How it works
Three moves. One taste.
You swipe. You settle a few Face-Offs. WatchLyst turns that into your canon and a list of what to watch next. Here is each move, and why it works.
Five instincts, and nothing to type.
- LovedDouble tap. The films you'd defend at dinner.
- LikedSwipe up. Glad you saw it.
- SeenSwipe right. It happened. No feelings either way.
- DislikedSwipe down. Never again.
- Not seenSwipe left. Or not sure, or can't remember it. It goes to BackLyst, and if it deserves a second look it comes back as a recommendation.
A card takes about a second. You don't rate anything; you react. Four of the five reactions place the film in your canon at once. The fifth tells the engine what you have not seen yet, which is the half most apps never learn.
And one more: press and hold any card, or any row in your Lysts, to open the film's page, with the trailer and where to watch.
Two films you've seen. Pick the better one.
A swipe says how you felt about a film. A Face-Off says how you felt about it compared to another, and that is where taste gets specific. Each pick nudges both films in your canon and teaches the engine the fine print: which director you trust, which kind of ending you forgive.
Can't decide? Skip it. A Face-Off is a question, never a chore.
Where it all lands.
BackLyst
Films picked for your taste, ordered by how sure the engine is you'll love them. Every Not Seen swipe feeds it.
MyLyst
What you've seen, sorted into your own tiers from Masterpiece to Hated. Your canon, in your order.
NextLyst
What you'll watch next. Queue a film from anywhere with one swipe, and it waits for you here.
Taste is not a democracy.
Most recommendation systems start from the crowd: what people like you watched, what everyone rated highly. Averages are for everyone, which means they're for no one.
WatchLyst keeps one model of your taste, built only from what you did, and compares every film in its catalog against it. No crowd average is in the loop. The more you swipe, the sharper it gets, and it gets sharp fast, because every swipe carries a real reaction, not a number you had to think about.