When Does The Cw App Add New Episodes

The only way to see new episodes from The CW, free with no login. Keep up with the latest from shows like All American and The Flash, or watch full seasons of new hits like Superman & Lois and Walker. And with CW Seed shows like Krypton and 90210 now available, you'll never run out of shows to binge.

Features Include:
* LATEST EPISODES: Watch new episodes of EVERY primetime show the day after broadcast, including Riverdale, Legacies, Supergirl, and more.
* FULL SEASONS: Watch every episode of select series like DC's Stargirl, Kung Fu, Batwoman, Nancy Drew, and more.
* CW SEED: Binge full series like The Game, Nikita and The Secret Circle, or find new favorites like Limitless, Lost Girl and Forever.
* NO LOGINS: No cable subscription, no credit cards, no passwords. Ever.
* EXTRAS: See previews for upcoming episodes, behind-the-scenes extras, cast interviews, and more.

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What's New

New user experience combining CW and CW Seed, all in one app!
Bug fixes and optimization

Ratings and Reviews

3.3 out of 5

19.3K Ratings

Needs settings

Overall I like the app. I get that contracts limit to the last 5 episodes, though in the modern age of episodic TV having fall finales I wish they would release the early season episodes to streaming services in smaller chunks to let us get caught up and finish the show on the app.

However my first complaint / reason for a drop of a star is that unlike other streaming apps, this one maintains the main iOS screen saver settings. When I use my phone normally I want it to lock automatically after a short period of me not touching it ... but if I'm watching an hour long show casted to my TV I don't want to touch my phone for an hour, and definitely not every 2 minutes.
Also, either the setting to go from one episode to the next doesn't exist or it isn't obvious / intuitive. Other streaming apps auto-forward too quickly (I sometimes like the music and some movies have post-credit scenes), but to not have the option to skip to next or automatically advance at the end also seems outdated.
Other streaming video apps have these issues figured out, more or less, and they seem tome to be things that need to be priorities.

Horribly bad orientation controls

This app is incomprehensibly bad, at least as far as how it displays when holding the iPad in different orientations. For starters, when you open the app, it only supports portrait orientation, with the home button at the bottom. Now let's be clear about something. We are watching a video, the only way to watch it is in landscape orientation. And that is exactly how the videos will play, but before you can watch them, you have to browse the selection screen with iPad held upright in portrait orientation. That is incomprehensibly ridiculous. Why wouldn't you want to browse the listings in the same orientation as you are going to watch them in? As it is, the iPad is often easier to hold in landscape orientation. And it's not like there isn't an existing CW app that is used exclusively in landscape orientation. Hello Apple TV!

But this gets better. Sometimes I have to have my iPad in landscape orientation with the home button on the left side, so I can have it plugged in while I'm watching something. And while the actual videos "can" play oriented correctly regardless of which side is up, when you pause a video, it will resume upside down if your iPad is held (or on a stand in my case) with the home button is on the left. And of course, when you exit a video, the home screen for the app is sideways.

You would think the developers of The CW app have not actually used it themselves. It's just that incomprehensibly absurd in the way it works.

Two things I dislike

The first thing is there are way too many ads. Ok so I get you have to have ads to have a free app, but can't you make it so if I was at a part after an ad I don't have to go through all the ads. I mean every 6-12 minutes there is a series of 6 ads and not even different ones. Usually they are almost exactly the same as the last series of ads I watched. It's soooo annoying. Second thing is that they app only has the last 5 episodes of the tv series. So if I want to watch a new series that has 10 episodes I have to find the first 5 episodes on other apps or websites and it's quite annoying. I usually end up using other apps/websites instead of this one for these reasons. I know you can't get rid of all ads and maybe you can't even make every episode of a show available but it would be nice to not have sooo many ads and at least AT LEAST the 10 latest episodes of a tv series. I suggest to only use this app if you have patience for ads and you are on the lasted 5 episodes of a show. So honestly only download this if you don't have another app that has your favorite shows.

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Information

Seller

The CW Network, LLC

Size

38.5 MB

Category

Entertainment

Compatibility

iPhone: Requires iOS 12.1 or later.

iPad: Requires iPadOS 12.1 or later.

iPod touch: Requires iOS 12.1 or later.

Apple TV: Requires tvOS 12.0 or later.

Age Rating

12+ Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References

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