Launching today
I kept losing track of what I wanted to watch across Netflix, Max, Hulu, Apple TV+, and Prime, and I'd always find out weeks late that a new season dropped. So I built ReelStack. Add a show or movie, it tells you which service has it, and it pings you the moment a new season is out. No login, nothing social, just your list. $2.99 once, no subscription, ever.
How does it actually know when a new season drops on something like Max or Apple TV+ since neither really exposes that through any public API I've come across?
@mkoramaz32336 Good question. The show and season data comes from TMDB, which is a big community-maintained movie and TV database. When a streaming service announces a new season and a date gets logged there, ReelStack picks it up and notifies you.
So it's not a direct feed from Max or Apple TV+ themselves. It's that once a season has an announced premiere date, the app sees it and pings you. For popular shows that tends to happen quickly. For smaller or more niche shows it can depend on when the date gets announced and added.
The app re-checks in the background so if a date gets added or changed later, you still get caught up.
The no-login, one-time-price setup sounds refreshingly sane, and the cross-service tracking is genuinely useful. One thing that would seal the deal for me is adding a way to mark shows as dropped or finished, so old finished series dont clog up the list forever, maybe with a separate watchlist and history view.
@asiyeenisoczbn Appreciate this. Good news on part of it: finished shows already have a home. When you mark something as Watched it moves out of your Watching list into a separate Watched tab, so old series don't pile up. Watchlist for stuff you want to get to and Watched for your history are already their own tabs, so that separation is there today.
There's also a nice bit tied to the season alerts: when a show you've marked Watched gets a new season, ReelStack automatically moves it back into Watching so it resurfaces in your queue. So finished shows stay out of the way until there's actually a reason to bring them back.
The one part that isn't in yet is a proper "dropped" status for shows you gave up on, as its own thing rather than deleting them or marking them watched. That's a genuinely good idea and I'm putting it on the list. Thanks for the feedback.
Love the no-subscription angle and the unified tracking across all those services. One thing that would seal it for me: let me filter or tag by mood or genre so I can pull something quick when I have 30 minutes and no idea what to watch, instead of just staring at a flat list of titles.
@niyaziktayvflx Really appreciate this. Right now each of your lists can be filtered by streaming service, so you can narrow to just what's on Netflix or Max. Genre isn't a filter option yet, but here's the thing: every show in your library already stores its genres under the hood, so adding genre filtering is a natural next step rather than a big rebuild. It's high on my list.
The "I have 30 minutes and no clue what to watch" framing is a great way to put it. Something that pulls up a quick pick that fits, by genre or even runtime, beats staring at a flat list. I'm writing this one down. Thanks for the feedback.
Finally a watchlist that doesn't want my email or sell me on a "premium tier." Added a few shows and the service matching is actually accurate, which is more than I expected.
@hazalv5qa Thanks for giving it a shot.
added a few shows on my lunch break and it correctly flagged where each one lives, which honestly saves me from the endless scroll. the no-login thing is genuinely refreshing.
@baran_irma80727 Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad you are enjoying it.