What it does

Four things, done properly.

You know what you want to watch. You just do not know which app it is in, whether the new episode is out yet, or where you stopped last time. ReelStack answers all three before you open a single streaming app.

Every streaming service a show is on, listed at the top of its page, with yours ringed

Shows you where to watch

Every service a title streams on, with rental only clearly marked so you know when "available on Prime Video" quietly means paying again. One tap opens the right app at the right title. Cannot decide? Pick For Me chooses from your own watchlist.

Next episode, air date and alert on one page

Tells you on the day

An alert arrives the day an episode of something you are watching airs. Not a weekly digest, not three days later, and not for the ninety other shows you do not care about.

A rent-only film with an availability alert switched on

Waits with you

A film you cannot stream yet gets an alert the day it lands on a service you have. Stop checking. ReelStack checks.

The stats screen with hours watched, episodes and a year-long activity grid

Remembers what you saw

Hours watched, shows finished, your top genres, and a year of viewing as a grid. Your month as a card you can share. Free, for everyone.

iPad

One screen, the whole show.

A proper two-column layout, not a stretched phone screen. What is next, what you have seen, and where to stream it, side by side.

ReelStack on iPad showing Ted Lasso in two columns, with the episode list on the right

Your data

No account, ever.

There is nothing to sign up for. Your library lives on your device and syncs to your other Apple devices through your own iCloud, which means we never hold it. There is no server for it to sit on.

Export the whole thing to a spreadsheet whenever you like, free, whatever you paid. With Premium, bring an existing list in from an IMDb export. Films and shows sit together in one library.

What it costs

$4.99. Once.

The first eight titles are free, so you can put a real library in and decide whether the alerts are worth anything to you before paying. There is no subscription, no second tier, and no advertising.

That is a deliberate choice rather than a pricing accident. A subscription has to keep justifying itself every month, which is the pressure that turns generous free tiers into narrower ones. Something you buy once only has to be worth buying once.

Download on the App Store

FreeYour first eight titles, episode alerts, where to watch, stats and export
$4.99 onceUnlimited titles, unlimited lists, For You recommendations, and actor and director pages, forever

Honest bit

Who it is not for.

Worth saying plainly, so you do not pay $4.99 to find out.

Android or web users. ReelStack is Apple only, and that is not changing soon.
People who want a community. There are no reviews, no profiles and no followers here, just your own private list. You can still share a title with someone directly, there is just no feed to post it to.
Plex and Kodi households. ReelStack does not track automatically from a media server.

Compared

How it stacks up.

Honest side-by-sides with the trackers people most often ask about, including the things they do that ReelStack does not.

ReelStack vs TraktThe most complete tracker there is, versus the one with no account.
ReelStack vs SimklA generous free service with ads and a website, versus a paid app with neither.
ReelStack vs SerializdA social diary for television, versus a private list for television and film.

Worth reading

What happens to your library when a tracker shuts down Why TV Time closed, and four questions worth asking of anything holding years of your data.