Someone opens a different title
Your friends get a choice: follow you, or carry on with their own thing. Nobody gets dragged anywhere.
Everything it does.
Small things that keep a movie night together, so nobody has to ask what minute you're on.
Start together.
Press Start together on the pill. WatchSync checks everyone is ready, counts down 3, 2, 1, and every player starts at the same moment.
Your screen says "Getting ready to start together · waiting for Maya" until she's there, then "Starting together in 3".
It keeps the room together, quietly.
Next episode, together
When the room moves on, everyone moves on. On Prime Video you pick the next episode in the player yourself.
Small slips fix themselves
Players drift a little over a long film. WatchSync nudges yours back without a sound. If you fall far behind, one press of Sync brings you back.
Watch on my own, for a bit
Rewind a scene you missed or skip ahead alone. The room carries on, and Sync puts you back where everyone is.
A small pill, even in full screen
It shows who's here and who's in sync, sits in a corner of the player, and fades out with the player's own controls.
Wi‑Fi drops, browsers restart
WatchSync reconnects on its own and puts you back in your room. If you restart Chrome, you rejoin where you were.
What WatchSync can see
It sees the clock. Never the picture.
WatchSync only sees whether the video is playing, where it is, and what's on. It doesn't read your passwords or payments, and it can't open other sites: it only runs on Netflix, Prime Video and JioHotstar pages.
- name
- Maya
- room
- XBLHRQ
- title
- The Night Train, S1:E3
- state
- playing
- position
- 42:10
- speed
- 1x
- loading or ad
- no
Shared with your room
- The name you type in
- Your room code
- The title or episode you have open
- Playing or paused, the position and the speed
- Whether your video is loading or on an ad
Never collected
- The video or the sound
- Passwords, payments or account details
- Your viewing history
- Cookies, analytics or ads
Why Developer mode?
WatchSync isn't on the Chrome Web Store yet, so you load it yourself, and Chrome calls that Developer mode. Chrome then shows a banner about developer-mode extensions. That's expected.
Downloads come from our public GitHub, where you can read every line of the code.
Install it once, then make a room.