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Satinder S. Panesar
Entrepreneur, Mobile app development, IoT, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality

TV, Films Content Discovery Now Made Easier with Legit

Legit is a new app that is designed around the concept to summarize the content available on various TV and film platforms and bring to each user the appropriate listings in form of recommendations. These recommendations will be based on your personal interests and choice of genre in films as well as TV shows. It offers significant features that are all set to make life easier for the regular viewer who feels lost in the maze of innumerable TV shows and movies hitting theaters. In short, it is a wonderful app to assure that you use your free time for experiencing quality entertainment and not on selecting what to watch.

Below given are some promising features of this app –

  • Movie recommendation- It brings insights about new movie hitting the theatres and also advices you whether it’s worth watching ‘now’ or you should wait until its digital print is released.
  • Uses multiple platforms to recommend- Legit will review content from streaming services like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon in addition to iTunes, YouTube and theaters bringing the versatile content to your watchlist.
  • Personalized approach — It will ask your personal preferences when you sign in to this app on your mobile device. The information is used to pick up selected multimedia content like TV programs and films. The recommendations will also depend on the ‘watchlist’ you refer to when using this app.
  • Integration with Facebook- It uses your friend list on Facebook and shows the shared interests related to TV and films via an infographic representation in colors like red, green and yellow. The Facebook integration offered by Legit is advanced in comparison with same feature provided by Netflix, which tells what your friends are watching.
  • A customized friend list- It categorizes the friends in your Legit friend list depending on the compatibility based on choice of programs. When you will select a show, a review from your friend will appear first followed by other reviews. It will help you in getting a clearer picture about the content you are going to watch. It is very similar to the ‘word of mouth’ publicity in the real world.

The background story behind Legit-

The company was co-founded by CEO Andrew Busey, CTO Isao Jonas and COO Tony Chen and have professionals who have worked for organizations like Yahoo, Shopzilla and Zynga. “The company was working on an anonymous messaging app but later on shifted its focus to making Legit TV and Film Watchlist app” — said Chen. He said that he believed in making an app that could bring personal recommendations about ‘what to watch and when’ easier for time bound viewers.

With a referral system in place right now for earning, Legit has strong hopes of being a good resource for TV and Filmmakers on ‘Audience’s personal preferences’.

What’s in the Pipeline?

It is planning to bring a Twitter like ‘follower –following’ model that can help its users develop a taste for new media under the influence of leading media critics.

This app can be downloaded from the Google Play Store and iTunes Store.

Android — https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.legit.legitapp

iOS — https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id948435368

Originally published at: MobDevApp