TV Forecast: Shows & Movies 4+

Buggy mess - UPDATE

For the price, you would really expect a robust piece of software. 1. A show just randomly disappeared from the Progress section after changing the sort order, even though if you manually search for it you can see it’s still marked as “Added” with few episodes ticked. 2. Selecting episode 111 (for instance) from Hunter x Hunter by long pressing (to set “watched till here”) will crash the app entirely. I ended up marking season 1 as watched, then marking each episode from season 2 up to 111 as watched manually. 3. When the app starts (after a crash) it would just display a network error down below.

UPDATE: the problems mentioned above (app crash following a long press action) seems to have been fixed now. I suspect the first issue was somehow related to it as well (seems ok now, for that particular show). Problem #3 always happens after problem 2 (following an app crash) so it also seems fixed now. Thanks to the developer, and thanks for working on the app to fix the issue.

Developer Response ,

Oof, sorry about that! I jumped right onto the Hunter x Hunter bug and fixed it. There are a small number of shows that have *unusual* episode numbering, e.g. One Piece, and, turns out, Hunter x Hunter. I'll submit a patch for the fix very soon. With regard to the disappearing show, could you please contact me at matt@tvforecastapp.com with more info? My hunch is it was related to bad network connectivity but I'd really like to track it down. Thanks so much.

Excellent Tracking App

I’ve been using one particular tv show tracking app forever and recently it’s been starting to do weird things like randomly bringing back old shows I’ve watched and cutting short others where I still had episodes to watch so I set about trying to find an alternative.

I tried a few before i discovered TV Forecast and immediately knew it was the one for me. A very nice, simplified layout that makes it super easy to add your shows and monitor what you have to watch, what’s due up and shows they aren’t yet announced.

The only minor niggle I have is adding a show like South Park which has 20+ seasons. You have to manually mark each season as watched when it would be nice to be able to tap and hold the most recent season and have the option to mark everything watched to that point.

A minor niggle though for an excellent app that I was only too happy to support with a lifetime payment.

Amazing UI but lacking on Widget support

I did initially love the app. It’s a great concept and easy to see what shows I have upcoming and what episodes I have or haven’t watched. I was fine to pay monthly to have more than 5 shows.
However I have really desired widgets, and the app has a small size widget. This was fine for a while, especially when the new widgets first released with iOS 14. However I’ve wanted larger widgets for a while, especially on the iPad.

When I first found the app there was no suitable competition for app features provided here such as the quick access of what’s up next and upcoming, and the widgets. However now Trakt has their own app for iOS, which has widgets up to the large size, and does everything this app can do…although maybe it doesn’t look as good.

The fact the app hasn’t been updated in 7 months, and from what I’ve seen on the TestFlight is only starting to prepare for medium size widgets, has left me to decided that it’s worth moving to Trakt full time and getting rid of my subscription here.

I hope to come back at some point, as the UI is so simple and easy to use. However it’s just not as functional as I need it to be.

Basically, if you don’t care about widgets, this is a brilliant app. But if you do, look elsewhere for now.