Kanopy

Kanopy, Inc.

About this app

Stream thousands of films for free without ads through your library.

Sign up with your library card and start watching festival award-winning films, thought-provoking documentaries, The Criterion Collection, and more with new titles added weekly.

Browse Kanopy Kids for unlimited age-appropriate shows and movies with access to parental controls.

Available on mobile, web, and living room devices.

Ratings and reviews

Kanopy is a great resource if your library offers it, giving you access to a ton of free movies and TV shows in all genres, as well as documentaries and kids programming, all with no ads. The video quality is good. the only drawback and the reason I'm giving four stars instead of five is that video playback is in portrait mode only. This is fine if you're watching on a tablet, but absolutely miserable on a phone. Wish they'd fix this, but it doesn't seem like it's gonna happen.

Movie selection is excellent. However, navigation is fairly poor. It resets your position when going back and forth between screens. Android TV and Apple TV apps also don't support frame rate matching, which is vital for movie lovers wanting to watch movies on their TV they way they were intended, without any frame judder. Not only that's, but the Apple TV app no longer plays video. It prompts for an update that doesn't exist! Would give the service 5 stars if all these issues were fixed.

I downloaded the app in order to view Kanopy on my TV via Roku. I watched a few episodes of a series and then didn't come back to it for some time. When I did, I couldn't watch anything except "credit free" videos (there are (6) six). I've been unable to find out where they come from or how they are rationed or anything more about them. There should be a full explanation and instructions in the app itself.

What’s new

In this release, we updated icons and fixed several bugs. Thanks for watching Kanopy!