Callsheet: Find Cast & Crew 12+

If you’re anything like me, you like well-designed things. Apps that feel at home on your iPhone. That look like Apple made them. That don’t bother you with privacy prompts or ugly ads. That’s Callsheet. It’s like if Apple made IMDB. It’s such a beautifully made app. Everything is carefully and thoughtfully crafted. It’s lightning quick, even on slow connections. No more waiting for web pages. It doesn’t ask for your employment history for the last 50 years and the last four digits of your Social Security Number. It respects your privacy. It has tons of goodies, too. Goodies that both casual watchers and movie buffs can and will enjoy.

Don’t scoff at the price. $8 a year?! Trust me: it’s worth *more* than that. It’s $8 a *year* for a delightful, boutique product. One you’ll always love using. It’s literally the price of a cup of coffee for joy. It brings joy, and I think joy is worth $8 a year. If you’re sick of looking at ads, loading slow web pages, or touching tiny tap targets on poorly optimized mobile websites, Callsheet is the app for you. And if you just like nice things, what are you doing here? Just subscribe to Callsheet. It’s just what you want.

I’ll be honest. I downloaded the app because I genuinely wanted to support Casey (he’s a good guy), and figured I’d subscribe even though Callsheet is ‘just’ a front end to a website. Oh, was I wrong! The app is fast, responsive and, more importantly, a delight to use. Every screen has the information I care about, but no more. I went to the source website to see if I’d been missing out on the best movie site ever. Nope. There’s so much clutter there that Callsheet has swept away leaving me in a figurative zen garden of movie information. I think I’ve spent the last hour or so just browsing, and searching, and browsing some more. Learning about a bunch of actors I just couldn’t be bother to go spelunking on Wikipedia (or worse… the other ‘mdb’) because they are right there, with their age, and their photo. Seriously Casey, if you’re reading this, I’ll double down on my offer: come back to Austin and I’ll buy you as many beverages as you want. Thank you for this amazing app, and thank you for caring about good UX.

Great job on this very well-designed, responsive, handy, and useful app! My only qualm regards underlying data, as my first look-up was for the 60’s TV show “Lancer”, featured in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”… its series info was missing the show’s 4th regular Elizabeth Baur, who was in every episode! But clicking the convenient “…” balloon button brought her up in additional IMDB info. So my hot take is that this underlying data is not complete and has puzzling omissions, but is still quite helpful and good enough for the purpose of this app at its very reasonable price. After playing with Callsheet for a couple minutes, I was sold and subscribed for a year. For less frequent usage, having it free on one’s phone is a no-brainer, and I expect many like me will find themselves happy to subscribe for convenient unlimited usage.