JustWatch - Movies & TV Shows 12+

Such a fantastic app! No longer am I searching every streaming system to find the new additions. Everything is easy to read and in one place. THANK YOU!

Don't get me wrong-this app is worth its weight in GOLD for time saved trying to figure out which service is streaming or selling what shows/movies you're looking for, and YOU SHOULD USE IT!

I do have some ideas to make the user experience of this fantastic app even better and make it even more valuable. I know I can email the company but I'd rather put them here to encourage others sharing. Most don't from my experience working in the tech product support and marketing world. There's no forum advantage to sending an email, and nothing more at the website, so here I am!

UPDATE: Original written Oct 04, 2020 after doing all app updates listed by Apple-but Apple missed the update to this app from 4 days ago(?!)-so now that I've just done it manually-I have to update my review!

1) I'm with other users who said that they would love info about when things are leaving certain platforms, and who find that info not quite up to date...

2) I find that things also seem out of date when there isn't a listing for something new at all, such as the new show 'Professionals', released in Aug 2020 with Brendan Fraser and Tom Welling. Maybe it's because this show is not available to stream or buy, or isn't listed at the database used but couldn't there be a way to ensure it's captured anyway? I'd like to see titles with no option to stream or by if they DO exist at the database you currently use, and hope you will utilize other sources of data, so that users don't keep trying various searches in an effort to find those items.

3) Which leads to the thing I really want to ask for--better Search functionality--please!

UPDATE: YOU APPLIED SOME CHANGES I WAS TRYING TO REQUEST BUT OVERALL MADE THE SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY WORSE!!!

a) There are still NO advanced search options available with regards to differentiating Title or People from description.

RECENT UPDATE CHANGES: Until now you had the option to rely on the imperfect but still effective People selections that came up with your search results but now those are gone and there's NO option to differentiate!!!

EXAMPLE: I just did a search for Cary Grant movies pre-update and got 56 results. Now I can only get 25 max (which I had to count myself because the number of results is no longer shown), 5 of those results have nothing to do with Cary Grant and did not come up in any previous searches regardless of how I did them. AND every time I leave to adjust a filter, then come back and have to re-enter my search terms the results become more and more unrelated to Cary Grant. I have to close the app, open it and start over to get those best 20 results again. The Recent searches functionality is also now gone so I have to type it out again every time. THIS IS TERRIBLE FOR HOW I USE THE APP!!!

b) The Sort options could be expanded too please. For example I watch a LOT of classic movies with stars in them who had multi-decade careers. Since I'm always looking for their earliest work I'm forever scrolling through 50-80 titles trying to get to those titles because sorting by release date means most recent to least recent only.

RECENT UPDATE CHANGES: THE SORT OPTION IS GONE!!!
*AND* THE FILTER OPTION IS REMOVED FROM THE SEARCH PAGE SO I CAN'T ACCESS IT WITHOUT LEAVING THE PAGE WHICH CLEARS MY SEARCH.

c) Because of the longer lists I'm always searching through I'd also love it if the year of the production was visible in the large movie poster thumbnail results, and not just the smaller predictive results visible before you select "go" or to see all results.

RECENT CHANGE UPDATE: RESOLUTION APPLIED!

d) Also, with so many results and due to the fact that they are not visually compact, if I hop into a list item to check it out or add it to my watch list, when I return to my search results I'm sent back to the top of the list and have to scroll and scroll back down to where I was prior. Adding a button to take you back to the top when you want to go back to the top-to adjust filters/sorting or start a new search, etc would solve for that.

RECENT CHANGE UPDATE: RESOLUTIONS APPLIED!

e) Info on how your Search functionality works and how to use it, that pulls some of your FAQs related to what's in the search vs. not-and expands on them a bit-would have saved me a lot of time looking through the app info in 2 places and in applying a lot of trial and error.

4) In the New section especially, I'd also love to be able to better filter for genres, etc. Currently there's no way to exclude the hundreds of Asian films being added to various platforms for example, if that's not what I typically watch. I'm happy for viewers in North America to finally get wider access to films from Bollywood and countries like China-but even if you do like films/shows from other countries (and I do sometimes) there's no way of filtering by country or to include or exclude anything based on whether it has subtitles, or to select for foreign language films with subtitles vs. those that are dubbed). Reading through so many things I am not interested in at the moment to figure out if there's anything I want to watch—when the lists are in the form of those very large movie poster thumbnails—would be an excellent improvement!

5) Obviously the ability to slice your data as per above applied to the Search functionality (or maybe even in a new section) would allow you to open up the users' ability to utilize your app to browse and explore titles for things they don't already know exist that they might like to watch that aren't just newly released, which is sure to add value for your marketing partners.

Thanks if you read through my ideas! I do really love this app and rely on the uniquely priceless service it provides!

Pros, I love this app, use Justwatch regularly as I cannot find any other app that will tell me what’s on Canadian streaming services. It does a great job of telling you what is new (and popular) on Netflix, crave, itunes, PlayStation etc

Cons, can you add a feature to also tell us what is going to be leaving the streaming services, as Netflix regularly deletes stuff of the service with little notice

while it is usually very accurate, sometimes it says there is stuff on Netflix that isn’t, or prices to buy on iTunes differ, but overall I am happy 9/10 times

While you let us track a show to know where to watch or buy, it would be nice if you could go more in depth with this so I can stop using another app I am using called Watcht that allows to track what you have watched, by show, season or episode... this in turn will also notify me when new episodes/movies air

Watcht also does a good job after you tell it what you own/watched/want to watch, to suggest other shows or movies you may like

Only reason I use both Watcht and Justwatch is because Watcht doesn’t tell me where to watch or buy the show/movie

But being Justwatch allows to follow shows, it would be nice if you took some of the features of the other apps so we only need one app to rule them all, with so many services and shows (plus ones I own on disc) it is easy to loose track where I left off