It’s the app that started it all. Movies Now is the fantastically designed iPhone app that allows you to browse movies and buy tickets, skipping the queue altogether. Who can forget that amazing split tab bar that begged to be tapped?
Well, they’ve brought their pixels to the iPad. Nothing out of the ordinary, as the app is clearly inspired by its iPhone counterpart. The iPad app loses the fancy tab bar, but makes full use of the extra pixels, allowing you to see movie details without losing context of where you are.
Personally, I can’t use this app, considering it wouldn’t work with any of the movie theaters out here (it works in the UK, US, Canada, and Ireland). The iPad version is priced at $1.99, and is universal (although they have a separate $0.99 version for the iPhone). There is some confusion as to whether or not it’s available yet. Appspark (formerly Kodu) has announced the app (I’m told it’s already approved pending approval), but I couldn’t find it in the store. So here’s a link to the website which has a video demo, and hopefully they’ll update their @moviesnow twitter account when it’s finally available.
[Updated to correct some errors.]