Your friends already know what you’ll love. Movies, Music & Podcasts.

Your friends know what you should watch.

Watchdog is a tiny private app for a handful of friends. You recommend things to each other, and it keeps score of who actually gets it right.

How a night goes

1Someone sends you a pick.A friend recommends Heat with a note: “Trust me.” It lands in your inbox.
2You watch it. Or not.No pressure. Pass on it, put it back later, whatever.
3One quick rating.1 to 5 stars for how much you liked it, plus what it really was: the thriller that turned out to be horror. They see it.
4Their RecScore moves.Nail five in a row and you're a legend. Whiff and everyone knows.

Stuck on what to watch, or what to put on?

Tap one button, say who’s on the couch and what mood you’re in, and get three picks that fit everyone. It leans on the friends whose calls have landed for you before.

Your first three minutes

Sign in with your email. Set a password later if you like, or keep using the emailed link.
Tell us your name. That’s all friends ever see.
React to about eighteen movies and shows. Gut feeling only.
Pick your Top 5. The ones you’d defend at dinner.
That’s it. Your inbox starts filling up.

What you get

It starts simple. The rest opens up as your circle grows.

Tonight's pickA movie and a show every day, from what you've loved, on the services you pay for.
Three for tonightSay who's watching and the mood, or type it in plain words, and get three picks that each say why.
A scoreboardEvery recommendation gets rated when it's watched. Over time you know exactly whose taste to trust.
Your circle's feedWhat your friends watched and what they thought, with your own take next to it.
Tips from anyoneSomeone not on Watchdog told you about a film? Log it, text them an invite, and they get the credit.
It just landedA heads-up the day one of your saved titles shows up on one of your services.
Taste matchYour closest match in the circle, and head-to-head on the titles you've both seen.
The couch voteSend three picks to whoever's on the couch and let them vote. Winner plays.
Movie nightsPlan one, invite the circle, RSVP, get a nudge on the day.
Your hangoutA thread on every title with spoilers blurred, and a question for the circle each week.
Import your historyNetflix, Letterboxd, or IMDb. Hundreds of titles in one go, so it's smart on day one.
Private by designYour circle is only the people you choose. Ratings, saved titles, and phone numbers stay with you.

The fine print, short version

Only people in your circle see anything about you. There’s no public feed, no strangers, no ads. You can switch any part of your profile to private, and you can leave any time.

Put it on your phone

iPhone: open this in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
Android: Chrome will offer Install, or use the menu’s Add to Home screen.
Computer: Chrome and Edge show an install icon in the address bar.

Private by design. We never see your password, never sell your data, and never post for you.How Watchdog handles your account

Your sign-in. Continue with Apple or Google and Watchdog never holds a password at all. If you choose one, it is stored only as a scrambled hash by Supabase, our sign-in provider. New passwords are checked against known breach lists and refused if they have leaked elsewhere, so pick one you don’t use anywhere else.

If your phone warns that a password was found in a breach, that is about the password itself, wherever else you use it. The fix is to change it on that other account.

Your data. Ratings, saved titles, and messages are visible only to the circle you chose. Nothing is sold or shared with advertisers, and there are no ad trackers in the app.

Phone numbers you add for people outside Watchdog are seen only by you.

Keeping it civil. Any comment, message, or person can be reported in one tap, and a human reads every report within 24 hours. You can remove or block anyone from your circle. Questions: hello@watchdog.show.

Leaving. Under Me → Privacy you can download everything you’ve added, or delete your account and all of it in one tap.

Movie and show data from TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. Streaming data by JustWatch.