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Track what you watch, compare tastes with friends, and discover what's worth watching — through people you trust.
Loved by film fans — read the reviewsFollow friends, critics, and kindred spirits. Your feed becomes the people whose taste you trust — watching, rating, and trading takes in real time.
Every title gets two numbers: what your Tastebuds think, and what the whole world thinks. When they disagree — that’s the interesting part.
Every list is a group project. Your Tastebuds pile in their picks, the collage fills up, and the likes decide what you watch first.
Movie night, minus the forty-minute argument. Everyone swipes, nobody scrolls forever — the first title you all say yes to wins the evening.
Flip a series to In Progress, then slide straight to the season and episode you’re on. Everything you’re partway through keeps its own progress bar — so “wait, where were we?” stops being a question.
Trailers, cast, where to stream, watch history, badges, threads — everything else is already on the table.
Real quotes from real Aftertaste users.
“Save hours of indecisive scrolling time on Netflix.”
“Do IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes ratings matter anymore? My friends’ opinions are better signal for what is good.”
“Goodreads meets IMDB meets friendship. So glad to have an app that tells me the next big show or movie I should watch (or avoid).”
“So interesting to see my unique taste profile — Chef has recommended some of my absolute favourite watches ever.”
“About time an app like this came along. It knocks it out of the park.”
Aftertaste works just as well in your browser. Pick up where you left off, keep your watchlist in sync, and browse on the big-ish screen when the couch isn’t cutting it.
The questions we typically get, actually answered by the four of us who built Aftertaste.
A Tastebud is someone whose taste you trust (get it?). Friends, critics, or total strangers — the choice is yours.
Tastebuds shape your feed and the content ratings you see in the app. We don’t have promoted content, sponsored placements, or outside algorithms deciding what’s worth your Friday movie night (a sacred time in our opinion). Your feed and experience are entirely yours to shape.
Rate anything out of 10 (decimals allowed, because a 7.1 and 7.8 are way different in our opinion).
7 and up is a Yum, 5–6 is a Meh, anything in the 4’s and below is a Yuck. Perfect 10? That’s a Chef’s Kiss. We don’t hand too many of those out. 0 is a Woof. We have handed a few of those out (we won’t say who here — you’ll have to check the app for that).
You’ll see three scores on everything: yours, your Tastebuds’ average, and the global one. It’s pretty crazy (and fun) to see how much they differ sometimes. We’ve found our Tastebud scores to be way more accurate to our taste than global critic or user ratings on other sites (that’s kinda the whole point here).
Chef is our optional recommendation “kitchen”. It starts by building what we call your “Taste Profile” — one that evolves with you, drawn from your watch history and reviews to understand your genre affinities, creative influences, cinematic preferences, and viewing habits. From there you place an “Order” — a set of recommendations based on what you’re in the mood for, each with a short description, and (more importantly) why it landed on your list.
Orders work for groups, too! Everyone’s taste in the group is considered, and everyone swipes independently to vote until you land on a match. Honestly, it’s saved our own group from a lot of unnecessary debates and doom scrolling.
In exactly one place: Chef, and it’s entirely optional. Everything else — your feed, your scores, what your Tastebuds are saying — all of it is humans and only humans. Chef is a jumping-off point for what to watch next when you’re stuck, tuned specifically to your taste. Discovery, discussion, and everything else stays authentically yours.
Yes! Movies and TV, down to individual seasons and episodes — so you always know where you left off in a series, and you can rate or argue about any single season or episode on its own.
Yep. Every title shows which services have it, plus the trailer, the cast, and episode details. Saves you the ritual of picking something, getting everyone excited, and then finding out it’s a $19.99 rental (yuck).
Sure can. Build them solo or invite people in. We’ve watched shared lists turn into movie clubs, must-watch-before-you-die lists, and fun debates about Oscar noms.
Your top eight. (Ate, eight — we’ll see ourselves out.) Eight movies and eight shows, sitting on your profile so you can show off your unique taste.
It’s the first thing we ask you to pick when you sign up, and the thing our own group fights about most. Good luck.
We chose a profile top 8 for a reason. Iykyk. Are we dating ourselves?
Yes! Totally free to download and use on the App Store and web.
Nope! No ads anywhere in Aftertaste. Not even a “suggested for you” post hiding in disguise.
No. Selling people’s data yucks our yum. The only cookie we use (…yum) is the one that keeps you signed in — no tracking cookies, no analytics cookies, nothing following you around. The full accounting lives in our Privacy Policy.
We don’t! We’re actually actively losing money. Aftertaste is a passion project built by four friends. Not that we don’t like money... Someday we’d like to make some. Our idea is Pro subscriptions, affiliate links (think signing up for a streaming service through us), and partnerships with local theaters and brands. What we won’t do is flood the app with ads, or sell you or your data to anyone.
Coming soon. Until then, Aftertaste lives on iOS and on the web at aftertaste.app — which runs in any modern browser, including the one on your Android phone.
We’re a small, independent crew and we read every note. Drop us a line — we usually write back within a day or two.
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