Rate movies in
half stars. One to four.
HalfStar is a movie & TV app with opinions: recommendations that show you why, and one place to settle what to watch tonight — on your TV or in your pocket.
One email when it lands on the App Store.
Every rating on the scale.
Ten-point scales and five-star sliders leave room to waffle. Seven steps force a verdict, and half a star is enough to say exactly how good something was. It’s Ebert’s scale, tightened.
Suggestions that
show their work.
Most apps hand you a match percentage and ask you to trust it. HalfStar shows the receipt: the titles you loved and the exact threads they share with what it’s recommending. The math runs on your ratings alone, and you can check every step of it.
“I don’t want a 92% match. I want to know why.”
threads
Watch it now, or add it to the queue.
HalfStar mixes what you can play tonight with what’s worth hunting down. Both live in the same rows: play one now, queue the other with a tap.
Rate while it’s fresh
Mark something watched and HalfStar asks for the verdict on the spot, before it goes fuzzy.
A diary that maps your taste
Every rating goes into your diary, and the more you rate, the sharper the picture of what you love: genres, cast and crew, studios, keywords.
A request queue
Can’t watch it tonight? Queue it and it stays in your rows instead of vanishing into a notes app.
Private by default
The recommender uses your ratings and nothing else; it never sees your location or an ad profile. Every suggestion can be reproduced by hand.
The front door to your own library.
Run Emby at home? Connect it and HalfStar becomes your Apple TV app for the whole evening: your movies and shows in curated rows, played straight from your server, rated when the credits roll. Without a server, the iPhone app still does the scale, the recommender, and the queue.
Rows from your shelves
Watch Next and Because You Rated Highly come from the library you already curate, not a catalog you rent.
Plays like it should
It plays direct over your own network, and resume lands you right where you left off.
Request to library
Queue what your server doesn’t have yet; when it arrives, it steps into the watch-now rows on its own.
Be there when the
lights go down.
HalfStar is coming to Apple TV and iPhone. Leave your email and we’ll save you a spot at the drive-in.
One email when it lands on the App Store.