How the Home chooses

Last updated 9 October 2026 · Ler em português

The Home shows what is on your services and puts first what you are most likely to want to watch. This explains each part of it, what counts when it chooses, how much and for how long, and how to say no.

What is in each part

• Tonight's pick. It comes from a short list of titles our team picks. Of those, the ones on your services that you have not watched, rated, liked, saved, made a favourite, picked at sign-up or turned down stay in, and the Home orders them for you; a team title that is already in your Top 10 comes after the others. One title leads all day, until you reload the page or until it leaves your suggestions, for example when you save, rate or turn it down. The arrows, or a swipe on a phone, show up to two more. So that the same title does not always lead, a title that has led on two days in the last two weeks gives way to another, when there is another. A title rated 18 never becomes Tonight's pick; in the rows it shows like any other. When none of the team's titles is left for you, the Home picks a title from your own rows.
• For you. The best of your services for you. At first, how well rated a title is counts most; the more you tell us, the more your taste counts, up to a limit, so that the row never becomes a mirror. In the first places the Home mixes genres, brings both films and series when your services have both, and does not repeat a franchise. Titles for small children only come into this row, and among the team's titles for Tonight's pick, if you like one of them. While the Home knows nothing of your taste, this row shows the best rated on your services.
• This week's top 10. The titles most opened in the app in the seven days before today, by everyone who uses it, our team included, except the accounts our team uses only for testing. First comes how many people opened each title, then how many times, and on a tie the more relevant one goes first. Only titles on your services come in, and only what you turned down is left out of it; when there are not enough, the Home fills it with the most relevant titles on your services. Only days that are over count, so today's opens come in tomorrow. Nobody sees who opened what: we only count how many people opened each title and how many times. It is the same for everyone with the same services in the same region.
• The Review Game. Cards of titles on your services that you have not rated, liked, marked as watched or answered yet: mostly titles that many people know and rate well, tilted a little towards your taste. One card in ten is drawn at random from the most relevant titles on your services, so that the game does not only repeat what you already like. A card you skipped can come back after 30 days.
• “Because you...” rows. Titles like one that counts in favour of your taste: one you rated well, liked, saved, picked at sign-up, made a favourite, watched, went to watch or opened, or one you track. The starting title changes every day and on every reload, and one you have just rated four stars or more, liked or saved can come first moments later. Two titles are alike when TMDB links one to the other, when they share a director, a creator or lead actors, and a little for the genres they share.
• New on your services. What arrived on your services in the last 30 days, and the new seasons that came out in that time, of series you rated two and a half stars or more, liked, saved or track. Until we have recorded 30 days of arrivals, this row shows the releases of the last 90 days.
• New releases. What came out in the last 90 days and is on your services.
• Rows from our team. Titles our team picks one by one, and lists it publishes. Some only show to some people, for example to those who pay for a given service or searched for a given word. When one of them has at least six titles on your services, only those show.
• Stream Universe lists. A row of cards with our team's main lists, such as the top 250 films, the top 100 series and every Best Picture Oscar winner. Each card opens the list's page. It is the same for everyone; with Films or Series, only the lists of that kind stay.
• Lists for you. Up to three rows, each with one of our team's lists that fits your taste. A list fits when what you rated well, liked, saved or picked leans towards its theme much more than the catalogue does, for example horror, the 1980s or Brazilian cinema, or when a title that counts in favour of your taste is on it. We keep the six that fit best, and they take turns every day and on every reload. Each row carries the list's name and shows up to 20 of its titles that are on your services, in the list's order, without what you have already watched, rated, liked, saved, made a favourite, picked at sign-up or turned down, and each poster shows its place on the list, or the year of its award. A list only shows with at least six titles like that. With “Personalise the Home” off, or when few lists fit, the main lists come in instead.
• Genres for you. Up to three rows, each with one of Search's genres that your taste leans towards: a genre comes in when, of what you rate well, like, save and open, a much larger part than the catalogue's is in it, in at least two titles. We keep the five that fit best, and they take turns every day and on every reload; with “Personalise the Home” off, or when few fit, broad genres such as comedy, action and drama come in instead. Each row shows up to 20 titles of the genre on your services, the most relevant first, without what you have already watched, rated, liked, saved, made a favourite, picked at sign-up or turned down, and its name opens the genre's page in Search.
• Trending now. What is popular on your services, according to TMDB and, when many people act on a title, to what members do in the app: up to 20 titles, without what you turned down.
• Genres. A row of Search's twenty genres, each with its own drawing, and each card opens the genre's page in Search. The genres your taste leans towards come first, and the others in Search's order. With Films or Series, the row stays the same.
• Theme rows. Rows our team makes around a theme, such as awards, critics, decades or countries, the same for everyone: up to 20 titles of the theme that are on your services, the most relevant first (or the best rated, when the theme is what audiences rate), without what you have already watched, rated, liked, saved, made a favourite, picked at sign-up or turned down. A row only shows with at least six titles like that, and is never about one service.
• Your Watchlist. The titles you saved, up to the row's size, usually 20, taken from the 100 most recent: first the ones on your services, then the others, each part newest first. It sits at the end of the Home, or just before one of the fixed parts our team puts after it, and moves up to just under the Review Game when you saved something in the last two weeks and it has at least three titles on your services. The whole list is in Playlists.

The order of the fixed parts, such as For you, the Top 10, the Review Game, the rows of lists and of genres, Trending now, the genres and the theme rows, is our team's, and a row the team has pinned keeps its place. Of the other rows, the Home shows every one that has titles for you, first the ones closest to your taste, with the most weight from our team and the fewest titles already shown higher up: the first two just under the game, or under your Watchlist when it moves up, and the others one after each fixed part. In the rows, outside your Watchlist and the lists for you, a title shows only once on each Home, and the lists for you do not repeat titles among themselves. Tonight's pick and the Review Game cards can repeat a title from the rows.

Everything is on your services

What the Home suggests is on the services you ticked, counting what they offer free or with ads: Tonight's pick, For you, the Top 10, the Review Game, the “Because you...” rows, the lists and the genres for you, Trending now, the theme rows, what is new and the new releases. Only your Watchlist, which shows what you saved wherever it is, and a team row with few titles on your services can bring titles from elsewhere.

What counts, and for how long

• Counts most, and never fades: a title among your favourites, and a rating of four stars or more.
• Counts well, and never fades either: a heart, the titles you picked at sign-up, and a rating of three and a half stars.
• Counts well, and fades: saving to your Watchlist, swiping a Review Game card to your Watchlist, tracking a title, and leaving the app to watch on a service. After about four months they count half as much, and never less than a third.
• Counts a little: marking a title as watched without a rating, in your diary, with “I have seen it” or in the Review Game, and opening a title's page. Each title counts at most three days of opening, and after a month each of those days counts half as much.
• Counts for nothing: a rating of two and a half or three stars, which says you watched it without passion; skipping a Review Game card; and your searches, which only let our team show a row to people who searched for a given word.
• Pushes down: a rating of two stars or less and an “I did not like it” in the Review Game move similar titles down. Taking a title off your Watchlist moves down a little, and less and less over time, the titles like it that are also like something you love, unless it goes back on the list. “Not interested” pushes hardest: that title is never suggested again, and the ones like it move down.

A title you have already watched, rated, liked, saved, made a favourite, picked at sign-up or turned down does not come back as a suggestion. The Top 10, Trending now and the team's rows only leave out what you turned down with “Not interested” or with an “I did not like it” in the Review Game, and your Watchlist shows what you saved.

What has just arrived on your services gets a push that wears off over a month. And when the Home shows a title in the first places of a row, or of Tonight's pick, and you see it without doing anything with it that day, it moves down a little, from the next day and for two weeks, for each day that happens; after four days like that in two weeks, it leaves your suggestions for two weeks.

For your taste, opening titles, leaving the app to watch, taking titles off your Watchlist and what the Home showed only start to count on 20 October 2026, when the Home's new records start: what you opened before then does not count. Everything else counts already.

Every reload brings a new arrangement

As long as you do nothing new, the day's Home is the same every time you come back to it, unless the catalogue is refreshed, which usually happens once a day, or our team changes the picks or the rows. This week's top 10 can also change during the day when someone deletes a title they opened from their history, clears their history or closes their account: what they delete leaves the count at once. A rating, a saved title or a refusal already changes the next visit. When you reload the page, or pull down to refresh, it brings a new arrangement for the same day, wherever there is something to swap: another title leading Tonight's pick, another opening to For you, with a few titles from further down, another “Because you...” row, another team row, other lists for you, new Review Game cards, and the new arrivals and releases lightly reshuffled. The Top 10 and your Watchlist do not change. Going back to the Home from the menu or with the back button keeps the arrangement you were looking at, and the next day everything starts afresh.

Why this?

Tonight's pick shows its reason on the card itself, and so does “Why this?” in its ⋯ menu. On a computer, that menu is also on every title in the rows, when you hover over it, reach it with the keyboard or right click it. Reasons say things like “Because you rated Bacurau 4.5 stars”, “On your service since 2 October”, “Oscar winner”, “Among this week's most opened”, “On the list Hidden gems” or “Picked by our team”.

How to say no

• On a title. In the ⋯ menu of Tonight's pick, or of a title on a computer: “I have seen it” takes the title out of the suggestions, and “Not interested” takes it out and moves the ones like it down. In your Watchlist the menu has neither of these, and in the Top 10 it has no “I have seen it”. Right after, the line at the foot of the screen has “Undo” for both. On a title's page, the ⋯ menu also has “Not interested”, and that is where it can be taken back later, with “Show it again”. An “I have seen it” can only be taken back later with “Clear what the Home learned”, which also deletes your other answers.
• Personalise the Home. In Settings, under Privacy. With it off, the Home stops ordering titles by your taste: For you shows the best rated on your services, the “Because you...” rows and new seasons of your series no longer appear, the lists for you give way to the main lists, and Tonight's pick follows our team's order. It only leaves out what you have already watched, rated, liked, saved, made a favourite, picked at sign-up or turned down: nothing moves down for being like something you turned down, or for having been shown without you taking an interest.
• Clear what the Home learned. In the same place. It deletes the titles you opened, what the Home showed you and how far you looked, the times you left the app to watch, the titles you took off your Watchlist, the cards the Review Game dealt, your answers on the Home, the “I did not like it” in the Review Game and the taste profile built from all of it. Your ratings, your lists, your favourites, the titles you track, your decisions in the Review Game and the titles you picked at sign-up stay, and the Home starts again from them.

What we store, why and for how long is in the privacy policy.

Who decides

People on our team pick the titles that can be Tonight's pick (when none of them is left for you, it comes from your rows), put together the team's rows and the theme rows, choose the lists the Home shows, name every row and write every reason. No machine writes the reasons. Our team's lists, such as the top 250 films, were built from public audience and critic ratings and from awards, by fixed formulas, with the help of an artificial intelligence assistant, and checked by our team. The order of the Home comes from sums worked out in our own systems with what this page describes.

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