Be one of the first people to use Chilltacular.

For the full tour, the home page covers it. The short version: native iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps, iCloud sync, no ads, no autoplay video, no algorithmic feed.

The most useful testers are people who:

• Already track shows, movies, or games in some app (or in a Notes file, or in their head).
• Will tap “Help & Feedback” inside the app when something feels off, instead of being polite about it.
• Are okay with rough edges — this is a beta. Stuff will be missing. Some things will be slow. A few things will probably break.
• Use Apple devices day-to-day — Chilltacular is iPhone, iPad, and Mac only right now. tvOS is coming soon.

If that sounds like you, the TestFlight link is right above (and below).

That’s the only feedback channel I’m asking testers to use during the beta. It’s how I track what’s been reported, and it’s how I’ll know who’s been actively testing when the beta wraps.

• iPhone (iOS 17 or later), iPad, or Mac with Apple Silicon recommended
• An iCloud account — used for sync between your devices and for sharing lists
• TestFlight installed from the App Store
• A willingness to use the in-app Help & Feedback screen when something feels off

tvOS support is coming soon. There’s no Android version, no web app, and no plan to build either.

vs. Trakt

Trakt is built around what you’ve watched — scrobbling from Plex/Infuse, history, stats, ratings, a public social graph. Chilltacular is built around what’s coming — the next episode, the digital release date, the game launch, the trailer that just dropped. There’s no history log in the Trakt sense, no scrobbling, no public profile.

Better fit for Chilltacular if you: mostly want to know what’s out this week and when, share lists with specific people, want a native Apple app, want your data in your own iCloud.

Stay on Trakt if you: rely on scrobbling from Plex/Kodi/Infuse, want detailed stats and history, use the public social side, or need Android/web.

vs. Sofa

Sofa is genuinely good — a quiet, beautifully designed personal watchlist with tags. The overlap is real, so this one’s worth being precise about.

Three things Chilltacular does differently:

1. Active / Out Now / Upcoming / Waiting For Streaming as the core model. Not a flat watchlist with tags — a structured split between what you’re watching now, what’s ready to start, what’s still on the way, and the post-theater limbo of movies between release and streaming. “What’s actually on tonight?” is one glance, not a scroll.
2. Small-group sharing as a core feature, not an add-on. Shared collections — partner, family, group chat — are first-class, with member chips, per-person read state, and a Catch-Up view that surfaces what they changed since you last looked.
3. Items enhance themselves in the background. Add a show and the app pulls trailers, watches for digital release dates and new seasons, surfaces release news, and pings you about sequels — without you maintaining the list.

Stay on Sofa if you: use it as a personal watchlist and don’t need shared lists, prefer tag-based organization, or track media types Chilltacular doesn’t focus on (books, podcasts, board games).

vs. the Notes app or a spreadsheet

If you’re tracking this stuff in a Notes file or a Google Sheet, you already know the pain points: no release dates, no cover art, nothing reminds you when something drops, and sharing it with someone else is “I’ll text it to you.”

Chilltacular fills in release dates, cover art, trailers, and streaming availability automatically. It tells you when something on your list is finally out. And shared collections let two people maintain the same list without either of you owning the spreadsheet.

If your Notes-app system works, that’s great — keep it. But if you’ve ever opened it and thought “I have no idea which of these is even out yet,” that’s the gap.