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Best Movies App?
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Here's a temp measure until Canadians get a good movie show times app:
http://movies.davidraso.com
Save that to your home screen as a web app. Works great for now.
They all have a mix of good and bad reviews, which is why I decided to come here and see what everyone thought was the best.
Reading pros and cons of three programs isn't the same as comparing them.
That's not a webapp. It's a regular website. There are plenty of other better Canadian specific showtime sites (i.e. Tribute.ca) if you're going the full webpage route.
The one I mentioned above is a webapp, the next best thing to a native iPhone app.
Showtimes is the Best Movie App
Maybe I'm missing something here, but I believe Showtimes is the best app.
Now Playing lost my respect with its shady business tactics (link) But the main reason is you can't watch trailers on Now Playing.
Then there's Movies, which is awesome. I really like Movies and its navigation. Plus Flixster is a big company, but that isn't always good. For instance, Movies struggles when it tries to find smaller theaters in medium-to-smaller cities and towns. There is also the hassle of having to enter your location. And then you have to know zip codes! When I'm outside my own zip code, I have no idea what zip code I'm in. No one does. And another thing, I get random HTML codes every now and then when I use Movies. It's annoying. (Article: Movies vs. Showtimes)
Then there's Showtimes, that finds your location automatically. There's trailers, movie posters, and the ability to buy tickets right from the app. Navigation is good, and it's very user friendly. Another sweet thing about Showtimes is when you go to find movie times, the times that are already past for the day disappear. So you don't have useless movie times cluttering the page. I love it. And the best part about all this is it's free!
Showtimes is the best movie app
Maybe I'm missing something here, but I believe Showtimes is the best app.
Now Playing lost my respect with its shady business tactics (link) But the main reason is you can't watch trailers on Now Playing.
Then there's Movies, which is awesome. I really like Movies and its navigation. Plus Flixster is a big company, but that isn't always good. For instance, Movies struggles when it tries to find smaller theaters in medium-to-smaller cities and towns. There is also the hassle of having to enter your location. And then you have to know zip codes! When I'm outside my own zip code, I have no idea what zip code I'm in. No one does. And another thing, I get random HTML codes every now and then when I use Movies. It's annoying. (Article: Movies vs. Showtimes)
Then there's Showtimes, that finds your location automatically. There's trailers, movie posters, and the ability to buy tickets right from the app. Navigation is good, and it's very user friendly. Another sweet thing about Showtimes is when you go to find movie times, the times that are already past for the day disappear. So you don't have useless movie times cluttering the page. I love it. And the best part about all this is it's free!
Showtimes is the best movie app
Showtimes is good ... except I can't order tickets from it. With Movies.app, I can. Therefore it's Movies.
I've had boxoffice from the beginning, but I've also had the other two - and I can honestly say now playing (boxoffice) is still waaaay superior.
Have to vote for Movies...it use to be NowPlaying (Box Office) until it was removed. When it came back up it no longer showed any of my 3 local theaters. I have to use what works and right now Movies fits the bill and shows ALL of my local theaters.
Movies does and has everything I need it to do with trailers and reviews and what is coming in the future. Kickscreen shows me what is coming way down the road. It shows new/old DVD releases and gives all the other necessary info to determine if I am going to the movies or not.
I buy my tickets at the theater and if it is a very popular movie, I have fandango web app ( http://iphone.fandango.com/ ) that takes care of that need. Only used it once so its not a loss not having it available.
You are missing OneTap in your survey. If you search iTunes with "Movies" and then look in Apps...the first four are your listed 3 and OneTap, which I have also used but now seems to be lagging real bad and has frozen twice since todays update.
Movies does and has everything I need it to do with trailers and reviews and what is coming in the future. Kickscreen shows me what is coming way down the road. It shows new/old DVD releases and gives all the other necessary info to determine if I am going to the movies or not.
I buy my tickets at the theater and if it is a very popular movie, I have fandango web app ( http://iphone.fandango.com/ ) that takes care of that need. Only used it once so its not a loss not having it available.
You are missing OneTap in your survey. If you search iTunes with "Movies" and then look in Apps...the first four are your listed 3 and OneTap, which I have also used but now seems to be lagging real bad and has frozen twice since todays update.