Herae
You count down 3… 2… 1
— and you’re still out of sync.
Herae keeps films and shows in perfect sync on almost any site — not just the big three — with video, voice and chat built in, so their face is beside the film instead of a phone propped against a lamp. Then it saves the moments you both reacted to, so a year from now you still have the night.
Free, about a minute to set up. You’ll need them around for the first go, though.
Sharing a film is watching a slideshow of your partner’s internet connection. It sends a squashed copy of your screen, eats battery and bandwidth, and you both end up watching the worse version of it.
They keep a list of services they support, and the site you actually use is usually not on it. If you’ve installed one before and it just sat there doing nothing, that is why.
Herae does neither. It never moves the video — only the timing travels.
Herae doesn’t keep a list of supported sites. It works from the video player itself — the big streaming services, the small ones with a name a friend had to send you, and video tucked inside embedded players. If it plays in your browser, Herae can keep it in step.
Herae never hosts, provides or streams any video. It only keeps the player you already have open in step with theirs.
The part people didn’t expect to care about
You’ll remember the face they made at the bit that got them — and with Herae you’ll still have it. While you watch, it quietly notices the moments you actually react to: the laugh, the gasp, the second you both turn to the camera at once. At the end of the night it offers them to you, and you decide what to keep.
You cannot go back and make last year’s Tuesday again.
Keep a moment, write the review together, name the evening. A year of them is a record of your relationship that could not have been made any other way.
Free, and no card. Both of you need it — it takes two, and that is the honest reason most people put it off.
Whatever you were going to watch anyway, on whatever site you watch it on.
One of you plays, pauses or skips — both of you get it. No counting down.
Sending it to them is the hard part. Here, use this:
found a thing that syncs whatever we're watching so we can stop counting down — and it saves the bits we laugh at. want to try it tonight? herae.app
On almost any site, including video inside embedded players. Play, pause and skip land on both screens.
Their face beside the film while you watch, peer-to-peer between the two of you.
For the things you would have whispered if you were on the same sofa.
The reactions worth keeping, found while you watch and offered at the end of the night.
It is a desktop Chrome extension. If you two mostly watch on phones in bed, this genuinely is not for you yet.
Both of you install it. That is the honest reason most people put it off, and there is no version of this that works from one side.
Face detection runs inside your own browser. No video or image is ever sent anywhere, no record of your face is kept, and nothing leaves your computer until you choose to keep a moment. One switch turns it off entirely, and off means the model is unloaded — no camera, no CPU, no memory.
Herae is an app that lets you watch anything together, in perfect sync, on almost any website — with voice, video, and chat built right in. It's made for long-distance couples, friends, and family who want a real night in from anywhere.
Screen sharing streams a laggy, blurry copy of your screen and drains your battery. Herae keeps everyone on their own crisp, full-quality video and just syncs the play, pause, and skip — so it looks perfect for everyone at once, and you can actually talk over it.
Almost any. Unlike watch-party tools locked to one or two streaming services, Herae syncs video across nearly any site — including embeds most other tools can't reach. Wherever the video already is, Herae works there.
Yes — Herae is free to start. Add it to Chrome, create an account in seconds, and start watching together.
Herae Moments is your shared, private timeline. After every session you can capture photos, save reaction videos, review what you watched, name the night, and like or comment on it later — so your movie nights add up into a scrapbook of your relationship you can relive any time, for years.
Just Chrome on a computer, and someone to watch with. Add the free extension, sign in, and open the same page together — that's it.
Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Disney+, Hulu, Max, YouTube, Crunchyroll, Vimeo — and almost any other site that plays video in a browser. Herae syncs the video itself rather than integrating with each service one at a time, which is why it also works on small, self-hosted and independent sites that other watch-party tools simply don't support.
Yes — including cross-origin embeds and players nested several levels deep. This is where most watch-party extensions give up: they support a fixed list of services and fail the moment the player is embedded somewhere unexpected.
You stay together. Ad breaks are the single most common reason watch parties drift apart — one person's ads finish before the other's and you spend the next scene out of step. Herae accounts for pre-roll and mid-roll interruptions and brings you both back to the same frame.
Teleparty supports a fixed list of major services and has text chat only. Herae syncs the video element directly — so it works on almost any site, inside iframes, and through ads — and has video and voice built in. And Herae keeps what happened: every night becomes part of a private shared archive. No other watch-party tool does that.
Nothing leaves your computer. The face detection runs entirely inside your own browser — no video, no images, and nothing derived from them is ever sent to a server for analysis. It looks for the shape of a reaction, not for who you are, and it keeps no record of your face. The only thing that is ever saved is a moment you can see, delete or turn off completely.
Only the two of you, unless you decide otherwise. Every moment is private by default. If you choose to share one, it gets a link with a preview — and if you later make it private again, that link stops working.
Watch anything together tonight — and keep every memory forever. It's free, and it takes less than a minute to set up.