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Put it on your home screen

Someone mentions a film over coffee. Two taps and it is on your list before you have finished the conversation.

Why bother

The moment you hear about something is the moment you will remember it. An hour later you have the title wrong, or you have forgotten who recommended it, which turns out to be the part that mattered.

From the home screen it opens like an app. No address bar, no typing the URL, no hunting through browser tabs. Tap the icon, tap Add a title, type the name, done.

Write the reason in while you are there. "Priya would not shut up about it" is worth more in six months than the title on its own.

iPhone and iPad

Works from the Share menu in Safari, Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Every browser on iPhone runs Apple's engine underneath, so they all behave the same here. Safari is the one to use if you ever want notifications, which Apple only allows for apps installed from it.

  1. 1Open watchlistboosted.com in Safari
  2. 2Tap the Share button, the square with an arrow pointing up, at the bottom of the screen
  3. 3Scroll down the list and tap Add to Home Screen
  4. 4Tap Add in the top right

Android

Works in Chrome, Edge, Samsung Internet and Firefox.

  1. 1Open watchlistboosted.com in Chrome
  2. 2Tap the ⋮ menu in the top right
  3. 3Tap Add to Home screen, or Install app if you see that instead
  4. 4Confirm with Add

Chrome sometimes offers this by itself with a banner at the bottom of the screen. That does the same thing.

Then what

On iPhone, sign in once inside the app. Apple gives a home screen app its own separate storage, so being logged in to the site in Safari does not carry across. It is a one off, and you stay signed in afterwards.

Everything syncs to the same account, so a title added on your phone at lunch is on your laptop that evening.

It is the same website, not a separate app. Nothing to update, and nothing from an app store.