Pocket Beacon

Critical Role Productions LLC

About this app

Explore unparalleled access to Critical Role with a Beacon membership. Enjoy ad-free beloved & new exclusive series, private pre-sales, discounts, & a community discord.

Beacon is a special membership program that offers unparalleled and ad-free access to Critical Role and its vast video and podcast library, exclusive pre-sales for live events, invitation to a private Discord server, and a persistent discount on merchandise throughout all international online shops! By becoming a Beacon member, you’ll unlock special bonus content like Critical Role Cooldown and Fireside Chats, same-day Critical Role podcast releases alongside the VODs, and more, all while directly supporting creator-owned independent media.

Ratings and reviews

Edit: Came back to put 1 star. It's absolutely unusable. I'm about to cancel. Hoping for improvements, so I'm going to be honest. The app is extremely buggy to the point of it being JUST barely usable to stream & watch an episode. It crashes 30 minutes in, so you have to fire it back up & find the episode to pause or rewind-- there's a chance it will take you back to the beginning when you do this. It also logs me out while watching something.

I signed up for ad free listening and not having to deal with the annoying pt 1 and pt 2 for weekly releases. As a podcast listener, this app is almost more annoying. It's not intuitive with other audio apps so it overlaps, takes several minutes for it come up via Android Auto, and there's no function to directly jump back into the episode I've been listening to. (Always have to go into Continue Watching, select listen instead, and then repeat the process another time or two.) and much more.

Since launch the app has gotten better but still lacks in many places. the crashing and battery usage are crazy. Casting to another device is extremely hit and miss. if, while casting you close the window on the phone the video will start over from the point it was when you first started the cast on the device you are casting too. Will randomly drop and desync. the video quality over all is mostly great but the audio is very low compared to other video and music apps so you have to crank it.