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Best Movie Streaming Apps for iPhone (2026)
Netflix is the top-ranked of 28 movie streaming apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.7/5 from 7,463,011 ratings.
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 7,463,011 ratings · score 98 - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 3,073,693 ratings · score 98 - 3
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 1,977,276 ratings · score 97 - 4
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 5,796,468 ratings · score 97 - 5
Free · ★ 4.8 · 1,276,375 ratings · score 96
What belongs in this list
Watch full movies on my phone through a streaming app.
Not here: movie trailers alone; a movie info or review database alone; a TV-show-only streaming app alone; a short-film-only collection alone; a general video player for local files alone
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
- 1Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 7,463,011 ratings · score 98 · best in class
- 2Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 3,073,693 ratings · score 98 · best in class
- 3Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 1,977,276 ratings · score 97 · best in class
- 4Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 5,796,468 ratings · score 97 · best in class
- 5Free · ★ 4.8 · 1,276,375 ratings · score 96 · best in class
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Free · ★ 4.8 · 1,625,854 ratings · score 95 · best in class - 7
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 10,854 ratings · score 92 · excellent - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 3,725,052 ratings · score 89 · excellent - 9
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 1,429,905 ratings · score 88 · excellent - 10
Free · ★ 4.8 · 152,328 ratings · score 87 · excellent - 11
Free · ★ 4.7 · 308,656 ratings · score 85 · excellent - 12
Free · ★ 4.8 · 1,391,587 ratings · score 85 · excellent - 13
OSN+BFree + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 23,100 ratings · score 84 · good - 14
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 13,594 ratings · score 83 · good - 15
Free · ★ 4.7 · 17,554 ratings · score 83 · good - 16
MGM+BFree + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 88,132 ratings · score 82 · good - 17
Free · ★ 4.6 · 74,710 ratings · score 80 · good - 18
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 4,375 ratings · score 79 · good - 19
Free download · ★ 4.3 · 21,204 ratings · score 79 · situational - 20
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 23,426 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional - 21
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 27,639 ratings · score 66 · situational · provisional - 22
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 13,150 ratings · score 66 · situational · provisional - 23
Free · ★ 4.3 · 10,282 ratings · score 65 · situational · provisional - 24
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 15,135 ratings · score 65 · situational · provisional - 25
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 3,983 ratings · score 64 · weak · provisional - 26
Free download · ★ 4.3 · 2,883 ratings · score 63 · weak · provisional - 27
Free download · ★ 4.2 · 2,991 ratings · score 63 · weak · provisional - 28
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 4,040 ratings · score 60 · weak · provisional
New in the last 30 days
- MUBI: Stream Great Cinema (A)
- Hoopla: Your Library Anywhere (A)
- OSN+ (B)
- The Criterion Channel (B)
- FilmRise (B)
- Xumo Play: Stream TV & Movies (B)
- WATCH IT: Drama,Movies (C)
- AsianCrush - Movies & TV (C)
- aha - 100% Local Entertainment (C)
- Pure Flix (C)
- Toffee - TV, Sports & Movies (C)
- Shudder: Horror & Thrillers (C)
- Classix (D)
- Yango Play-good cinema, drama (D)
- hoichoi - Movies & Web Series (D)
- Passionflix (D)
Questions people ask
- What is the best movie streaming app for iPhone?
- Netflix, S tier, ranked #1 of 28, rated 4.7 by 7,463,011 people.
- Which movie streaming apps are free?
- 28 of 28 are free to download: Netflix (S), Amazon Prime Video (S), Disney+ (S), HBO Max: Stream Movies & TV (S) and more. 13 of them sell in-app purchases. 8 report no in-app purchases.
- Which movie streaming app has the best App Store rating?
- HBO Max: Stream Movies & TV at 4.9 from 5,796,468 ratings.
- How many movie streaming apps reach S or A tier?
- 12 of 28. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.
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