What You Can Do With Friends on Matinee
Friends Activity Feed
See what your friends are watching, rating, and reviewing in real time — all in your social feed.
Friend Ratings & Reviews
Get honest opinions from people you know. Friend ratings are more useful than strangers' scores.
Discover Through Friends
Find movies and TV shows you'd never discover alone through friends with similar taste.
Share Your Watchlist
Your watchlist is visible to friends who follow you — share what you're planning to watch next.
Personalized Recommendations
Get recommendations based on what your network loves, not just what's trending globally.
Follow Friends Easily
Find and follow friends with one tap. Build your network and keep up with everyone's watching.
Perfect For
Couples
Follow each other, sync your watchlists, and never argue about what to watch tonight.
Friend Groups
See everyone's ratings before committing to a group movie night pick.
Families
Stay connected on what everyone in the family is watching and enjoying.
Film Enthusiasts
Build a community around great cinema with people who love movies as much as you do.
What is Matinee?
Matinee is a free iOS app for tracking movies and TV shows with friends. Log what you watch, rate and review, build a smart watchlist, and follow friends to see what they're watching — all in one app. It's the social movie tracker built around people you actually know.
How It Works
Download Matinee
Get Matinee free on the App Store for iPhone.
Follow your friends
Find friends already on Matinee, or invite them to join.
See their activity
Your social feed shows their ratings, reviews, and watchlist adds in real time.
Discover together
Add anything interesting straight to your watchlist and share your own activity back.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Matinee is built around social features. Follow friends, see their activity in a social feed, share reviews, and discover new movies and TV shows through people you trust.
Absolutely. Matinee's social feed shows your friends' recent watches, ratings, and reviews in real time. Follow anyone on Matinee to see their activity.
Matinee is a social movie and TV tracker. You follow real friends (not strangers), see what they're watching, and share recommendations — it's the social layer that most movie apps are missing.
Yes. Your Matinee watchlist is visible to people who follow you. Friends can see what you're planning to watch and add anything interesting to their own lists.
Yes. Matinee is completely free to download and use. A Pro upgrade unlocks advanced AI search and removes ads.