About Match a Movie

Match a Movie exists because choosing a film together is a worse problem than it should be. Not a shortage of things to watch — a shortage of ways to decide. The app replaces the discussion with simultaneous, private judgement, and requires everyone to agree rather than most people.

Who runs it

Match a Movie is operated from Saarbrücken, Germany, by a sole proprietorship. The full provider identification, including the VAT identification number, is in the legal notice.

Where the data comes from

Film information — titles, descriptions, posters, runtimes, ratings and streaming availability — comes from The Movie Database (TMDB). This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

Availability is the part that matters most and the part most likely to be briefly wrong: catalogues change, and the data is cached for a period rather than fetched live on every swipe. If a film turns out not to be where the app said it was, that is why.

Not affiliated with the streaming services

Match a Movie is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Netflix, Amazon Prime Video or Disney+. All product names, logos and trademarks belong to their respective owners, and those owners have no connection to this app.

How it is paid for

There is no advertising, no affiliate scheme, no paid tier and no data sold to anyone. The app is small enough and cheap enough to run that it is funded privately. That is also why it is built the way it is: film data is fetched once and shared across every round rather than re-fetched per group, which is what keeps the running cost low enough for this to stay true.

Statistics

When a group agrees on a film, one anonymous row is recorded describing the shape of that decision — group size, how many films were shown, how long it took, the genres involved. It carries nothing that identifies a person, a device or a round. The aggregates are published, because how groups actually converge on a film is not something you can find out anywhere else.