Amazon Prime Video

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4.8of 5 · store
3,004,288ratings on the App Store
197reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

A large video catalog including Amazon Studios originals, but with systematic failures of key features: continue watching gets the position wrong in roughly half of cases, purchased films do not sync across devices, and AI-powered search is confusing to navigate. The basic viewing scenario is unreliable.

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What people use it for

Existing Amazon Prime subscribers who occasionally want to watch something.

What reviews praise

A wide catalog with unique Amazon Studios originals available to Prime subscribers at no extra charge.

What reviews complain about

The continue-watching feature breaks the episode position in half of cases, and purchased content does not appear on other devices.

What users experience

4 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

The content is great. However, the app does not work smoothly. It forgets where I left off I would say about 50% of the time. Really frustrating. With the ads now, that means you can't even fast forward to where you actually left off. And it REALLY doesn't know where I left off when I use different

You watch 1.5 minutes of ads, accidentally turn off your phone, have to watch the 1.5 minutes of ads again. Then you accidentally rewind 10 seconds and have to watch the ads a third time. App is mid.

Ever since ads added, fast forward and rewind sends you back to random places in episode. Then you need your rewatch all the ads ti get back to where you actually were. VERY ANNOYING for something you pay for.

Good: selection of things to watch or subscribe to. Bad: massive amount of watchable "only if you pay more" for content vs free with subscription content UGLY: bad app code, the continue watching is just wrong, app crashes all the time, horrible algorithm for recommending stuff you would watch…