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Likewise: Movie, TV, Book Recs App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Generic and limited recommendationsIf you’re looking for the “tinder for media”, this isn’t it. The recommendation is limited to only a few per day and is littered with sponsored content. I feel like that is the main reason people download this app, but it’s not very good at that. There is no way to ignore a title you don’t plan to watch and shows you have disliked still show up on recommendation lists. I find it’s decent at keeping track of my “to watch” list and which streaming platforms they are on. Filtering works, but there is no way to sort titles which is annoying. If you want to make a running list, it only keeps track of the order you added it instead of allowing you to rearrange titles later. I saw one list that tried to put titles in alphabetical order but then after added more and it was very obvious. TL;DR limited daily recommendations not very good, decent lists with filters, no sort option.Version: 19.6
✓ StuckI got stuck at the “Add Your Friends” screen. There was nothing for me to press. When I restarted the app it reset my progress, I attempted it again but the same thing happened. I don’t know what to do..Version: 17.2
✓ New ReaderI’m new to reading recreationally and I’ve read only a few books, but it was making me select 10 before I could move on I’m not gonna pick a bunch of random books to move to the next step. Doesn’t that ruin the purpose of personalized recommendations?.Version: 17.8
✓ It’s okayIt’s okay. I like the idea of this app but it gives me stuff that I didn’t like really . It gives you suggestions so it does what it says. Over all it’s fine.Version: 8.5
✓ Cool idea...It’s a really great idea but their are two major problems I’ve seen on only having the app for two days. The first problem is that I don’t see an option to say that I disliked a movie or tv show which makes zero sense to me. The second problem is kinda similar in that with all the reviews for various movies and shows, I have not seen one negative review which confused me so I purposely looked up really bad movies to test this so I looked up Secret Obsession which is a terrible movie and what do you know, all the reviews said how great the movie was and how you need to watch it. There is something really weird with this app showing everything as great. I’d like an app where people’s honest opinions were showcased as well because how it is, it just isn’t worth using because the reviews are clearly fixed..Version: 10.7
✓ Algorithm is not goodThe app is useful for some things but it fails at the main selling point: to recommend things that are similar to stuff you like. The algorithm as far as I can tell just decides which genres you like and then picks a random popular movie/show from that genre. Doesn’t seem to factor in if other people the tone/ style or quality of the movie or if other people who likes similar things rated it well. You get only like 6 of these recommendations on your Home Screen per day and they feel completely disconnected with the movies I said I liked. The “see more like” this feature built into streaming services is substantially better at finding similar recommendations. The app is still useful for some things and I use it to keep a list of stuff I want to watch all in one place. I Iike how it tells you which streaming service you can watch things on. There are also user created lists that can be good. It’s just a shame that the main selling point is not delivered on..Version: 30.7
✓ Can’t get past the set upAfter selecting all the books that I like in the set up section, I click on next and it forces me to invite people to a group. I can’t move on from the set up without inviting people. I don’t want to invite people from my contacts to some group, I just want some recommendations..Version: 17.4
✓ Awful, does not listen to your feedbackThis is one of the worst apps out there. Seriously do not download or give any of your time to this app. I have repeatedly, as in daily asked them to stop recommending me a certain type of book (do not care for young adult books) and every. single. day they recommend them to me. I have nowhere in my profile or likes say I like that type of book and yet they repeatedly, again daily, recommend them to me. I give feedback (yup you guessed it daily) on how much I do not care for this style of book and they continue to do it. I don’t know what else to do. They do not listen. If you want good recommendations go to goodreads and follow a group, or look at the lists. Heck their recommendations far surpass whatever the heck likewise thinks they are doing. So TLDR: goodreads good, likewise bad.Version: 19.6
✓ Shoddy AI, poor moderationThis used to be an app with a fun community, but the AI suggestions are terrible (AI suggested Stephen King’s IT as a book under 200 pages) and staff refuse to moderate rampant homophobic comments by users..Version: 30.3
✓ No iPad app and doesn’t sync with NetflixI am not sure how this app serves a purpose - if you like something you can’t add it to Netflix so you need to have both the Netflix app and this app. I guess the only point of this is to give you recs of what to watch and then you have to go log into your stream8 service and manually add it to your list. Seems kind of pointless. Also, they don’t even have an iPad app. If you download this just shows a miniature version of an iPhone LOL. Come on the iPad has been out form11 years now! Imagine if I could click a suggested movie on likewise and then have it automatically open Netflix and I can start watching? Why doesn’t this app do that??.Version: 16.3
✓ Redundant and UnintuitiveThis app is a great idea, however it was executed very poorly. Most of the recommendations are from people spamming their favorite books/movies over and over again. There is no way to filter this out and furthermore people can and will just recommend anything and everything on your asks without actually reading what you’re asking for. When searching for a book, you need to type in the exact name or you will not find what you’re looking for. If you do, you’re also likely to find about 10 versions of it. I put in that I liked Harry Potter and because of that Likewise recommended every single version of everu single Harry Potter book there is and nothing else. The app is so unintuitive and needs some serious fixing to make it worthwhile..Version: 13.7
✓ Fairly pointlessCould be interesting if you could search through asks. They used to have a feature that prevented people asking the same question twice but now they seem to encourage people asking the same question over and over again. Most books they recommend are just the booktok classics and they don’t take into account your nicher interests. Most questions they promote are ones that can be easily solved by google and their ai is lacklustre. Don’t waste your time..Version: 30.7
✓ App doesn’t workI can’t get past the “share with friends” screen during the setup process. The keyboard is stuck over the screen and can’t click on any options to move forward. Unfortunately rendering the app useless..Version: 17.9
✓ Things that will improve the appHi! I come from the software background myself (I sold my company to a giant Corp in 2010) and the most important thing these days is to be user- friendly and easy to use. This is an excellent app and the idea is fantastic. However, the user interface still needs work. In my opinion it shouldn’t open in your own page by default. When I log in- I don’t care if my profile complete if not and how I scored, etc. I’m looking for something. So, help me find it please. The lists are useful but there is no way to prioritize them based on critics review or members. This is critical! Give us starts so we can see if other people liked this or not. Grouping people with similar tastes is useful, but one needs a freedom to join such group or start his/her own. So, different ways to prioritize lists of movies or books are extremely useful and should be implemented. Thank you!.Version: 14.5
✓ Great idea, awful excecutionIn order to sign up you *have* to invite people from your contacts?? No way around it on sign up? Why on earth would I give you my friends’ contact info at all, let alone before I even get to see the app? This feels sketchy and is an immediate red flag for me. I understand you want to grow, but getting me to spam my friends is not the way to do it. Deleting the app. Hope you figure out this is a bad strategy and fix it so you don’t turn off a bunch of other potential users from the start. Update after developer responded that a system prompt should appear asking if you want to allow access to contacts, which can be denied: there was no prompt. Just no option to continue without inviting contacts. Maybe it’s some sort of glitch, but I’m not interested in trying again..Version: 16.3
✓ Fun for a whileI really like the idea of this app a lot. It’s cool to be able to get recommendations for stuff like this. I also love spreading the word of my favorite shows and books. But after a while, you begin to realize that you’re recommending the same things over and over again. Pretty much everyone on the app asks the same question over and over again, leading to a very repetitive experience. If you’re looking for recommendations, don’t even ask a question because you can scroll through the most recent asks and get all the same answers that you would have gotten on your own unless you asked for something super specific. I wish you got more daily recommendation type stuff since you can blow through those in a minute or two. Also, the notification system is awful. It needs to be completely redone in a more efficient way. It would also be great if there was a video game section. That seems like a natural inclusion for this sort of app. It was fun for a little bit, but there needs to be more substance to keep you interested long term..Version: 8.4
✓ No moderatorThe block button does nothing. Reporting extremely innapropriate content does nothing. Many films aren’t even on the database and there’s so much misinformation about films and streaming services that it’s a complete waste to get this app. I prefer IMBD..Version: 30.7
✓ Bug that makes app unusableI just spent two hours adding all my favourite tv shows/movies/anime and so on and it got to the end and asked me to share with my friends but the key board is in the way of the button to do that with no skip option or anything. There’s no way for me to progress past that point so I can’t even use the app. Good concept if it worked though..Version: 17.8
✓ Doesn’t save books you tell itI haven’t had a book save in the last couple days, keeps telling me to try again later.Version: 17.9
✓ Not great for CanadaWhy are they advertising here?.Version: 9.8
✓ Bad interface and recommendationsFirst, the user interface was confusing. When I first opened the app, there were various categories like Books, TV Shows, etc. that you were supposed to populate with your preferences. I did this for the TV Shows category, but after that, I was never able to navigate back to the other categories again. I could have tried harder to locate that part of the app, but I shouldn’t have to try hard. Second, there were useless and irritating features like a pop-up window that came out if nowhere and said something like “Great job making recommendations! Keep up the good work!” (something I hadn’t actually done). I had to make it go away by clicking a button that said “Awesome!” Finally, and most disappointingly, the algorithm for making recommendations wasn’t that effective. It spit out the name of a fairly pedestrian American police procedural based on the fact that I liked the stylistically very different “Sherlock” and “Killing Eve.” Then it recommended a random new David Spade show based on...nothing, apparently. Bleh..Version: 8.4
✓ Could be great but….This needs a lot of work. In addition to all the comments about UI, too few recs, not being able to turn off tv or podcast sections etc etc, I would specifically like to be able to hide whole genres (I will NEVER want a YA book, so it’s a total waste of my time to weed through questions or discussions about YA). I went to the genre groups and selected “turn off group notifications” but that seems to have done absolutely nothing. I also tried blocking individuals to see if their discussions would stop showing up but that did nothing either, i still see all their posts. There also needs to be a better (or any??) way to find people to follow. For example, the app could suggest people to you who have liked a lot of the same things you have. I actually can’t figure how to find anyone to follow. There is just a giant list of all the users with zero info about what they like. Not helpful..Version: 14.9
✓ The update...I like the app well enough because it's simple and easy to use. However, the update removed all the previous rankings when it got replaced with the star system..Version: 20.0
✓ Doesn't work in CanadaI spent the time making sure my address was set to Canada and it still only gives me US Netflix and Hulu options. Doesn't work in Canada..Version: 7.1
✓ "coincidental" notificationsI only get notifications from likewise when i'm on a decent video on tiktok abt issues w the gov & etc. how come? i used to only get notifs randomly when my phone was off & now it's only when my phone is on & i'm on tiktok. 👀.Version: 20.6
✓ Seems like it’s paid product placement instead of legit recommendationsAfter briefly using this app, I’m very suspicious that it is just showing me paid product placement from little known authors instead of books that are actually a good fit for my interests. For example, I entered in 10 of my favorite books for it to base recommendations off of. I expected some of the recommendations would be other books I’d read but not entered in, or at least books on my reading list. But instead, it showed me almost exclusively book after book from just a few different authors that I’ve never heard of and aren’t well known in the genre I input. I’m all for learning about unpopular authors… but this reeked of the featured authors paying for promotion. Seems like a scam, I deleted the app pretty quickly..Version: 17.8
✓ Hit or MissSome of the features on this app are pretty good. I especially like the option to ask specific questions and get recommendations from other users. But when it comes to the “today” page, it’s a complete hit or miss. Some days they’ll only show me 3 or 4 movies, and none of them will be even close to things I like (which is super frustrating because you have to wait a full 24 hours for new ones.) But other days I’ll get 6 or 7 that are great. It’s also annoying that they ask me to choose from podcasts every day, even though I clearly don’t like podcasts, as I haven’t saved a single one. Yet they will show me literally zero books, even though I have multiple lists full of novels. Basically, the user recommendation feature is great, but the algorithm is mediocre at best. Beyond that, this app also just has a bunch of little problems that altogether make it annoying to use. The biggest one is that if your post exceeds a certain character limit, it just shows a “...” but there’s no way to view the full thing. You also can’t comment on a move or book unless you’ve liked it, and it sometimes crashes. It’s also pretty stupid that they mark it as 12+ but if you aren’t at least 13 you can’t even make an account, this didn’t effect me but it did effect my brother and that’s just dumb. Among other smaller problems. Just needs some updating for sure..Version: 19.6
✓ Not very goodIt’s a great app for finding stuff with the same title as the thing you like but not finding similar stories.Version: 19.2
✓ Better for white folks than for me…I’m Black and Asian and some other stuff, and I’ve tried to use this app to find more books written by people like me in genres that I like. Unfortunately, like most mainstream places, this app is geared towards white folks. While you can choose LGBTQ+ as a category you like (which is great!), there is no option for BIPOC. Because there’s no specific community for us on there, I have to ask for book recommendations in categories that maybe don’t consider us…so I don’t get a lot of recs. Also, there are a lot of flaws with the system. I’ve mistakenly “ended” an recommendation ask on several accounts, without any way to bring them back. Maybe that’s on me, but it’s very confusing. Also, I don’t know how to make them stop recommending me YA. I don’t want YA. Honestly this review is feeling a little ranty, but ultimately, if you’re a brown person looking for books by brown people—I’d not look here. It’s possible, but it’s incredibly difficult and the community is completely saturated with white people and white content. It is VITAL for a platform to have a BIPOC category if it wants to be a platform for everyone..Version: 18.6
✓ Frustratingly UselessI downloaded the app because I kept being bombarded with ads for it and I’ve been looking to expand my reading tastes for a while. Specifically there were a handful of books I read recently that I want to read more like so I thought this app could help. It’s very frustrating to use and I don’t like that I can’t tell the algorithm to stop recommending me certain books (it seems convinced I want to read superhero books when literally nothing in my reading history on the app would suggest it.) I think being able to tell the app what I dislike is just as important as what I like to help it stop recommending bad suggestions. The UI is easy enough to use but why is it missing what should be incredibly basic features?.Version: 16.3
✓ Meaningless Personal Data GrabAside from the other issues typically talked about (poor UI, few recommendations per day, etc.), the biggest thing for me is the transience of user interaction/conversation. I commented on a thread about a book disagreeing with some others and explaining my own opinion (not at all a heated convo, just usual discourse). Next day original comment stood starting the convo, but all subsequent comments (including my own) were deleted and replaced with new ones from other users). Either the app can’t save or the developer is hugely over-moderating user comments. Whatever the explanation, I now see why there are so few comments on the app. Half the point for me is to know what others think about books, films, etc. Getting rid of those conversations on developer whims makes the app pretty meaningless to me. Unfortunately, that only leaves the app’s purpose to be collecting your data and selling it with no meaningful benefit to you, the user. I will be deleting the app shortly..Version: 14.4
✓ Notification SpamI unchecked all the types of notifications from within the app and I still get notifications daily. I guess I’ll have to turn it off system-wide..Version: 17.7
✓ Mostly just pushes pop culture crapI had so much hope for this app but after using it for almost six months and getting absolutely nothing worth while out of it I decided it was time to part ways and delete it. I am a person who has struggled to read books my entire life as I don’t know what books I may like because I don’t know the book industry well. I do know books that I have enjoyed in the past and books that I did not enjoy, so with that in mind this app seemed to promise to help me to connect to books that I would enjoy. Instead, what I got was sponsored content after sponsored content of books that I knew that I would not like (for me, this happened to be things like biographies, romance, sports, and some other “popular” recent releases). Not once have I had a recommendation that I came across and thought that it sounded remotely interesting. In the end this app just doesn’t seem like it actually learns what you like and generates recommendations based on that but rather it is just another advertising matching..Version: 19.5
✓ Kinda okay. Keeps recommending romanceI downloaded this hoping to find good book recommendations, as it is advertised as such. It’s been somewhat helpful in finding books for me, but most of the time I feel like it’s not that intuitive as I’ve never added any romance books to my “liked/preferences” and yet I keep getting those suggested to me. I wish there was a way to mute some categories/lists as I really don’t care about Cosmo’s “Best Enemies to Lovers” or “Michelle Obama’s favorites” list but DO care about lists such as NYT’s “Top 15 books of 2021”. Seems geared towards young females who like romance fiction imo 🤷🏻♀️ also wish there was a way to turn off getting recommendations for Film/Tv and Podcasts as I only want book recommendations..Version: 16.3
✓ WhereOne of the reasons I sought out this app was because it’s supposed to tell you WHERE you can watch things you search. Very often I find this info isn’t available 🤷♀️☹️ otherwise pretty good. 🙃.Version: 30.1
✓ What’s the point?As much as I love the idea of this app, it fails utterly in the execution. After I spent time thoughtfully selecting quite a few more than five favourite books (thinking it would yield greater accuracy the more data I provided) the list of books that was recommended for me contained titles at least a quarter of which were written by authors of the books I had just selected. That’s not exactly a genius algorithm—I’m already capable, without an app, of going through the back catalogues of author’s I like. And of the books I wasn’t already familiar with, none were even remotely ones I’d be interested in after reading the descriptions. Not even sure why I’m giving it two stars, tbh..Version: 6.3
✓ Cool, but really slowIt's an interesting concept, and I like making lists of stuff I want to watch/read, but it's very slow. When I use the search bar, it often doesn't type correctly. Recently, since the last update, I can't even use the app because it keeps showing an error. Other than the slowness, there are some other things I don't really like. The recommendation feed is only about 5 different things a day. I also think it'd be cool to add different categories of media, such as plays/musicals, video games, webseries, etc. Speaking of recommendations, I'm not interested in any of the ones I see. They usually relate to stuff in my watchlist, which I'm not even sure I like yet..Version: 19.0
✓ Forced personal info from startI swore years ago in another review that I would never keep an app that demanded I give it my name, email or other personal information before it even allowed me to look at the app. I almost forgot that because I haven't seen one in so long that didn't allow the user to skip that and enter the app anyway. I started to type in my email and went, "Whoa Nelly!" Any app that bullies/forces you into giving personal information and creating an online account to use it is not for me. I could understand it if the app itself purely existed to facilitate use of a social media program that exists only on the web, like Twitter or something. Creating an account should never be a forced requirement to use an app. That would be like Apple forcing you to use their Game Center. That would be like Microsoft requiring you to sign in when you just want to play a private game on your Xbox. Oh, wait, they do... Deleted..Version: 8.5
✓ Not goodI don’t really think it’s very good I from onlyjayus.Version: 8.5
✓ New Update Has Caused the App to Stop LoadingEven though the new update gives me just a white screen, I have enjoyed using this app when it is working. It has suggested some books and movies that seem right up my alley, as well as many that aren't. I enjoy that you are able to tell them why a recommendation is off base. My biggest complaint, aside from it not currently loading, is that many of the review skew towards newer material. While I like finding out about new releases, they often suggest movies and tv shows that haven't even been released yet, so how am I supposed to review them? The algorithm could use a bit of tweaking, but overall this is a pretty solid app, when it works..Version: 16.9
✓ Bad, repetitive recommendationsI’ve found a couple gems through this app, but overall the recommendations are pretty bad. I am constantly getting recommended books I’ve passed up 5+ times, and most of the recommendations I get don’t seem fall in line with the books I’ve favorited what so ever. For example, for a couple days most of the recommendations they gave me were westerns. I have never favorited or shown interest in a single western. Almost all my saves are thrillers, horror, or sci-fi but for whatever reason the app seems to rarely give me recommendations in those genres. I thought using the app for a longer period of time would improve this but it only seems to have gotten worse. I hope they improve the algorithm because I really like the idea of this app, but the execution is poor..Version: 16.5
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