SERIESShows, one episode at a time.
Follow a show and it keeps your place. Its page has a Next Episode row with a circle to tick, and ticking it moves on to the next. Mark one further along and it offers to mark the ones before it; picking a show up partway through, tell it where you’re starting. Seasons are a row of episode cards, up to the latest one out.
Notifications arrive the moment an episode airs where you are, or at its service’s hour for a streaming drop, and say when it’s a finale. Fall more than a couple behind and only premieres get through. Pause a show and it goes quiet until its next season; abandon it and it stops. Lost the thread? Recap a Season retells one from its episode summaries, written on your iPhone.
Coming from Trakt, Sofa or Marathon? Their exports bring your shows across with every watch date.
NOW SHOWINGWhat’s on, today.
Home opens on your own evening. Up Next is one row: what you scheduled for today, the episodes out today on shows you follow, and the shows you’re partway through. Hold a card to mark it Seen, move it to another day or take it off, and add any film or episode to it, front or back.
Below it, TV has Start Watching, Returning Shows and Upcoming Premieres, and Films has what you saved that’s in theaters, streaming or coming soon. Tell it whether you mostly watch TV or films, and that half comes first. Search is always at the top, with your recent searches.
SHUFFLEDescribe the evening, not the title.
Choosing is the hard part. Pick for Me opens on a question: what are you in the mood for? Tick Laugh, Thrill, Scare, Cry, Swoon, Escape, Family or Think, or Surprise Me. Draw from Want to See, your Plex, a list of your own or any collection, narrow it by genre, decade, rating, length, language, the people in it or your services, and save the filters you come back to.
Switch to TV and it picks a show. Press Pick and a reel of posters lands on one, with the time it would finish if you started now. Not feeling it? Pick again.
BOX SETLists worth working through.
Collections are lists other people drew up, measured against your library. Franchises in release order, from James Bond to the MCU. Every feature from fourteen studios, Pixar, Ghibli and A24 among them, and from forty-three directors and actors. Sight and Sound, every Best Picture winner, the Criterion Collection and the best TV of the century. Box Office has the year’s 25 biggest films at the US box office, every year since 1977, and In Memoriam remembers the actors lost this year.
Add the ones you want and they become Your Collections, on Home and in Pick for Me, each saying how far through it you are. Open one to see every title with a mark on the ones you’ve seen; hide those, filter to your services, or swipe through the rest. Taking a collection off takes nothing else with it.
RED CARPETEvery nominee, every year.
The Academy Awards, the Primetime Emmys and the Golden Globes each have a shelf, with every ceremony as a collection: all 98 Oscars, the Emmys since 1954 and the Globes since 1948. Every category, every nominee, the winner marked.
A title’s page names the ceremonies it was up at and how it did, and through each award season Home offers that year’s nominees to work through before the envelopes open.
SEASONALDressed for the occasion.
The seasons get a little more. Through October, Trick or Treat deals one horror film at a time from your services, each with how frightening it is, from Scary Meter. Through November, in the US, Leftovers serves Thanksgiving films and episodes, and through December Deck the Halls does Christmas. Each month, Home invites you to add its list to Your Collections.
The rest of the year has its occasions too, each with a pick, a list and a send-off: Be Mine for Valentine’s, Friday the 13th, April Fools’, May the 4th, Pride, Summer Blockbusters, Shark Week, Back to School and the Fourth of July. Black History, Women’s History, AAPI Heritage and Hispanic Heritage months each bring a collection.
SCHEDULEA day for everything you mean to watch.
Schedule any film or episode for a day, from a calendar that marks the days already taken, and on the day it’s in Up Next. If it never got marked Seen, the next morning the app asks whether you watched it.
Scheduled lists everything ahead. Move anything to another day, or bring a whole schedule in from a spreadsheet.
CATALOGEverything, filed.
Shows have their side: following, watching, airing, between seasons, finished, paused and abandoned. Films have theirs: Seen, Not Seen, Want to See and Maybe, plus Upcoming and Out Now. A heart puts anything in your Favorites. Pin the lists you use most, group, sort and search them, as rows or a grid of posters.
Lists of your own hold films and shows together, or a single episode, with sections, numbering and a progress bar if you want them. Coming from Letterboxd? Its export brings your films and watchlist across.
DIARYEverything you watched, and when.
The Logbook, in Home’s corner, is the diary: every film and episode you’ve logged, newest first, and searchable. Hold anything you’ve seen to log a rewatch. Updates, beside it, is the week’s news about what you follow.
On the first of each month, In Review totals up the month before, to share as a picture.
HISTORYHow much you watch.
Viewing History on your Profile charts what you watched, films beside shows, month by month or year by year; hold a bar for its numbers. Time Watched keeps the running total, by year and by genre.
LINER NOTESEverything about a title, in one place.
Every film, show and episode opens on its picture, with the trailer playing right there when you ask, and one round button to say Seen, Want to See or Maybe, or to follow a show. A line under the synopsis gives the year, running time, age rating and leading score.
Further down: where to watch it, your services first; the collections it’s on; Ratings, with the Tomatometer, Metascore and IMDb rating beside TMDB’s; Related, for what people who liked it also liked; and the cast and crew. Pull the page down and the picture grows as it refreshes.
PREVIEWSWhat everyone else is watching.
Discover shows the most popular titles on each service you pay for, in each genre and from each year, in an order you choose, then Popular Films, Popular TV and the latest trailers. Sign in to Plex and it browses your server too.
Anything you’ve filed wears a check or a star, and holding any poster, anywhere in the app, offers the lot: follow it, save it, add it to Up Next or a list, or schedule it. “Popular” is TMDB’s measure of attention, not box office.
SIDE AHave you seen it?
The Grid is the quickest way to tell the app what you’ve seen: a hundred popular films or shows at a time. Tap once for Seen, twice for Want to See or Follow, then file the lot. A new library opens on it.
Beside it on Discover, the Deck asks one at a time: swipe right for seen, left for not, and up to save a film or follow a show. Say you’ve seen a show and it asks how far you got, then marks those episodes.
Private by design
There’s no account and no server holding your library: every verdict, watch date and note lives on your device. The app asks TMDB about titles, and Wikidata for critics’ scores, through a relay that keeps no record of who asked, and TVmaze, Wikipedia, Wikidata and Scary Meter directly for the rest, never with anything about you; Plex only if you sign in, and YouTube only when you play a trailer. No analytics, no advertising identifier, nothing tracking you.