Watchlist and favourites: what you want to watch and what you love

What goes on the watchlist

A title joins your watchlist through Add to library, from its page or from its card in search results, charts, other people's lists and group boards. There is nothing to fill in: one tap and it is there, another tap on In library and it is gone.

The watchlist holds only what you still have to watch. A film leaves on its own the moment you mark it watched, and a series doesn't live on the watchlist as a series to watch but as a series started or not started yet: the screen shows them in two groups, Started and Not started yet, so you know which ones you have already sampled.

The Watchlist screen

From your profile, the Watchlist card opens two lists, Movies and TV shows, each with its count. You can order them with Sort, by date added, name or year, and narrow them with Filter by genre. Every card has the button to mark it watched or open its page.

Can't decide what to watch

At the top right of the Watchlist there is a shuffle icon. One tap and Kitazo draws a random title among the released ones on your watchlist and opens it. It doesn't draw from upcoming titles, because you couldn't watch those tonight. If it doesn't convince you, go back and tap again.

The same idea lives in Discover, with the Random pick card and the Shuffle pick button: there, though, the draw runs over the whole catalogue filtered by genre, network and era, not just your watchlist.

What the watchlist does for you

• Calendar. Watchlist films appear in Coming up when they have a release date, and on the day they come out you get the release notification, if you have it on.
• Stats. The time left to catch up, on the statistics page, adds the runtime of the films on your watchlist and of the aired episodes you haven't watched.
• Catching up. Watchlist films released in earlier months show in the calendar's "Before…" card, together with the episodes you are behind on.
• Charts. Every watchlist addition counts towards a title's popularity and the most-wanted chart. It is anonymous: nobody sees that you added it, unless you share it.

Favourites

A favourite is a title you have already seen and want to keep in the spotlight. The Add to favourites button appears on a film's page only after you mark it watched, and on a series only after you start it. A set-aside series hides the button until you resume it.

Favourites live on your profile, split into Favourite movies and Favourite shows. From there you can also pick the character for your profile picture and your header image, drawing from the artwork of those titles.

Other people see them if you want them to: the Show favourites setting, under Privacy, decides who can open your favourites page. Favourites imported from other platforms arrive as favourites when the file holds them: TV Time and Trakt export them, Letterboxd has them as "likes" and they become favourites only if the film counts as watched.

Watchlist, favourites and lists

They are three different things. There is one watchlist and it empties as you watch. Favourites are a single collection of things already seen. Lists are as many as you like, by any criterion, public or private, ranked or not, and can be written by several hands: they have a guide of their own.