About StreamTonight
The problem
You pay for Netflix. And Max. And Hulu. And Disney+. And Prime Video. And probably one or two more depending on which prestige drama your friends are talking about this season. That's five-to-eight subscriptions, easily $80–$120 a month between them.
And every night you sit down on the couch and the same thing happens: you scroll through one app, then the next, then the next, then back to the first one because maybe you missed something, then you give up and watch the same comfort show you watched last week.
The streaming services are not incentivized to fix this. Each one wants you in their app, watching their content. The cross-service "what's actually new tonight that I can watch" view doesn't exist anywhere — until it does.
What StreamTonight is
One app. One scrollable list per night. Premieres, new episodes, and newly available movies across the streaming services you selected — nothing from services you don't pay for, nothing from services you've already cancelled.
Heart shows you care about and we'll tell you when the next episode airs, even if it's months out. Get a daily push at the time you choose with the night's lineup. Plan ahead with the Tomorrow Night view if you want to bring snacks.
No account creation. No password to forget. No cross-device tracking. No analytics SDKs. No third-party trackers. We don't know who you are, and we have no interest in finding out.
Who built it
Matthew Mason — an indie developer in Bremerton, Washington. StreamTonight is a sole-proprietor project: I write the code, I run the servers, I answer the support email. The app uses The Movie Database (TMDB) for content metadata, and a few other independent APIs to figure out what's available where.
I built this because I personally had the problem. Every night was the same scrolling-through- eight-apps loop, every night ended in giving up and rewatching The Office. There were a few "what to watch" sites and apps out there, but none of them solved the actual nightly question: "given the services I'm currently paying for, what's new tonight?" That's a small, specific, daily problem — and an app is the right shape for it.
What's coming
The product is small on purpose, but there's room to grow. On the roadmap:
- Cross-device favorite sync — for households where one person uses iPhone and another uses Android.
- Smarter empty-state for niche services — if you've only subscribed to AMC+ and tonight is a quiet AMC+ night, we'll show you what's coming up next instead of an empty list.
- More services — focused on services with reliable metadata and meaningful nightly drops. If there's one you want, tell us.
- Web version (maybe) — if there's enough demand to justify the account-system overhead.
What's NOT coming
- Free tier with ads. We don't run analytics, much less ads. The app is paid; it's also $1.99 a month, which is the cost of half a coffee.
- Account creation. Cloud sync may eventually need an opt-in identifier of some kind, but the default experience will always be no-account.
- "Social features." No follow lists, no sharing, no leaderboards. This is an app for figuring out what to watch, not a platform for talking about it.
- Streaming the content ourselves. StreamTonight is a discovery layer; the actual streaming happens on Netflix, Max, etc.
Get in touch
support@streamtonight.app — every email reaches a real human (me). Bug reports, feature requests, "you should add Curiosity Stream" suggestions, complaints about the interface. All welcome.