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ReelCritic: What to Watch
Every critic gives you the crowd's score. ReelCritic gives you yours — a personal 0–100 Match Score learned from your swipes, plus where to watch and a spoiler-aware critic that understands your taste.
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A score made for you, not the crowd
Swipe your taste, walk into a sequel ready, find where it's streaming, and ask a Critic that knows you.
Why ReelCritic
Stop scrolling. Start watching the right thing.
Everyone's seen the same "9.2 on IMDb" and still not known if they'd like it. ReelCritic learns your actual taste and answers the only question that matters: is this one for me?
Your personal 0–100 Match Score
Search any movie or show and instantly see a score built for your taste — green for a strong match, red for skip — with a clear, honest reason why.
Swipe to teach it your taste
Right to love, left to pass — a minute of swiping and your critic knows you. Dislikes count as much as loves.
Homework before the sequel
Walking into a sequel or a new season? Homework builds a spoiler-safe briefing: the premise, what to watch first, who everyone is, and what to look for.
Your contextual AI critic
Start with a title, a score, or a recommendation and ask what matters to you. ReelCritic keeps the conversation spoiler-aware and grounded in your taste.
Reel FindIt
See where a title is streaming, rentable, or playing near you. Not available where you are? FindIt shows which service carries it in another region.
Private by design
Your taste, ratings, and diary stay on your device and travel between your own devices through your personal iCloud account — nothing goes to us. No third-party tracking SDKs, no ad networks, no account.
A private movie diary
Keep the date, your 0–100 score, a note, and whether you'd watch again — without slowing down a quick swipe.
Compare taste with a friend
Share a private link or QR code and find the overlap — calculated on-device, with no account required.
Built for a shared device
Everyone in your household gets their own profile, taste, ratings, and watchlist. Hide genres you never want offered, or turn on Kids mode.
Told the moment it lands
Save titles to your watchlist and ask to be told when one starts streaming. A home-screen widget keeps the list a glance away.
Under the Hood
How the Score Learns You
Scored against your own ratings
Every Match Score request carries up to fourteen titles you have already rated — your highest, your lowest, and a couple from the middle — so the 0–100 scale is anchored to films you personally graded instead of to abstract taste adjectives.
Disagreeing recalibrates it
Correct a Match Score by eight points or more and the app sends both numbers — what it predicted and what you said — as an explicit calibration correction, so similar titles move in that direction next time. Fast swiping is folded into one teaching call that keeps each raw 0–100 value rather than flattening it to like or dislike.
Friend comparison never hits a server
The entire taste profile rides inside the share link's URL fragment, which browsers never transmit to a server, and the percent match is computed on the phone: a Jaccard-plus-overlap-coefficient blend of both tag sets, minus roughly five points for each love-versus-avoid conflict. No account, no server-side copy of either person's taste.
No API keys in the binary
All movie and TV lookups route through the app's own backend, so the TMDB and OMDb keys stay server-side and cannot be pulled out of a downloaded copy of the app. The project links zero third-party Swift packages, so there is no analytics or ad SDK in the build at all.
How We Compare
A Score That's Yours, Not the Crowd's
Review aggregators tell you what everyone thought; streaming guides tell you where a title lives. ReelCritic answers the only question that actually decides your evening — whether you will like it.
| Capability | Review aggregators | Streaming guides | ReelCritic |
|---|---|---|---|
| A personal 0–100 match score | — | Some | ✓ |
| Learns your taste from swipes, not a questionnaire | — | Some | ✓ |
| Shows where a title is streaming | Some | ✓ | ✓ |
| A spoiler-safe briefing before a sequel or new season | — | — | ✓ |
| An AI critic you can ask about a specific title | — | — | ✓ |
| Private diary of what you've watched | Some | Some | ✓ |
| Compare taste with a friend | — | Some | ✓ |
| No infinite engagement feed | — | — | ✓ |
| Professional critic reviews in full | ✓ | Some | — |
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Comparison reflects typical publicly listed features by category as of 2026 — not any single competitor, whose features change often. App and company names are trademarks of their respective owners; mention here is for honest comparison, not affiliation or endorsement.
A Closer Look
Inside ReelCritic
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Never waste another night deciding.
ReelCritic is free to download — teach it your taste, score any title, check where to watch, and get personal recommendations. Premium expands your contextual Critic access.
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