Widgets
Your watchlist, what to watch next, and what's trending on your home screen, in three sizes.
Limelight for iPhone
The movie and TV tracker made for iPhone
Search any title, see where it streams, save it, rate it, and get told the day it lands. Free, privacy focused with no ads.
Where to stream
Know where it's streaming before you open three apps
Every title page shows which of your services carry it, with rent and buy options underneath. Pick your country once and availability follows you across the whole app.
SceneSnap
Name any scene from Control Center
See a clip on your phone and can't place it? Upload a short video to SceneSnap and it identifies the movie or show and who's on screen, then opens the title so you can save it. Launch it straight from Control Center. Part of Limelight+.
QuickSort
Build your history in a queue, not a spreadsheet
Swipe right for seen, left for not seen, and undo when you change your mind. Every swipe sharpens the recommendations Just For You shows you. Part of Limelight+.
Home
Trending, trailers, and Top 10s in one scroll
Home puts Just For You picks, the latest trailers, and the Netflix, Prime Video, and Apple TV Top 10 charts for your country on one screen, so deciding takes a minute instead of an evening.
Everything else that comes with it
Siri and Spotlight
Ask Siri to open your watchlist or start QuickSort. Every title in your library shows up in iPhone search.
Notifications
Get told when a movie opens in theaters, a new episode airs, or something lands on a service you pay for.
Quick actions
Long-press the app icon to jump straight into search, your watchlist, or QuickSort.
Light and dark
Dark by default, light when you want it, following your system setting.
Sync
Your library follows you to iPad and Mac, so nothing lives on one device.
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 iPhone. 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 iPhone
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.
Limelight requires iOS 26 or later, so it runs on any iPhone that can install iOS 26. It is built natively for iOS, not a wrapped website, so it looks and feels like the rest of your phone.
Yes. Widgets show your watchlist, what to watch next, and what's trending, in small, medium, and large sizes. There is also a Control Center button for SceneSnap and home screen quick actions for search, your watchlist, and QuickSort.
Yes. Track a title and Limelight sends a notification when a movie opens in theaters, when a new episode airs, or when something arrives on a streaming service you pay for. Press and hold any tracked title to mute it.
Yes. Siri can open your watchlist, show what's trending, start QuickSort, or jump into SceneSnap, and your library is indexed in Spotlight so any title opens straight from iPhone search.
Yes. Your Watchlist, Seen List, Rated List, and custom lists are stored in your free account from The Movie Database (TMDB), so the same library appears on iPad and Mac the moment you sign in there.
JustWatch is built around streaming search and Letterboxd around film diaries and reviews. Limelight combines search, streaming availability for your country, tracking, ratings, notifications, and recommendations in one ad-free app, and adds SceneSnap and QuickSort, which neither has.
Get Limelight on your iPhone
Free on the App Store, privacy focused with no ads. Your library syncs to iPad and Mac whenever you're ready.
