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REVIEW
Cranked Up arrives on Tizen with a generic name and very little to go on.
A free video channel from Cranked Up Ventures LLC launched on Samsung TVs in late March 2026 with no store description, no screenshots, and no public footprint to verify against.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
Cranked Up
CRANKED UP VENTURES LLC
OUR SCORE
6.3
SAMSUNG TV
★ —
PRICE
Free
Cranked Up landed on Samsung Tizen on 30 March 2026 with the metadata equivalent of a shrug. The store listing has an icon, a developer name — Cranked Up Ventures LLC — a free price tag, and the Videos category. No long description. No short description. No screenshots. No rating. No review count. For a Samsung TV owner standing at the Videos rail with the remote in one hand, that is a tile to scroll past.
That is not necessarily the app’s fault. New Tizen channels often ship with sparse store metadata in the first weeks, and developers sometimes fill in the description over the following months. The launch build is on Samsung’s certification track, the icon is there, and the install path works. What is missing is the sentence — one good sentence — that tells a viewer what Cranked Up is for.
This review reflects the listing as it stands in early May 2026. If the developer fills in the description and adds screenshots, the editorial picture changes quickly. For now, the only honest verdict is that Cranked Up is a free, undocumented Tizen video channel, and the rating below grades the listing as much as the app behind it.
Cranked Up shipped to Tizen with the metadata equivalent of a shrug — an icon, a price of zero, and a name that could mean anything.
FEATURES
Cranked Up is a free Tizen video channel from Cranked Up Ventures LLC, filed under the Samsung TV store's Videos category. It launched on 30 March 2026 and last refreshed metadata in mid-April. The store listing carries an icon and not much else — no long description, no short description, no phone or tablet screenshots, no featured banner.
What that implies, on the Samsung TV side, is the standard Tizen video-channel shape: launch the tile from the home row, land on a channel-branded home screen, browse rails of clips or shows, and play back through the platform's built-in video stack. Free with no listed in-app purchases means either ad-supported or genuinely free, but the listing does not say which.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The price is right. A free Tizen channel costs nothing to try, and the store install completes in seconds on any Samsung set from the last several model years. If Cranked Up Ventures ships content the home viewer wants, the distribution path is already in place.
Being on Tizen at all is a small win for a brand-new operator. Samsung's TV-app submission process is not casual, and clearing it in the first quarter of 2026 means the team got through certification and onto the store with a working build.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The store listing is the problem. A blank description and zero screenshots give a Samsung TV owner no reason to pick this tile out of the Videos rail. Tizen's discovery surface rewards channels that lead with a screenshot grid and a clear sentence about what's inside; Cranked Up currently shows neither. The fix is on the developer side, not Samsung's.
No rating data, no review count, and no public press coverage means there is nothing to triangulate quality against. A user who installs Cranked Up today is the test audience, not the verified one. For a brand new channel that is fine — but it argues for treating the install as exploratory rather than as a commitment.
CONCLUSION
Worth a tap if a free unknown video channel sounds interesting and the Samsung remote is already in your hand. Not worth searching out. Watch for the developer to fill in a description and screenshots — when that lands, the listing becomes legible enough to judge on its merits. Until then, Cranked Up is a name and an icon, and an editorial verdict has to reflect that.