LG / entertainment / CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL
REVIEW
Chicken Soup for the Soul on LG webOS is free streaming under a battered brand.
The AVOD/FAST app from Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment — the same group that owned Crackle before the 2024 Chapter 11 filing and the restructuring that followed. The webOS app still installs; the business sitting behind it is less certain than the icon suggests.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
Chicken Soup for the Soul
CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL ON SCREEN LLC
OUR SCORE
6.4
LG
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
Chicken Soup for the Soul on LG webOS is the smart-TV face of a brand that has had a harder corporate run than most viewers tapping the icon will realise. Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment — parent of Crackle until the 2024 bankruptcy filing and the restructuring that followed — built out the app footprint years before the financial story turned. The LG client is still here. It still plays content. Whether the company behind it looks the same a year from now is the question this review can’t answer, and shouldn’t pretend to.
The honest read for an LG TV owner in 2026 is this: the app costs nothing, the webOS implementation is competent, and the catalogue is the standard older-films-and-FAST-channels mix that the free-streaming tier has settled into across every platform. None of that is reason to skip it. None of it is reason to lead with it either. The brand uncertainty is real and unresolved; the streaming experience itself is unremarkable in both directions.
Install it as one tile among several free sources. Don’t build a habit around it. Check back when the post-restructuring chapter has more shape than it does at the time of writing.
The webOS client is fine. What's behind it is the open question — and an honest viewer should know that before they sideload it into their home screen.
FEATURES
Chicken Soup for the Soul on LG webOS is the smart-TV client for Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment's free, ad-supported streaming service — the same family of properties that included Crackle prior to the 2024 corporate bankruptcy and the restructuring that followed. On LG it ships as a free download with no account required to start playback.
The app pattern is the standard FAST/AVOD setup smart-TV viewers will recognise from Pluto, Tubi, and Freevee — rows of on-demand movies and series alongside linear "always-on" FAST channels themed by genre. Ads are pre-roll and mid-roll, frequency comparable to the rest of the free-tier TV market. Magic Remote pointing works through the tile grid; ThinQ voice search resolves titles when the catalogue has them.
Playback on LG webOS hits 1080p where the source supports it. Resume-watching syncs to a Chicken Soup for the Soul account if you sign in, though sign-in is optional. The webOS build has had standard quarterly-ish updates through 2025 — the app itself behaves like a maintained smart-TV client.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The price is right. Genuinely free, no trial timer, no subscription upsell layer on top of the free tier. For an LG TV owner who wants another no-cost AVOD source in the rotation alongside Tubi and Pluto, this is one more tile that costs nothing to try.
The webOS implementation itself is competent. Magic Remote navigation is fine, voice search works, playback is stable, the FAST-channel guide loads quickly. Nothing about the LG app is the problem.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The brand sitting behind the icon is the caveat. Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment filed for Chapter 11 in 2024 and the post-bankruptcy story has been a sustained restructuring — the Crackle wind-down, asset sales, and a substantially smaller business than the one that originally built out this app footprint. The webOS client still installs and still plays content; what the catalogue looks like in twelve months is not something this review can responsibly forecast.
The library, even at its best, has always skewed to older catalogue films, syndicated series, and produced-for-FAST material rather than current-release content. Discovery is functional but not editorial — the home rows lean on the same handful of titles for weeks. If a viewer's mental model is "free Netflix," this isn't that. It's closer to "free late-night cable" with a remote.
CONCLUSION
Worth keeping on the home screen if the rotation already includes Tubi and Pluto and the viewer wants one more free source. Worth checking back on if the brand stabilises and the library refreshes. Not worth treating as a primary streaming destination — the corporate uncertainty makes that a bet, not a recommendation. For LG webOS specifically, the app itself is fine; everything around it is the open question.