Local use and optional accounts
You can use WatchWatch without an account. In that mode, your queue and sender details stay on your device except when you deliberately create a public recommendation card or make a title search request.
If you create an account, WatchWatch stores your email address, username and display name, saved titles and queue state, sender attribution, notes, reactions, and notification registration so it can back up your queue, sync it across devices, and close recommendation loops. Your account profile and notification token are private to your account.
Contacts and title search
If you choose someone with the Contacts picker while signed in, WatchWatch syncs only that selected contact's display name and Contacts identifier so the same sender can be recognized on your devices. WatchWatch does not upload your address book or that contact's phone number or email address.
Text you enter in title search is sent to TMDB to return matching results. WatchWatch does not store search text in its database or include it in product analytics.
Product analytics
Product analytics are off by default. The app creates a random installation identifier and local first-use date so that, if you later opt in, aggregate funnel and retention measurements begin from your actual first use. Creating those local values does not record, queue, or upload an analytics event.
After you opt in, analytics events use that random installation identifier. Workflow identifiers are replaced on your device with installation-secret pseudonyms before upload. Events never include your Apple ID, WatchWatch account ID, email address, titles, people, contacts, notes, search text, or message recipients. WatchWatch does not use analytics for advertising, tracking, or sale to data brokers.
You can turn analytics off again at any time in Account. Turning it off stops future collection and deletes the pending on-device analytics batch. Events already received by WatchWatch are automatically deleted within 90 days. A reinstall or second device is measured as a separate installation.
Public recommendation cards
WatchWatch never sends a message on your behalf. When you tap Recommend onward, WatchWatch creates a link before presenting the system share sheet. The card contains the title, year, artwork and availability, plus the public sender name or initials, reaction, and note you chose. Anyone with a card link can view that information until the card is revoked or expires, even if you dismiss the share sheet without sending it.
Anonymous cards expire after 7 days. Cards created from an account expire after 90 days by default and never later than 180 days. Deleting an account revokes its account-owned cards.
Your choices
You can use the local queue without an account, sign out at any time, disable analytics, or permanently delete your account and synced data from Account in the app. Pseudonymous analytics already received remain only until their 90-day deletion deadline. An anonymous card created before sign-in is not tied to the later account and remains available until its 7-day expiry.
Contact
Questions: support@watchwatch.tv
Last updated July 14, 2026.