Comparison

Couch Tomato vs StreamRanker

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

Head to head
About

Couch Tomato

Easily share your movie and TV show discoveries with friends and the community. Find out what to watch next and where it's streaming. Build your profile and see what others are recommending.

Highlights
  • Share viewing activity with friends
  • Discover new movies and TV shows
  • See where content is streaming
  • Follow friends and creators
  • Build a personal profile
  • Cross-device cloud sync
Features
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Couch Tomato makes it easy to share what you're watching with friends. Discover what to watch next and see where it's streaming. Share your excitement with friends and the community. What you’ll love: • Social by design: Follow friends and creators to see what they’re watching and recommending. • Fast discovery: Search movies and TV shows with rich details—posters, year, genres, top cast, and overviews. • Know where to watch: Instantly see where a show is streaming so you can jump in without the hunt. • Activity feed: Browse a clean, real-time mix of friends’ posts and global highlights. • Your space: Build your profile and share thoughts on the shows you love. • Cloud sync: Your activity and profile stay up to date across devices.

About

StreamRanker

Features
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Skip the scrolling. Find something great to stream now. StreamRanker helps you discover movies and series that are actually worth watching on the streaming services you use. Choose your country, services, genres, and original languages to get quality-first recommendations—not another list driven mainly by popularity. Need a quick decision? Pick for Me gives you three strong choices based on your current settings. Fresh Picks brings genuinely recent recommendations each week, so worthwhile new releases are easier to catch before they disappear into endless catalogs. Discover Korean dramas, Bollywood films, Nordic series, German movies, hidden gems, recent releases, action comedies, and highly rated favorites. StreamRanker makes international films and local-language gems easier to find instead of burying them beneath the usual mainstream titles. Watch with a friend. Send a personal invitation link and StreamRanker finds movies and series you can both stream and might both enjoy. Match using your usual preferences or broaden the search to anything available to both of you. Browse hand-picked collections covering superheroes, magical worlds, epic kingdoms, space operas, the post-apocalypse, AI on screen, and more. Make StreamRanker yours. Save titles to your Watchlist, mark them as Seen or Hidden, and react with thumbs up or down after watching. Consistent reactions can lightly personalize future recommendations while quality remains the foundation. You can also search for specific titles, open detailed ratings and availability information, and share titles with friends. Most StreamRanker recommendations filter out poorly rated titles. When that is exactly what you want, Bad Movie Night deliberately finds cult chaos, guilty pleasures, and mockbuster-style movies. Friends cannot browse your lists or see your email. They see your chosen display name and shared results. Because those results use signals from both people, an accepted friend may be able to infer whether a specific title is in your Watchlist or among your Seen or Hidden titles. Sign in optionally with email to sync your saved data across devices. StreamRanker uses TMDB for movie and series metadata and streaming availability, and OMDb for IMDb rating lookups. Availability can change by provider, country, and device.

Screenshots

Couch Tomato3 screens
StreamRanker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: StreamRanker at every 4 days against Couch Tomato's every 6 weeks. StreamRanker also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Couch Tomato ships an update every 6 weeks, StreamRanker every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Couch Tomato versus StreamRanker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCouch TomatoStreamRanker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB5 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMichael ArdizzoneMonika Pandey Estrugo

In-app purchases

None

Couch Tomato

No in-app purchases

None

StreamRanker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Couch Tomato free?
Couch Tomato is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is StreamRanker free?
StreamRanker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Couch Tomato or StreamRanker have ads?
Neither Couch Tomato nor StreamRanker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Couch Tomato or StreamRanker?
Couch Tomato ships an update every 6 weeks, and StreamRanker every 4 days. Most recently, Couch Tomato was updated on November 5, 2026 and StreamRanker on October 25, 2026.

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