Hallmark‪+‬ 4+

Love this App!

I love this app. I have seen so many reviews and comments about the content being older, but what do you expect? Why would Hallmark have their newest shows and movies on an app? Other networks do the same thing, it’s a business, which I understand. I love catching up on movies and shows I have not seen in years. It is absolutely worth the price, but probably won’t keep it long because there is so little content, it will not take long to get through what I want to watch. But no contracts so it is worth it!! I would love to see older tv shows on here, much like Sue Thomas. There are other family shows I would like to see them purchase and have on here, like Doc and Promised Land. They could offer more of their older movies, but they have a decent number of them. My only complaint is around functionality. It does not save the place where you left off watching a show so you have to scroll through to remember what episode you were on. It also fast forwards and rewinds weird. It skips over huge blocks of time and you cannot see scenes as you’re going so hard to find the specific spot you want. I have had it crash a couple of times, too. So far it always reopens, but it looses my spot and finding it again is hard with the way it fast forwards. Again, totally worth the money even though it has room for improvement.

It does the job of showing movies so it gets two stars. But it does the job very poorly.

So first the app: the app when all is said and done it’s basically awful. It randomly will drop things off your watchlist—I think it does it if you watch it—but what if you want to save the movie for later viewing because you loved it so much? It doesn’t usually keep track of what movie you were watching in any kind of easy to find format nor does it remember where you were half the time. (Especially true if the app crashed or your battery died) It has series movies and will actually tell you if it is movie nine of 12 but it does not have an easy way to show you what are movies one through nine. Recommended related movies make no sense and appear to be whatever they are pushing.

Now about the service (which is not influencing the stars rating): I was under the impression you would get access to basically every single Hallmark movie there is out there. That is not true. You get access to a small selection, maybe 100, and some TV shows. I don’t know if there’s anything current or not because I don’t know what is current but it’s not like I have months and months viewing material here. Also, many of the movies are off-season, so they are offering autumn movies in May.

As I said, it will allow you to view the movie and for that he gets two stars, but it overall is a very poorly designed app and one I am highly disappointed in as well as the service.

Developer Response ,

Hello. Thank you for taking the time to provide a detailed review. Regarding the technical issues, sorry you're having trouble with our app. Can you please email us at support@hmnow.com or call 844-446-5669 9:00-5:00 PST? We would love to help you out.
You are correct that our app does not contain our entire library of movies and shows, but there should still be several hundred things to choose from. We look forward to hearing form you.

Went from Disappointed to Satisfied

New review: I’m editing my original review because I now understand how streaming only works. I subscribe to this app every summer when there is little to watch. I will say that Hallmark has since added new movies and have even released the new series TV shows weekly. So I went from disappointed to satisfied.

I’m extremely disappointed with this service. There are no current titles and they do not list any of the movies that is currently being aired. Unfortunately, by the time I figured it out, my free week was over and now I’m committed to a year. I have found some great series I want to watch, but the cost of the service does not make up for all of the movies I can’t watch. If Hallmark was at all concerned about customer service, they’d listen and revamp their app. Other apps list all of their current and old series. This is what I expected from the Hallmark Movies Now app. I have the Hallmark Movie Checklist and the movies are not available.

Developer Response ,

Hello - You can find the full list of available movies, series, and specials at HMNow.com.