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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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, this update brings support many new features across Apple's new OS updates.
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WHAT'S NEW
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SPOTLIGHT SEARCH
Search from your Home Screen and you'll find your items, lists, and planner events, notes, and tasks — complete with cover art. Tap a result and Sofa opens straight to it.
VISUAL INTELLIGENCE
Point your camera at a book cover, movie poster, or game box and Sofa tells you whether it's already in your library. If it isn't, you get results you can add on the spot. Works from Apple's Visual Intelligence camera and from the new camera button in Sofa's search bar. If nothing matches, you can turn the photo into a custom item without losing the shot.
LOGBOOK RECAPS
Your month and year in the Logbook, written up as a card — what you finished, what you kept coming back to, when you were most active. Generated on your device, and shareable.
DESCRIBE A PLAN, GET AN EVENT
Type out a trip the way you'd say it — "Weekend in Portland with the kids, April 10–12, near the waterfront, bookstore day, budget around $600" — and Sofa fills in a draft event with dates, location, itinerary, and budgets. Nothing is saved until you review it.
GENERATED COVERS
Make custom artwork for lists, items, and events with Image Playground, right alongside the camera and photo options you already had.
NEW WIDGETS
All Sofa widgets now support the new full-page portrait extra-large size, plus the landscape XL size on iPad and Mac
SHARE EVENT PLANS
Share event plans as text, Markdown, a calendar file, or a printable PDF. The calendar export drops your whole trip into any calendar app as real timed events, timezones and all. This is a great way to quickly share a trip's itinerary with other people.
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TV REWATCHING IMPROVEMENTS
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TV rewatching is much better. “Watch Again” now preserves your previous watch in the Logbook before starting fresh, including watched episodes, dates, and notes. You can also log individual episodes multiple times without overwriting earlier views, see separate watch histories for shows and episodes, and track how many times you’ve watched each episode. Rewatches now count toward your stats and streaks, too, including a new Most Watched Episodes stat.
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BETTER BACKUPS
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Backups are now safer and more reliable. Sofa verifies backups before saving them and creates a safety copy before importing, so your library can be restored if something goes wrong. Corrupted data is also handled more gracefully, along with backup files renamed by iOS.
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BUG FIXES
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- Podcast playback position getting lost or rewound when syncing between devices.
- Book details being wiped by the daily refresh. A book whose refresh returned an empty response was having its title, description, and properties cleared. The refresh now correctly treats that as a failure and leaves your data alone.
- Board game details being wiped. Board games were being refreshed against an API that no longer exists, clearing properties and orphaning artwork on every pass. Board games are now local-only, as intended.
- A real Author or Genre could be overwritten with "Unknown" by a thin re-fetch.
- Smart Lists now handle completed items correctly. Phantom duplicates from Logbook history are gone, and Smart Lists set to “Todo List” now move logged items to the Completed section instead of hiding them.
- and more bug fixes that don't fit in these release notes.
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As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com
– Shawn
Version 5.3
The developer, Astrio, LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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