JustWatch alternatives: 6 apps that show where to stream
Looking for another way to see where movies and shows are streaming? Limelight brings it all together on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. See where to stream in your country, keep your Watchlist and Seen List, and find out which movies and shows started as books. Here's how it compares with five other options.
Where to stream, plus everything you check before you press play.
Search any movie or show and see where to stream, rent, or buy it in your country. Turn on the services you pay for and you'll only see what you can watch right now. Save titles to your Watchlist, mark what you've seen, and get picks in Just For You.
Limelight pulls data from many sources, not just TMDB. Find out which movies and shows started as books. With Limelight+, see what's in the Netflix or HBO Max Top 10 today and compare ratings from Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb, Metacritic, and TMDB side by side. You'll also get a notification when something you track arrives on one of your services, and SceneSnap can identify a movie or show from a short clip.
It's built for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and your lists sync across all three. No ads, privacy focused.
Reelgood covers more than 100 subscription, free and TV-everywhere services, and over 90 of them on the free side alone. Pick the ones you have and everything you can watch sits in one browsable catalogue, with IMDb and Reelgood scores, trailers, cast and summaries on each title.
It tracks shows and movies too, and sends alerts when new episodes land or a film arrives on one of your services. There is a Roulette button when nothing appeals. Worth knowing: the iPhone app was last updated in September 2024, so it has sat still while the rest of this list moved.
Queue covers more than 200 services across 100 plus countries, including YouTube, and shows what's in theaters as well as what's streaming. Connect your streaming accounts and it pulls in your full watch history automatically, which saves rebuilding years of viewing by hand.
Beyond availability it is built to be social: shared lists, friends' activity, and a plan for movie night with someone else. An Explore tab runs through trailers for what's new, coming soon and now streaming, and there is a release calendar for anything you're waiting on.
Sofa Time, once TVSofa, is a tracker first and a guide second. Its streaming guide spans more than 500 services worldwide, and it tracks episodes and movies, sets reminders for release dates, and recommends titles from what you've already watched.
History and watchlists sync through Trakt or Simkl rather than an account of its own, so it fits neatly if you already use either. There are widgets for iPhone and iPad, and comments from other viewers on each title.
The Google TV app pulls titles from the streaming apps you already have into one place, organised by topic and genre, with recommendations based on what you watch. Search any title and it tells you which apps are streaming it, and the Watchlist follows you across phone, browser and TV.
It doubles as a remote for Google TV and Android TV devices, and your purchased library lives here too. Coverage is built around the apps Google supports rather than every service in your country, so it is narrower than a dedicated guide.
Trakt is the tracking layer much of this list syncs with. It indexes over a million shows and movies, handles episode check-ins, an Up Next list, a calendar and new episode notifications, and imports history from IMDb, Plex, Letterboxd and TV Time.
Where to stream comes from JustWatch, covering hundreds of services worldwide, and you can push your own services to the top. It is also social: comments, ratings, community lists and friends' activity. VIP adds detailed stats and unlimited lists.
Comparison
Side by side
App
Where to stream
Pick your services
Tracking
Alerts
Scene recognition
Multi-source ratings
Limelight
Yes
Yes
Watchlist and Seen List
Yes
SceneSnap
Four sources
Reelgood
Yes
Yes
Shows and watchlist
Yes
No
IMDb and Reelgood
Queue
Yes
Connect accounts
Series and lists
Yes
No
Not listed
Sofa Time
Yes
Not listed
Episodes and movies
Reminders
No
Not listed
Google TV
Yes
Not listed
Watchlist
Not listed
No
Not listed
Trakt
Yes
Yes
Episodes and movies
Yes
No
Not listed
Checked September 2026 against each app's App Store listing. Features and tiers change, so check each app's own page before you decide.
Conclusion
The bottom line
Every app here shows where something is streaming. Trakt and Sofa Time lean into episode check-offs, and Queue can import your history.
Limelight brings what you need to decide into one app. Filter to your services, keep your Watchlist and Seen List, and find out which movies and shows started as books. With Limelight+, add the Netflix and HBO Max Top 10s, ratings from four sites, and alerts when a title lands on your services. It's free to download on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with no ads.
Yes. Limelight is free to download on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and so is every other app on this list. In Limelight, seeing where a title is streaming is free, with no ads. Limelight+ adds the Netflix and HBO Max Top 10s, ratings from four sites, and alerts when a title lands on your services.
Limelight does. Reelgood also lets you pick services, and Trakt moves your favorites to the top. In Limelight, turn on the services you pay for and you'll only see what you can stream right now.
Yes. Limelight does both, with one Watchlist and Seen List for movies and shows. Reelgood, Queue, Sofa Time, and Trakt also pair a streaming guide with tracking. Limelight also shows which movies and shows started as books. With Limelight+, add the Netflix and HBO Max Top 10s and ratings from four sites.
Yes. Limelight+ sends a notification when a title you track lands on a service you pay for. Reelgood and JustWatch also send alerts.
Mostly, and the same caveat applies to every app here, Limelight included. Availability data comes from a handful of providers, JustWatch among them, and a title can move between services or lose a licence before the data catches up. Rental and purchase prices drift too. If something matters, the app that sent you there is a good first check and the service itself is the last word.
No. JustWatch runs on iPhone, iPad, Android, the web and some TV platforms, but there is no Mac app. Of the apps here, Limelight is the only one with a native Mac version, so if you plan a watchlist at a desk, that is the difference worth knowing.
Because they license their data from different places and refresh it on different schedules, and because rights are sold country by country. Two apps can disagree about the same film on the same day, and both can be out of date if a licence changed overnight. Apps that let you set your country, as these do, get closer than ones that assume the United States.
All of them, to different degrees. Queue lists more than 100 countries, JustWatch and Limelight cover availability worldwide, and Limelight publishes Top 10 charts in 107 countries. Google TV depends on which apps are supported where you are. Set your country in the app first, or you will be reading someone else's catalogue.
See where it's streaming, and keep track
Limelight is free on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Where to stream in your country, your Watchlist and Seen List, and no ads.
