The watch party compatibility index

Built-in watch parties: mostly gone

This is the finding that most comparison articles have missed. Between 2023 and 2024 the streaming services deleted their own co-viewing features almost across the board, in several cases without an announcement.

• Hulu Watch Party — still running. The last major built-in feature standing. Web only, on hulu.com in a supported desktop browser; up to 8 participants; restricted to accounts belonging to adults. On-demand catalogue only — it does not cover live TV. Launched December 2020. Verified live, August 2026.
• Disney+ GroupWatch — shut down. Removed on 18 September 2023 and not reinstated since. Gone for nearly three years, and still listed as an option by several ranking comparison pages.
• Prime Video Watch Party — removed. Ended 2 April 2024, with no announcement and no in-app notice. The separate Twitch-hosted Prime Video watch party was discontinued on the same date. Both routes closed simultaneously, which is why "watch Prime together" advice from 2023 fails completely.
• Netflix — never had one. Netflix has never shipped a first-party co-viewing feature. Every method of watching Netflix in sync has always been third-party. Worth stating plainly, because "Netflix Party" was a third-party extension, not a Netflix product.

The practical consequence: on seven of the eight services below, a browser extension or a screen-share is now the only way to watch in sync. That is not a marketing claim, it is what is left after the platforms withdrew.

The index

Three questions per service: does the platform itself still offer co-viewing, does Teleparty cover it, and do we. Each cell carries the evidence class it was checked against.

Evidence classes. Shipped manifest + adapter — read directly out of the extension package that is published on the Chrome Web Store; the strongest class on this page, and the only one we can offer first-hand. Reported — taken from the vendor's own published service list and not independently re-tested by us. Not listed — absent from the vendor's list, which is evidence of absence but not proof of it.

Every participant needs their own valid subscription to the service in question, on every row of this table. No watch-party tool changes that, and any tool that claims otherwise is describing something else.

Where we do not work

Stated directly, because a table that only shows a product's strengths is worth nothing to the person reading it.

• Paramount+ and ESPN+. Teleparty covers both on its paid tier. We cover neither, at any price.
• Peacock and Apple TV+. Not supported by us. Apple TV+ users on Apple hardware already have SharePlay, which is better integrated than any extension can be.
• Zee5, SonyLIV, Viki, iQIYI and Viu. Regularly asked for, not supported. There is no partial support and no workaround — the extension has no code that runs on those sites at all.
• Mobile. We are a desktop browser extension. There is no iOS or Android app. If everyone in your group is on a phone, we are the wrong tool.
• Live TV and live sport. Outside the scope of every row above, including Hulu's own feature, which covers on-demand only.

Where we are ahead is narrower than we first wrote: JioHotstar, which does not appear on Teleparty's service list at all. On Crunchyroll, Paramount+ and ESPN+ the honest answer is that their tier boundaries are not public enough to compare, so we are not claiming a win there.

What the other tables get wrong

This index exists because the ones that rank are out of date, and in a specific, checkable way. Three recurring errors, all of them still live in search results in August 2026:

1. Disney+ GroupWatch is still listed as an option. It has been gone since September 2023. A reader who follows that advice goes looking for a button that no longer exists.
2. Prime Video Watch Party is still listed as an option. Removed April 2024, silently, which is exactly why the stale advice has survived — there was no announcement for anyone to notice.
3. Recommendation lists include products that have shut down. Showgoers is a common example, still named in "best alternatives" lists years after it stopped operating. The lists appear to be copied from one another rather than re-checked.

None of these are subtle judgement calls. They are factual claims with dates attached, and they are wrong. That is the whole reason to maintain this page on a schedule rather than write it once.

How each row was checked

Three evidence classes, marked on every cell, in descending order of strength.

1. Shipped manifest and adapter code. Our own rows come from extension/manifest.json and the player adapters in the published extension package — the host permission list and the code that runs on each service. We cannot claim support for a service that has no entry there, and you can check the package yourself. See the permissions page for the full host list.
2. Vendor's own published statements. Competitor rows come from what the vendor publishes about its own service coverage and tiers. We have not re-tested a competitor's product on every service, and we do not claim to have.
3. Dated public reporting. The platform shutdown dates come from contemporaneous coverage. Where reporting conflicts, the row says so rather than picking a side.

One row is deliberately absent. Scener's website was live and carried no shutdown notice when we checked on 28 August 2026, but third-party posts from May 2026 describe it as having shut down. We could not resolve that, so it is not ranked in the index. An unresolved row is more useful than a confident guess.

On Teleparty's tiers, and a correction. An earlier draft of this page named Crunchyroll, Paramount+ and ESPN+ as sitting behind Teleparty's paid tier. We could not substantiate that at the time and corrected the cells to "not enumerated". Two sources now sharpen the picture without resolving it. Their pricing page distinguishes "our free channels" from "all supported channels" but never says which are which, and its Premium feature list adds voice and video chat, custom reactions, chat badges and priority support — no channels. Their Chrome Web Store listing, separately, describes free coverage of Netflix, YouTube, Disney+ and Max "and more" plus 23 additional premium services.

So a channel paywall does appear to exist, and it is large. What is not public is which 23 services sit behind it. Until that is published or tested directly, those cells stay at "not enumerated" — the existence of a paywall is not evidence about any particular row, and we are not going to guess in the direction that happens to flatter us.

Prices, where they are known. Teleparty lists Free at $0, Premium at US$6.59/month or US$3.99/month billed US$47.88 annually, and a two-account Duo tier at US$9.49/month or US$6.99/month billed US$83.88 annually, with a 7-day trial on the annual plans (their pricing page, read 28 August 2026). Prices move faster than a quarterly review, so treat any figure here as a snapshot and check the vendor's own page before relying on it. Our own pricing is on our pricing section and is deliberately not compared here — a vendor grading its own price against a competitor's is not research.

For measured playback-sync numbers rather than feature availability, see the sync drift study, which publishes its full dataset and methodology.

Corrections

Every claim here has a date. If a service restores a feature, a competitor adds coverage, or a row is simply wrong, send it to us — including corrections that make a competitor look better than this page currently does. Changes are logged with the date they were made.

Change log for this page

• 28 August 2026 — first publication. All rows verified.
• 28 August 2026 — corrected the Teleparty tier cells for Crunchyroll, Paramount+ and ESPN+ from "paid tier only" to "not enumerated" after their own pricing page failed to support the original claim, then added the Chrome Web Store evidence that a 23-service premium tier exists without naming its contents.

Journalists and researchers may reuse this table with attribution and a link. If you need the underlying host list in machine-readable form, it is in the extension package and mirrored on the permissions page.