| What it does | Movie and TV tracker app for discovering what to watch and where it's streaming
| Control your smart TV with your smartphone or tablet instead of using a physical remote
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| Stage | Startup
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| Founded | 2025
| 2010
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| Based in | US
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| Pricing model | Freemium
| Freemium
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| Pricing | Free to download. Limelight+ is $4.99 a month, or $24.99 a year with a 7-day free trial.
| Free with optional one-time premium upgrade for ad removal and extra features
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| Key features | - Search movies and TV shows by title, actor, or director
- See streaming availability and pricing in your country
- Watchlist, Seen List, and Rated List with cross-device sync
- Ratings from Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb, Metacritic, and TMDB
- Personalized Just For You recommendations feed
- Release notifications for theaters and streaming services with Limelight+
- SceneSnap AI scene recognition to identify movies from video clips
- Streaming Top 10 charts for 107 countries
- Book adaptation discovery
- Custom lists with pinning and hiding
| - Control multiple TV brands including Roku, Fire TV, Samsung, LG, Android TV and VIZIO
- Change channels, adjust volume and navigate menus
- Search for content using phone keyboard
- Control multiple devices from a single app
- Works on iOS, Android, Huawei and Amazon devices
- Access channel guides and app shortcuts
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| What makes it different | - All-in-one app combining search, streaming availability, tracking, ratings, and recommendations without ads
- SceneSnap AI scene recognition feature not available in competitors
- Privacy-focused with no ads and no data tracking or selling
- Native Swift and SwiftUI app built for Apple devices
- Truly independent developer with no company behind it
| - No subscriptions required - one-time payment for premium features instead of recurring fees
- Works with TV models from 2013 onwards and many older models
- Backup solution when original remote breaks or gets lost
- Built by experienced developers in Germany since 2010
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| Free plan | Not given
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| Open source | Not given
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| Platforms | Not given
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| Public API | Not given
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| Community votes | 0 | 0 |
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| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 36 ● no change since last check | 28 ● no change since last check |
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| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 18 | 8 |
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| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 28 | 19 |
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| Referring domains (Majestic) | 95 | 24 |
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