What to watch picker
Films and shows, one card at a time. Swipe through twelve and stop at the one you want.
Everyone swipes on their own phone. You go with the first thing you all say yes to.
Can’t decide? bickr it. No download, no sign-up.
Bickr is a free what to watch picker: it deals you twelve films and shows, one card at a time. It’s free and there’s nothing to sign up for. You can do it on your own, or two to five of you can swipe the same deck. The first title everyone says yes to is the one that goes on.
On your own, in about a minute
Open the watch deck and swipe. Right keeps a title, left drops it. Everything you keep waits in a shortlist you can go back to. Ask for films or series, pick a genre, and say how long you’ve got. Then nothing three hours long turns up on a school night.
Only what you can press play on
Tell Bickr which streaming services you pay for. The deck then sticks to what is on them, so you won’t land on something you’d have to go and rent. Dinner works the same way in the random restaurant picker, which only deals places that are open.
Watching together, without the argument
Start a room and share the six character code. Everyone swipes the same stack on their own phone. The first title you all say yes to is what you watch. If nobody agrees by the end, the closest thing wins, so the film still starts. Two people is the smallest room there is. If a film was only ever one of the options, date night deals dinner and drinks from the same place.
A movie picker for couples
Two people is the hardest number. There’s no majority to fall back on. So one of you gives in, and that’s the person who quietly stops suggesting things.
Here’s a version you can do with no app at all. You each name three films. You each cross one of the other’s off, and neither of you has to say why. Four are left, and the shortest one wins, because it’s a weeknight and you both know it.
Would you rather not say the names out loud? That’s what the deck above is for. You both swipe the same titles on your own phones. Neither of you sees the other’s answers. The first one you both kept is the one that goes on.
Narrow it down, then let it pick
A random movie generator that pulls from everything ever made will hand you something you can’t stream. Or can’t finish tonight. Or didn’t want anyway. Picking at random only helps once everything left is something you’d say yes to.
So narrow it down first. One genre, or none. The services you actually pay for. Something that fits the evening you’ve got. Then let it pick, and take what it gives you.
You can do this with your own watchlist and no tool at all. Count what’s on the list. Look at the seconds on your phone’s clock. Count that many down the list, and start again from the top if you run out. It’s random enough, and it beats scrolling.
The deck above does the narrowing and the picking in one go.
Questions people ask
How do you decide what to watch when nobody can agree?
Stop looking together. Swipe on your own instead. Scrolling as a group turns into an argument over every thumbnail, and the loudest voice wins the night. In Bickr you each swipe the same short deck on your own phone. Nobody sees what anyone else said. The first title all of you kept is the one that goes on.
Is there an app that picks what to watch for a group?
Bickr does, for two to five people at once, free, on any phone. One of you starts a room. The rest join with a six character code. Then you all swipe the same twelve titles. If you get to the end with nothing agreed, it settles on whatever came closest, so the film still starts.
How do we stop scrolling and just start something?
Cut it down to something you can hold in your head, and agree on when to stop. Twelve cards, one at a time, and the first thing you agree on ends it. Tell Bickr which services you have and how long you’ve got. Then nothing turns up that you’d have to rent, or that you can’t finish tonight.