Every evening, thousands of people open Reddit and type some version of the same question: what should we watch tonight. It is a good way to ask and a slow way to get answered. This is the same question, asked inside the app, with the waiting taken out.
You describe what you are in the mood for in your own words, say whether you want a film or a series, and say who you are watching with. You get tips back straight away, and every tip is a real title with a poster, a year and the streaming service it is on where you live. Other people can add their own suggestions to your question, and you can mark the one you ended up watching so the thread has an answer rather than a list.
The pattern is familiar to anyone who has been on r/tvsuggestions or r/MovieSuggestions. Someone posts a few sentences about what they are after and who they are watching with, and then waits. The best threads are genuinely excellent, because a real person who has seen a hundred things in your taste is hard to beat.
The problems are all about timing and availability. The answer arrives hours after the evening it was for. Half the suggestions are not streaming in your country, or not on a service you pay for. And the thread ends as a list of twenty titles with no indication of which one you should actually start.
“What's another good show for me and my husband to watch?”the shape of the question, asked thousands of times a week
You write the question the way you would say it out loud. Something tense like Dark. Best war films of all time. Feelgood to drift away to. Short series for the weekend. There are example prompts if you are staring at an empty box, which happens more than you would think.
Then two quick choices: film, series or either, and who you are watching with. Alone, with your partner, with friends, or with kids. That last one matters more than it looks, because it changes the whole answer set rather than adding a filter at the end.
A suggestion comes back as a real title, with its poster, its year, and the service it is streaming on in your country. Not a name to go and look up somewhere else. That is the part a forum thread structurally cannot do, because the person answering has no idea what you pay for or where you live.
Each tip also carries a short reason for why it fits what you asked, so you can dismiss the wrong ones quickly instead of reading five synopses.
Your question gets a suggestion straight away, so you are never sitting in front of an empty thread. Other people using the app can add their own tips to your question, with their own reason, and you can like the ones that are good.
Being straight about this: the app's own tips are the part that always works. The human answers are the newer half and the community is still small, so some questions get one reply and some get none yet. If you want thirty opinions from strangers, Reddit is still better at that and probably always will be. If you want one thing to watch in the next two minutes, this is faster.
When you pick something, you can mark it as the one you went with. The question stops being an open list and becomes a small record of what worked, which also teaches the app what you actually choose rather than what you say you like.
Questions can be public or kept to yourself. A public one shows up for other people to answer. A private one is just you asking the app, which is a perfectly reasonable way to use it.
Asking is for the evenings when you can put words to what you want. Swiping is for the evenings when you cannot, and you need to see things before you know. Most people use both, and the two feed the same taste profile, so an answer you liked in a thread makes the swipe pile better afterwards.
Reddit communities like r/tvsuggestions and r/MovieSuggestions are the usual places and the answers are often very good, but you wait hours and many suggestions are not available on your services. Inside What's My Next you can ask the same question and get a tip back straight away, with the streaming service it is on where you live.
Both. You get a suggestion from the app immediately, and other people using the app can add their own tips with their own reasoning. The community part is new and still small, so some questions get several human answers and some get none yet.
Yes. When you ask, you say who you are watching with: alone, with your partner, with friends, or with kids. That changes which titles come back rather than filtering them afterwards.
Every tip shows the service it is on in your country. If you have told the app which services you pay for, the suggestions stay inside them.
Yes, a question can be private. Then it is just you and the app, and nothing appears in the public feed.
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Written by Kevin Mertens · updated 15 September 2026