Comparison

CouchQueue vs How to TV

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

Head to head
About

CouchQueue

Features
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CouchQueue is a shared TV planner for households. Keep track of what you are watching, what is ready to watch next, and what you are waiting on. CouchQueue syncs through iCloud so everyone in the household can stay on the same list. Features: Track shows across Watching, Ready, and Waiting lists. Share one household queue with another iCloud user. See the next season for each show at a glance. Open and manage your planner from iPhone. Use the Apple TV app as a couch-friendly view for choosing what to watch and updating show status. CouchQueue is built for simple household coordination: less “what episode are we on?” and more watching.

About

How to TV

Never miss an episode of your favorite series. This app tracks your progress, notifies you of new releases, and helps you discover what to watch next based on your viewing habits. It also provides streaming options and detailed insights into your viewing history.

Highlights
  • Track watched episodes
  • New episode notifications
  • Personalized recommendations
  • Streaming service integration
  • Show and creator exploration
  • Organized viewing library
  • Viewing history insights
Features
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Never lose your place in a series again. How to TV tracks every show you are watching, remembers the exact episode you are up to, and tells you the moment the next one drops. What to watch next comes from your actual taste, not a generic top-10 list. Coming from TV Time? Import your saved TV Time data export and pick up exactly where you left off: your shows, every episode you've watched and when you watched it. Rate fast, remember everything One tap captures how a show landed (Ugh, Good, Great, or Mind Blown) and your ratings power everything else in the app. Never miss an episode See what airs next across your whole watchlist, with reminders for new episodes and for series coming back from hiatus. The Up Next widget puts your next episode on the Home Screen. Know where to stream it Streaming, rent, and buy options for every show, in your region. Show pages that connect everything Watch trailers, tap a creator to explore their other work, and jump straight to similar shows or to more from the same genre or network. Your library, organized Watchlist, In Progress, Finished, and Rated, filterable by genre and network. Browse every genre as a rail of posters, your best genres first, with your own ratings layered on top. Your taste, explained Insights that measure every number against something, trends by month, and a Profile that tells you what you are leaning into lately and what to watch next. Your year in shows See your year at a glance: the hours you watched, month by month, the shows you gave the most time to, your top genres and your biggest binge day. Look back at earlier years and share any of them as a card. Top People shows who you spent the most time with, on screen and behind it. Backed up and in sync. Your ratings and progress sync privately over iCloud across your devices. No ads, no analytics SDKs, no tracking. Sign in with a free TMDb account, add the shows you love, and start rating. Free to use. From the makers of How to Movie. How to TV uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb.

Screenshots

CouchQueue3 screens
How to TV4 screens

Verdict

The call

CouchQueue and How to TV are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CouchQueue ships an update every 4 days, How to TV weekly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
CouchQueue versus How to TV: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCouchQueueHow to TV
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB10 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSteve EvansDaniel Hinkson

In-app purchases

None

CouchQueue

No in-app purchases

None

How to TV

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CouchQueue free?
CouchQueue is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is How to TV free?
How to TV is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CouchQueue or How to TV have ads?
Neither CouchQueue nor How to TV shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CouchQueue or How to TV?
CouchQueue ships an update every 4 days, and How to TV weekly. Most recently, CouchQueue was updated on November 5, 2026 and How to TV on November 5, 2026.

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