Today is the day. ReelRifter is officially live.
After months of building, beta testing with a small group of generous early users, and obsessing over every detail of the dashboard, the doors are open. Whether you signed up for the waitlist months ago or you're just hearing about us today — welcome. Here's what you've walked into.
What ReelRifter actually is
ReelRifter is the universal watchlist and intelligence layer for everything you watch. One place to track every show and movie you care about, across every streaming service you use, with the brains to actually help you decide what to watch next — not just remember what you wanted to.
It works on:
- 📺 TV shows (broadcast and streaming)
- 🎬 Movies
- 🎌 Anime (with seasonal calendars)
- ⚽ Sports (live scores, standings, your followed teams)
- 🎙️ Documentaries, reality, news — anything TMDB tracks, ReelRifter tracks
It plays nicely with Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Hulu, Apple TV+, Prime Video, Paramount+, Peacock, and dozens more. We don't replace those services — we sit on top of them and make the chaos manageable.
Why we built it
Streaming was supposed to make TV easier. Instead it gave us a content firehose split across nine subscription services, with no shared search, no shared watchlist, and no way to remember whether Severance is on Apple TV+ or Netflix at 11pm when you're trying to start something.
The existing solutions are either:
- Trackers that just remember things (Trakt, Simkl) — useful, but no help with deciding what's worth watching tonight
- Recommendation engines locked inside one service (Netflix's algorithm, etc.) — only know about titles on that one service
- Spreadsheets — yes, really, a depressing number of people use spreadsheets
We wanted something that knows what you've watched everywhere, knows what's leaving where, knows what your friends are loving, and can give you a confident answer to "what should I put on right now?" That's ReelRifter.
The intelligence layer
This is the part that makes ReelRifter different from a normal tracker.
🎯 AI Pick for Tonight
Open the dashboard, tell it your mood and how much time you have, and it gives you one recommendation it's confident about — drawn from your watchlist, ratings, watch history, and what's actually streamable on the services you have. No paradox of choice. One title, one click, lights down.
✨ ReelRifter Recommends
A continuously-updated feed of AI picks tailored to your taste. Mood filters, "Because You Watched X" rows, smart sorting by urgency (things leaving soon, episodes you're behind on). The more you rate, the better it gets.
💬 Chat with Your Data
Ask ReelRifter anything in plain language. "What was that thriller I rated 9 last summer?" "Which Netflix shows on my watchlist are leaving in the next two weeks?" "Build me a watchlist of dark Scandinavian crime dramas with under 30 episodes." The AI knows your watchlist, your services, your friends, your ratings — and Claude is the engine.
🤖 ReelRifter Match
Even on titles you haven't added yet, every detail page shows a predicted score: how likely you specifically are to love this title, based on your taste profile. Green for high-confidence matches, amber for "worth a try," with a one-line explanation of why.
The tracking foundation
Of course, the intelligence layer only works if the tracking underneath is solid. We obsessed over this.
- Universal watchlist with five statuses (Watching, Want to Watch, Finished, On Hold, Dropped) and 1–10 ratings
- Episode tracking with a one-tap +Episode button that auto-rolls into the next season at the finale
- Continue Watching — the most-requested feature from beta testers, a strip of every show in progress at the top of your dashboard
- Personal notes on any title — private, for spoiler thoughts and watch-with reminders
- Owned flag for DVDs, Blu-rays, and digital purchases, with a dedicated filter
- Watch Time Estimator — every title shows hours remaining, total runtime, and a finish-date prediction based on your actual recent pace
- Imports from Trakt, Simkl, Letterboxd, IMDb CSVs, and TV Time so you don't start from scratch
Discovery, organized
Whatever mode you're in, there's a feature for it.
- 🔥 Trending — top movies and TV right now, by day or week
- 📺 Airing Today — the live broadcast and streaming schedule across every service
- 📡 Release Radar — new episodes and season premieres for everything on your watchlist
- 🚨 Cancellation Radar — early warnings when shows you love are on the bubble, with renewal-likelihood scores
- 💎 Hidden Gems — algorithm-surfaced underrated picks, with a weekly editorial spotlight
- ⏳ Expiring Soon — what's leaving your services in the next 30 days, sorted by urgency
- 🎬 Upcoming Movies — movies arriving in theaters and on streaming soon
- 🎌 Anime Calendar — seasonal lineups (Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall) with air dates and one-click adds
- 🗂️ Collections — curated themed watchlists (decade deep-dives, director spotlights, franchise guides)
- 🔥 Reel Flick (Beta) — and brand new today, a TikTok-style mobile feed for browsing recommendations one swipe at a time. Read the full announcement here.
Planning, when you actually mean it
For when you want to commit to something and not just stare at the watchlist:
- 🗓️ Binge Planner — tell us how many hours per day you have, get a day-by-day completion plan for any show
- ⏯️ Schedule Binge — pick a network and date, generate the full broadcast schedule, add to your list
- 🔀 Interleave Planner — rotate multiple shows in a daily schedule so you make steady progress without abandoning anything
- ✈️ Travel Downloads — build a personalized download list for your next trip from your watchlist, optimized for offline playback
Social, without the friend drama
- 👥 Friends — see what friends are watching, compare taste scores, browse each other's watchlists
- 🏠 Households — share a household with up to 5 members, sync a group watch queue, watch together
- 🎉 Watch Party — real-time synced watch parties so distance doesn't matter
- 🌐 Public Profile — optional public page showing your favorites, currently watching, and stats
Money & devices
We track the boring stuff too, because it adds up.
- 💰 Streaming Value — see exactly what you're spending across every service and whether each one is paying off, based on your watch history
- 📱 Travel Downloads report — for trip planning
- 🖥️ Hardware Picks — top streaming devices and Smart TVs hand-selected by us, useful for travel and home
Stats and bragging rights
- 📊 My Stats — watch history, hours by genre, top-rated titles, completion percentages
- 🏆 Achievements — streaks, finisher badges, ratings milestones, rewatch counts
- 🎁 ReelRifter Wrapped — your year in review at the end of every year, beautiful and shareable
- 📈 Friend taste comparisons — see your taste-match score with anyone you follow
Notifications you actually want
We thought hard about what's worth pushing to your phone:
- 📺 New episodes airing today for shows you watch
- ⏰ Daily morning brief with what's on
- 👋 Leaving soon — alerts at 7 days and 1 day before a watchlist title disappears
- 🎬 New trailer drops for upcoming releases
- 📈 Cancellation/renewal news
- 🎯 "You might love this" recommendations after you finish something you rated highly
- 🍿 Binge plan milestones (25%, 50%, 75%, finished)
- 🏆 Badge unlocks
- 👥 Friend activity
- 📅 Season countdown alerts
All opt-in, all tunable in Settings → Emails/Notifications. We don't spam.
Pricing — no crippled free tier
The free plan is genuinely useful — not a demo:
- Free — Up to 50 titles, full tracking, Release Radar, Hidden Gems, Trending, episode tracking, ratings, notes — everything you need to use the app forever without paying
- Pro — $6/mo — Unlimited tracking, AI Picks, Binge Planner, Schedule Binge, Interleave, Friends, Cost Optimizer, Wrapped
- Pro + Sports — extra small bump — Adds live scores, standings, team follows, sports notifications
- Family — $12/mo — Everything in Pro, up to 5 household members, kids profiles with parental controls
Annual plans are available at a meaningful discount on every tier.
What happens next
We're going to keep shipping. Some of what's already in flight:
- The implicit-dismiss feature for Reel Flick (it's built — just punted out of launch day for migration safety)
- Better cross-service deep links (open Netflix directly to the right episode)
- Group ratings and shared watchlists for households
- A native iOS app (the PWA is excellent today; native is coming)
But mostly, today is for you using it. Sign up at reelrifter.com, import your existing watchlist if you have one, set your favorite genres in onboarding, and let the recommendations start tuning to your taste.
If you hit a bug or have an idea, /contact goes straight to us. We read every message.
May the 4th be with you. Welcome to ReelRifter. 🎬