Tag: Where Can I Watch (Page 1 of 2)

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.

Where Can I Watch? 1.3.0 is out, and this one is less about new features and more about making controls that have been in the app since launch easier to find and easier to trust.

When 1.2.0 shipped, I wrote that 1.3.0 was going to be a detail-page overhaul. But the more I used the app, the more I noticed another set of issues specifically around the filtering controls in the Services tab. They’ve been there since 1.0.0, but they’re buried far too low beneath the list of streaming service providers. So I shifted gears. The detail-page work moved to 1.4.0, and 1.3.0 became a clarity pass on the filtering experience across Search and Trending.