Watch together
Tested, dated guides to watching anything in sync with the people you want to watch it with — on every service the extension supports, and a few honest words about the ones it does not.
How to watch YouTube together in perfect sync
The whole procedure, with every control named and ringed: install, start a party, send one link, and talk over the video.
How to watch Netflix together without sharing your account
Two accounts, two streams, one synced timeline — and nothing that touches your Netflix session.
Watch party out of sync? Work through these six checks
The tolerance is about half a second. Here is what to do when the gap is bigger than that.
Are watch party extensions safe? Read the permissions
What Chrome's warnings mean, and what our manifest actually declares.
How the invite link works (and why there is no code to type)
One link does the whole handshake. The code on the ticket is a label — you never type it anywhere.
How to watch JioHotstar together with friends online
The service the Western watch-party tools skip, and the one people keep asking Reddit about.
What are you trying to do?
Watch it together, service by service
How to watch Netflix together without sharing your account
Two accounts, two streams, one synced timeline — and nothing that touches your Netflix session.
How to watch JioHotstar together with friends online
The service the Western watch-party tools skip, and the one people keep asking Reddit about.
How to watch Prime Video together with a friend
Prime's player is the fussiest one we support, and the guide explains what the extension does about it.
How to watch Crunchyroll together with friends
Anime night, timed to the second — including the part where you both need to see the same reaction.
How to watch Disney+ together with friends
What to use now that GroupWatch is not where you left it.
How to watch Hulu together with a friend
Two Hulu accounts, one timeline, and the ad-break caveat nobody else mentions.
How to watch HBO Max together with friends
Including the max.com / hbomax.com rename, and why your invite link still works.
Get more out of the panel
How the invite link works (and why there is no code to type)
One link does the whole handshake. The code on the ticket is a label — you never type it anywhere.
Set up push-to-talk so you never talk over the film
Hold a key, say the thing, let go. The single best setting for a two-hour film.
How to change the video without restarting the party
Open something else and the other tab follows. No second party, no new link.
Every control in the floating panel, explained
Drag, resize, collapse, rename, switch theme — the whole surface in one pass.
Using chat during a film without ruining it
Free, unlimited, and silent. Usually the right register for a first watch.
Friends and direct invites: skip the copy-and-paste
Swap a friend code once; after that an invitation is one click and a notification.
When something is not working
Watch party out of sync? Work through these six checks
The tolerance is about half a second. Here is what to do when the gap is bigger than that.
Watch party audio not working? Start with which audio
Three unrelated problems get called "audio not working". Identify yours first.
The WP badge is not showing up. Here is why
Nine times out of ten it is a tab that was open before the extension was.
Netflix watch party not working: the Netflix-specific causes
Netflix wraps its player in its own controller, and that explains most of what goes wrong.
“We’re currently experiencing a problem” on Prime Video, in a party
The most interesting bug in the product, and what fixing it taught us about Prime’s player.
Camera not working in a watch party
Usually a per-site permission. Occasionally something else already owns the camera.
The party will not connect, or keeps dropping
Read the status pill first. It tells you which half of the problem you have.
How any of this actually works
Are watch party extensions safe? Read the permissions
What Chrome's warnings mean, and what our manifest actually declares.
What is a watch party, actually?
It shares a timeline, not a stream. Everything else follows from that one distinction.
How watch party sync actually works
What gets sent, why the tolerance is half a second, and why a correction is sometimes refused.
Why the chat floats instead of sitting in a sidebar
A sidebar takes width from the player. That is the whole argument.
Watch party vs screen sharing: why one looks so much worse
Re-encoded picture, drifting audio, one person paying the bandwidth. And the two cases where it still wins.
How it compares
How to choose a watch party extension
Seven questions to ask any tool — including this one — before you rely on it for a film night.
Watching a film on Discord vs a watch party
Discord is better at talking. A party is better at watching. Both is also a valid answer.
Viki watch party: what people are using instead
An honest answer: we do not support Viki. Here is what that leaves you.
Ideas for the evening
How to run a long-distance movie night that people keep doing
The technical part is five minutes. The scheduling is what kills these, so start there.
Anime watch party: how to binge a season together
Subtitles change everything about how you talk during it. Plan for that.
A virtual movie date that is not awkward
Camera or no camera is the real question. Here is how to decide it.
K-drama watch party: timing, subtitles and where to watch
Sixteen hour-long episodes, subtitles, and a Korean release schedule. Plan around all three.