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Sync video playback with friends in real-time. Works on any video site, with shared controls and built-in chat. Press play once. Everyone stays in step. Watch Together syncs video playback across devices anywhere in the world. Start a room, share the code, and everyone is watching the same frame at the same moment, with everyone in control. Most sync tools manage that much. What actually breaks a watch party is everything around it, and that is what this version is about. AD BREAKS DO NOT SCATTER EVERYONE When an advert takes over one person's screen, the film carries on for the rest and they rejoin exactly where the room is. When a mid-roll catches everybody at once, the room clock holds instead of running on in the dark, so nobody is thrown minutes forward when the break ends. IT WAITS FOR SLOW CONNECTIONS Switch it on and the room pauses for anyone still buffering, then resumes together. It gives up after a minute, so one bad connection cannot hold the room hostage. YOU CAN SEE WHO IS WHERE A live member list shows each person as watching, in an advert, or buffering. No more guessing why somebody has gone quiet. IT SURVIVES THE ROOM CHANGING UNDER IT Switch from YouTube to Netflix, start the next episode, move between normal, theatre and fullscreen. The room follows, without anybody sending a new link. ROOMS THAT DO NOT DIE MID-FILM Rooms are held on a hibernating edge backend with automatic failover to a second one. Long quiet stretches no longer drop the room. WHERE IT WORKS Ready to go on 5 streaming sites. For anything else, open the video, click the icon, and press Enable on this site. Your browser asks you to confirm, and it works there from then on. Access is granted per site, by you, rather than the extension asking for every site you visit at install. HOW IT WORKS 1. Install on Chrome, Edge, Brave or Firefox 2. Open a video and click the icon 3. Create a room and share the six character code or the link 4. Everyone joins 5. Play, pause or seek, and it syncs for the whole room KEY FEATURES - Real time playback sync across everyone in the room - Shared control, so anyone can play, pause or seek - Advert handling that keeps the room together through breaks - Wait for slow connections, so nobody gets left behind - Live presence showing who is watching, in an advert, or buffering - Start a Zoom or Google Meet call from the panel, with the link shared to the room and the video ducked so the two do not fight - Built in chat while you watch - Simple six character room codes and shareable links - Automatic drift correction, plus a per person offset for anyone consistently ahead or behind - Clean dark interface that stays out of the way, and follows you into fullscreen - No account required, just pick a name and start GREAT FOR - Long distance movie nights - Watching shows with friends in different cities - Study groups and co-learning sessions - Family watch parties when you are apart - Premieres and live events PRIVACY - No account, no sign in, no tracking - Nothing you watch is recorded. Only the position of the playhead crosses the network - Only the one tab you attach a room to is ever reported. Every other tab is not - Chat and room data are relayed, never stored, and gone when the room empties - No microphone permission is requested - Open source Free, with no paid tier. Site: https://watch.arnavgoel.dev Support: https://watch.arnavgoel.dev/support