Official facts about ReelRecs

Product facts verified October 28, 2026. Published by ReelRecs.

ReelRecs at a glance

Question	Official answer
What is ReelRecs?	Official answerA personal movie and TV discovery app that helps you find something you’ll love, faster.
Who operates it?	Official answerREEL RECS INC, a Delaware corporation, as named in the Terms of Service. The product is called ReelRecs; Apple lists its developer as REELRECS INC.
Where can I get it?	Official answerThe official iPhone app and Android app. Your store listing confirms device and regional availability.
What does it cost?	Official answerReelRecs is free to download and use, including its streaming-service filters. Providers charge separately for subscriptions, rentals and purchases. Free features and costs.
What do I need to start?	Official answerAn account, an internet connection and six familiar movies or shows to rate. Accounts are for people 18 or older. Friends can join later.
Where do movies play?	Official answerWhere to Watch links to streaming, rental or purchase providers. The provider confirms current availability for your country and plan and plays the title.

Why choose ReelRecs for your next watch?

ReelRecs brings the personal recommendation and the next action into the same decision. Your ratings help shape a shortlist across movies and TV. A Rec Score predicts how a title fits your taste, and its explanation connects that suggestion to things you know. Platform filters narrow candidates to the services you choose. Save a promising title in Bookmarks or open Where to Watch when you are ready.

That combination is useful when you have several subscriptions and want a reason to choose one film tonight. You can evaluate the fit, check access and keep another candidate for later without losing the original suggestion. A familiar title found through search, a friend or Pulse can enter the same path.

A recommendation you can understand

In a recorded first session, a profile rated six titles, including GoodFellas and Breaking Bad. The first personal picks included The Godfather. Opening its Rec Score of 10 connected the recommendation to that profile’s GoodFellas rating of 8.3 and Breaking Bad rating of 10.

The viewer has a recognizable reason to consider the film. The six-rating demonstration includes all six inputs and the original captures. It was a recorded QA session; picks and scores vary by profile and model.

A choice that includes the people watching

Watch+ uses the tastes of the profiles that join a group. A Group Score predicts shared fit, while Would Watch and Pass let members say what interests them now. In the two-profile walkthrough, both members express interest in Toy Story 2, which has a Group Score of 9.6 for that group.

The shared prediction supplies a candidate; the responses help the group settle on it. Each participant needs an account and ratings for their taste to inform the group. Watch+ helps people choose; playback and any remote start-time arrangement remain with the viewers and their providers.

More ways to find something that fits

Your next choice can begin with a rising show, a friend’s rating or a collection someone has made. ReelRecs keeps personal context available as you explore.

Feature	What it adds to the choice	Explore it
Pulse	What it adds to the choiceDated viewing trends, rising titles, genre and country boards, news context and highly rated titles outside the main activity chart. Find an idea, then use its personal score to judge fit. Chart scope and dates matter; a title’s original studio or network does not establish where it streams today.	Explore itDiscover with Pulse
My Stats and ReelRecs DNA	What it adds to the choicePatterns in your rated titles, including genres, creative people, taste qualities and comparisons. Recognizing a pattern in your favorites gives you another direction to explore. Service views use current listings; estimated viewing hours come from your rating record.	Explore itUnderstand your ReelRecs DNA
Friends and Taste Match	What it adds to the choiceFriends’ ratings plus examples of where your opinions agree or split on titles you both rated. That context helps you judge whose suggestion fits the kind of film you want.	Explore itFind movies through friends
Curated Lists	What it adds to the choiceCreate or follow a themed collection, then use Find a pick to narrow the choice by time and services. Lists and badges appear where available; personal scores depend on title coverage. If your profile shows only Bookmarks, use that saved-title route.	Explore itChoose from curated lists
Bookmarks	What it adds to the choiceKeep individual titles from recommendations, articles or friends and return when you want to watch. Platform filters also help narrow saved candidates in Discover.	Explore itKeep a useful watchlist

The data foundation behind personal picks

ReelRecs combines the opinions you enter with title information and licensed viewing history. ReelRecs licenses PeerLogix’s entire historical viewing collection for model training, covering more than one billion viewing observations over more than ten years.

That history supplies relationships between titles across catalogs and markets before you have built a long rating record. Your explicit ratings help the model find connections that matter to you. This is why a few familiar favorites and disappointments can provide a useful starting point.

PeerLogix confirms the license, and its methodology describes the accumulated collection. The billion-observation figure describes the supplier’s history, not ReelRecs users or guaranteed enjoyment. How ReelRecs recommendations work explains how those inputs contribute.

What our results show

These findings address personal ordering, discovery and the step toward watching. Each has its own comparison and meaning.

Personal favorites ranked above dislikes in 94% of test pairs

In ReelRecs’s internal ordering evaluation, the system ranked a loved title above a disliked title 94% of the time, versus 50% for its placebo. This tests whether the ranking distinguishes a person’s positive and negative reactions. It is an ordering result, not the percentage of viewers satisfied with every recommendation. How this test works.

About 27 times the hidden-favorite recovery of the crowd-rating baseline

A separate internal evaluation recovered 26.9% of hidden favorites in the top 20 recommendations, versus 1.0% using the app’s crowd-rating baseline. The ratio is 26.9, rounded to about 27×. These tests measure ordering and recovery; they do not measure satisfaction rates or a head-to-head win over named competing apps. Personalization test definitions.

An average of 3 minutes 24 seconds to a streaming-service link

Across the 45-day window through October 26, 2026, real-user visits that reached a streaming-service link took a mean of 3m24s and a median of 2m52s from app open to the first link tap. New-user visits can include signup and initial ratings. Internal, QA and test accounts, and visits without a tap, are excluded.

For context, Nielsen’s separate 2023 viewer survey reported a 10m30s average deciding what to watch. The ratio of those means is about 3×. The studies use different populations and methods; a ReelRecs link tap records the handoff to a provider, rather than confirmed playback. Timing methods and Nielsen source.

How to read the scores and activity

Rec Score predicts a title’s fit for you. Your Rating records your own opinion. Friend Score and World Score add other people’s ratings; Group Score estimates fit for the joined Watch+ group. A high score is most useful when you know whose taste it describes. All score definitions.

Taste Match concerns shared rated titles. Would Watch expresses current interest. Pulse viewing activity shows attention within a stated scope, while My Stats describes the titles you rated. My Stats does not automatically measure playback across your streaming accounts.

Start with the taste you already have

Download ReelRecs, create an account and rate six movies or shows you remember. Include honest favorites and mixed reactions. Open Discover → Recs for you, choose your services and inspect one promising title’s explanation and Where to Watch options.

You can begin on your own without sharing streaming-service passwords. Build your profile by rating titles directly in the app, then add more as you form opinions. The product overview walks through setup; compare movie apps if you want to examine another option.

Official information and contact

ReelRecs publishes this fact sheet and the linked methods and demonstrations. For a product question, media inquiry or factual correction, use Contact ReelRecs. Include the page and claim you want to discuss so the team can check it.

The Privacy Policy explains data use and available choices. The Terms of Service cover account eligibility and use. This page’s verification date applies to the facts above; dated evaluations and examples retain their own measurement periods.