Tag: Where Can I Watch (Page 1 of 3)

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.

Where Can I Watch? has always answered a simple question: where can I actually watch this show or movie right now? The catch is that “right now” includes more than the subscription services you pay for.

A lot of content lives on free, ad-supported platforms like The Roku Channel, Tubi, Pluto TV, and the like. Those are legitimate, no-cost ways to watch something tonight, and the app was leaving them out.

Where Can I Watch? 1.4.0 is out, and it’s one of the bigger releases since launch. Two ideas drove most of the work: making Today its own top-level tab, and giving Episode Detail a consistent home in every place in the app where you might tap into an episode.

When 1.3.0 shipped, the plan I wrote for 1.4.0 was a detail-page overhaul:

• content rating badges,
• runtime,
• on-your-services callouts,
• and person search.

The more I continued to use the app, the more it was clear the foundation for those enhancements wasn’t quite in place yet:

• Episode Detail only opened from one corner of the app,
• Today was still a pinned section inside Watchlist,
• and the streaming service name, the whole point of the app, was missing from a few places a user would most want it.

1.4.0 puts those foundations in place. The detail-page enhancements will be in 1.5.0, built on top of everything in this release.