Likewise is a media discovery and tracking app for movies, TV shows, books, and podcasts, available on iOS.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Entertainment
Sentiment
4.7
47k reviews
Nemesis
Fragmented field
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users turn to the app to resolve the cognitive cost of searching across fragmented streaming services for their next favorite title.
For Entertainment enthusiasts looking to discover and organize movies, TV shows, books, and podcasts across fragmented streaming services.
What does it look like?
Key features
Conversational AI agent provides instant entertainment recommendations based on user preferences and history.
Community-driven recommendation sharing and discussion groups for specific interests.
Aggregated search across multiple streaming services and media types including books and podcasts.
How much does it cost?
The freemium model gates editorial insights behind a subscription, while the free tier is heavily ad-supported.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentperformanceShow more...
With only one release in the observed window and a last update 15 days ago, the development cadence is currently in a maintenance phase. The latest release focused exclusively on technical permissions, indicating a lack of new feature development or live operations. The development trend remains stable at this low-frequency output, with no evidence of major feature updates or content expansion.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Fresh user feedback skews frustrated. Users appreciate the clear layout and simple interface for tracking their personal media consumption habits.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Users appreciate the clear layout and simple interface for tracking their personal media consumption habits
- The platform provides a useful database for discovering new movies and books through community recommendations
- Aggressive advertising and subscription gating degrade the user experience for those using the free version
49 of 49 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Frustrated overall
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Competitive landscape for Likewise: Movie, TV, Book Recs
How's the Entertainment market?
Likewise maintains a 4.69 rating across 46,685 total platform ratings, positioning it as a established utility in the entertainment category.
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Key takeaways for Likewise: Movie, TV, Book Recs
Where is it heading?
The entertainment discovery market is consolidating around reliable, high-utility tracking tools. Likewise's current maintenance-only release cadence leaves it vulnerable to rivals that offer better technical reliability and more intuitive list management.
- Technical instability and search failures disrupt the core media tracking experience, which compounds the negative sentiment already present in user reviews.
- The latest release focused on Facebook permissions, indicating a maintenance-only cadence rather than active feature expansion for the core discovery engine.
The SWOT
- Pix AI assistant provides a differentiated conversational recommendation engine
- Implementing granular list sorting and TV episode tracking could improve retention for power users
Next best moves
Audit search stability because search failures are a top-cited technical complaint → reduce churn
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The aggressive ad-supported model is a rational trade-off for a free utility…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The app remains in a maintenance-only development cycle with no new features, though the analytical framework has shifted to prioritize search stability and list management as the primary levers for retention.
Bottom line
Prioritizing technical stability and core list-management features would address the primary churn drivers, as the current ad-heavy experience risks alienating the enthusiast base before they reach the subscription tier.
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Is Likewise free to use?
Does Likewise work offline?
Can I track my TV show progress on Likewise?
Sources
- [1] App Store, source
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