Tinder for movies.But they already know you.

You know the swipe bit.

You swipe. They swipe. If you both said yes, it is a match. Nobody knows what you liked until it lines up.

MatchWatch uses that same idea for movies and TV shows. Except instead of strangers, it is your partner, your flatmates, your family, or whoever is on the couch pretending they ‘do not mind’.

Instead of finding someone to go on a date with, you are finding something to watch tonight.

And instead of spending the next hour choosing a restaurant neither of you can really afford, you are opening the right streaming app.

All the good bits of swiping. None of the rubbish bits.

Think about what actually works about swipe apps.

• It is not the bio.
• It is not the small talk.
• It is not pretending you spend every weekend hiking.

It is the fact that both people said yes before anyone had to admit what they wanted.

Nobody had to put their hand up first. Nobody had to sell their choice. Nobody got knocked back in front of the room.

That is why the swipe idea works for choosing something to watch.

You swipe on movies and shows privately. Your partner, flatmates or family do the same. MatchWatch only shows the titles that line up.

No one has to suggest The Bear and then sit there hoping the other person does not think they are being a bit much.

The stuff dating apps make you do that MatchWatch does not

On dating apps, you put up your best photos. You write something that sounds like you, but better. You match with someone, spend three days messaging about where you are both from, agree to meet somewhere that sounds impressive, and then spend the whole evening performing a version of yourself that cannot be maintained.

MatchWatch asks nothing like that.

You do not have to pretend you want to watch something serious and subtitled to impress anyone.

The people you are watching with already know you. They have seen you eat cereal for dinner. They know you cried at Moana. They know you will say ‘just one episode’ and then absolutely watch four.

You can swipe right on Shorty Street and nobody is going to ghost you for it.

And if the group does not match, save it to your own watchlist for the 3am watch when everyone else has gone to bed.

No ghosting. No breadcrumbing. No leaving someone on read.

The worst part of dating apps is not always the bad dates.

It is matching with someone and then just... nothing.

One of you stops replying. Neither of you quite gets around to meeting. The whole thing quietly dies in the chat.

With MatchWatch, the worst outcome is that your group does not match on anything this round.

No awkward ‘are we still doing this?’ message. No checking the app every ten minutes. No waiting to see if the ticks have gone blue.

Nobody’s feelings are riding on whether you picked a six-part crime doco.

You already know these people

On a dating app, you are performing for a stranger.

You are trying to come across well, trying to read someone you do not know, trying to work out if they are going to be weird in person.

With MatchWatch, you are swiping with people who already know you are a bit weird.

You have already done the hard work. Now you just need to find a show you can all sit through without one person scrolling their phone.

Start a group. Share the link. Everyone swipes privately.

MatchWatch finds the overlap, then shows where it is streaming in New Zealand tonight on the services your household actually uses.

And it works with NZ streaming

A swipe picker is only useful if the answer works here.

Plenty of movie apps feel like they were built for someone in the US with Hulu, Peacock, and a completely different streaming problem.

That does not help much when you are sitting in Palmy, Tauranga, Wellington or Christchurch trying to work out where tonight’s answer is streaming.

• Netflix
• Neon
• Disney+
• Prime Video
• Apple TV
• HBO Max
• TVNZ+
• ThreeNow
• Paramount+

MatchWatch is built around the NZ streaming mix.

Pick the services your household actually uses. Swipe on the stuff you can actually watch. Get an answer that works tonight.

The app bit matters

The shared link gets everyone into the same group quickly.

But the best experience is using MatchWatch as an app.

Add it to your home screen and it is there when the next ‘what should we watch?’ argument starts. No digging through old messages. No trying to remember the site. No sending the link around again because someone closed the tab.