Comparison

Screenary vs KnowShow

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Screenary

Track your favorite TV shows season by season, rating each one individually to visualize quality changes. Discover new content based on your unique tastes and connect with friends to find shows you'll both enjoy.

Highlights
  • Season-by-season rating
  • Quality curve visualization
  • Personalized recommendations
  • Friend-based discovery (Fuse)
  • Real-time friend activity feed
  • Mood-based filtering
Features
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Screenary is the TV tracking app built for people who actually care about television. Most apps treat a show as a single thing to check off. But you know that Season 1 of a show can be a masterpiece and Season 4 can be unwatchable. Screenary lets you rate every season independently, see how quality rises and falls over time, and track exactly where you are — not just "watched" or "not watched." Rate season by season. Give each season its own score. Build a real picture of your taste, not just a list of titles. See the quality curve. Visualize how a show evolves across seasons — where it peaked, where it stumbled, and whether it's worth pushing through. Discover what to watch next. Your For You feed learns from your ratings and your friends'. It tells you why something is recommended — because your friend gave it a 9.2, because it matches a show you loved, or because the community can't stop talking about it. Watch together with Fuse. Can't agree on what to watch tonight? Fuse finds shows that overlap between you and a friend's taste — so you're not just picking something you'll tolerate, you're finding something you'll both actually love. Stay in the loop. See what your friends are watching, rating, and reviewing in real time. Follow along, chime in, or just see what's worth your time before you commit. 8 vibes. Infinite moods. Cozy, funny, intense, mind-bending — filter your recommendations by exactly the energy you're in for right now. Whether you're a completionist tracking every episode or someone who just wants to know what to put on tonight, Screenary gives you tools that actually match how you think about TV.

About

KnowShow

Easily track your TV show progress, mark episodes as watched, and get notified about new releases. Discover where to stream your favorite shows and analyze your viewing habits. Keep your watch history private and organized.

Highlights
  • Track every episode
  • Get new episode alerts
  • See streaming service availability
  • Organize shows by status
  • View viewing statistics
  • Pause or archive shows
Features
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KnowShow is a personal TV tracker for people who already know what they're watching. Mark episodes as you go, see what's left, and never lose your place. Stay informed on when new seasons or episodes will be released. No feed. No ads. No recommendations you didn't ask for. TRACK EVERY EPISODE Tick episodes off one at a time, mark a whole season at once, or tap once to catch up to any point mid-season. Jumped ahead? KnowShow offers to fill in everything before it. Your progress and the exact episode you stopped on are always a glance away. KNOW WHEN NEW EPISODES LAND Switch on alerts for the shows you care about, and Upcoming lists the next episode for each one, in order of earliest release. Anything airing in the next seven days gets flagged, so a returning season never slips past you. SEE WHERE IT'S STREAMING Open any show to find which services carry it in your country. Tell KnowShow which services you subscribe to and mark where you watch each show, so you always know where to pick it back up. YOUR LIBRARY AT A GLANCE Every show you follow, sorted into Watching, To Watch, and Caught Up, each with its own progress. Filter down to whatever you're in the mood for. YOUR VIEWING, IN NUMBERS See how much time you've spent watching, broken down by streaming service, show type, and genre, plus a month-by-month view of your activity. PUT A SHOW ASIDE Pause a show, put it to sleep until a date you pick, or archive it for good. Every watched episode stays exactly as you left it, and a sleeping show comes back on its own. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Your account is an email address and your watch history. That's the whole of it. Usage analytics are anonymous and never include show titles or what you've watched. Delete your account, and everything that goes with it will be deleted.

Screenshots

Screenary4 screens
KnowShow4 screens

Verdict

The call

Screenary and KnowShow are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Screenary against 5.0 for KnowShow. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Screenary versus KnowShow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScreenaryKnowShow
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB1 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperWade OuelletBlackburn Labs

In-app purchases

None

Screenary

No in-app purchases

None

KnowShow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Screenary free?
Screenary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is KnowShow free?
KnowShow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Screenary or KnowShow?
Screenary and KnowShow are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Screenary or KnowShow have ads?
Neither Screenary nor KnowShow shows ads.

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