How Match a Movie works

Match a Movie is a way for a group to agree on a film without the discussion. Everyone judges the same films at the same time, privately, and the app tells you when you have all said yes to the same one.

1. Choose where you can watch

Pick any combination of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+, and the country you are in — one of twelve. Both matter: streaming catalogues are licensed per territory, so the same service offers different films in different countries.

Only films included in the subscriptions you picked are shown. A title you would have to rent or buy is not treated as available, because finding that out at the paywall is how a movie night ends badly.

2. Choose genres

Pick one or more of 19 genres. Everyone in the round picks their own, and the app draws from the overlap — so the films you are shown reflect the whole group's taste rather than whoever created the round.

3. Invite the others

Share a link, show a QR code, or read out the five-character code. Nobody needs an account, an app or an email address. A browser is enough, on any device.

4. Swipe

Everyone gets the same films in the same order and swipes at their own pace — right for yes, left for no. You cannot see anyone else's answers, which is the point: nobody is anchored by whoever answered first.

A match requires everyone. It is the first film every person in the round swiped right on, not the one with the most likes. A majority vote would hand you a film that some of the group actively did not want, which is the opposite of what a shared evening needs.

What it costs, and what it keeps

• Free, with no account, no download and no payment.
• No advertising, no analytics tools and no cross-site tracking.
• Two strictly necessary cookies, so you can return to a round after closing the browser.
• Rounds are deleted once they have been inactive for a while.