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Best Movie Discovery Apps for iPhone (2026)
IMDb: Movies & TV Shows is the top-ranked of 26 movie discovery apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 548,599 ratings.
- 1
Free · ★ 4.8 · 548,599 ratings · score 98 - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 137,875 ratings · score 96 - 3
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 12,568 ratings · score 93 - 4
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 13,085 ratings · score 92 - 5
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 151,658 ratings · score 92
What belongs in this list
Find movies that are worth watching next.
Not here: a movie streaming library alone; a movie news feed alone; a movie ticket-booking app alone; a general chatbot asked for movie ideas alone; a TV show tracker alone
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
- 1Free · ★ 4.8 · 548,599 ratings · score 98 · best in class
- 2Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 137,875 ratings · score 96 · best in class
- 3Free download · ★ 4.7 · 12,568 ratings · score 93 · best in class
- 4Free download · ★ 4.6 · 13,085 ratings · score 92 · best in class
- 5Free download · ★ 4.5 · 151,658 ratings · score 92 · best in class
- 6
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 4,346 ratings · score 89 · excellent - 7
Free download · ★ 4.2 · 2,393 ratings · score 82 · excellent - 8
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 27,775 ratings · score 81 · good - 9
Free · ★ 4.6 · 4,046 ratings · score 78 · good - 10
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 3,510 ratings · score 68 · situational - 11
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 2,059 ratings · score 68 · situational - 12
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 3,346 ratings · score 67 · situational - 13
Free · ★ 4.5 · 3,316 ratings · score 65 · situational - 14
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 5,620 ratings · score 64 · situational · provisional - 15
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 4,722 ratings · score 64 · weak · provisional - 16
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 5,568 ratings · score 63 · weak - 17
Free · ★ 3.7 · 20,247 ratings · score 60 · weak · provisional - 18
Free · ★ 4.4 · 3,562 ratings · score 59 · weak · provisional - 19
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 8,160 ratings · score 52 · weak - 20
Free · ★ 4.1 · 7,199 ratings · score 50 · weak - 21
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 13,086 ratings · score 44 · avoid · provisional - 22
Free download · ★ 4.2 · 4,210 ratings · score 42 · avoid · provisional - 23
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 3,673 ratings · score 40 · avoid · provisional - 24
Free download · ★ 4.1 · 2,401 ratings · score 37 · avoid · provisional - 25
Free download · ★ 4.0 · 7,295 ratings · score 36 · avoid · provisional - 26
Free download · ★ 3.3 · 1,932 ratings · score 30 · avoid · provisional
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Questions people ask
- What is the best movie discovery app for iPhone?
- IMDb: Movies & TV Shows, S tier, ranked #1 of 26, rated 4.8 by 548,599 people.
- Which movie discovery apps are free?
- 25 of 26 are free to download: IMDb: Movies & TV Shows (S), Plex: Find Movies and TV Shows (S), Queue - Find Movies & Shows (S), Movie App - Movies Now! + TV (S) and more. 3 of them sell in-app purchases. 6 report no in-app purchases.
- Which movie discovery app has the best App Store rating?
- IMDb: Movies & TV Shows at 4.8 from 548,599 ratings.
- How many movie discovery apps reach S or A tier?
- 7 of 26. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.
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