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.

Works well including playback of movies etc. wish there were a mechanism for download and view later, and a means of seeing how much a movie is buffered. On low bandwidth connections the movie might pause and then resume haltingly. Without an indication of buffering status, hard to tell when to resume after pause for uninterrupted viewing. Also, unclear if buffering still occurs when paused.

I highly recommend Kanopy. The app works smoothly, the image quality is very good, and the selection is exceptional. You will find excellent films, documentaries, and TV series from around the world, all in their proper aspect ratio and with subtitles for international selections. This is the perfect app for true lovers of cinema and television.

What's new

This release includes accessibility improvements and bug fixes. Thanks for watching Kanopy!