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- One of the Most Accessible Ways to Share Movies: TeleParty
- Share Star Wars, Muppets, and More With Friends: Disney+ GroupWatch
- Amazon Members Have More Fun: Prime Video Watch Party
- A Movie and a Chat Brings Friends Closer Together: Hulu Watch Party
- Gather Everyone Through a Favorite Social Media Site: Facebook Watch
- Watch Movies From Several Services With Your Friends: Scener
- Watch Videos With Friends Across the World: TwoSeven
- Watch Streaming Media With Friends: Metastream
- Watch Parties Made Easy: Kast
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It isn't always possible to get a group of friends together in the same place, and if you like sharing your movie time with friends, that makes it lonely to watch alone. But you can host a watch party and watch movies with friends online. These services make it easy.
TeleParty (formerly Netflix Party) is the feature that started it all. Using Netflix in a browser, or on Chrome, Roku, or Apple TV, you can connect with up to 50 of your friends from anywhere Netflix is available. And now with TeleParty, you can do the same with most other currently available popular streaming services like Max (formerly HBO Max) and Disney Plus. However, you and everyone who joins your party will have to install a Chrome or Edge extension to use TeleParty.
Once it's installed, choose a movie, select TeleParty, tweak some features, and start sharing an invitation. Then, start watching your faves with your friends, and chat about it right from the screen you're using.
Did you know that Disney+ has its own built-in stream sharing feature? GroupWatch is available for every single movie and show in the Disney+ library. Just select the GroupWatch icon on the details page of whatever you want to watch, then from the GroupWatch room select (+) Invite to get a shareable link. After that, copy and share the link with friends and family.
You can only have a maximum of seven people sharing a given stream, and international sharing isn't allowed. Additionally, unlike most other watch parties, there's no option for text chat—participants are only able to select emoji reactions while watching.
Taking a clue from Netflix, Amazon Prime released its own version of watch party features—but Amazon Prime Video Watch Party allows you to connect with up to 100 of your friends, and you have access to all the movies and TV shows available through Amazon Prime.
Unfortunately, you cannot stream rental or new release titles or premium channels, but there's plenty to choose from in Prime. To start an Amazon Prime Video Watch Party, find the video you want to watch with the Watch Party icon. Select the icon, invite friends, and start watching and chatting with your friends.
Hulu is one of the top streaming services available, and Hulu subscribers who pay for the Hulu (No Ads) plan or the Hulu (No Ads) + Live TV plan have access to this (apparently beta) feature of the streaming service. Users can host a Hulu Watch Party that allows them to choose from movies with the Watch Party icon.
Up to 8 people can join a Hulu Watch Party, including multiple users on the same account, and playback is synced for all 8 people. There's also an option to chat as a group while the watch party is in progress.
Facebook Watch isn't your typical Watch Party software or application. Instead, it's a feature on Facebook that lets you watch movies from Facebook that users have uploaded and from other sources. You can watch with friends, too, using the Watch Party feature of Facebook Watch.
The service includes user-generated videos, it can be used on mobile devices, and it's Facebook-simple to use. However, users are limited in the content they can share with others, and they cannot watch content from outside services. Still, if there are Facebook videos you and your friends enjoy, this is a decent solution.
Scener is a Chrome browser extension that you can add to create and share watch parties with up to 50 of your friends. The service works with Netflix, Max, Vimeo, Prime Video, Hulu, Funimation, and Disney+.
The crown jewel of the Scener product, however, is the ability to voice, video, and text chat alongside whatever movie or show you choose to watch. Nothing can replace a real theater, but Scener comes in a close second, which is probably why the company bills itself as the Virtual Movie Theater.
TwoSeven is a free watch party app that automatically syncs everyone's videos and has no participant limits. Any number of people can join, and many different services are supported—from YouTube to Netflix, and more. And if you want, you can connect a webcam to share video of your own live reactions while you all watch.
There are some drawbacks, however. While TwoSeven's free tier does support a lot of services, you'll have to become a Patreon subscriber to use it with Hulu or Disney Plus. You'll also need to sign up with Patreon to use Screen Share. And unless you're using Screen Share, everyone in the watch party will need to have their own access to whatever you're watching. So if you want to watch something on Netflix, everybody needs to have their own Netflix subscription.
If you're watching something on Disney Plus or Hulu, all participants will need to have a Patreon subscription to TwoSeven. You can share downloaded videos without these restrictions, so if you own any digital copies of a movie or TV show, there is a workaround to watching with friends.
Once you create a TwoSeven account you can share the Watch Now URL with as many people as you want to get started.
Metastream is a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome that allows you to set up watch parties for virtually any video with a URL. Once you get things set up, start a session and share your friend code to invite anyone.
Text chat is supported, and if the linked videos use timestamps those are also included. What's more, you can set up a queue of multiple videos that will automatically play when each video finishes. Meaning you won't have to find something else to watch after the current show ends.
Kast is a solid option in situations where not everybody has access to the same streaming services. A free account allows anyone to create or join a watch party to stream content from YouTube or Tubi, and supports up to 100 simultaneous watchers. But a premium account can also share anything in Kast's video library, or use Screen Share, with no watch restrictions placed on free accounts.
The downside to this is watch parties hosted by free accounts will encounter ads, and what's available to share is somewhat limited. While premium accounts do have more sharing options, streaming services like Netflix and Disney Plus aren't directly supported.
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- Go Old School. Before all the gadgets and apps there was the old school way for long distance friends to watch movies together online, which usually included Skype and their laptops.
- Kast. Kast allows groups to watch movies and television together and chat or video call as they watch. The service is free to use when watching content from Tubi and Youtube.
- Rave. Rave is one of the only streaming platforms on the market that allows you and a group of friends to sync your streaming services and watch together.
- Teleparty. Teleparty, formerly Netflix Party, is one of the most popular video synchronization services due to its easy set up and the fact that it is free!
open kast. Kast is a live streaming hangout for friends that want to watch together. Share videos, movies, live content, and games with friends in your own watch party.
With Watch2Gether you can watch Youtube videos together. Other services such as Vimeo, Netflix, Amazon, Disney & Co are also supported. Create a room, share the link and you're good to go. All videos run synchronously and you can talk via the built-in chat. Have fun with Watch2Gether!
Scener is a free service that enables you to watch shows. and movies socially from any major streaming platform in perfect sync. Learn more. Watch shows and movies synced together and hang out over video chat.
Jul 4, 2023 · 1. Teleparty. Originally known as Netflix Party, Teleparty allows you to load a movie on Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, or YouTube and create a party link to share with your friends. When they join, Teleparty syncs the movie for everyone and lets you chat with each other in the sidebar.
