First of all, I want to help the devs out by saying if you’re looking for a streaming app to watch shows and movies you’re in the wrong place. Watched IS DESIGNED TO TRACK SHOWS, NOT FOR WATCHING THEM!! I feel so bad reading the negative reviews because as an online seller myself, I know how it feels when people mess up your hard work just because they didn’t read your product description (they do it all the time!), so thought I’d say something to help out.
This is an overall great app and absolutely beautiful to look at. My reason for three stars is because functionality needs some updating. When check marking seasons or episodes I’ve this app, I constantly am met with the “some wires got messed up” error and my check marks disappear. For an app that is supposed to help me remember where I left off on a particular show, this is very unhelpful. I have to keep rechecking each season/episode or I go back later and realize Watched had unchecked several items I previously checked. Very frustrating.
I find the timeline to be very confusing to use and honestly not useful the way it is set up. I feel bad saying that because I know someone worked very hard on it. I’d just like to see what shows are on today and what shows are coming up later in the week/month. I don’t need to see every episode or season listed. For example, I only need to see “Riverdale S6 E7 - Monday @ 8PM” I don’t need to see any other episodes behind it or know what came on tv three days ago. It’s just too much information. If The Simpsons aired 3 days ago, I can view that info in my this app list and see I missed it or this app it already and that’s plenty.
I also really dislike that when you open Watched it opens on the timeline I feel like most people, myself included, just want to see their watch list and would prefer it open to that page.
I also had issues with the “send us feedback” link, which is the only way to contact support in Watched . When tapping this, it tells you that it requires the iOS mail app to be installed on your phone. Not everyone uses the native app, it is completely deleted off my phone as I use a different mail app. So if you’re like me and don’t have the native iOS mail app or don’t use it, you have no way to contact support. It would be really helpful to have at least an additional line of text with support’s email address so those of us using a different mail app can manually set up and send an email to support or provide feedback.
Overall this is a really beautiful app and very smooth when scrolling and moving around from page to page. It just needs a few updates to make it perfect. Until then, I’ll probably stick with my old tracker app but look forward to seeing this one improve! Thank you and best of luck to the developers!!