Stop Checking Five Apps to Watch One Movie

Picture this: it's finally time to watch something from your Letterboxd watchlist. You open one of your streaming apps, search the title, and… nothing.

So you open another app. And another. And another.

By the time you figure out whether the movie is streaming anywhere, you're not even in the mood to watch it anymore.

The Modern Movie Night Problem

In 2025, the average movie fan juggles multiple subscriptions:

• Netflix
• Max
• Hulu
• Prime Video
• Disney+
• Apple TV+
• Paramount+, Peacock, and more

Every service has its own catalog, and those catalogs change constantly. A film that was on one platform last month might be somewhere else this month — or nowhere at all.

Why Manual Searching Feels So Bad

Manually searching each app drains your energy before the movie even starts:

• It breaks the flow of "I'm excited to watch this" into "I'm annoyed I can't find this."
• It's repetitive — type title, search, back out, repeat.
• It's easy to miss a service you forgot to check.
• It's especially painful if you're choosing from a long watchlist.

There's a reason so many threads and forum posts are basically variations of: "Is there a way to filter my Letterboxd watchlist by what's streaming?"

A Better Approach: One Dashboard for Your Watchlist

The easiest fix is to move the work out of your head and into a dedicated tool.

Instead of checking each streaming app one by one, you can:

• Upload your Letterboxd watchlist to a single app.
• See where every title is streaming in one place.
• Filter by the services you actually pay for.
• Get notified when something becomes newly available.

WatchRadar+ was built specifically for this workflow.

How It Works with Your Letterboxd Watchlist

1. Export your watchlist from Letterboxd as a CSV file.
2. Upload that file into WatchRadar+.
3. The app matches each movie and checks streaming availability using TMDB data.
4. You see a simple list of titles and where they're currently streaming.
5. You can choose only the services you actually use so results stay relevant.

Once that's set up, you open one place to answer the question, "Where can I watch this?" instead of opening five different apps.

Bonus: Let Notifications Do the Work for You

One of the biggest perks of an automated approach is that you don't need to remember to check for changes.

With notifications enabled, WatchRadar+ can let you know when:

• A movie on your watchlist is now included with a service you subscribe to.
• Something you were planning to rent or buy becomes part of a subscription catalog.

So instead of, "Let me see if it's streaming yet," you simply get a notification that says, "It's streaming now — press play."

Make Movie Night Simple Again

Movie night should start with picking a film you're excited about, not managing a scavenger hunt across half a dozen apps.

If you're regularly using a Letterboxd watchlist, it makes sense to give that list its own dedicated "streaming brain" — something that tracks availability for you in the background.

That way, when you're ready to watch, you can actually watch.