Short answer We do not support Viki. Your realistic options are a generic sync tool, a call, or watching separately and texting.
If you have come here after finding that watching K-dramas together on Rakuten Viki is harder than it used to be, the useful thing we can offer is not a product — it is a clear picture of the options, including the fact that ours is not one of them. Every other page answering this question has something to sell you. This one cannot.
Where things stand
Viewers report that Viki's own group-watching feature is no longer available to them, and the question has been recurring in community threads since. We are deliberately not going to state a date or a policy on Rakuten's behalf — the reliable thing is to check Viki's own help centre for the current position rather than trusting a third-party blog post, including this one.
What we can tell you accurately is what a browser extension can and cannot do about it.
Why we do not support Viki
Not for a principled reason — it is simply not built yet. Supporting a service means adding its host to the extension's permissions, teaching it that service's URL shape, and writing an adapter that knows how to read and drive that particular player. Small work per service, but it has to be done, tested against the real player, and then maintained when that player changes.
We currently ship eight: YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, Crunchyroll, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and JioHotstar. Claiming a ninth on a comparison chart without having written the adapter is the specific dishonesty this blog is trying not to commit — and it is common enough in this category that you should check any tool's claims against its own permission list rather than its marketing.
Open chrome://extensions, press
Details, and read Site access. If viki.com is not in that list,
the extension cannot do anything on Viki, whatever the listing says. The
permissions guide walks through it.
What is actually available to you
| Option | Honest assessment |
|---|---|
A generic sync extension that lists viki.com | The only route that preserves picture quality. Verify the domain is in its Site access list, and test it before you rely on it. |
| A video call with screen sharing | Works today, and the picture will be a re-encode. See the comparison for what that costs. |
| Watching separately, counting down, texting | Genuinely fine for a weekly episode with one other person, and it needs nothing installed. |
| Waiting for Viki | Check their help centre. It is their feature to restore. |
The third row is not a joke. For one episode a week with one person, "press play on three" plus a message thread is a lower-friction answer than installing two things — and nobody's picture gets worse.
If you watch K-dramas elsewhere too
Plenty of Korean and other Asian drama sits on services we do support — Netflix in particular carries a substantial catalogue, and Prime Video and Crunchyroll carry more. If part of your watchlist is there, that part can be watched together properly today. There is a K-drama guide that covers the timing and subtitle side of it.
And if Viki specifically is where your watchlist lives, that is exactly the signal worth sending us. A service gets built because people ask for it.
Common questions
Does Watch Peak Party work on Viki?
No. The extension is matched to eight services and Viki is not one of them. Nothing on Viki will work with it.
How do I check whether another extension really supports Viki?
Open chrome://extensions, press Details, and read Site access. If viki.com is not listed, it cannot run there regardless of what the listing claims.
What is the best option today?
A generic sync extension that genuinely lists viki.com, if you can verify one. Otherwise a call with screen sharing, or watching separately and texting.
Will you add Viki?
Possibly. Which service gets built next is decided by what people ask for, so asking is the useful action.
Watch Peak Party does not support Rakuten Viki. The extension is matched to eight services — YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, Crunchyroll, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and JioHotstar — and Viki is not one of them, so nothing in this post is a pitch. If you want Viki support, say so: demand is genuinely how we decide which service to build next, and a post that told you to install something that cannot do the job would be worth less than an honest one.
