A movie recommender that learns your taste on your phone — and keeps it there. No accounts. No posters. No infinite scroll. Just five well-chosen films, every morning.
Most film apps are billboards in disguise — designed to sell posters, sell engagement, sell you. WhatNext is the opposite: a quiet, on-device reader that learns what you love and delivers a short list each morning.
No sign-up, no email, no cloud. The app opens, you start. Your taste profile is a single file on your device — back it up if you like, or don't.
Marketing material is loud. Text isn't. WhatNext is typeset, not designed for thumbnails — read about the film, not the studio's pitch deck.
Five films a day. When you've read them, the day is done. There is no feed beneath the feed, no tomorrow's recommendations to peek at.
Setup takes under three minutes and never leaves your phone. The recommender runs locally on a small taste vector — no servers, no telemetry.
Tap ten films you've enjoyed from a curated grid of two hundred. Or skip the grid for a tag-based fallback if your watch list is shorter.
One card at a time. Mark each as Loved, Liked, or Not for me. The model calibrates against your replies.
Each morning, five new films are typeset for you — synopsis, genre band, year, and the runtime in the gutter. Read what catches your eye.
Save anything to your watchlist. Mark it seen and rate it — the recommender adjusts. Your library is a quiet, growing book of you.
The taste vector — a few hundred numbers describing what you tend to love — is computed on your phone and stored on your phone. There is no "WhatNext server" that knows you watched Stalker at 2am.
The catalogue ships with the app as a single SQLite file and updates quietly in the background. Searches run against local full-text indexes — nothing goes out as you type.
A short list of what the app does. None of it requires an account; all of it runs offline once the catalogue is downloaded.
Five films a day, ranked by a small on-device model that updates with every rating you give.
Haven't seen many films? Choose a few genres and moods instead — the model bootstraps from tags.
Full-text over title, director, theme, and decade. Nothing goes over the wire as you type.
A growing library of films you've saved and films you've watched, with a quiet rating dot beside each.
Thirty curated moods — "Rainy Sunday", "Mind-Bending", "Road Trip" — mapped to semantic film vectors. Free for all users.
One tap to export your library as JSON or Letterboxd CSV. One tap to wipe everything and start over.
Export your full library as a portable JSON file and restore it on any device. Your taste profile goes with you.
A radar chart of your cinematic DNA — top genres, archetypes, and a shareable taste card that captures what you actually love.
Default dark, Sepia, and Light — all free. The app remembers your pick across sessions.
Things people ask us, in approximate order of frequency. Write to the address in the colophon if yours isn't here.
Available now on iPhone and Android. The catalogue downloads on first launch and lives entirely on your device. Setup takes under three minutes.