Featured by Apple as “App of the Day”
9to5Mac: “I've found Sofa to be a delight to use.”
MacStories: “My favorite app to manage my media watchlist.”
iMore: “A great way to organize everything from your games to your books.”
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Sofa helps you enjoy your downtime by tracking your shows episode by episode, playing your podcasts, planning your trips, and a bunch of other stuff. All in one app.
ORGANIZE WITH LISTS AND GROUPS
Add unlimited lists and groups for categorizing all your stuff: books, games, movies, shows, podcasts, and more.
A HIGHLY FLEXIBLE PROGRESS TRACKING EXPERIENCE
A show you started last month. A book on your nightstand. A game you keep meaning to get back to. Sofa helps you keep track of all of it. Progress rings show up on covers so you can see where you stand at a glance.
A FULL-FEATURED PODCAST PLAYER
Track podcasts and listen to them in the same app. Save a show, queue up episodes, and hit play without switching apps.
A PLANNER FOR TRIPS, TASKS, AND YOUR TV SCHEDULE TOO
The hotel confirmation is in your email. The restaurant list is in Notes. The flight info is in a screenshot somewhere. The Planner puts all of that in one event with day-by-day itineraries, budget scenarios, live weather, and file attachments.
• Tasks with due dates, priorities, and reminders.
• Sticky notes for ideas without a date.
• TV episodes and release dates appear on the timeline automatically.
RIDICULOUSLY POWERFUL LISTS
• Todo Lists or Collection Lists. Hide completed items or keep everything visible.
• Group by genre, author, platform, release year, or custom fields.
• Data Cards show ratings, runtimes, and metadata right on the item.
• Multi-select to move, pin, complete, or remove items in bulk.
• Smart Lists with dozens of filters that auto-populate based on your library.
• Custom fields called Ingredients for your own ratings, tags, and filters.
YOUR DOWNTIME HISTORY
The Logbook catches everything you finish. A Stats dashboard shows activity timelines, genre breakdowns, and year-over-year comparisons.
PLUS WIDGETS, UNIFIED SEARCH, SHORTCUTS ACTIONS, AND MORE
• Widgets with progress rings on your Home and Lock Screen.
• Unified Search across your library and new content.
• Dozens of Shortcuts actions.
• A customizable tab bar that lets you hide what you don't use.
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ALL THE WONDERFUL THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH SOFA
STANDARD FEATURES (FREE)
• Unlimited Groups & Lists
• Add Basically Anything (movies, TV, books, games, music, podcasts, apps)
• Podcast Player
• Planner (events, tasks, notes, upcoming releases)
• Logbook
• Basic Details (release dates, descriptions, metadata)
• Custom Categories
• iCloud Syncing
SUPER SOFA FEATURES (PAID)
• Progress Tracking (TV episodes, book checkpoints, game progress)
• Event Planning Tools (weather, budgets, attachments)
• Smart Lists (auto-populate based on filters)
• Custom Ingredients (custom ratings, dates, tags)
• Pinned Items & Lists
• List Customization (cover images, large titles, descriptions, layouts)
• Enhanced Podcast Player (chapters, per-show settings)
• Enhanced Details (streaming/music service links)
• Logbook Stats
• Reminders (episodes, events, tasks, notes)
• Sticky Notes
• 100+ Themes & App Icons
• Family Sharing (up to 5 people)
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Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your App Store account settings after purchase. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed.
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Privacy Policy: https://www.sofahq.com/privacy
Give your brain a break from remembering—or, in our case, forgetting—what you’re going to try next with Sofa. With support for books, movies, podcasts, videogames, music albums, and TV shows (phew!), the app leverages public metadata to help you create information-rich lists and track your progress. You can even save apps that catch your eye, a very convenient inclusion for certain app-focused professions.
Just what I needed
KAW143
I was looking for a cataloging app for my collections when I came across Sofa. I didn’t realize it at the time, but Sofa was actually what I needed. This app strikes just the right balance between simplicity and information density to make it the perfect companion to help navigate your downtime. Before, I would spend so much time going over everything I could do that I would lose the opportunity to actually do anything. With Sofa, I can not only keep track of everything in my collections, but I can also keep track of how I want to spend my time, and quickly find the perfect thing to complement my mood or situation. I no longer need to work to remember recommendations from others. Just long press on the icon and you can add from your home screen, an option so quick that you don’t even need to stop the conversation to explain what you are doing. Additionally, the app’s surprisingly powerful sticky note feature lets you write about and cross reference items in your collections to your heart’s content. Sofa makes it easy to organize the things you want to spend your time doing, allowing you to make as many or as few categories as you want. Sofa is designed to help you spend less time contemplating what you might do, and help you zero in on exactly what you want to do. I cannot overstate how useful this app honestly is — a true game changer that actually helps you use your collections, as opposed to simply possessing them. I love this, and it has quickly become one of my most used apps.
Developer Response
Wow! Thanks so much for the kind review! I'm really happy to hear that you're enjoying the app ❤️.
Love this APP!
messengerangel03
I have been looking for this APP for years! I mainly am using this to organize my ebook to be read (TBR) list. I was unhappy with other options as they would not let me add ebooks that I did not already own or were not part of their internal catalogue. I happen to subscribe to an unlimited ebook “library” and since they recently changed their wishlist settings, I have found I needed a better way to organize my TBR list and organize what I want to read next. This APP allows for tagging with customizable tags so I can make a tag for how interested I am in reading a book, what themes/tropes are in the book/series (oh yeah, you can save a whole series instead of each individual book in a series creating a much cleaner list unlike a certain conglomerates wishlist set-up). You can also sort into groups, static lists or smart lists to help keep your “shelves” organized. There are some quality of life improvements that could be added but overall this is an amazing APP and I’m so glad I found it. If you are an avid ebook reader/collector and are tired of Goodreads, Story Graph, Library Thing, Calibre, excel, and more, this APP is for you. One downside is that this is only offered for Apple products, but if you are an Apple user, it saves to your cloud so you can use the APP on all devises (which is really nice for those of us who are constantly moving device to device).
Very very well done
parishreop
I used to approximate the functionality of Sofa using iOS notes years ago. Way back I wondered, however, if a dev might eventually build a niche app for keeping track of media consumption. Sofa really is akin to a project or time management app for your downtime, but both in functionality and design aesthetic it hits the mark for this purpose beautifully, while its capabilities extend well beyond a simple single purpose todo list. To the less OCD among us, the entire concept implied by this app may seem a little nuts, but to others (you know who you are), this is pretty much the most well crafted solution I can imagine. The app is sophisticated enough to satisfy every purpose I’ve put it to, yet simple enough to fade into the background when you’re just trying to get things listed & organized. Sofa is stable and mature, the UI is well considered and implemented, it’s quite functional and it’s certainly actively developed and improved. The sourcing of info and cover art for everything from movies & shows to books & podcasts is quite strong. All the expected centric and iOS amenities are there in the current version: iCloud syncing and backup, shared lists, multi-format data export, widgets, strong Shortcuts support and a good user data privacy model. For anyone who desires an app like this, the Super Sofa subscription for full functionality is well worth it. Five stars across the board!The only feature requests I can imagine based on my near daily usage of the iPhone & iPad versions would be perhaps an Watch app for quick reference, and a native macOS app.
Developer Response
Thanks for taking the time to write such a thoughtful and kind review. Everything you mentioned is exactly what Sofa was designed for. I'm really glad you're enjoying the app!
Hey gang, I hope you're ready for some goodies!
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WHAT'S NEW
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- You can now add a note to any session. Tap a session in History (or use Edit Details) and jot down what happened: "Beat the first boss", "Read on the train". The note shows right under the session's date in History. It works for Simple Counter and Quick Log sessions, and when you stop a timer or log a past session.
- Group and list sort order on the Lists tab now syncs across all your devices.
- Search now marks things you already have with a small checkmark on the artwork and shows where they are ("In 'Movies'", "In Enjoying", "Following"). Nothing is hidden, so you can still add them to another list.
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CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS
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CARPLAY
- There's now a speed button on the far left of the Now Playing screen. Each tap moves to the next speed: 1x, 1.2x, 1.5x, 1.8x, 2x, 2.5x, 3x. If you listen at a speed that isn't on that list, it's included too, so you can always get back to it. If a show has its own speed setting, the change goes to that show.
- The CarPlay toggle now updates a show's own Voice Boost setting instead of the global one, and the icon stays accurate when you change Voice Boost on your phone.
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BUG FIXES
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- Podcasts you don't follow could show up more than once in Unfollowed Podcasts. This happened if you opened a show from Search more than once and played, queued or logged its episodes. If you already have duplicates, long-press the extras and choose Delete Permanently.
- The podcast player's artwork briefly jumping in size when opening it on iPhone Duo's outer display.
- Fixed the Lock Screen and Control Center sometimes showing "Loading…" with no artwork while a podcast was playing.
- Fixed resuming a podcast after a long pause sometimes playing the first second or two of the episode before jumping back to your spot.
- Fixed TV episodes showing up out of order or missing after a show renumbers its episodes. Affected shows fix themselves the next time they refresh.
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NEW IN v5.4
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IPHONE DUO
Sofa is ready with full support for iPhone Duo.
PODCAST PLAYER REDESIGN
The podcast player has a fresh new look. It morphs open from the mini player, takes its colors from the episode's artwork, and keeps Up Next, Chapters and Notes right inside. Playback is smarter about what comes next, Voice Boost is improved, and feeds refresh and download overnight while charging.
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS
Read along with your podcasts. If a show publishes a transcript, it's right there in the player. If it doesn't, Sofa can make one itself, entirely on your device: tap Generate, or let it quietly transcribe your downloaded episodes overnight while your phone charges. Either way, a live highlight follows along word by word as you listen, so you never lose your place.
SESSIONS
Ever wonder how long that book really took you, or how many hours you've sunk into a game? Now Sofa can tell you. Each time you log progress, add how long you spent and how far you got, in pages, chapters or whatever fits, and Sofa keeps a running total for every item. If you'd rather not estimate, start a timer when you sit down and stop it when you're done. It stays in view across the app, on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so pausing for a snack is one tap.
STATS & LOGBOOK
Your sessions now show up in Stats and the Logbook. Books, Games, Music and Custom Category Stats get a Sessions section with time spent, totals for each unit and a weekly chart, and Logbook rows show session totals at a glance.
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As always, don't hesitate to reach out with any feedback. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com
– Shawn
Version 5.4.4
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