Most watchlists are not in an app. They are in a note, an email, or the group chat where somebody sent you nine things at once. Paste the whole block into OnTheList and it finds the films and shows in it. Free, with no ads.
Nothing to export, no file to find, and no need to tidy the list up first.
Your notes, an email, a message, a list in an article. If you can select the text, you can paste it.
Numbering, bullets, star ratings and the sentence somebody wrapped around them all come along. OnTheList reads past them.
You see what it found before anything is saved, so a title it has read wrongly never reaches your list.
People do not write watchlists neatly. They number them, rate them, abbreviate them, and mix films with shows in the same breath. A pasted list can arrive as "1. Dune Part Two ****" or as nine titles separated by commas, and both work. Anything already on your list is skipped, so you can paste something that overlaps without ending up with it twice.
Getting the titles in is the boring half. What makes it worth doing is what happens next.
The list groups itself into what is streaming now, what is in cinemas and what is still to come.
Every title shows which services carry it in your country, with rent and buy kept separate. How availability works.
There is a direct import for that instead of copying and pasting. Import from Letterboxd.
Anywhere you can copy text. Your notes app, an email, a group chat, a message from a friend, or a list you found in an article. OnTheList reads the text and picks the titles out of it.
No. Numbered lists, bullet points, one per line or separated by commas all work. Star ratings and stray numbering are stripped rather than treated as part of a title.
You see the matches before anything is added, so you can drop anything it has read wrongly. Nothing lands on your list until you confirm it.
No. Anything already on your list is skipped, so you can paste an overlapping list without tidying it up first.
Yes. A pasted list can mix films and shows, and both end up on the same list in OnTheList.
Free on iPhone, iPad and Android. Paste it once and let the list do the rest.