Kernel

This has to be the most underrated app in the App Store. Well done!

I’ve used Kernel for years. It filled a perfect niche for tracking when new movies would be released in theaters and was easy to do so chronologically. The 3.0 update removed searching movies chronologically (seriously, why is the Discover page filled with completely random orderings across completely different times?). You can view them chronologically in your saved list but so can dozens of other films that track such lists (and offer far more features and customization by comparison). I liked this app because it filled a useful, straightforward niche and did so beautifully without bloat. Notifications were perfect. I use different apps for tracking movies/shows, but this new kernel app seems to try to mimic some of the features of other apps but does so less well while removing what the made app great in the first place. I really wanted to like the update, and perhaps I will if you re-add some of the functionality and simplicity of the older version of kernel. But after 7 months of waiting it doesn’t seem like that on the roadmap for the app moving forward for whatever reason. In an overcrowded movie/show market they’ve eliminated what made them stand out.

Once you finish watching the episode, you click the 👓. It switches back to the playlist, which is pretty annoying. Please make this app better than TV Forecast, which is what I currently use. I want to give this application a chance, but there are some annoying user interface issues.

Was a nice app to have before they redesigned the app. No filtering system like chronological order or alphabetically. Titles scattered all over the place, impossible to find new/upcoming titles. I don’t know who decided on the redesign but it made me want to delete the app.

I have been wanting an app like this for some time. Just an easy way to track what I’ve seen and what I want to watch. Love the playlists feature and the simplicity of the app. My only suggestion is to add a like or dislike option for movies and shows. Great app. Please keep up the great work!

Could you also make this app for Apple TV? Keep up the great work! One more thing: you can sort movies & shows by popular or coming soon… Could you make it so the coming soon section is sorted by soonest to farthest away? Currently, the coming soon section is all jumbled, some coming in 4 days, some in 124, and as you keep scrolling, there is no rhyme or reason to the order. Thanks! And keep up the great work!! Cheers 🍻

Love the app. What would make it better is the ability to manually sort playlist and integrated Rotten Tomatoes.

Super useful to track movie playlists and where to find them. The more streaming apps you have access to, the more useful the app is! I previously used several web sites to find where I could stream movies I was looking for. This app has been way more accurate. I agree with some of the suggestions made for tweaks and improvements the devs could implement to make the app even better, but it is super usable as-is. Thanks for a great app!

The persistent push notification dialog on launch is a shockingly user-hostile behavior for such a considerate app

…and that’s the pop-up that appears every single time I open the app, letting me know notifications are off. It happens EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Why? I know I turned them off, and even then, I’d know they were off because of the constant reminder. Uninstalled immediately.