# WatchCue — Track shows, movies & releases > Track shows, movies & releases (iPhone/iPad app by Louis Birch.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/watchcue/id6790001201 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Louis Birch](https://appshunter.io/developer/1661435154) - Category: Entertainment, Lifestyle - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 13 MB - Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish - Released: 2026-07-14 - Data updated: 2026-07-30 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/watchcue/id6790001201/reviews.md ## What is WatchCue? WatchCue is a simple, focused way to keep up with the shows and movies you care about. Build your personal library, track episodes as you watch them, rate favourites, and always know what’s coming next. Whether you are starting a new series, catching up on a long-running show, or saving films for later, WatchCue keeps everything in one place. FEATURES • Track TV shows and movies in one personal library • Mark individual episodes, whole seasons, or every season as watched • See your viewing progress at a glance • Organise titles by status, including Watching, Caught Up, On Hold, Dropped, Watchlist and Watched • Discover and search for shows and movies • Browse upcoming episodes and movie releases in an agenda or interactive calendar • Tap release days to quickly see what is coming out • Set release reminders for titles you follow • Rate shows and movies, and add personal notes for films • Customise library layouts, episode checkmark colours, detail visibility and more • Keep your saved library data available with local caching • Back up and restore your viewing data with iCloud • Export and import your WatchCue data Spend less time searching. Spend more time watching ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Buy me a Coffee | $3.99 | one-time | | Buy me a Freddo | $0.99 | one-time | | Buy me a Nandos | $14.99 | one-time | | Buy me a Dominos | $19.99 | one-time | | Buy me a Pint | $6.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.3.0 — 2026-07-25 • Added animated watched check marks across Home, episode and season progress, movie details, and Library selection. • Added a short check-mark confirmation on Home before the completed episode slides away and the next episode slides into place. • Added a celebratory caught-up sheet after marking the final aired episode from Home or an episode page. • Added caught-up cards to series pages with the next known episode date. • Added a “That’s all, folks!” completion message for fully watched finished series. • Added Reduced Motion support to the new watched and celebration animations. • Added a Settings toggle that disables WatchCue animations and restores near-instant Home episode updates. • Restored custom-colour outlines on animated watched controls and corrected colour-space conversion that could save picker colours too dark. • Centralized motion handling so both iOS Reduce Motion and WatchCue’s animation toggle suppress motion throughout the app. • Added smooth progress-bar and numeric-counter updates across Home, series, seasons, and Profile. • Added subtle artwork and profile-photo fade-ins. • Added polished transitions for Search states, Upcoming calendar navigation, Library layouts and filters, and Profile shelves. • Added animated follow, watchlist, rating-star, app-icon selection, loading, and watched-date feedback. • Confirmed animations default to on for fresh and existing installs, while Reset Customization restores that default. • Moved the “Mark Every Season Watched” action from individual season pages to the main series page. • Restored the flat, shadow-free watched checkmark appearance and added a visible description to the series-wide watched action. • Allowed personal star ratings to be cleared back to zero by tapping the selected half-star again. • Added complete Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, and Italian interface localizations, including matching TheTVDB metadata-language support. • Rebuilt the Spanish, French, and German catalogues with complete coverage, consistent WatchCue viewing terminology, and localized caught-up and watched accessibility text. • Shortened the series-wide watched action and made it collapse to a check-only control while scrolling. • Added an optional completion-aware progress gradient across series, season, and Profile progress bars, with the standard accent style remaining the default. • Added trailing breathing room to the expanded series-wide watched action and replaced its snapping conditional transition with a continuously animated width, offset, and fade so it visibly contracts right into the checkmark or expands left to reveal the text, respecting both WatchCue’s animation toggle and iOS Reduce Motion. ### 1.2.1 — 2026-07-24 • Fixed Support WatchCue in-app purchase availability by using the App Store product identifiers. • Added episode thumbnail artwork to season episode rows. • Updated Home episode rows to prefer episode artwork when available. • Added a series poster fallback to Home episode rows when episode artwork is unavailable. • Moved season episode watched/unwatched controls to the right. • Increased season episode watched/unwatched controls to a 44x44 touch target. • Resized season episode thumbnails to 96x58 to match Home. • Added the custom watched/progress checkmark colour to Home episode rows. • Updated Continue Watching action buttons to always use the custom watched/progress colour. • Added an adaptive contrast outline to keep low-contrast custom-colour Continue Watching buttons visible. • Added the custom watched/progress checkmark colour to Home movie rows. • Standardized Home watched indicators to title2 icon sizing. • Increased Home episode completion buttons to 44x44 touch targets. • Standardized watched/progress indicators with shared title2 sizing, colour handling, and 44x44 visual frames. • Made custom-colour contrast outlines conditional across watched/progress indicators. • Added explicit watched-date context for VoiceOver on Home movie rows. • Updated customization wording to describe watched/progress check marks. • Localized the Customization reset confirmation on its own page. • Localized Data cache and local-data confirmations on the Data page. • Localized Data importer, exporter, and error presentations on the Data page. • Localized Notifications permission and update errors on the Notifications page. • Localized Viewing metadata refresh errors on the Viewing page. ### 1.2.0 — 2026-07-15 • Redesigned series pages around seasons instead of displaying episodes immediately. • Added season cards showing watched episodes, total episodes, and progress. • Added quick watched/unwatched controls to every season. • Added dedicated season pages containing individual episode lists. • Moved season and whole-series bulk watch actions into the season area. • Next-episode suggestions now show every eligible series instead of stopping after five. • Next-episode suggestions are limited to shows marked as Watching. • Planning, On Hold, Dropped, Caught Up, and Completed shows are excluded from next-episode suggestions. • Added VoiceOver labels identifying the season affected by quick actions. • Added German, Spanish, and French translations for the new season interface. • Matched bottom spacing between series pages and Upcoming. • Standardised edge spacing across one-, two-, and three-column Profile layouts. • Fixed season pages briefly opening and immediately returning to series details. • Fixed episode details appearing briefly before returning to the season page. • Fixed Profile grid navigation reopening series details over season pages. • Fixed Profile grid cards displaying unwanted disclosure arrows. • Fixed Profile grid cards opening the last show instead of the selected show. • Fixed watched-state changes becoming stale after returning from episode details. • Fixed obsolete episode metadata affecting season totals and progress. • Fixed duplicate weekday identifiers for Tuesday/Thursday and Saturday/Sunday in the Upcoming calendar. • Reduced undefined SwiftUI grid behaviour and repeated layout updates that could contribute to interface lock-ups. • Unified series, season, and episode navigation under one value-based navigation path. • Made season pages query persisted episode information independently. • Preserved stable season-route identity while filtering against current episode IDs. • Removed obsolete captured bulk-action and navigation state. • Added coverage for next-episode eligibility and Remaining-count behaviour. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-07-15 • Added Device Language support with optional manual language overrides. • Added English, Spanish, French and German localisations across onboarding, settings, navigation, statuses, errors and empty states. • Fixed language switching, persistence and English fallback behaviour. • Added translated TV and movie metadata with English fallback. • Added metadata language and region selectors. • Added one, two and three-column Profile layouts, with one column as the default. • Improved Profile grid card sizing, spacing, typography and Dynamic Type support. • Fixed Profile grid navigation, unwanted arrows, disappearing toolbar controls and excessive back-navigation. • Moved Library and Profile layout controls into Customisation settings. • Reset Customisation now restores Library and Profile layout defaults. • Improved search ordering, stability, history layout and caching. • Added offline caching for artwork, library metadata, search results and viewing data. • Improved artwork loading and cache-clearing reliability. • Added cache storage information, individual clearing controls and cache-clearing warnings. • Added information about the 250 MB artwork cache limit. • Reduced unnecessary API calls, metadata refreshes, data lookups and SwiftData queries. • Added bounded API caches and improved cache concurrency and memory management. • Improved Home, Search, Library, Profile, Upcoming and title-detail loading performance. • Added stable sorting to prevent content unexpectedly reordering after refreshes. • Dropped shows no longer count towards episode progress or remaining episodes. • Improved Caught Up and Completed status calculations for continuing and ended shows. • Shows are now automatically followed when an episode is marked as watched. • Added reversible season and all-season watched actions with updated labels. • Improved manual episode marking, immediate checkmark feedback and gesture handling. • Improved movie watched/unwatched actions, ratings and Profile filter switching. • Added calendar release indicators and quick release-day filtering. • Improved Home “Up Next” artwork, long-title layouts, episode details and release dates. • Fixed landscape episode artwork overlapping Home screen content. • Improved Settings organisation, interaction feedback and accessibility. • Improved CloudKit backup handling, validation and error reporting. • Improved account deletion and private CloudKit backup cleanup. • Backup imports now reject duplicate episode and movie records before changing local data. • Corrected App Store donation product identifiers. • Removed unused and duplicated code and expanded regression coverage. • General stability, performance, caching and memory-usage improvements throughout the app. ### 1.0.0 — 2026-07-14 No release notes. ## More apps by Louis Birch - [Fruit Squash Lite](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fruit-squash-lite/id6447125037) - [Fruit Squash](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fruit-squash/id6475038483) - [ForgeShift](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/forgeshift/id6762021609) - [PayForge](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/payforge/id6766063577) All apps by Louis Birch: https://appshunter.io/developer/1661435154 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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