Films, series & anime
One deck covers all three. No separate mode to remember, no switching tabs to compare.
Movie night, settled.
Four people. Three streaming subscriptions. Forty minutes of scrolling, and still nobody has pressed play. Saw it turns picking something to watch into a game everybody can win: everyone swipes through titles, and the moment the group agrees on one — it's a match.
Streaming solved the supply problem and created a decision problem. The catalogue is effectively infinite, everybody has a veto, and nobody wants to be the one who picked badly.
Create a deck for whoever you're watching with — your partner, your roommates, the anime crew. Everyone joins on their own phone.
Films, series and anime, one card at a time. Right for yes, left for no. Only titles on a service your group actually subscribes to make the deck.
The moment the group agrees on a title, everyone gets a notification and it lands in your shared watchlist. Then you press play.
Illustrative interface — artwork shown is abstract, not real title imagery
One deck covers all three. No separate mode to remember, no switching tabs to compare.
Date night and the anime group want completely different things. Each gets its own deck and its own watchlist.
Tell Saw it what the group subscribes to and every card in the deck is something at least one of you can actually stream tonight.
The second the group agrees, everyone knows. No refreshing, no "did you swipe yet?" texts.
Mark something watched and it drops out of the rotation. The deck stays fresh instead of looping the same forty titles.
Matches collect in one place, so "what were we going to watch?" has an answer next Friday too.
Saw it is our own product, which means every trade-off was ours to make — and to live with. A few that mattered.
Early on, a five-star rating felt more expressive. In practice it made people deliberate, and deliberation is exactly the thing we were trying to remove. A binary swipe keeps the whole group moving at the speed of the fastest decision, not the slowest.
Plenty of apps will happily recommend something nobody in the room can watch. Filtering the deck by what the group actually subscribes to before anyone swipes removes an entire category of disappointment — and it's the reason a match is trustworthy.
The single-list version of this app fails the moment your taste in date-night films diverges from your taste in anime. Separate decks per group cost more to build, but they're the difference between an app you use once and one you open every Friday.
The full-screen "it's a match" is the payoff for everything else. It's the one place in the app where we deliberately spend a beat of the user's time, because that beat is the product.
Saw it is live on Android and free to play. Make a group, swipe for a minute, and get on with your evening.