Deciding together
What to watch together, without losing the evening to it
The problem is almost never a lack of choice: it is that with two people, catalogues recommend to each of you what you would enjoy alone. You scroll, you dismiss, and forty minutes later you put on an episode you have already seen. FriendFlix takes the problem from the other end — instead of recommending to one person, it overlays several rating histories and looks for what holds up for everyone.
Crossing tastes, not averaging them
Averaging two profiles gives you the lowest common denominator: the lukewarm film nobody hates and nobody wants to watch. Crossing them looks for something else — titles that score genuinely well for each person, including where tastes diverge. Each profile is weighted by how many works it has actually rated, so a brand-new account does not carry as much as a well-filled history.
Every suggestion says why it is there
A suggestion without a justification cannot be argued with: you take it or you skip it. Here every proposed title comes with the reason it surfaced — what, in the group’s combined tastes, pushed it up. That is what makes the decision fast, because you are discussing a reason instead of scrolling a grid of posters.
What has already been seen does not come back
Tracking and recommendations draw on the same library. Anything a member has already watched and rated drops out of the selection, which fixes the main flaw of catalogues: offering two people a film one of them has already seen twice. A dismissed suggestion is recorded as such and does not return on the next round.
For two, for three, or for Saturday night
Crossing is not limited to two people: it works as soon as several profiles are brought together. The mechanism is the same for a couple, a flatshare or a group of friends — the more histories there are, the narrower the field, and the better justified the suggestion.
Frequently asked questions
Does the other person need an account?
Yes: crossing works on real ratings, so everyone in the group needs to have rated what they have seen. Creating an account is free, and a few dozen ratings are enough to get useful suggestions.
Can the other person see everything I have rated?
No. What is shared is about the group: the genres that dominate it, how many works each member has rated, and the titles suggested. The list of what you rated, and your ratings themselves, are not part of it.
What if our tastes have nothing in common?
That is the most interesting case, and the one where scrolling a catalogue fails fastest. Crossing looks for areas of overlap even where they are narrow, and the justification tells you what it is leaning on — you are free to dismiss the suggestion if it does not convince you.
Does it work for TV series too?
Yes, films and series live in the same library and on the same scale. A series one member has already started is taken into account with its real progress.
Your ratings stay yours.