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Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Now with richer Watch Now links and a larger iPad trailer player, so it is easier to preview and find where to watch a title legally.
Discover your next favorite movie with CineSearch — an AI-powered
search that understands how you actually talk about films. Search
by mood, theme, decade, role, or any combination of them. Talk to
it. Tap a poster. Find the next thing to watch in seconds.
WHAT'S DIFFERENT
- Natural-language search. Type or speak a phrase the way you'd
describe a film to a friend — "feel-good comedies from the
nineties," "slow-burn psychological thrillers," "musicals with
ensemble casts." CineSearch parses your intent and turns it
into a structured query, with no boolean operators or filter
checkboxes.
- Voice search, built in. Tap the mic and speak. Punctuation is
added automatically. Great for hands-free browsing on the
couch.
- A real AI pipeline. Behind every query, a stack of optional
models — query expansion, hypothetical document embeddings
(HyDE), reciprocal-rank fusion across lexical and semantic
indexes, and a cross-encoder reranker — collaborate to surface
the right results. You can toggle each step on or off and see
exactly what changes.
- Search explainability. Every result page tells you what the
parser extracted, which AI features ran, and how long each step
took. No black box.
- Live typeahead suggestions. As you type, real-time title and
theme matches appear in a clean dropdown so you can jump
straight to what you had in mind.
- Similar films, by category. Tap any result to open a detail
screen with rich metadata and related titles grouped by
director, leading cast, writer, and overall vibe.
Built for cinephiles, watchlist obsessives, and anyone tired of
generic recommendation feeds. Free, no account, no ads, no
in-app purchases.
ABOUT THE DATA
CineSearch is an independent search and discovery tool. It does
not stream, download, play, or otherwise distribute any film,
and is not affiliated with any film studio, distributor, or
streaming service. Movie titles, plot summaries, cast lists, and
poster thumbnails shown in the app are sourced via the OMDb API
(omdbapi.com), a public movie database service that aggregates
IMDb data. All trademarks and rights in the films referenced
remain with their respective owners.
Watch Now is richer on iOS with legal links for YouTube, Apple TV, JustWatch, and Google Play. Trailer playback is more reliable, with a larger responsive iPad player and better fallback behavior when embedded playback is blocked.
The developer, Algorithmical Corp, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Algorithmical Corp
- Size
- 1.9 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
18+
- 18+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Movie-recommender