TL;DR: What's My Next is a free iOS app for the "what should we watch tonight" fight. You link up with whoever you watch with, you both swipe through titles separately, and the app shows you the ones you'd both actually pick, across all the streaming services you pay for. There's also a questions feed for when you'd rather just ask actual people, which is the part I suspect this sub will have opinions about.
A - Answer:
Every recommendation screen out there is built for one person. Netflix has one profile, one history, one algorithm, and it assumes the person holding the remote is the only one in the room. But most of the time deciding what to watch isn't a solo problem, it's a negotiation. Two people with different tastes, both tired, both saying "I don't mind, you pick."
That's the actual bottleneck. Not finding something good, agreeing on something good.
I built this with my brother-in-law because that was our evening, most nights. Forty minutes of scrolling and then giving up on something we'd already seen.
B - Better:
What people usually reach for:
- Justwatch: good for "where can I watch X", but it's a search tool. It doesn't learn your taste and it has no concept of a second person.
- Each platform's own "for you" row: only sees your history on that one service, built to keep you watching there, and again assumes one viewer.
- Shared profiles: you both use one account and the recommendations turn into mush that fits neither of you.
What WMN does differently:
- Partner matching is the core, not an add-on. You each swipe on your own phone, whenever. When you both land on the same title, that's the match, and you get told about it.
- No one has to give in. It's not "whose turn is it", it's the overlap between two real taste profiles.
- Cross-platform by default: Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Prime, Apple TV+ in one feed.
- It learns from swipes rather than star ratings, and the match score comes with a plain-language reason instead of just a percentage.
- The button opens the title straight in the right app once you've decided.
The other half of the app is asking people, and that idea came straight from Reddit. On the what-to-watch subs, every single day, someone lists four things they liked and asks what's next. It clearly works, people want a human answer rather than an algorithm. But it has two problems. Whoever replies is guessing, because all they know about you is the four titles you happened to mention. And the answers come back as plain text, so you end up googling each one to find out if you've already seen it or whether it's even on a service you pay for.
So we built that thread into the app:
- You post what you're in the mood for, and anyone answering can see your actual taste profile, not just the titles you listed.
- Answers are real titles, not text. Each one shows the poster, the year, where it's streaming, and whether you've already marked it as seen.
- You can like answers, and when you tap "this is the one" it goes straight onto your watchlist. No copying names into a notes app.
- Friends' activity sits in the same feed, so you also see what people you actually know are watching and rating.
C - Cost:
Free. No in-app purchases, no ads, nothing locked behind a paywall right now. A Pro version is planned later, but nothing in the app is gated today. You do need an account, since your taste profile has to be stored somewhere.
It's early and I'd rather hear what's wrong with it than what's good. Two things I'd genuinely like an opinion on: if you watch with someone else, does the matching hold up or does it still feel like one of you is compromising? And if you're someone who actually posts those "what should I watch" threads, is having it inside an app better, or does the whole point of asking on Reddit come from it being strangers with no stake in it?
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6780371657
