🎞 Collect
Finishing a show should feel like something.🎴Cinephile Cards
Every series you complete mints a Criterion-style collectible card - cover art on the front, your review on the back.
✦Rarity grades
Cards land Common through Legendary based on how rare and acclaimed the finish is. Legendaries reveal with a film-countdown ceremony.
📚The Archive
A binder of everything you've ever finished. Chase rare pulls, complete themed sets, and watch it fill in over time.
📜The Canon new
One Chicago, NCIS, Star Trek, Star Wars - the shows that were never really one show. The Canon threads a whole franchise's mothership and spin-offs into a single ledger, in the right watch order, with one shared progress bar. Finish the whole thing and it earns its own cinematic send-off.
🏆Sets & eras
Group your cards into sets - decades of TV, the Full Set, a Cult Classics hall - and complete the collection.
🎞️The Final Cut
A shelf of the series you've seen through to their true final episode - the credits you actually earned.
🗂️Shelves & curated lists
Build personal collections and curated, shareable lists - and Smart Shelves auto-build from your habits ("Comfort Comedies," "Finished in 2026").
📺100% television
No film clutter, no mixed feeds. NextEp is built for series and series only.
▶ Track
Every episode gets its moment.🎬One-tap episode marking
A real clapboard swings shut with a gold flash when you mark watched - and there's always an undo.
📍Next episode, always right
Your next-unwatched is never a guess. Pick up exactly where you left off, every time.
🎞Finale moments
Season finales earn a "That's a Wrap." Series finales roll The Final Cut credits over your stats.
🌙Tonight & catch-up runs
Line up what you'll actually watch tonight, or start a Run to track a catch-up binge episode by episode.
📅Calendar & schedule
See what's airing this week, filtered to the streaming services you actually pay for.
📺How many watched
Broadcast and cable episodes carry their real US viewership - 📺 3.2M - right next to the episode, so you can see what landed and what quietly slipped.
🔁Rewatch Vault
Your best shows, scored and surfaced when they're worth revisiting - new seasons, old favorites, long-ago watches.
🔍Search & Discover
Search all of television instantly, or browse Discover by mood, today's spotlight, critically acclaimed, and hidden gems.
🎯Reel Match new
Every show you haven't tracked wears a % match scored from your ratings, finishes, and drop-offs - not everyone else's average. Tap through for the receipts: exactly which of your tastes moved the number.
🔔Smart alerts
Get a nudge - in-app or as a push notification - when a show you're watching drops a new episode or a friend catches up.
💸Your Services
See which subscriptions actually carry what you watch - and which you're paying for but barely using.
✍️ Reviews & community
Say your piece - spoil no one - and watch your take evolve.🖊Private reviews
Every card has a review on its back - your take, kept for you. Write it the moment the credits roll.
🕰️Then & Now new
Feelings on a long show move. Finish a season or a finale and NextEp invites an updated take - your first one stays put, the new one joins it, and you see exactly how your rating drifted (five reels then, two now).
💬The Aftershow new
One room per show, sealed by what you've watched. Posts about an episode only unlock once you've reached it - so you can talk freely the night it airs without spoiling anyone behind you, and nothing above your own position ever leaks. Attach a photo to a post - sealed right along with the text. Imported TV Time comments land here, on the episodes you wrote them about.
⚡Moment Marks new
Tag a post to exactly where it hit - Cold Open, Midpoint, The Twist, Finale - so the room clusters around the beat everyone's actually reacting to. Turn your own take into a shareable quote card with the episode's real still behind it.
🤯Episode Pulse new
Mark an episode watched and say how it landed - Loved it, Shocked, Tense, Wrecked, Bored, Let down. See how the whole room felt about that exact episode, and read the notes from people who've finished it. Progress-gated, so it can't spoil what's ahead.
🪶The Reading Room
The whole community's public reviews, grouped by show. Each show's takes lay out on a dated timeline, so you can watch an opinion change over its run - tap any take to read it in full.
🙈Spoiler-tagged reviews no spoilers
Mark a review as containing spoilers and it stays blurred until the reader taps to reveal - so you can be candid without ruining it.
⭐Reel ratings
Rate on a half-reel scale from ½ to 5. Your ratings sharpen your recommendations and unlock your Vault.
❤️Likes that surface the best
Like a review and the sharpest writing rises to the top of the room.
✨ AI, powered by Claude
An assistant that's actually watched your shows.🧠Recommendations with reasons
Picks that understand your taste - and tell you why each one fits, not just what to watch.
⏪Catch Me Up
A recap that stops exactly at your episode - never a step ahead, so it can't spoil what's coming.
💡Explain this episode
Just watched something baffling? Get a plain-English breakdown of what happened and what it meant - grounded with live web search, so it's right even for an episode that aired last night.
🛡Spoiler-Safe Mode no spoilers
Blurs stills, titles, and synopses for episodes you haven't reached yet across the whole app.
🎲Mood picker & Surprise Me
Tell it the mood you're in and get tonight's perfect watch - or let it just pick one for you.
⚔️AI quests
Personal, taste-built challenges - a fresh dare each week to broaden or deepen what you watch.
🎙Voice control
Talk to it - "mark Severance watched," "rate The Bear five stars," "what's on tonight." Search, navigate, and log episodes hands-free.
🎯 Games & memories
Your TV life, worth looking back on.🧩Daily Cliffhanger
One puzzle a day - guess the show from its clues, fewer clues for more points, then rub your streak in the group chat.
🎯Daily Face-Off
Two posters, one question - which has more episodes, which aired first, which rates higher? Gut feeling counts, and you never need to have seen either show. Same five for everyone, every day, with a streak and a friends leaderboard.
🎁Wrapped, year-round
Your year in TV, always up to date and one tap from a share card. No waiting for December.
📖Show Memories
The shows you loved resurface on their anniversary - a little "one year ago you finished…".
🗓️Timeline & Rewind
Replay your viewing history month by month, and see what you were watching a year ago today.
🧬Show DNA & Stats
Your taste fingerprint - top genres, networks, eras, and a viewer archetype (The Detective, the Devotee…) - plus hours watched, completion rate, and streaks.
🎖Achievements & leaderboards
Earn badges as you go, and climb friendly leaderboards for episodes, completions, cards, and Legendary pulls.
📦 Import & ownership
Bring everything. Keep everything.⚡One-tap universal import
Pull your whole history in - matched by title, ratings kept - from TV Time, Trakt, Letterboxd, IMDb, or Simkl.
📸Screenshot import
No export file? Snap your streaming app's list and NextEp reads the titles right off the screenshot.
🔗Plex & Jellyfin, hands-free
Import your library once, then paste a webhook URL - NextEp tracks new episodes automatically as you actually watch them. No more manual mark-as-watched.
📤Export anytime
It's yours to leave with - one-click JSON or CSV export, any time. Import once, never get locked in.
📲On the Play Store, or add to home screen
Android users can install straight from Google Play. On iPhone, or anywhere else, open it in your browser and add it to your home screen in three taps - a full app either way.
Start your collection.
Add your first show - or import your whole history in one tap - and the Archive begins.
Every feature is unlocked and free during early access - get in before that changes.
🤝 Social
TV is better with a rival.🏁Race to the finale
Challenge a friend on the same show - first one caught up wins. Everything social here is comparative.
👪Circles private
Tag the people you follow as Family, Friends, or Close friends - labels only you can see.
🎬Viewing Rooms new
Watch together in real time. Open a room, and a shared 3‑2‑1 countdown lands everyone on the same frame - then react with live emoji as it happens. Same couch or three time zones apart.
💬Group chat & challenges
Settle it in the chat, take on Challenges, and keep score against the people you watch with.
👀Ahead, behind, or in sync
At a glance, see exactly where your friends are on every shared show.
🪪Public profile & invites
A shareable public profile with your Archive and taste, invite links for friends, and suggestions to find people you already know.