For movie nights

Settle it after the credits. The Verdict.

Rate movies and shows together with your group. Track cinema trips, log streaming watches, share photos and links, and find out what your friends really thought.

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Your own TMDB key · no accounts

The Verdict home screen with the Cinema, Streaming and Board cards over a poster collage — Three cards on one screen: Cinema for what you saw in a theatre, Streaming for everything at home, Board for the group. The poster collage behind them is built from your own top-rated titles.

Rate blind

Nobody sees a score before they vote.

Everyone else’s rating stays blurred until you have submitted yours. Then the whole set reveals at once and the average lands with it. No anchoring on whoever posted first, no quietly moving your seven to an eight because the room went the other way. You can edit afterwards without re-blurring anything.

How privacy works →

Two lists.

Cinema for the theatre, Streaming for the sofa, kept apart so a Tuesday night rewatch never sits in the same ranking as a trip out.

01 — Cinema

Your group’s cinema diary.

Add titles from TMDB search — poster, year, genre, director and cast come with them, and duplicates are caught on the way in. Four sort orders: Recently Added, A–Z, Highest Rated and Release Year, with year and genre filters in the sidebar and full-text search over the titles. Every row carries the poster, the year, the genres, its overall rank and its rank within its genre, the average score and the number of people who rated it. Each row is tinted by its score — green at the low end, sand through the middle, coral at the top — so the shape of the list reads before you get to any of the numbers.

The Verdict Cinema list with sorted title rows showing rank, average score and rating count

Streaming.

The same list, for everything watched at home, and it takes shows as well as films — TMDB results arrive grouped under Movies and Shows headers, each row gets a badge, and a sub-filter switches between All, Movies and Shows. Streaming films are stored separately from cinema films, so the same title can sit in both with its own scores. Sorting, filtering and search work exactly as they do in Cinema.

03 — Rankings

The definitive group ranking.

Every title sorted by average score, highest first, with gold, silver and bronze on the top three. A title needs at least two ratings before it appears, so one enthusiast cannot crown anything on their own. Filter the ranking by year and genre, and read Cinema and Streaming as separate tables. It settles the “no but which was actually better” argument in about four seconds.

The Verdict Cinema rankings with gold, silver and bronze badges on the top three titles

After the credits.

Score it, argue about it, and let a season of ratings say something about the group that none of you would have said out loud.

Scoring and comments.

One to ten with a decimal, typed on a numeric keypad rather than dragged on a slider, because 7.4 and 7.6 are different opinions. A title shows one of three states: not rated, rated but hidden behind the blur, or revealed. Each person can leave one comment per title, with a spoiler toggle that blurs it until tapped, timestamped in relative dates and deletable by whoever wrote it.

05 — Group Insights

Who’s the harsh one.

An AI read of what the ratings add up to: genre preferences, who rates harshly and who rates generously, where the group agrees, where it splits, and the outliers worth a second look. Cinema and Streaming are analysed separately, the output is formatted with bold headings and italic titles, and you can regenerate it whenever the collection has moved on. Four providers to choose from — Automatic, Claude, Mistral or Apple Intelligence — and Automatic uses a cloud key if one is set and falls back to on-device Apple Intelligence if not, so anyone in the group can generate insights without a key and without paying anything. Claude runs on your pick of Fable 5, Opus 4.8, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, Sonnet 4.5 or Haiku 4.5. Mistral is there as the non-US option, so the app keeps working if access to US AI is ever restricted.

The Verdict Group Insights writing up the group's genre preferences with named titles and averages

The board.

A shared bulletin board for links and photos. Link previews fetch themselves through OpenGraph, Twitter Cards and a Reddit API fallback. Photos upload from the library and open in a full viewer with pinch-to-zoom. Hearts with a running count, nested comments under every post, and you can delete your own.

The group.

Invite and remove members through the CloudKit shared database. Scores from anyone who leaves stay on the record, so the averages do not quietly rewrite themselves. Display names are yours to manage, and imported ratings can be claimed back onto your own account.

Keys, stats and data.

A TMDB key for the film data, optional Anthropic and Mistral keys for the insights. A stats dashboard counts titles by year and genre across both sections. JSON export and import, a TMDB metadata refresh for anything that came in thin, and bulk delete behind a confirmation. Share card generation turns a title and its poster into a branded image for social. Everything syncs live between members over the CloudKit shared database, works offline and catches up when you reconnect — iPad gets a split view, iPhone a sidebar overlay.

Bring your own keys. TMDB is required for the film and show data; the AI keys are optional, since Apple Intelligence covers the insights on-device. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

Get the group scoring.

Free of accounts and servers. Ratings sync between members through your own iCloud, and the data comes from your own TMDB key.

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