Keyboard first
Shortcuts for search, lists, and sorting, plus arrow keys through every grid.
Limelight for Mac
The movie and TV tracker that runs natively on your Mac
Not a website in a window. Limelight on Mac has a menu bar, keyboard shortcuts, and a big screen for Top 10s and posters, with the library you built on iPhone.
Native app
A real Mac app, from the Mac App Store
Menu bar, keyboard shortcuts, resizable windows, and macOS notifications. It installs from the Mac App Store and updates alongside the rest of your apps.
Top 10s
Every chart on one screen
Netflix, Apple TV, Prime Video, and more, ranked for your country, with room to see ten posters at once instead of one at a time.
Detail pages
The full record without scrolling
Ratings from IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and TMDB, where it streams, the trailer, the cast, and the book it's based on, laid out across the width of your display.
QuickSort
Sort your history at your desk
QuickSort on the Mac works with the keyboard and the trackpad: mark titles seen or not seen in seconds, undo when you change your mind, and watch your recommendations improve.
Everything else that comes with it
Watchlist grid
Your whole watchlist as posters, filtered by movie or TV show.
People pages
Biography, age, and full filmography for any actor or director.
Notifications
macOS notifications for new episodes, theater openings, and streaming arrivals.
Light and dark
Follows your Mac's appearance, or pick one in Settings.
Sync
Save on the Mac and it's on your iPhone before you leave the desk.
Try Limelight in a browser first
Three of Limelight's tools run on this website, so you can see how it picks before you install anything on your Mac. The What to watch quiz turns six questions into three picks with streaming logos attached. The random movie picker hands you one title at a time when you would rather stop deciding. The binge calculator works out how many evenings a series will actually take.
When you are ready, the download page has the App Store links for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and the release notes list what shipped in every update.
Questions about Limelight on Mac
Yes. Limelight runs natively on the Mac and installs from the Mac App Store. It has a menu bar, keyboard shortcuts, resizable windows, and macOS notifications, and it uses the same library as your iPhone and iPad.
No. Limelight is built for the Mac, with a sidebar, menu bar commands, keyboard shortcuts, and layouts that use the width of a Mac display. It is the same app and the same account as on iPhone and iPad.
No. Limelight is a native app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. This website has the What to watch quiz and the random movie picker, and every title has a public page with where to stream it, but your library lives in the app.
Yes. Your Watchlist, Seen List, Rated List, and custom lists are stored in your free account from The Movie Database (TMDB), so anything you save on the Mac is on your iPhone right away, and the other way round.
Yes. The download is free. Search, streaming availability, Watchlist, Seen List, star ratings, release notifications, trailers, cast profiles, recommendations, and sharing are all free, and there are no ads in any tier. Limelight+ adds SceneSnap, QuickSort, streaming Top 10 charts, multi-source ratings, unlimited custom lists, pinned items, and hiding titles, for $2.99 a month or $24.99 a year. One Limelight+ subscription covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Limelight is on the Mac App Store, and the listing shows the current macOS requirement. It is designed for the current version of macOS.
Get Limelight on your Mac
Free on the Mac App Store, privacy focused with no ads. The library from your iPhone is waiting when you sign in.
