JustWatch - Movies & TV Shows Reviews

by EvilDrJerkberg

JustWatch used to be great. I used it for all my watch lists for a long time. However, it’s been slowly getting buggier and buggier. It no longer syncs properly. I can’t log out. Streaming services do not accurately display for shows. My watchlist scrolls forever, repeating my content over and over. Maybe something is corrupt, but if I delete JustWatch I lose everything and have to start over since it hasn’t sync’d.

On top of that want a monthly subscription for $2.50 to disable ads and provide a few extra filters? JustWatch doesn’t even support multiple lists/categories (like me, me and my wife, our entire family). Everything has to be managed from a single list, which gets messy.

It doesn’t work well enough to use for free. It certainly isn’t worth a monthly fee.

by PaHiker

I like how it does a good job of taking me to the shows I want, but there are a number of bugs that keep this from being a great app.

First, it takes me into an app like Plex and the show starts right up. However, there a more apps where, like Paramount, where it just takes you into JustWatch then you have to navigate to the show or the episode.

Second, I have to back out to this app and mark that I have seen the show, it doesn't do it automatically.

Third, and the most annoying of all, is when I do a search for a show or movie, or just browse through its suggestions, it returns a lot of hits for which I don't have JustWatch , or (worse yet) hits that no one has. This wastes a lot of time, more than if I go into an app and do the search there. this app needs to either not return hits for shows that I have no access to, or highlight the show so that I don't waste time diving in, only to find out that I can't watch it.

Finally, support doesn't exist. I have asked numerous questions only to either get no response, or to get a response weeks later (problem with late responses is that they don't repeat the question, which after several weeks I may no longer remember what the exact problem was).

Good app, but not great. Has a long way to go before I would seriously consider paying for the service. Yes, there is a paid service, but JustWatch doesn't tell you what you are paying for, just "unlock more features and filters".

by Dmjackson18

Just started using it. Love that I can scroll for interesting shows/movies in one place. The main reason I downloaded it is that I have 7 streaming services and i need to find the service that streams my show/movie for free (or no additional charge outside of subscription). I’m still exploring it, but I notice a bug that’s quite annoying. No audio plays unless you route audio through headphones. My husband and I tried on our iPhones iOS 14.1 and couldn’t get the trailers to play audio. By chance my husband switched to headphones and it worked, but again, switching back to iPhone (as audio output) results in silence while the trailer plays. If this audio bug is fixed, I’d rate higher

by Bar Harbor Guy

All these reviews telling how great JustWatch is are clearly written by either paid reviewers or employees. What loads of bull feathers they are shoveling.
I spent quite a lot of time telling JustWatch the movies I had seen, the types I liked and didn’t. The services I use.
First recommendations were for movies already seen and on a service I don’t have.
The next round I specifically asked where it was and picked out one of my services. Not there.
Today when I opened it, they offered to deliver a better service for a monthly fee. Well that’s not gonna happen. I’m giving you 3 simply because it is a decent place to get ideas, but I know accuracy is no longer part of the equation. Just don’t keep asking for a raise until you can demonstrate you are worth it.

by Cylonitron

It’s seems they’ve removed these invasive ads. Otherwise it’s a solid way of finding things to watch, useful if a bit laggy at times.

Old review:

This was a great app, but recently they’ve added too many ads you have to wait a few secs to skip just searching for things streaming. Not sure why these geniuses decided that would be better than just putting some banner ads. Makes it a pain to search for things when you can literally just use a search engine much faster than sitting through an ad. Went from using it daily to taking up space on home screen.

by Toadsith

I love how JustWatch is improving steadily — it does have some bugs though: click on a director's name on a movie and it shows all of their movies for a second then they disappear and it only says their name and when they were born, which you can click to read their bio.

I'm also not able to rate TV shows season by season. For example, Season 1 of Preacher is excellent, season 2 ok, and I couldn't finish season 3 and heard 4 was worse. Also, why only thumbs up, seen, or thumbs down? (And why have seen separate, why would I rate it if I hadn't seen it?) — I'd rather a standard 5 or 10 star rating system so I could have some nuance in my ratings.

Also wish I could have multiple watch lists, not just movies and TV, but like 70s Action Movies, Stuff Rachael Hasn't Seen, French New Wave Watchlist — or whatever else I feel like creating.

by OldeMan

OK … my wife and I have used Watchaid for years. It was a fantastic app for keeping track of shows we were watching, automatically launching the correct app to see each episode, etc. But… it’s support has always been a bit shaky… and it’s become increasingly unreliable.

this app is a wonderful replacement … does everything Watchaid did for us and more. I’ve entered all of our shows, current and going back many years — I wanted to see how “complete” it was — and it covered every show I tried (150’ish).

Only one gripe: It crashes periodically. Going along great, and then *poof*, it’s gone. Looks like it needs a bit of stability-work.

by QueenLeeci

I have been using JustWatch for years and I’m sorry i am just telling you all how much I love JustWatch and use it sometimes daily. I love movies and tv shows and JustWatch is so perfect. Anytime a movie, old or new, comes up and someone says they want to watch it, I just go to my app and i can tell them everywhere that its available streaming or in theaters. Its always accurate. Super easy to use. The only thing that I dont like right now, is Just Watch is defaulting my view to showtimes, and often I am looking up a movie that is not in theaters. Give me the option please! I understand you are letting me know I can use it for current movies now, but i dont like it. Lol thanks! And thanks for being FREEEEEEE and ad-free and reliable all these years! You’re the best!

by D. Hill

Just Watch is a comprehensive Film and TV guide application that allows you to manage how you want to watch content. Whether you want to see what’s streaming, available to purchase, discount on a purchase, what’s playing at theatres or just what titles are popular and new Just Watch can help you. Setup is quick and easy as you choose what providers and services you want to provide you with content availability. After that you are free to search and save content to watch later. The design of JustWatch is conducive to all the information that is presented so it is not cluttered and easy to read. Navigation is done by the bottom tabs that take you to the section that you want. Just Watch works well as a TV guide for the streaming age.

by Nick Kids Shahs

I’ve been using this service for about 2 years (web). It’s great to have an area where you can view all movies available to you. I like the general layout, movie posters and the “popular” browsing section. The movie suggestion system seems good, I don’t typically find myself impressed when it comes to getting suggestions for movies. I do browse the lists on the homepage but they are not always fruitful which is to be expected to an extent.

One feature I yearn for is the ability to browse all movies by genre. This is possible on the “popular” page but it’s not intuitive.

Anytime somebody mentions a show, I pull it up on here. It’s got everything you need to know about the movie/show including trailer videos. Overall if you’re a fan of tv and movies and frequently watch new, you should be using this service.

by Hepcat B

Yidio is a similar app but I’m dropping it as this has: better faster search function with few missing titles, better wiki linkage to browse actors & directors, and for the Apple TV app version that syncs well w iOS and online. Also love that it can sort titles by alpha, add date, IMDb score, year of release, popularity, and Random is also great for lots of titles and difficulty choosing. Very smart. I’d just love if it could show all titles together instead of only TV shows or only movies. We want to browse for whatever’s the most fun to watch, whichever format, right. Still great though.

by Neodey

Love Just Watch. JustWatch makes its very easy to see what’s available across all the services you have access to. Makes it super easy to browse, although you might be overwhelmed by the selection, you at least know all that’s available to you. Figuring out if you have to buy (or whatever) a movie is as easy as searching it’s name to see if it’s streaming anywhere.
Prior to this update though, scrolling through titles was a nightmare. The slightest brush of your finger against an icon counted as you pressing it and took you to another page (Imagine scrolling through IG and every time you touched a picture it liked it). Not so bad except that when trying to return you’d also sometimes have lost your place in scrolling. And now that they fixed the biggest, and I think, only problem, JustWatch is an easy five stars.
Scroll through what’s new, popular, and bookmark this for later on this now perfect app 👍🏿

by JaxJunior

I THANK YOU!! You did amazing work on this because it lets me see exactly what any or all services have released recently in a very simple form even when the actual services don’t and you can see the last couple of releases with the days they were released for each service, I mean just WOW in my opinion lol, this should have been released or pointed out a long time ago so thanks. I even do it with services I don’t have so if I see something I like I can still check it out. Also I can just click the link if I have the service and it takes me right to JustWatch !

by Anne'sAccount

I found out about JustWatch a few years ago from Reddit and it is prob one of my most useful apps! JustWatch is amazing if you have multiple streaming platforms. Not only does it save time to look up where you can watch something it also shows you the whole catalog for just your platforms! You can select all the platforms you have for easy viewing of what’s been recently added! I’ve never had an instance where it was wrong either. I recommend it to anyone with more than one streaming platform. I like when it used to be ad-free but honestly the ads are like two seconds so that’s not even bad.

by Meganliz85

I am thrilled with JustWatch. I’ve always spent more time looking for what to watch than actually watching something. this app makes that sooo simple. With the filters I can see what’s available, where it is, and I can save things in my watch list. The filters work on my list too! Most apps like this mush together all price points. Here I can search for free to watch stuff and my free with subscriptions at the same time! Honestly I can’t even articulate how much time this has saved me. Also I find I am watching much better quality stuff now because I can filter through the d level movies that are the majority of free streaming. Amazing product!!!

by Avphd

Just Watch almost always finds exactly what I’m looking to watch online correctly. Considering it’s free, I could never look this gift-horse in the mouth. I use JustWatch about once a week on average when I want to find a movie or TV show online. It’s been right every time when the title isn’t duplicated for more obscure TV in particular. Even then, while it might point to one streaming subscription service incorrectly, it still points to another correctly and saves me a lot of time not to mention money. It’s fantastic to check JustWatch just before I am finally ready to purchase a video and discover that it’s just started streaming since last week on one of the video streaming services to which I already subscribe.

by The Carlos Fuentes

This has made my movie and series watching a 1000% better. It’s great to be able to search across services and see what’s new and popular. It takes all the work out of finding something to watch!
First - it seems if there is a price filter, subscription services movies don’t show. If I have “subscription” type checked then those should show regardless of price since they are essentially free.
I want to request to have 2 flags we can set on an item in a watchlist: “watched” and “own”. “Own” would work with types filter just like “subscription” - if that type is checked, movies marked “own” would show regardless of price since they are essentially free.
As for “watched”, I’m not sure where it would go but it would be extremely useful to save movies I love to my watchlist and then when I want to select from just new stuff I haven’t yet seen, I could filter the “watched” ones out and when I want to see an old favorite I can filter to just the watched ones.
That would make this app the perfect tool for finding and picking a movie every time.
PS: I’d pay more to have those additional features (in app purchase).

by Danfinney

UPDATE 1/4/20

I figured out what the issue was. At the top in light grey text, there is a filter for TV and one for MOVIES. My app was somehow set to TV where I had only 4 watchlist items.

I toggled it back and forth a few times to the other setting ALL. Sometimes it will show the entire watchlist regardless of the filter setting (TV still shows all for instance) and sometimes the filter actually works.

I am updating the review from 1 to 4 stars. This is a great app. The interface can be clunky sometimes.

Original post:
Once I logged into JustWatch with my new phone, my watchlist that I had carefully been building with more than 200 movies was reduced to 4. Fine I thought. There were movies in the list that I was never going to watch (5 Godzilla movies, for instance). But now even when I add new movies to the watchlist it is just the same 4 movies previously in the watchlist. I cannot add any more. There is no Support nor Help feature to JustWatch. I have recommended JustWatch to so many people but I am stuck with only the option of the same 4 movies in my watchlist. Someone help me!!!!

by Whowantsicecream

I can’t say enough good things about JustWatch. Every time I have thought, wow, wouldn’t it be cool if JustWatch did X, I try a long press or swipe and discover it already does X. The interface is so smooth, and it is so tightly integrated with the streaming sites that I use, it may as well be a controller app on its own. The recommendation engine is great, surfacing movies that I haven’t seen and am interested in. I don’t know whether it’s because they don’t actually have a stake in selling or creating content, but the organization and thoughtful execution of design makes JustWatch both a joy to use and highly functional. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys watching movies or tv shows.

by Beedeekins

Makes my life so much easier when I want to sit down and watch some TV. I haven't had cable in over 20 years and stream everything through my Roku box, which is the very first one that came out. It does not have any special features. When I have time and want to sit down to watch TV I would have to open each streaming app individually, and search through it. It could take an hour or more to find what I want. Robbing that time from my viewing enjoyment and my life, but not anymore!!! Since I discovered this "Just Watch" app, I can easily find which apps carry the shows I what I want to watch. What used to take an hour or more has been reduced to just minutes. When new episodes or seasons of my shows come out, I can find which platforms are offering them for free, and which ones want my money.

by Sparkles1317

I love using JustWatch and the website is great. A lot of new features have been added that have made it even more useful for keeping a watch list and deciding what to watch. Recently it has been very buggy though and will randomly get stuck where I can scroll or can’t click on certain tabs. And usually when I click on a movie the back button is missing and I can’t scroll down to read the description. I would love for JustWatch to be back in a working state since I am resorting to using it on the web which is not as convenient.

by Jacktorrance237

Good app, really useful but there are a few problems that I am struggling with. Well, surfing on JustWatch is a BIG PROBLEM. Really couldn’t count the times when I accidentally clicked on those movie posters*. Sometimes I add movies to my watch list, ACCIDENTALLY. Please fix this sensitivity problem. What I am about to tell next, is not a problem it is more like a request, a request about country section. I would be really happy if you add new country options. Portugal and Turkey would be amazing. Maybe it is already on process, if it is let me know.

by RobsView

This is a great app for finding shows and where they are offered at the lowest rate, but, for some reason, my settings won't store on my iPhone. I have to log in and start from scratch each time I use it. I would return much more often if I didn't have to repeat my parameters each time. I've read that others have the same problem and that it may just be an iPhone issue. An idea for a future improvement would be to create notifications for when your providers add a show you've been waiting for.

by SammyD42

I like the interface. It’s easy to control and use, however the inherent problem here is that the filters are not separate by category. When I am looking to buy something (price drop), it makes sense that I wouldn’t want to include streaming services. But when I want to see what’s new on my streaming services (new) I don’t necessarily want to include what I want to buy. It would be nice to be able to have search filters buy category.

Even so, this has easily become the tool of choice for me, thanks for the efforts.

by SKEW021986

I would give this 5 stars if it listed not released, but coming soon tv/movies. I don’t like that I read a review in a magazine and cannot mark it to watch. I forget about it by the time it is actually released. I have to use the IMBD app to track those shows. It’s annoying to use two apps when it seems this one could fix this problem. Otherwise, this is very user friendly and I like that it gives you all the options of where to view shows.

by Mzbhavin/safiregrl

Nice to see what is new on the streaming services I have. I noticed though that when I was adding movies to my watchlist it showed it was streaming on a service I have, but when I went to the watchlist itself it was not showing on there. I closed JustWatch and reloaded, but still the shows were not showing up. Went to streaming service to make sure it was still streaming and they were.
Maybe an update will fix this. Hope so, since I do like JustWatch .

by BradGad

I haven’t had cable for decades. I have subscriptions to a number of streaming services, but the roster changes every now and then. We have a Roku TV. If you’re sitting at the TV you can do a fairly comprehensive search of what’s available thru Roku, but this is so much easier. You don’t have to be sitting at the TV, and it’s much better for exploring what’s on services you might not currently be subscribed to.

There are a very few good apps that bundle a lot of related functionality, but to my mind of the best apps are ones like this: apps that fill a specific need and do it well.

by Studio DCi

Really helpful to find “streaming only” shows and movies. I love the filter by network/app and by Totten Tomatoes and IMDb. Being able to track the shows is great as well. The only suggestion and it may be there but the tutorial is vague; the ability to actually record your progress for each show. I enjoy the ability to know that I am on season ?? Episode 5 etc... right now I am using two apps because of that function and the function of suggesting similar shows. Other than those suggestions I love it!

by Tripledr

I can barely remember how hard it used to be to find out where and how to watch. Rather than poking around on my cable connection or browsing around at random on various streaming apps, I can locate a show quickly after hearing the title in a review, magazine, or a recommendation by a friend. I've even purchased a season online when it wasn't on one of my apps or subscriptions. This has made it possible to take advantage of free trial periods of a streaming service. Thanks for the good work!

by -Boudreaux-

I can’t remember how I found JustWatch, but it’s a hidden treasure. If you use several streaming services JustWatch is a must. It makes searching for programming a breeze. Search a title or a name and JustWatch will give you the information you need to find the series or movie. You will know the most economical way to view the programming that you are interested in seeing and how many seasons of a series are available to watch. The other great thing about JustWatch is that it is free to use.