About WatchList

What it does

Instead of jumping between Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, and other platforms to see what's available, WatchList lets you pick your services and instantly browse what you can watch right now. You can filter by genre, language, and rating to narrow down the options and find something that fits your mood, without paying for anything extra.

How it works

Movie and TV show data, including streaming availability, comes from The Movie Database (TMDb). WatchList uses their API to show you up-to-date information about what's trending, what's newly available, and what's rated highest, filtered to your region and your streaming providers.

Privacy

WatchList does not require an account, and there is no server behind it. Your watchlist, the titles you mark as watched, your ratings, your region and your streaming platforms all live in this browser's own storage. Nothing you record here is ever sent anywhere — there is nowhere to send it to.

The pages themselves do reach a few other places, and it is only fair to name them:

• TMDb — every film and television listing, poster and streaming-availability lookup on the site.
• Wikipedia — the editorial background shown on some title pages, requested by name when you open one.
• YouTube — trailer thumbnails, and the player itself once you press play. Trailers are embedded through youtube-nocookie.com.
• Google Analytics — traffic measurement, so I can see which parts of the site are worth keeping. It is the only thing on this list that exists for my benefit rather than yours, and the only one that sets cookies. Any tracker blocker removes it, and nothing on the site stops working when it is gone.

Those requests carry what any web request carries — your IP address and the page you are on. None of them are told what is on your watchlist.

Open source

WatchList is open source. You can browse the code, report issues, or contribute on GitHub.