Kimi

The piracy app Kimi, which let users watch stolen movies and TV shows on their iPhones, briefly surpassed streaming heavyweights on Apple’s App Store rankings before being removed by the company for violating its rules.IMDb Changes Rating System After Little Mermaid Review-Bombed | Future TechAccording to data from app intelligence firm Appfigures, Kimi managed to snag 4th place on the App Store’s free entertainment apps list on Monday and ranked 12th on top apps overall. This put it ahead of HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix,…

Earlier this week, a vision-testing app shot up the charts on the iOS App Store. Kimi claimed to be an app iPhone owners could use to test their eyesight, but after downloading it, those users were instead presented with a sizable collection of pirated movies and TV shows. Apple finally removed the app on Tuesday, but not before Kimi made waves on the App Store.According to Gizmodo, data from app intelligence firm Appfigures shows that Kimi was the 12th most popular app on the entire App Store on Monday and the…

Watching pirated movies on your iPhone just got a little harder. After climbing the charts of Apple’s App Store, the trendy Kimi app, with its collection of bootleg movies, has just disappeared. Pretending to be a spot-the-difference vision-testing game, the widely downloaded app ranked above Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video in Apple’s top charts this week for free entertainment apps before it was removed.Without having to pay for anything or log into any kind of account, iPhone owners could previously use Kimi to…