no visual indication like there used to be. I have to go through more taps to do these actions now. Also rating is not as frictionless where I can immediately tap one of the four ratings and move on. Now it’s a ‘post’ with more taps. For someone who has watched a lot and is usually rating vs. saving, this can get tedious. There are no more tap-able buttons on the cards either. I get that they may crowd the UI, but they were quicker.

Also it doesn’t seem like I can just view recs as a list anymore and sort by rating? Seems like it’s all in the card view and only my saved entries can be sorted. I don’t really want to have to swipe a deck of cards to get to stuff I want to rate. Perhaps this was done to increase responses across all movies so that ‘not interested’ and reviews alike could be gathered vs just reviews. Idk.

Great app, but seems like there is a little more friction lately. Keep up the good work though!

Important note- this is my first EVER App Store review. I have so many ~feelings~ for Taste that I needed to say something lol. I’m a huge movie buff and therefore am known by my friends to be very pretentious with my this app- and Taste has only helped me propagate that pretentious this app even more!!! I love it!!!

However, there are a few major bugs that have been pretty irritating in my usage of Taste . Even after saving a movie into my watchlist, this app will continue to recommend it to me. Over. And. Over. Again. I’ve saved movies 10+ times and still see them pop up on my feed. It’s really annoying. Along those lines, it seems as if Taste has issues saving profile info & recommendations.

If I could also recommend a feature, I would say that some users have internal breakdowns when it comes to ranking movies that maybe aren’t so good but mean a lot to them as “Amazing”. Instead of the predetermined “guilty pleasures” feature, I think it would be a pretty good idea to just have a “guilty pleasure” button. Two birds with one stone, amiright?

But yeah, all in all, I think the idea and most of the reality of Taste is brilliant. Some bugs (that I hope will be tweaked in the near future!) take away from the experience. Would give 5/5 stars without these bugs.

After spending a few hours on Taste, I am excited that finally there could be a worthwhile site that does a good job recommending movies/tv shows with an algorithm that is effective. To repeat a suggestion that someone else already mentioned, it would be nice to have additional rating options that reflect finding a film that was made well, but personally did not enjoy (and vice versa). I feel bad rating a movie as “meh” because I didn’t find it interesting when I am aware that it is objectively a good movie. Thank you for designing such a fantastic app, I intend to upgrade!

When I first downloaded Taste I was so excited, as I absolutely love movies and always enjoy watching good ones, but often have trouble finding ones I like. The layout was very easy to navigate and really easy to use. But as I started to rate movies, I found it taking longer and longer to go up by one percent. I spent literally hours just going through the lists with very minimal increase in the percent. I finally got sick of it and decided to see how long it would take for me to get to level 2. I just repeatedly hit ‘meh’ to see how many it would take. Over one thousand movies later and I hit level three. It should not take over a thousand movies to get past level two, that’s just insane. I know it sounds stupid that I’m annoyed at how long it takes to level up on a movie rating app, but if it takes that many movies to get past the second level then there is no point in the level system in the first place.

This is such a good idea but the execution is just meh. The recommendation system works pretty well, and I always enjoy the movies that Taste thinks I will. Other than this though, Taste isn’t great. Currently, the user-interface is terrible. However, the UI gets changed what feels like every few days. I wish we could just get used to one style that works. I love using Taste to catalog the movies I’ve seen, I think there should be more focus on this as well as the recommendations. I also wish that friending users would actually mean something or be useful. I’d love to add friends and family to compare our movie this app. Overall, if you just want to find some movies that you’ll like, Taste will work for you. But, if you want anything more than that, there’s probably a better option.

Taste is very informative and a excellent companion to any movie connoisseur. I am an avid movie enthusiast and have been my whole life. I like new movies just fine, but the classics are classics for a reason, they are “Amazing”!
Movies could and should include TCM regulars AND those which do not show so often. The Wizard of Oz is not the only “classic”. For example, where are all the Shirley Temple movies? The Thin Man movies? Unconventional/silly classic horror? Doris Day films ie. The Glass Bottom Boat? And even That Darn Cat? Christopher Lee was in more than just TWO Dracula movies, where are they?
I, and I am sure many others who love classic film as well, hope to see the classics section fleshed out in future updates to come.

I really enjoy Taste. It shows me more nuanced recommendations for movies I haven’t even heard of. I enjoy rating movies I’ve seen and seeing a more detailed explanation of my this app.
The one big problem I have with it is when I’m rating movies and come across one I haven’t seen but would like to, I save it and add it to my watchlist. When I do that, I expect to not see that movie again as I continue to rate other movies, but I still see them.
Other than that problem (though I see pretty often), Taste is fun and really interesting to examine how you watch movies and to find more you’ll like.

I love Taste and have recommended it to others. But I wish it had an option to watch with your partner. Other than just friends, family and self I want to find movies I could watch with my girlfriend. Also I wish it would compare movies with my friends movies. My friends have Taste and I want to be able to look at movies we could both enjoy. Movies that are both recommended for eachother to watch together

I love Taste, it’s helped me find movies to see and it’s a great way to review movies with many ways to review it other than your usual stars, it gives you the option to see what kind of movies you would watch a lone or with friends/family, if you want to watch a light or dark movie, and how rewatchable it is. From beta testing certain features, I can honestly say I’d love to see Taste expand to podcasts, music, and games. I hope Taste continues to be worked on in the future.

I’ve got some major beef with Taste. When you open quick rate, 95% of the movies it’s going to have you rate are newer movies. A majority of which are popular, non of which are classics. There are so many movies that it just glosses over because it only shows newer movies in quick rate. Seven Samurai, A Clockwork Orange, The Shawshank Redemption, Jurassic Park, Mulan, The Sixth Sense, etc. EVERY single one those never popped up in quick rate. It would make sense for it to have you rate popular films right off the bat, but it only cares if said film is new. ALSO! I searched Cinderella on Taste and it gave me 10 different iterations, NONE of which were the 1950 Disney version. I know film critics are biased, but come on!

I love being able to have an app that recommends me movies, and it really is a brilliant concept, but some of the algorithms used can be improved. For example, it will often ask me to rate a movie I have already rated, which means if I rate it a second time, it messes with some of the statistics Taste provides on your profile. Also, less important, but it would be good if somehow the movies that it gives you to rate were more catered to the person. For example, it’s weird that it would ask me to rate Jaws III if I haven’t even rated the first one. Overall it’s a great app, just needs some adjustments.

This is a great app for finding new content that genuinely matches your preference. I've been using this for a few weeks now and I have to say it’s surprisingly accurate. Recommendations cover a broad range of shows and movies, not just a popularity contest, and it’s very easy to use. Plus, it has a great UI, simple and elegant interface, and a awesome design. Highly recommend for easily discovering new things to watch!

I have liked Taste for quite awhile, and liked it a lot. But recently I have been finding movies on my match% that say they are available on Netflix or Prime Video, but when I go on to those platforms the movies aren’t available. And that has been happening a lot! I love Taste and it has helped me find a ton of great movies, but it’s been really annoying getting excited for a movie only to find out it’s not available even though Taste said it was... if they update it and take care of this issue, then Taste would get a solid 5 star review from me.

I would like to see who my “favorite actors” are based on my movie tastes. I think that the actors influence the likelihood I will go and see some movies (more so than favorite directors). I still want to see who my “favorite directors” are though; I think that’s interesting.

I would like to be able to write reviews of movies within Taste .

I would like to have the option to view my watchlist by years AND by genres.

I would like to see data on my profile about the kinds of movie themes I enjoy.

The movie “news” tab is completely useless to me.

What criteria influences the movies that are considered my “guilty pleasures?”

There are some buggy issues still. Movies that I add to my “watchlist” will sometimes reappear in the list of movies I need to rate. It’s a little frustrating because I just determined that I want to watch the movie, and I have to rate it before I can rate other movies.

I have two reasons to give this one star.
First indie and foreign are grouped together as an option. I don’t want foreign movies but I love indie. Why are these grouped? I hate going through the foreign stuff just to get indies included.

This is my biggest problem. The guilty pleasure movie list. As someone who struggles with mental health and telling people what I like. I am and always will be offended by this term. I have taken a lot of time to realize that what I like should be what I like and I should not feel bad for what I enjoy. The term guilty pleasure means I should feel guilty for liking something - in this case a movie because not everyone else does. That is offensive to me.

Taste is just AMAZING!
I’ve always used Goodreads to track my reading life. But I never had a beautiful and still sufficient app to do so with my movies and series! Now I can have them all in this app!
Thanks a lot!

P.s: It would be great if I could have access to the movies that I’ve skipped and added to the Never-watched category so I can add some of them to my To-watch list!

Amazing app that I could spend hours on it at a time! It’s super enjoyable and I love being able to rate my favorite TV shows and movies and get personal recommendations.
Things I would add to make Taste even better would be to add Disney Plus in the streaming section as well as maybe add a part in our profile that displays our favorite actors based on how many of their films we have seen. I think that would be pretty cool!
Love Taste. :)

I like movies as much as anybody but Taste is amazing. It recommends certain movies/shows based on what streaming services you have. It can tell you how much you’ll like a movie based off previous movies you’ve liked and your personality and it has a community of movie watches that can give you honest reviews. All this and so much more; Taste is a must!