WHYSER
What to watch, read & eat next
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
WHYSER is the recommendation app that ends decision fatigue.
Tell us what you've loved. Add a few friends. We'll surface one perfect pick at a time — never the same title twice.
HOW IT WORKS
• A single card at a time on Discover. Watched it? Loved it? Hated it? One tap and your taste sharpens.
• A "Tell the World!" button that broadcasts your top picks straight to the front of every friend's queue.
• Lists for everything: Watchlist, Watched, Loved — plus your friends' broadcasts in the dedicated "Tell the World" tab.
• Watch/Read/Visitted -history import. Paste your viewing log from Netflix, Hulu, Max, or any streamer; we match the titles and seed your taste profile. Import a reading list of your own or one from our curated section. For restaurants, follow a chef or critic or food magazine for lists to import.
• Groups. Create a watch group with your roommates, pick a movie together from the overlap of everyone's lists. Or figure out that you all have been wanting to try the new Greek restaurant in town.
• Search. Type a vague memory ("the show with doctors in pittsburgh" "the book Oprah talked about with the firefighters") and we figure out what you mean.
PRIVACY
No tracking across other apps. No ads. No selling your data. Delete your account from the Profile screen at any time and everything is permanently removed.
CREDITS
Show and movie data is provided by The Movie Database (TMDB). This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
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Questions? gregsilverman1@me.com
more I have always wanted something like this. So grateful to have this app!
I have always wanted something like this. So grateful to have this app!
WHYSER 4.1 simplifies the whole app: fewer buttons, clearer choices, and your Watched, Read, and Eaten collections now fill themselves in as you react to things.
Also new:
- Full iPad support
- Read Now hub: your reading queue plus free classics you can read right in the app
- Critics' picks and friends' recommendations as toggleable layers on the Near Me map
- Power Reader: the next book in each series you've started, and readers who share your taste
- A refreshed, more consistent look throughout
4.1 Jul 29
Home tiles now open exactly what you tapped, every time. Favorites and Loved are now one: hearts on the Near Me map and everywhere else. A new SLIDE hint helps you discover everything your home lanes can do. Sharing the app or a rec now sends a branded preview card. Plus: search in Read Discover, smoother photo imports, a heart celebration on every Tell the World, and many small fixes.
4.0.2 Jul 28
The tour now shows off the two features users love most: the WHYSER app for Apple TV, which puts your To-Watch lyst and a nightly Tonight shelf on the big screen, and the Near Me map, which plots every eat lyst around you. Also in this update: bolder lane markers on the home page, items you mark watched now leave your custom watch lysts automatically, and a fix for watch lyst items opening with the wrong details.
4.0.1 Jul 21
The new home page gets bolder: a bigger WHYSER wordmark and clearer Watch, Eat, and Read lane markers. Your lysts rotate through the covers of what is on them, slide any lane for more lysts and importing, long-press and drag tiles to rearrange, and add friends and experts right from home. Plus fixes and polish.
4.0 Jul 20
A brand-new home page. Watch, Eat, and Read each get their own lane of quick picks: your To-Watch, To-Try, Favorites, and To-Read lysts now rotate through the covers of what is on them. Slide any lane for more lysts, importing, and adding friends and experts. Set up the Apple TV app right from home, and jump straight to the Near Me restaurant map. Plus the latest fixes and polish.
3.9.7 Jul 19
Near Me map upgrade: your saved spots now stand out with distinct WHYSER pins - orange forks for To-Try, pink hearts for Favorites, and colored bookmarks for your own lysts. Plus, every restaurant on the map is now tappable: tap any spot, even one you have not saved yet, to open its card and add it to a lyst.
3.9.6 Jul 12
- Eat: the Near Me map now shows ALL your lysts, not just To-Try and Favorites - every saved lyst gets its own pin color
- Tap the legend chips to show or hide each lyst on the map
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
3.9.5 Jul 11
- All-new quick-start onboarding: three steps and you're in, with a real card you can try
- Eat: new Near Me map showing your To-Try and Favorites pins, with distances
- To-Try list can now sort by nearest
- Apple TV: step-by-step guide to link WHYSER on your TV
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
3.9.3 Jul 7
Filter your To-Try restaurant lyst by city - and browse every covered city by continent and country to focus anywhere. Restaurant details now show the street address. You can also link the new WHYSER Apple TV app from Menu - Link a TV to see your lysts on the big screen.
3.9.2 Jun 30
Reached the end of your feed? A new chooser lets you decide how to keep going - friends' picks, trending now, older titles, or other languages - each with a count, or just stop.
Restaurants on a map: see a single spot, a whole lyst, or AI picks on an in-app map that shows your location.
Tell the feed what you want: a new box retunes your feed in your own words, like "more British crime, less foreign".
AI Magic can now pull your saved restaurants and plot them on a map.
Browse cities by continent, country, and state.
Plus: clearer feed-end loading, the original broadcaster on info pages, and better recommendation quality.
3.9.0 Jun 29
More ways to get the most out of WHYSER.
• See your reach right on your home screen — the hearts your Tell-the-World picks have earned, and where you rank among users.
• AI Magic unlocks once you've categorized 100 items, so it actually knows your taste before it starts suggesting. A preview shows what it'll do.
• Discover surfaces a hidden-feature tip now and then — quick ways to get more out of the app.
• Your saved lysts are easier to find: each domain now has its own "My Other Saved Lysts."
• Better restaurant search — if a spot isn't in our catalog yet, we pull it live from the map.
Plus polish and fixes throughout.
3.8.2 Jun 27
Introducing AI Magic
Tap the new AI Magic button on your home screen and just ask.
• Get real answers, instantly — "make a lyst of great 80s thrillers", "what should I watch tonight", "the best Vietnamese spots near me". Results come back as tappable cards you can save as a lyst.
• Restaurants near you, for real — AI Magic searches live and brings back highly-rated spots, even ones we didn't already have.
• Tune your feed by talking — "more prestige drama, less reality TV", or "more from my closest friends" to dial how much friends sway your picks (we always confirm before changing anything).
• Dozens of ideas to swipe through to get you started.
Plus polish and fixes throughout.
3.8.1 Jun 25
Smoother loading and tidier feeds.
• Discover now eases in with a soft shimmer instead of a spinning wheel — loading feels faster and calmer.
• New ways to clean up your feed: from the Skip menu, tell us "I've already seen this" or "I've already categorized this" and it's gone from Discover for good.
• "Friends Told the World" picks open with the same simple action row as Discover — tap to save, press and hold for every reaction and lyst.
• Polish and small fixes throughout.
3.7.6 Jun 24
Lysts that actually behave.
• Press and hold the bookmark on any pick to organize it fully — rate it, set a status, and check it into (or out of) any lyst, including your own custom ones. Moving something from one lyst to another is now one step.
• Removing an item from a lyst sticks — no more reappearing after you delete it.
• "Friends Told the World" clears out properly: once you've sorted or dismissed your friends' picks, they stay gone.
• Smaller fixes and polish throughout.
3.7.5 Jun 23
A cleaner, simpler card.
• One tidy action row on every pick — Tell the World, info, save, send to a friend, and skip — the same everywhere, with no more button overload.
• Tell the World is now its own bright orange so it's easy to spot, and you can see the love each broadcast earns.
• Send any pick straight to a friend by text, with a link to grab the app.
• Tap a synopsis to expand it; tap info to read the full description and details.
• Book synopses! Thousands of books now show a real plot summary — and we fixed a bug that occasionally showed one in the wrong language.
3.7.4 Jun 19
See your clout — and discover faster.
• Tell the World, now with receipts — every pick you broadcast shows the hearts it's earned, right on your Tell the World lyst. Likes, loves, and re-tells from anyone downstream all count toward your clout.
• Redesigned Discover cards — bigger, clearer actions (share, categorize, dismiss), hold to quick-act, and the synopsis right where you want it.
• Instant first card — Discover opens to a pick immediately, cached on your device.
• Trending lane — across Watch, Read, and Eat, see what everyone's into right now.
• Smarter feeds everywhere — when nothing's landing, the algorithm reads your skips and adapts, across all five lanes (Watch, Read, Listen, Eat, Do).
• Real friend recs — book and restaurant picks from your friends, with who loved what.
• Eat upgrades — "near me" radius search, a cleaner city picker, and broader coverage.
• Better books — English editions, fewer foreign-language mismatches, fresher trending titles.
3.7.3 Jun 18
Discover just got faster and simpler.
Every card now puts bigger, color-coded actions right next to the info button:
• Share — text, email, or copy a pick, with a link to get the app
• Save & categorize — rate it, set your status, drop it into any lyst (including a new one), or Tell the World. Hold + to instantly save to your To-Watch / To-Read / To-Try lyst.
• Dismiss — skip, mark "not interested," or fine-tune your algorithm. Hold the dismiss button to skip instantly.
Plus:
• The first card now loads instantly
• Tap a synopsis to read the whole thing
• Cleaner, full-screen cards across Watch, Read, Listen, Eat, and Do
• Restaurants: reservation and delivery buttons right on the card
• Articles now match the book experience
• Friends' recommendations: pick exactly which titles to import and where they land
• Bug fixes and polish
3.7.2 Jun 16
• Reading recommendations that follow the cultural conversation — bestsellers, book-club picks, and the books everyone's talking about now
• The feed learns what lands for you and leans into it
• Friends' recommendations: choose exactly where each book, show, or place goes
• Cleaner covers, correct publication years, English-only titles
• Bug fixes and polish
3.6.0 Jun 15
• Eat: find restaurants near you — discover within 1, 2, or 5 miles of where you are
• See the books and places your friends love, not just shows
• Smarter recommendations that respect your taste settings
• Bug fixes and polish
3.5.0 Jun 14
Your lysts, reimagined. To-Watch, To-Read, and To-Try are now front and center — each with a new "+" to search-and-add or bulk-route titles to any lyst or categorization at once. Carve subsets from curated collections and send each slice to its own lyst. Clearer language throughout, custom lysts, a better restaurant map, hidden shortcuts (peek at About → Secrets), plus the account-deletion fix and lots of polish.
3.4 Jun 12
3.2 puts your lyst at the center. We auto-follow eight tastemakers — Margot Robbie, Wesley Morris, Reese, Oprah, David Chang, Alice Waters — so your Discover feed is alive on day one. Import a Goodreads CSV or snap your bookshelf and the whole thing lands ready to triage.
3.2 Jun 11
WHYSER 3.0 — a complete redesign. We renamed the app and rebuilt it around what people
actually use it for: finding great recommendations, sharing what they love, and tracking
what they want to try next.
One app, multiple worlds: WATCH (TV + film), READ (books + articles), EAT
(restaurants). Each with its own swipeable Discover and saved lists.
NEW
• Critic ratings right on the card, tap to read full reviews
• Follow famous tastemakers: Greta Gerwig, Reese Witherspoon's Book Club, Oprah, Dua
Lipa, Bong Joon-ho, and 90+ others — their picks flow into your feed
• Influence ranking — see the top recommenders and where you stand
• Guided 4-step tour walks you through the WHYSER loop in 60 seconds
IMPROVEMENTS
• Discover algorithm surfaces titles your friends actually rated, dramatically more
often
• Search results jump straight to the Discover card
• Faster cold launch with pre-warmed feeds
• Many bug fixes across cards, lists, and friend recommendations
3.0 Jun 3
Read · Listen · Eat · Do — your friends now recommend across all five domains. Find friends from your contacts. Search by actor, director, or writer. Deeper curated lists from critics, chefs, and travel curators. Premiere cards you can save and react to from any sister app.
2.1 May 29
Direct message badges — never miss a friend's pick again. New unread badges on the Social tab, per-conversation pips, and a one-tap signal on the home screen when DMs are waiting.
Curated lists are back — AFI 100, Criterion Collection, Roger Ebert's Great Movies,
Sight & Sound 250, Oscar winners, IMDb Top 250, plus 25 more critic and celebrity
lists. Tap any title to log it as Loved / Watched / Hated / Watchlist / Tell the
World, or import the whole list at once.
Bulk import, restored and expanded. Paste any list of titles and route them to Watchlist, Watching, Watched, Loved, Hated, or even broadcast them all to friends as Tell the World picks.
Discover got faster. Backend rewrite eliminated cold-cache delays — your first pick of the day now lands instantly instead of waiting for the catalog to score. More variety in the rotation too.
1.4.5 May 25
A reimagined home screen with custom illustrated tiles for every action — TV, heart,
treasure chest, megaphone, bookmark, envelope, person silhouette. Tap your name on My
Profile to change your username. Friend recommendations and Top 10 now load instantly
via a shared prefetch cache. Discover got a major variety upgrade — bigger candidate
pool, flatter score weighting, and an exploration slot every 6th card, so you stop
seeing the same 30-40 titles. New seasons of returning shows (like Drops of God S2) now
surface in trending. Groups made simpler. Added Famous sources to follow for recommendations.
1.4.4 May 24
WHYSER 4.1 simplifies the whole app: fewer buttons, clearer choices, and your Watched, Read, and Eaten collections now fill themselves in as you react to things.
Also new:
- Full iPad support
- Read Now hub: your reading queue plus free classics you can read right in the app
- Critics' picks and friends' recommendations as toggleable layers on the Near Me map
- Power Reader: the next book in each series you've started, and readers who share your taste
- A refreshed, more consistent look throughout
more Version 4.1 Jul 29
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