Your history stays yours. • Your ratings keep their dates. A daily refresh could stamp every rating with today's date, which scrambled your diary order and Year in Review. It doesn't anymore. • A film you saved stays saved. If your watchlist changed on another device mid-sync, a film could drop off and come back dated today. New widget: Now Playing shows the films on your watchlist that came out in the last two weeks and you haven't rated yet, with where they're streaming when we know. Coming Soon's medium and large widgets now lead with the newest film from your watchlist out this week, with its IMDb score once it's released. Studio pages now list announced films that don't have a release date yet, marked In development.

Ready for the holidays. • Home now opens with a Holiday Spotlight: the most anticipated films still ahead this season, with the full slate one tap away. • Release Radar has a Holidays view for everything opening in November and December. • From November 1 through the end of the year, a little snow falls on Home (none at all if Reduce Motion is on). Upcoming films you've saved now show your Great+ odds on Release Radar: the chance you'll rate them 8 or higher. Add a film to your watchlist and How to Movie will offer a heads-up when it lands on your streaming services. A few days after it does, if you haven't rated it yet, it will ask whether you watched it and take you straight to rating it. Year in Review is now told in pictures: walls and bars of posters, portraits of the people you kept coming back to, and small charts for the numbers. In Insights, every genre, studio, month and crowd row now opens the films behind it, and a person's name opens their bio. Rankings stay on screen while they update after you rate a film. Also: release-day reminders now arrive on the release day, not the morning before. The weekly Top Charts refresh picks up where it left off if you leave the app. And on iPad, Rankings and your Profile make better use of a wide screen. And Settings has one more neighbor from the same studio: Deal Hunter, which tells you the moment a movie you want drops in price.

Pin a Deep Pull. When Home turns up a film you really mean to get to, pin it and it stays at the front of Deep Pulls while the rest keep shuffling behind it. Prediction History finally reads the way it should. The chart is now split into Risky, Good and Great bands, and every film sits inside the band of the verdict it was given. It also keeps up when a prediction changes, so the chart and the verdict above it always agree. Older points could not be placed on the new chart, so your history starts fresh from this version. Reviews on Home now show the right poster, even when two films share a title. And Settings has two new neighbors from the same studio: Next Chapter, for the books you want to read next, and Movie Night, movie trivia for the whole family.

Home no longer shows you the same handful of films. It used to rank your watchlist and show the top few, so a 300-film watchlist behaved like a 40-film one. Deep Pulls draws six at random from everything on your watchlist that is out and that you have not rated, remembers what it has already shown you, and gives you a fresh set each time you open the app. Pull again if none of the six appeal. There is a row of new trailers now, for films you are waiting on and for what is coming over the next few months. A New Trailers widget comes with it, in every size, and tapping a tile plays the trailer. Verdicts say what they can actually support. Poster tiles and the lock screen widget used to show a percentage, which invited you to read 61% as meaningfully different from 58%. They say Risky, Good or Great instead. Release dates are right. A festival premiere is not a release, and a virtual festival is still a premiere. Films that had not opened anywhere were showing a date from the wrong country, and some were a day early. Discover opens on something to look at. A genre chart leads the tab now, with a different genre and era each time. Picked for Today is gone, because three other rows already covered everything it was showing you. Smaller things: a person's films on the Insights screen are a poster rail rather than a list, and the iPad carousel no longer leaves a gap below its cards.

The Good+ bar on a prediction card was showing the odds backwards. If it said a film was 20% to be good, it meant 80%. The verdict beside it was right the whole time, so the two disagreed on exactly the films where it mattered most. Fixed, and the bar now stays quiet when your library is too small to support that number. Your predictions now come from one model instead of two. The old split trained separate models for older and newer films, and measuring it properly showed the split was helping neither. One model, trained on everything, is better at both. The widgets now do more than one thing. Coming Soon counts down to watchlist films that have not come out yet, Insight puts what the app noticed about your taste on your home screen, and Next Up can be pinned to only the films it thinks you will love. There are lock screen widgets for the first time. Scores read better too. Where the app holds your rating up against everyone else's it uses IMDb, and where it is simply telling you what a film scored it shows TMDb again, so indie and foreign titles no longer come up blank. Building your model no longer fails if you have rated a film that is still on your watchlist. Re-adding something you have already seen, because you want to watch it again, is a perfectly ordinary thing to do, and it was stopping the build outright. Smaller things: the model's own accuracy numbers are honest out-of-sample figures rather than in-sample ones, the model card on your Home screen now tells you how much better than chance its picks are instead of a bare accuracy percentage, the first tap into a search box no longer stalls, score badges stay readable on any poster art, and Support and Privacy now open the website.

Next Up widget. Put your watchlist on your home screen, ranked by what the app thinks you'll actually love. Small, medium and large. Backup & Restore. Your notes, tags, favorites, custom lists and prediction history live only on this device. Now you can save them to a file and bring them to a new phone. Find films from anywhere. Search your rated library straight from the iOS home screen, and links open the right film instantly. Plus: haptics throughout, clearer sync messages that no longer take over the screen, a roomier iPad layout, and better VoiceOver support.

Meet your Taste Profile: and see where your taste is headed. • Taste Profile: a new Profile tab in Insights that shows who you are as a viewer — your signature genre combos, the people driving your recent taste, what you've been watching lately, what to watch next, and how you compare to the crowd. • Year in Review, expanded: richer, more image-forward recap cards, a new 7-year "Your Era" retrospective, and the ability to share any card. • AI Discovery is out of beta: optional recommendations now run in the background and stay fresh. • Tags: organize your library your way. • Prediction history: snapshots so you can watch your model sharpen over time. • Release Radar: a new "Out Now" tab and streaming releases in Coming Soon. • Filter your watchlist by decade or release year with an interactive histogram. • Now runs on iPhone with iOS 18 and later. • Faster imports, a fix for a long freeze on fresh installs with large libraries, and a smoother, snappier Taste Profile. Thanks for using How To Movie!

Smarter rating predictions Our prediction engine got a major upgrade. It now uses a dedicated model for older "classic" films, learns from a larger and smarter sample of your ratings, and is rigorously cross-validated for more accurate, trustworthy guesses on how you'll feel about a movie. Year in Review A brand-new recap of your movie year! Relive your top films, favorite studios and people, and your taste highlights in a beautiful, shareable deck — complete with poster mosaics and a final "Wrap." Better AI Discovery Recommendations are now powered by our latest AI models, with smarter, more reliable picks. High-confidence suggestions surface right in "Picked for Today," "Not for me" sticks for good, and dismissing a pick is smoother than ever. Improved ratings sync We now pull in the actual dates you rated each film, with a new sort option for your rated list and your rating shown right on the poster. Polish throughout A redesigned "How You'll Feel" card, a cleaner watchlist, a new "Coming Soon" row for upcoming releases, and a refreshed look across the app. Bug fixes Fixed a crash on cold morning launches and improved poster loading reliability.

Cast & Crew Hub Browse every actor, director, composer, and crew member across your rated films. See who appears most in your collection. More in this update • Over the Years chart now has a timeframe picker • New tier labels: Kryptonite and Mixed Bag replace generic low-score tags • Rating queue for quicker show ratings • Performance improvements and bug fixes throughout

What’s New • Faster startup and improved memory usage • Personalized AI recommendations using your own OpenAI or Anthropic API key • Tap “Not for Me” to dismiss recommendations you don’t want • Create Diary lists and add notes • Optional TMDb sync for Diary entries and lists • Updated cast and crew bio pages • New watchlist distribution chart • Optional notifications for release dates and streaming availability • New search for founder reviews • New Insights tab • UI improvements to the Stats page • New Top Charts tab

-Updated the movie view for smaller screens (THANKS, T!) -Load time for cast, crew, and production companies optimized -Updated app name (lol) -Update to search function -Update to Founder's Favorite list -Update to Coming Soon -Users no longer required to sign in to TMDB -Update to founder's favorites -Update to filters and sort for watchlist