RATE · 12 CRAFT CATEGORIES
Three rating depths. Every craft gets its due.
Most apps flatten a film into one number. On Movie Mates, pick the depth that suits your mood: Simple Score for a 10-second overall rating, Deep Dive across 12 skippable craft categories (Storyline, Performances, Cinematography, Set Design, Costumes, Prosthetics and Hair/Make-up, Special Effects, Soundtrack, Originality, Enjoyment, LOL Factor, and Action), or Deepest Dive with individual 5-star slots for the director and top 5 cast, Good vs Bad Cringe, Gore Factor, and a 7-emotion matrix before unsealing your blind verdict.
SHARE CARD & MOMENTS
Pre-fab ready-to-post Share Cards and MovieMates Moments.
Skip messy phone screenshots. Turn any rating into a compact, studio-grade 9:16 Story or 4:5 Feed verdict card in one tap. Toggle between %, ★ Stars, or ☆ Both, show off your Decile Award badge (from The Walkout to 👑 The Masterpiece), highest and lowest crafts, standout quote, optional black commentary space for your story caption, and your @instagram watermark, plus opt in to be featured on @moviemates.social. Snap a cinema photo to add to MovieMates Moments on the film page.
WRAPPED ANYTIME & GRID BUILDER
Why wait until December? Wrap any Year, Month, or 30 Days.
Other apps make you wait twelve months for a recap. On Movie Mates, Wrapped is live whenever you want it: flip between any full Year, any single Month, or your rolling Last 30 Days in one tap. Hit Play as story for a 5-slide animated recap, uncover your Critic Type, Year in Feelings, Cinema vs Couch split, and Hottest Take, then tap Pick films · make a card to export a custom 9:16 Story or 4:5 Feed Grid card across 6 luxury gradient themes with your Frothed and Flop callouts.
SEARCH
One bar. Anything you want.
Search a film, a mate, or a screen — all from one bar at the top of Home. Ask natural questions like “What movie has Renée Zellweger set in the...?”, pull films from TMDB and your library at the same time, look up mates by @handle, or jump straight to Squad, Wrapped, Cinemas, and Insights in a tap.
- Ask anything — describe a plot, actor, or director in plain English
- Any film — TMDB + your watched, watchlist, and drafts in one result list
- Any mate — @handle lookup with avatars + live activity dots
- Any screen — jump to Squad, Wrapped, Insights, Coming Up, anywhere
QUICK ACTIONS
Your most-used features, one thumb-tap away.
Tap the ⚡ lightning launcher in the bottom bar and your go-to shortcuts fan up right under your thumb — What to Watch, Moviematches, Group Decisions, Coming to Screens, Cinema Deals, and Scan to Join TV. The stuff you actually use, always one tap away — no hunting through menus.
SQUAD HUB
Followers aren't friends. Real movies with your real crew.
Letterboxd has strangers you've never met. moviemates.social has the mates you actually go to the cinema with. Connect by @handle, see your entire squad at a glance, toggle to your live Squad Activity feed, launch Group Decisions to start a poll and vote with your mates, and co-curate Shared Lists (like The Avengers, Star Wars, or X-Men) so your crew's movie nights stay effortlessly in sync.
SQUAD NUDGES
Nudge a mate to share their take.
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.
S
@sam wants your take
on Past Lives
Review now →
J
@jess wants your take
on Anatomy of a Fall
SQUAD POLLS
Democracy, but for movie night.
You've picked the film — now put the session to a vote. Find showtimes by chatting in plain English ("Saturday arvo 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. Settle the 45-minute group chat standoff before the popcorn goes cold — the winning session saves straight to tickets in one tap.
FIND A SESSION
Ask what's on. Book in two taps.
Open any film and see real cinema sessions near you — pulled live 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.
"tonight after 8, IMAX only"
⚡ ASAP · NEXT SHOWING
in 1h 20m
Hoyts Highpoint · Maribyrnong
8:15pm
🎬 Hoyts
✨ IMAX
💲 $26
🎟 Book this session
WHAT SHOULD I WATCH? & MOVIEMATCHES
Tell it what you fancy — or play Moviematches to swipe together.
A vibe, a film you loved, how long you've got — the AI reads between the lines. Select Who's watching (You, @val, or the whole crew), filter by your streaming services, tap quick mood chips (Feel-good, Mind-bender, Edge of seat, Something funny, Under 90 min, Date night), browse From your squad (75%+), or tap Play Moviematches to swipe through tonight's picks (YES, NAH, or SEEN) with a live Up next deck peek until you land on one.
MY FILMS & SHARED LISTS
Franchise marathons you conquer together.
Keep your entire film life organized across Watched (121), Watchlist (22), In flight (2), and Shared lists (7). Tackling the Marvel Cinematic Universe or all 9 Star Wars films? Co-curate shared lists with your crew like The Avengers with @kim & @val, Star Wars, The Jack Ryan, and X-Men so everyone's progress stays synced in story order.
RECAP
Forgot where you left off? We didn't.
Pick a film back up and MovieMates shows you your elapsed time plus a spoiler-free recap of everything that's happened up to that point (and nothing past it). Choose between a ⚡ Quick or 📖 In-depth recap, jump to intermission, or tap Catch me up — no frantic rewinding to remember who's who.
LETTERBOXD IMPORT
Letterboxd brought you here. We'll keep you here.
Bring 500 films across in 60 seconds — ratings, diary dates, watchlists, the lot. Smart matching handles foreign titles, same-name films, and weird year mismatches without breaking a sweat. Then enjoy everything Letterboxd is missing: MovieMates TV, Squad Polls, ticket scanning, Squad Activity, and Australian cinema tracking. By week two, you won't be looking back.
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