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Where Can I Watch? started as a way to answer one question:

Where can I actually stream the title I want to watch?

Over the last few releases it grew into something more: a place to keep a watchlist, track where you are in a show, and see what’s on tonight. But all of that lived on one device. If you looked something up and saved it on your phone, it wasn’t waiting on your iPad. Mark an episode watched on the couch, and the app on your other device didn’t know.

Last time, in 1.6.0, I said the thing people ask me for most is syncing a watchlist that follows you from your phone to your iPad without thinking about it and that it was what I was building next.

1.7.0 is that.

Where Can I Watch? started as a way to answer one question:

Where can I actually stream the title I want to watch?

But over the last few releases it slowly turned into something else, too. Once you can save shows, track them by episode, and see what airs today, the app stops being a lookup tool and starts being the place you keep track of what you’re watching.

Which created a new problem – one I kept running into myself: I could open the app and see everything I was tracking, but not where I actually was in any of it. I’d start an episode, get pulled away, come back a few days later, and spend time figuring out which one was next.

1.6.0 is about fixing that.

For the last few releases, I’ve ended these posts the same way: with a promise that a detail-page overhaul was coming. Ratings, runtime, a clearer view of which of your services actually carry a title. With 1.5.0, it’s here, along with one feature I’ve wanted for a while: searching by the people in front of the camera.