Is there a good app for get personalized show and movie recommendations?
Lacks Features: 45 apps already serve this, and 11 data points mined from real user reviews across 2 sources show where they fall short. Apps exist but miss features users keep asking for. Enter with the missing feature.
Data refreshed September 7, 2026 · scores recompute weekly as new reviews are mined, so re-check before you build.
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to get personalized show and movie recommendations, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| recommends already-watched content | missing-feature | 1 | keep recommending anime I’ve already watched instead of helping me discover |
| film recommendation tab | missing-feature | 1 | there is not a recommendation tab for films you have watched |
| separate movie/show watchlists | missing-feature | 1 | Watchlist movie or web show ki alag alag honi chahiye |
| suggests and replays already-watched episodes | bug | 1 | It also constantly plays episodes you’ve already watched, both as suggestions and when trying to watch “next episode” |
| assign movies to friends watchlist | missing-feature | 1 | Is there a way we can assign movies to our friends watchlist ??? |
| hard to find shows you watch | ux | 1 | Why does it take almost 10 minutes for me to find ONE show I watch |
| rated items shown in streaming recommendations | missing-feature | 1 | If I’ve rated something, I don’t want to see it in the “streaming” section |
| stories-feed-suggested-friends | ux | 1 | never ending list of suggested friends that I can't get rid of |
| needs more popular shows or movies | missing-feature | 1 | needs more popular shows or movies |
| song recommendations based on search | missing-feature | 1 | now it just had the song you searched for on repeat |
| app pushes recommendations over user intent | ux | 1 | It is now an ad platform that tells you what Roku wants you to watch. You have to fight the “suggestions” |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Prime Video | 4.8 | 3,045,444 | Free |
| Netflix | 4.7 | 7,261,013 | Free |
| Hulu: Stream TV shows & movies | 4.6 | 1,429,693 | Free |
| Moviebox Watch TV & Shows | 2.3 | 6 | Free |
| Watchlist Pro- Movie & TV Show | 4.2 | 236 | Free |
| OTT Watchlist: Movie, TV Guide | 4.5 | 658 | Free |
| My Movies 6 - Movie & TV List | 4.7 | 1,353 | Free |
| Watchlist Pro TV | 3.0 | 398 | Free |
Should you build it?
Apps exist but miss features users keep asking for. Enter with the missing feature. Opportunity here scores 25 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
Who has tried building this
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98mohitkumar/Cinephiled | active | 48 | JavaScript |
Open-source projects that attempted this task — active ones show today's bar; abandoned ones are a signal to validate why earlier attempts died.
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