Multi-window
Open two Limelight windows side by side, or one next to another app.
Limelight for iPad
A movie and TV tracker that treats your iPad like an iPad
A sidebar, a keyboard, and a screen big enough for posters. The same library as your iPhone, free and ad-free.
Layout
A sidebar, not a stretched phone app
Your Watchlist, Seen List, Rated List, custom lists, and QuickSort sit in a sidebar, and the content fills the rest of the screen. Split View and narrow widths get their own layouts, so Limelight works next to Safari or Notes.
Keyboard
Search, browse, and sort from the keyboard
Keyboard shortcuts cover the things you do most, and the arrow keys move through grids and QuickSort. With a Magic Keyboard or trackpad, posters, tiles, and rows respond to the pointer and to hover.
Detail pages
Ratings, where to stream, and episodes side by side
On the bigger screen a title's page shows ratings from four sources, where it streams in your country, the latest episodes, and the cast in one view, with no scrolling required.
People
Cast and crew pages built for browsing
Tap any actor or director for a biography, age, and full filmography, laid out as a poster grid you can scan in seconds.
Everything else that comes with it
Keyboard shortcuts
Search, navigate, and sort without lifting your hands from the keys.
Widgets
Your watchlist and what's trending on the iPad home screen, in three sizes.
Top 10 charts
Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV, and more, ranked for your country.
Notifications
New episodes, theater openings, and arrivals on the services you pay for.
Sync
One library across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, kept in your own TMDB account.
Try Limelight in a browser first
Three of Limelight's tools run on this website, so you can see how it picks before you install anything on your iPad. The What to watch quiz turns six questions into three picks with streaming logos attached. The random movie picker hands you one title at a time when you would rather stop deciding. The binge calculator works out how many evenings a series will actually take.
When you are ready, the download page has the App Store links for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and the release notes list what shipped in every update.
Questions about Limelight on iPad
Yes. Limelight has a dedicated iPad layout with a sidebar, keyboard shortcuts, arrow-key navigation, pointer and hover support, and multi-window support. It is the same app as on iPhone, so there is nothing extra to buy.
Yes. Menu items carry keyboard shortcuts, and the arrow keys move through grids and QuickSort. With a Magic Keyboard or trackpad, posters, tiles, and rows respond to the pointer and to hover.
Yes. QuickSort and the rest of the app adapt their layout to narrow widths, so Limelight works in Split View next to another app, and you can open more than one Limelight window.
Limelight requires iPadOS 26 or later, so it runs on any iPad that can install iPadOS 26.
Yes. Limelight+ is a subscription on your Apple Account, so one subscription covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Yes. The download is free. Search, streaming availability, Watchlist, Seen List, star ratings, release notifications, trailers, cast profiles, recommendations, and sharing are all free, and there are no ads in any tier. Limelight+ adds SceneSnap, QuickSort, streaming Top 10 charts, multi-source ratings, unlimited custom lists, pinned items, and hiding titles, for $2.99 a month or $24.99 a year.
Get Limelight on your iPad
Free on the App Store, privacy focused with no ads. Sign in and the library from your iPhone is already there.
