Your whole movie life, in one tap. Rate films eight ways, snap every ticket, plan the night with your crew, and end the ‘what should we watch?’ debate in five seconds flat. For people who still love going to the movies.
Did someone pick a film yet or are we still scrolling?
— every group chat, since 2018
Discover hidden gems you may have missed. Every rating you log sharpens your taste map — so the next film you scroll past might just be the one you've been waiting for.
Bought all the tickets for the group? Fan them out to your crew in one tap — every mate gets their own digital stub with venue, seat, barcode and showtime, plus a "So you just saw…" rating prompt the moment the credits roll. Shared watchlists let everyone drop films in. Crew ratings show up under every film, and comments on every review keep the post-cinema debrief going long after the credits.
Every cinema night, perfectly preserved. Flip back six months and remember the seat you sat in, the date you went, the mate who came along. Year-end Wrapped uses every stub to build the recap — so every ticket is one more memory you'll get back later.
Hot films, your monthly stats, the stuff you said you'd watch (no judgement). Everything on one screen — no doom-scrolling, no review-bombing, no random Marvel suggestions.
Eight categories per film. Quarter-star precision. A "Cringe Factor" for the ones that genuinely deserve it. Score films the way they deserve to be scored. Insights decodes your taste by decade, genre and director. Wrapped recaps the year. Letterboxd import drops your history straight in.
One tap, one rating. See what your mates thought without committing to a film-school dissertation. Quick-search anything you've seen recently, flip through your Watched list, vote yes or no on the next movie night. Easy as.
Big release weekend? You'll know about it. Coming to Screens shows what's hitting cinemas day-by-day. Snap your ticket on the way in and your cinema log builds up an "I was there" record of every Marvel midnight, every Dune opener, every blockbuster that mattered.
Eight-category ratings for the films nobody else has seen yet. Drop a detailed take in the comments under each rating — your crew's the first to hear about the South Korean thriller, the Romanian drama, the documentary nobody's caught onto yet. Find your taste matches by handle, not by algorithm.
An animated story card showing your top films, the genres you actually watched, your #1 cinema, and the friends you watched with most. Drops on January 1st. Shareable in one tap.
Eight bits, one app. All built around one idea — movies are better with mates.
Most apps flatten a film into one number. We don't. Score the crafts that usually go unsung — hair & make-up, costume, prosthetics, set design, cinematography and soundtrack — plus a LOL factor for the ones that land the laughs. A film can fall short in places and still earn full marks where it's deserved. moviemates.social is for the movie, the people who make it, and the people who watch it — something most apps forget.
Rated a film? Turn it into a share card that actually looks good. Pick Classic, a poster Montage, or a Custom layout; show your score as a percentage or in stars; drag your favourite stills into order. One tap sends it straight to your story — the crew sees your verdict, not a screenshot of a text box.
Search a film, a mate, or a screen — all from one bar at the top of Home. Films pull from TMDB and your library at the same time, mates surface by @handle, and any app destination (Squad, Wrapped, Cinemas, Insights, whatever) is one tap away. Type two words and find what you mean.
Tap the floating button on any screen and your go-to features fan out under your thumb — Coming to Screens, What to Watch, Group decisions, Cinema deals, New to streaming. The stuff you actually use, always one tap away — no hunting through menus.
Letterboxd has fans you've never met. moviemates.social has the four mates you actually go to the cinema with. Add them by @handle, see what they rated, share tickets, drop comments under each other's reviews. The Squad Activity feed collects every rating, comment and shared ticket in one place so nothing slips by. Real connections, no vanity metrics.
Saw a film with your mates last weekend and they still haven't logged a rating? Give them a friendly nudge. They'll get a little card at the top of their Squad tab with a "Review now" button that drops them straight into the rating screen — no chasing in the group chat, no "remind me later" guilt trip. The films you saw together actually get reviewed.
You've picked the film — now put the session to a vote. Find showtimes by chatting in plain English ("Saturday evening at Hoyts, nothing too late"), set polling day on a calendar, narrow by AM/PM or cinema chain, and add the front-runners to the ballot. In a hurry? Quick poll calls a snap election on tonight's soonest sessions. The squad votes, the majority rules, and the winning session takes office — saved straight to your tickets in a tap. No hanging chads, no group-chat filibuster over which screening.
Open any film and see real cinema sessions near you — pulled live from Google, not a stale listings feed, so indie, festival and mainstream all show up. Want to narrow it? Just say so: "tonight after 8, IMAX only" or "Saturday arvo close by". An ASAP card surfaces the soonest showing — cinema, screen format, price — and one tap drops you on the cinema's own booking page.
A real conversation, not a form. Tell us what you want in plain English — "something like Sicario but funny", "a film for after a tough day", "a date-night thriller that's not too dark" — and we chat it through with you, picks pulled from YOUR taste profile, never something you've already seen. @mention a mate and we fold their taste in too.
Wanted to watch a saga for years but never knew where to start? Just ask — moviemates lines up the whole thing in order, drops it into a shared list your crew builds together, and keeps your place so you never miss a scene or lose track. Letterboxd logs films. We get you watching.
Pick a film back up and moviemates shows you exactly where you were — your elapsed time, plus a spoiler-free recap of everything that's happened up to that point (and nothing past it). No rewinding to remember who's who, no "wait… what's going on again?" Just pick up and keep watching.
Bring 500 films across in 60 seconds — ratings, watchlist, the lot. Smart matching handles the tricky ones: foreign titles, same-name films, weird year mismatches. Then try the features Letterboxd doesn't have: Squad Polls, ticket scanning, Squad Activity, cinema tracking. By week two, you won't be looking back.
Looking for that weird indie on the tip of your tongue? Type two words and find it. Picks tuned to YOUR taste — no algorithmic spam, no studio-promoted trends, no random Marvel sequels.
Every ticket you've scanned, every membership card, every cinema you've sat in — one place, yours forever. No more digging through email or losing the stub in the wash. Log a ticket four ways — snap a photo, paste the email, drag the PDF, or share it from any app.
Trying to work out the cheapest day to see a movie? moviemates.social tracks the cheap movie ticket days at every major Australian cinema chain — pulled from a live web search — so you always know where to catch a film on the cheap this week.
Deals are pulled from a live web search — always confirm the price and day on the cinema's own site before you go.
Full breakdown of every AU cinema deal →Googling "where can I watch…" gets you rental ads, five open tabs and a People also ask rabbit hole. On moviemates.social every film carries its own Where to Watch tab — the Australian streaming, rent and buy options laid out in one glance, each logo one tap from playing.
One search in the app beats five Googles in the browser.
Every saga has that one mate who presses play on the wrong film. moviemates.social lays any series out in proper watch order — a big Watch First flag on film one, then 2, 3, 4… — so you and the crew start in the right place and it all actually makes sense.
No more "wait, which one is this again?" halfway through a trilogy.
Movie night with a mate always snags on the same question — what do we both actually want to watch? moviemates.social reads both your tastes, cross-references what you've each rated, and picks films you'll both love — and crucially, that neither of you has seen yet.
No more "I don't mind — you pick."
Decode your real cinema identity. The decade you secretly love. The director you over-rate. The mate whose recommendations actually pay off. Your favourite local cinema, ranked by visits. Your taste, fully decoded — with real charts.
There are great apps for reviewing films. Movie Mates is the one built for actually going — tickets in your wallet, deals before you leave, and your mates on the same page.
| Movie Mates Cinema social app · AU | Letterboxd Film diary | IMDb Film database | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Going to the cinema | |||
| AU cinema deals (Cheap Tuesday etc.) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Ticket scanning & digital stubs | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Membership & loyalty card wallet | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Planning with mates | |||
| Squad polls: “should we watch this?” | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Group watch lists | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| AI “What to Watch” for your group | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Rating & tracking | |||
| 8-way rating system | ✓ | Stars only | Stars only |
| Personal film diary | ✓ | ✓ | Lists only |
| Social feed & friend activity | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Made for Australia | |||
| Built & maintained in Australia | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| AU cinema chain coverage | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Movie Mates doesn’t try to replace Letterboxd or IMDb — they’re great for what they do. This is the app you open when you’re already heading out.
While moviemates.social is in beta, every feature is free — rating, mates, ticket scanning, Discover new films, Wrapped, Insights, the lot. It's not free indefinitely; once we're out of beta we'll likely add some paid extras for the power users. The core day-to-day stuff stays free either way.
Nope. It runs in any modern browser, and you can hit "Install" to pop it onto your home screen so it acts just like a normal app. No App Store, no Play Store, no waiting around for a download.
Your reviews are yours. We don't sell a thing. Only two outside services touch the app — Firebase (handles the plumbing) and TMDB (where the movie info comes from). Delete your account and we wipe everything.
Yep. Drop in your Letterboxd CSV export and we'll match up to 500 films in seconds. Even handles the tricky stuff — foreign titles, films with the same name, weird year mismatches.
Snap a photo of a paper ticket, paste a Hoyts / Event / Village email, or drag a PDF onto the screen. We read the film, venue, seat, screen, price and barcode straight off it, then turn the whole thing into a digital keepsake card — barcode and all.
In Australia it's almost always Tuesday. moviemates.social pulls the latest cheap movie ticket days from a live web search — Hoyts Cheap Tuesday (from $13.50), Event Half Price Tuesday, Village Vrewards Super Tuesday, Dendy Budget Tuesday (from $10) and Palace Royal Discount (Mon & Tue, from $12) — so you can see what's cheap at the cinema tonight in one tap. Always confirm the final price on the cinema's own site before you go.
Yep. Build a watchlist for any saga and moviemates.social lays it out in proper watch order — a Watch First flag on film one, then everything numbered 2, 3, 4 and on. Hobbit trilogy before the Lord of the Rings, the Marvel films in timeline order, your preferred Star Wars run — sort it once, share it with your mates, and nobody presses play on the wrong movie.
Made with love in Melbourne by Kim Routley. A solo passion project that grew into the social movie app I wished already existed.
moviemates.social is a solo passion project, built one feature at a time from my apartment in Melbourne. No funding round, no growth team, no engagement targets — just me and a list of every annoying thing about the film apps I was already using.
It started as a way to settle arguments with mates about who liked what. Then it ate my ticket-scanning ritual. Then it ate my Letterboxd. Now it's the social movie app I always wanted to exist.
If you've got a feature request, a bug, or just want to tell me what film you saw last night — drop me a line. Every email gets read by an actual person (me) and the good ones usually ship within a week.
Live and free. One tap and you're in. Bring your mates along once you've felt the magic for yourself.
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