Crackle - Free TV & Movies

This must be one of the worst streaming services I've ever used. I've turned my phone in landscape mode and the video disappears (but still plays), the screen randomly going green, hitting resume and being back tracked to ads and not actually picking up from where I paused. If you decide to use the website version, well... good luck there too. Besides it randomly freezing, and the low quality, it has potential with their selection of content.

The commercials are intrusive and make it impossible to watch anything without constant interruptions. I watched an entire series without one commercial and one 59 minute episode of another series with 28 commercials. Disgusting!!!!! Don't waste your time with this app. Will be uninstalling.

Worst app ever. Put it on pause, come back, ads again. Don't mind the ads, but any glitch, and there are plenty, you are back to ads. I am sick of it. Programs come up with all black screen, and have to reboot out, then of course, more ads. When my time watching ads and having to restart programs takes up to 4 times actual viewing time...then I am done. I will try again in 6 months and see if it is improved. Do not ask for me to provide 80 pages of background info. You figure it out.

Every month I try this hoping it will be improved. Then I uninstall it again out of frustration. If you're looking for the museum where they house every single clunker movie ever produced, this is it. You've found it. Selection has never improved. Constant crashes. A company as big as Sony should be embarrassed with such sub-standard technology. Have provided feedback directly to developer numerous times with no discernable result.

I really felt like singing along with 1776 without paying so I was happy to see Crackle had the movie. I was a bit concerned by some of the reviews, but newer ones suggested problems were being resolved. I thought the ads were placed at OK spots, and they did a good job of maintaining continuity by returning from the break to repeat the last line or so. The commercials were not terribly repetitive in this over two hour movie. Reserved a star since picture was only 2" square on phone.

Well it has a lot of movies & shows I'd like to play for my 94 yr old mother but this app as far as I can see is not capable of mirroring to full screen on her tv the picture is only a tiny rectangle on tv. Darn shame would love to be able to use it but the lack of full screen mirroring feature renders it useless to anyone looking to mirror it to a larger screen. Developer's you're missing a huge customer base over this hope you add full screen feature for those of us who mirror.

Horrible. App is ok if you want to watch commercials more than a movie. If you fast forward or rewind you have to watch several min of commercials. Even if you just watched several minutes of commercials 5 seconds before. If you stop mid stream and try and go back to were you stopped, yep, more commercials. If you got your time wrong and stopped in the wrong spot, yep, more commercials. I get making money but a better balance and a more reasonable function is needed or crackle will fail.

Using Crackle for Sherlock, but I've been forced to watch an awful, manipulative Trulicity ad literally up to 4 times in a row, each ad break. I can already memorize the first few lines. I'm lucky to get a McDonald's ad, or some other, but Trulicity occupies nearly 80% of all ad time and that is no exaggeration.

Glitches galore. Don't mind adds but if you pause movie when u unpause it it goes back to the last place you paused and when you try to find your place it starts another add. On top of the 5 or 6 other adds already in the movie. So if you have to pause like to go to the bathroom or answer the phone or what have you you end up with 30 min or more of adds. ( each is about 3-4 min long)

Trash. So many ads... even for a free service... and they run long... like for 3 minutes... and they put the ads right in the middle of the most important dialog of the climax of the movie... and then, when you hit 30 sec back to try and catch it, it's too dumb not to play the ads again that you just finished watching 45 seconds ago.

Ads play flawlessly, however none of the videos on the actual shows I tried to watch would play, I heard audio with an all black screen with crackle in the corner. If you enjoy the ads this app is for you that's why I decided on 2 stars. I would like to be able to watch something other then ads though. This app is not for me. Uninstalling

Constant ads even before movie begin. Only app always causing my screen to go black while watching a movie. At one point they stop showing the movie. And started looping the commercials, no more movie show. Would not recommend to my enemy! All these reviews are from the programmer and or their associates and or friends!!!

I like a lot of the movies and shows they have up, but the app is garbage. I'm trying to watch a tv show and every time I jump from one platform to another (xbox), I have to start over. It doesn't let me look at individual episodes unless I'm going into the main search, and when I try to watch the episodes from there it doesn't play consecutively. It'll go straight to whatever show or movie they're featuring. I'm not bad about the commercials, but it'll slow the same one throughout a movie.

Interface is fine for a free streaming app. 8 commercials per movie is tolerable considering how, again, it's free. That being said, is it really too much to ask that I'm able to enjoy what I'm streaming? The ads conveniently play perfectly every time. The movie/TV part however, not so much. My screen kept freezing as audio continues to play and then turns green. This happened several times within the first 20 minutes of just one movie. I'm sorry, but that makes it unbearable to watch.

I love movies. Free movies, love even more. I watch the ads, no problem, if your gonna give me free movies. I have had Crackle for maybe 5 years and there has always been problems, glitches, just as the others have. I use to be able to watch with closed caption, that is gone. The ads skip or don't play at all. I have figured out if I have to stop watching a movie, I have to minimize the screen, don't close the app, the next day it's still there and continue. And now today, can't open app.

When I was able to watch movies, I was able to watch really good movies and TV shows. Especially ones that Netflix got rid of, and crackle picked up like "Carriers". But as of late all's I get to watch is the buffer screen. Just watching the timer go round and round and round. So that's why four out of five stars. Otherwise it is a pretty awesome app especially since you get to watch movies free and the ads are not all that intrusive like some other streaming apps that I've used. (Looks @ Tubi)

It was just a mess. It worked fine until I pulled up a show. I got an ad, 2 minutes later, 2 minutes, 8 minutes later, another set of ads. Eventually when you leave a show enough, it started messing with ALL of my apps. none could open once without crashing, and once it just cut my phone off and not let it turn back on. It isn't even letting me uninstall it.

Like the movie selection. Dont mind having to watch a commercial for free movies. But when it's a CVS commercial over and over and over and over again then over again. Then back to the movie to right back to another CVS commercial the same one 10 times in a row. Going to watch a few more movies. Then think I will delete the app. Just to many commercials. And when you get 3 minutes of the same commercial just not worth the irritation. Fix the commercial issue it would be a great app.

Doesn't Work (Uninstalled) - Hard to navigate and most of the content you will never have heard of. But the big problem is it doesn't work. It randomly jumps vack several minutes during a film. Other parts will trigger an ad out of sequence. When the ad is over, the film jumps back several minutes. If you try to skip forward, or just re-watch the section again, when you hit the same spot it will play an ad and jump back again. It makes watching movies or TV a chore. Use other services.

Could be improved. Prepare for at least 10 commercials from 30 seconds to 1 minute. If you pause, it doesn't bring you back where you were and you have to watch yet another commercial. Watermark through the whole show. Title through the whole show unless you tap screen twice after every time you pause. No skip back of forward. It's ok for free. But they really make you pay with your time which is more precious to me than money.

Doesnt work. Have to keep restarting the app because the sound continues to play but the picture freezes. Also has WAY too many commercials. Will play a set go to the show for 1 second and then play another. Multiple times. Drains the battery on your phone so fast! And if you pause your show/movie even accidentally it takes you back to the beginning of whatever you're watching. And you have to deal with commercials all over again.

I almost wonder if they abandoned this app. I can't even tell you what doesn't work on the app because there are so many flaws and it changes with each movie you watch. Sometimes it looks like its paused but when you hit play you find out it was only buffering. Sometimes it jumps ahead or back an hour right in the middle of a movie. Sometimes it jumps to another movie in the middle of the one you are watching. Sometimes when you go back to a movie it asks if you want to resume or play from beginning.. When you hit either choice, there's a good chance it will resume a different movie. Honestly, I can't believe this made it to the app store. It almost functions like an app in the beginning stages of a BETA version.

When I first started using Crackle years ago, the app worked great. The movies and TV shows that were offered on there kept me entertained, and Start-Up became a favorite show of mine. However, more recent updates to the app have been frustratingly glitchy. I can't pause without the app freezing or going back to the last commercial break and then crashing. I can't even finish season 3 of Start-up now. Please fix this app so I can recommend it again.

The content they provide is pretty good, but it never saves where you are. I click the pause button and then play it and it goes back like 10 minutes. Not only that, but it ends up replaying ads because of it and sometimes even plays a set of ads MULTIPLE times for where there is only suppose to be one. Lastly, it never saves on the right spot of the show when I exit the alp. So, if you can please fix these issues I will gladly give you 5 stars.

I'm not sure where to start, but all of the bad reviews here describe the problems I had. Long buffering, constant ads, the same ads playing over and over, closing and reopening the app caused the time button to move all over the place, and if it moved backwards I'd have to rewatch the same ad segment again. I have never written a google review, but this experience was so frustrating I felt like I had to. your developers should watch a few movies using the app so they can understand.

While the content within the app isn't bad, the application itself is horrid. There's alot of commercials, which I anticipated. What I didn't anticipate was an eternal loop of a single commercial break. It paused the movie I was watching for the commercials, then when the movie came back on it started maybe one second before the commercial break and did the exact same thing over and over again. The user interface is weak. It doesn't even save where you were last viewing. Will not download again.