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Reel Savings

2026.12.3

What’s New:

  • iPhone Duo ready!

  • See all your calendar events and booked tickets on the movie schedule screens. See where showtimes already overlap with stuff you have going on, making planning your movies easier.

  • Added support for free passes and vouchers. Add them by using the Membership Program dropdown.

Enhancements:

  • Large performance pass that should help with app responsiveness on large libraries or older devices.

  • Your favorite seat for the auditorium is now displayed in the menu when you tap on a showtime in the showtime browser views.

  • E-mail and AMC app share import now automatically toggle the no trailer toggle when no trailers are indicated by AMC.

  • Live Activity and Now Playing now display NO TRAILERS when a movie is marked as such.

  • Share from AMC now works on the Mac.

  • Improvements to Watchlist search that combines the full list and movies you bookmarked into an easier-to-read list.

  • iPhone and iPad now allow switching between the standard ticket row style and the compact view that was previously used on Mac and full-screen iPad view.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug that may make it seem like all your data had been lost until you forced closed and reopened the app. Typically occurs after an iOS update or phone restart.

  • Fixed an issue where a movie opened from a Live Activity may not show the poster.

  • Fixed a ticket email being called “already logged” at a different time. Booking 3:45 and 7:00 the same day no longer blocks the 7:00.

  • Fixed turning the phone closing a film’s open showtimes or resetting its scroll. Fixed folding back to one column and landing on a film you never opened.

  • Fixed refusing notifications on one device removing another device’s Tickets On Sale alerts.

  • On the Mac, See All on a poster strip now works as expected.

  • Watchlist runtimes now follow the user’s runtime format setting.

2026.12.2

  • Small fix to offer to add A-List charges when e-mails come in for A-List movies without a subscription charge for that period.

  • Fix to make AMC App share links more robust in the event AMC changes the format. Like they did, for the first time in 3 months, 3 hours after this update went live.

2026.12

What’s New:

  • On sale notifications (BETA) for large movie releases you have on your Watchlist.

  • Revamped Home Tab. All the data you love, but now you can also see your upcoming , watchlisted , and previously seen movies. Right on the Home Screen. You can also see Feat and Milestone progress, and swipe through each section’s charts and figures. Fully revamped and new charts everywhere. Now Playing now shows you more of the info you need to see before a movie and offers quick links to concessions, ratings, and tags. Hide what you don’t want to see, and reorder however you like.

  • Added support for Mystery Screenings. Log a movie as a Mystery Movie and enter what it was after the fact. Just tap the button under the trending movie list to get started.

  • Retired tag types. Mystery, Rerelease, and Early Access are now intelligently toggled (with the user being able to change them, of course). This should help keep stats more accurate. Your old tags are still there, and you are free to continue using them as well. People tags are now entered under the additional ticket section on the entry form.

  • Share function on the Watchlist tab to easily share which of each month’s releases you plan to see.

  • New flow during entry to help keep auditorium specs up to date.

AMC Only

  • E-Mail Imports (BETA) Forward your tickets straight to the app and have your tickets automatically added. Setup auto forwarding and it all happens automatically.

  • App will now prompt you to link your AMC theaters to actual AMC data. This will allow the app to pull showtimes, pre-fill tickets, and populate every screen in that theater on the Screens tab with the auditorium format and seating type. It will also automatically update as upgrades in the theater happen.

  • See showtimes at your theaters from the Screens or Watchlist tab. Tap one to log it to Reel Savings or link straight to that showtime on AMC’s website.

  • From the AMC app. Share a ticket with Reel Savings using the iOS share sheet. It will pre-fill a new entry with Time, Date, Theater, Format, Auditorium, and Ticket Price. All that is left to enter is your seat and if you purchased extra tickets.

  • The app will notify you when your theaters get an upgrade such as IMAX to IMAX with Laser, or a conversion of an auditorium to 4DX. It will also let you know if your standard auditoriums upgrade to Laser.

Enhancements:

  • The theater list in the entry form will now lead off with your default theater, then your last 3 used, then the rest of your theaters.

  • Live Activity is now more dynamic with different stages before, during, and after the movie. It will now also auto dismiss 10 minutes after a movie ends.

  • Added support to log which seats additional tickets belong to. These will be surfaced in multiple places, such as Live Activites.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug that caused a tap or click to watchlist an item to appear to not work when on the iPad or MacOS in table view mode.

  • Fixed an issue on the watchlist where a movie may show in the limited release section when it has a wide release date already set and your display mode is set to use wide release dates. Now movies will only show in the Limited Release section if they have no wide date.

2026.11.1

2026.11.1

  • Hot fix to correct iOS18 devices crashing on the Movies tab

2026.11

What's New:

  • All new Rewind tab, now with more stats and a new achievements section.

  • The Reel Savings widget is now available on the Mac.

Enhancements:

  • Rewatches are now worked out from your library. Logging the same film twice counts on its own, without needing a tag. Manual override available for rewatches of unlogged movies.

  • The Movie Details page now shows other showings you've logged for the same film.

  • Ticket entry can mark a showing as having no trailers. Every place that works out when a film ends, including Live Activities, respects it.

  • The Add form now suggests tags it can infer from the showing, and will suggest new tags you might want to create.

  • Every view on iPad now has a phone-sized layout, so shrinking the window no longer ejects you from what you were looking at.

  • Improved responsiveness of MacOS version.

  • Tapping the poster on a entries detail screen brings up the art picker.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed Movies and the Watchlist juddering on iPad when scrolling back to the top.

  • Fixed "What I Spend" overstating companion-ticket spend when a membership program or points had already covered it.

  • Fixed a showtime deleted on one device sometimes reappearing on a Mac left open and idle, until the Mac was reopened.

  • Fixed two windows on iPad staying locked to the same tab, occasionally splitting a single action (a Siri search, a tap from Home) between them so neither completed.

  • Fixed a backup/restore bug that silently reset a theater's premium-format price upcharges to zero.

  • Fixed a bug where editing a film that used a custom membership program can cause its saved value to reset to the full price of the ticket.

2026.10

What's New:

  • New watchlist. Browse the upcoming theatrical slate, bookmark the films you want to see, and see at a glance which ones you have already booked tickets for.

  • You can now use your own image as a movie's poster. Previously this was only possible for movies entered in manual mode.

  • All new Mac app. Rebuilt as a native Mac app so it looks and behaves like a first-class Mac app.

  • Several refreshed views for iOS and iPadOS.

Enhancements:

  • Calendars can now be kept on any account available to the device: iCloud, Google, Outlook, and more.

  • Movie rows on the Movies tab now use the film's own backdrop art by default. You can switch back to poster colors, or turn row backgrounds off, in Settings > Appearance > Row Backgrounds. If you had already turned them off, they stay off.

  • Refreshed the look of the Movie Details and ticket entry screens. Both now lead with the film's backdrop art. You can adjust backdrop art the same way you can currently adjust posters.

  • When a movie's details are refreshed, automatically or manually, every entry for that movie is updated at once, so your other tickets are no longer left showing stale information.

  • Credit scene icons can now be hidden from your upcoming movie list, while still being visible elsewhere.

  • New per-theater field (will be automatically filled in when it can be inferred from the name) for number of auditoriums, feeding a tile on the new Screens view.

  • When Screens is set to Format mode, it now lists film stock formats under the standard premium formats.

  • Several features built for the Mac app made their way to the iPad as well, such as full menu bar support.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed Bulk Import Instructions, under Settings > Data Management, opening to a blank screen and then closing back to Home.

  • Fixed opening a movie from a "Movies Using This..." list doing the same thing. These lists appear when something you are deleting, such as a theater, still has movies assigned to it.

  • Fixed some settings not saving when creating a new auditorium. They applied correctly if you edited the auditorium afterwards.

  • Deleting an auditorium from its edit sheet now returns you to the theater's auditorium list instead of the auditorium you just deleted.

  • Fixed lag experienced on data entry for some users.

2026.9

What's New:

  • Mid and post credit scene support. Now Playing, Live Activities, and Upcoming movies now show a badge indicating whether a movie has a mid credits scene, a post credits scene, or both. It also shows when a movie is confirmed to have none, or when it is still unknown.

  • Ability to duplicate a movie. Inspired by me buying way too many 70mm IMAX Odyssey tickets.

  • Long press a movie, auditorium, or theater row to pull up a context menu with several actions, including the duplicate option above.

Enhancements:

  • Support emails can now include an optional snapshot of your current settings and permissions, which makes diagnosing issues much quicker.

  • Restore now checks whether your local data is current with iCloud before proceeding. If there is a mismatch you will be warned and given suggestions on how to proceed. This helps minimize duplicated data.

  • New analog film format selector in the auditorium editor, for a cleaner experience.

  • When you select an analog film format for a movie, the audio selector is removed and the entry is saved as standard audio. This avoids entries like 70mm/Atmos. Even in an Atmos or other premium audio auditorium, analog film plays in standard audio. The app corrects previous entries on first launch.

  • When creating a theater, the chain no longer defaults to Other. If the name does not tell us the chain, you will be asked to pick one.

  • Auditoriums can now be assigned a custom aspect ratio, or derive one from height and width measurements, for screens that do not match a standard shape.

  • When linking a theater to a physical location, some specialty venues (a theater inside a museum, for example) would not appear, because the search only returned places tagged as movie theaters. A new toggle lets you search more broadly.

  • Renamed LED projection to Onyx LED.

  • An auditorium with no history but some upcoming movies now opens with its Upcoming list already expanded.

  • Movie rows now offer the same set of actions everywhere they appear, and most are available before the showtime rather than only after.

  • You can now delete a theater from the Screens tab or from the theater editor.

  • Cleaned up the Now Playing settings. The app's own switches could disagree with the system's, which was confusing. Live Activities are now controlled entirely in iOS Settings.

Bug Fixes:

  • Restoring a backup now updates your widgets, Live Activities, calendar, and Spotlight results right away, instead of waiting until you next edit a movie.

  • Restoring a backup now keeps your Manage Formats choices. Formats you had switched off could come back on.

  • Start Before Showtime now syncs between your devices. Setting it on one device left the others unchanged, with nothing on screen to say they disagreed.

  • Live Activities no longer switch themselves off after restoring a backup or moving to a new device.

  • The empty state text on a screen with no history no longer sits on top of the Upcoming rows.

  • Some work, such as syncing settings or creating and updating calendar events, could be delayed if the app was backgrounded right after a change. These now finish before the app suspends.

  • On the movie detail sheet, a long list of format specs could get cut off. It now wraps to multiple lines as needed.

  • Info bubbles now open above or below, whichever has room for the full contents. Previously they could cut off information when space was tight.

  • Fixed an issue with Live Activities on Apple Watch where the auditorium or seat could span over two lines.

2026.8.2

Hot Fix: Fixed an issue where attempting to link a location to a theater in the creation process to fail.

2026.8.1

Hot Fix: Fixed an issue where if your default theater was AMC and you use A-List the app would alert you to the need to clear the waived fee before allowing you to change the theater to one that belonged to another chain. This restores behavior that auto-clears that field when swapping chains without user intervention.

2026.8

What's New:

  • Live Activities: Off by default. Can be enabled in the Now Playing menu in Settings. Will show you movie, theater, auditorium, and seat info on your lock screen before the movie starts, along with the time the movie ends and how long until the end. Shows on Apple Watch as well.

  • Shortcuts Support: Now works with the Shortcuts app. Find and filter your movies by theater, format, rating, price, tags, and more, then build anything from an average ticket price report to an automation that logs a movie in the background. Your saved filters work there too.

  • Spotlight Search: Search from your Home Screen and your logged movies appear with their poster, showtime, theater, and even your seat.

  • Quicker Logging: Long press the app icon to jump into the Add Movie flow quickly, or add a button to Control Center or your Lock Screen.

  • Siri Support: Say "Log a movie in Reel Savings" or "Rate my last movie in Reel Savings" to try it out.

  • Calendar: Option to sync your movies to an iCloud calendar. Stays up to date with any changes you make to entries.

  • Theaters: Link a theater to its address. Used to give travel time alerts for the new calendar function.

  • Shake to Report: Shake your phone anywhere in the app to send a report. Contact Us can now attach diagnostics, and optionally a full backup of your library, so problems can be sorted out in one round trip.

Enhancements:

  • Auto Backup: Manual backups are now not included in the 20 backup limit, and remain unless manually deleted by the user.

  • Concessions: New field to add waived fees and have them fold into program savings. Intended for situations like the waived fees A-List offers for online concession ordering. Ticket booking fees work the same way, and fees waived at a theater no membership covers now show as their own line instead of quietly widening the gap in your totals.

  • Points Redemption: Added the ability to assign points from multiple programs towards additional ticket purchases.

  • Onboarding: Reworked onboarding that makes it easier for first time users to get setup and going.

  • A-List: Built in support for Classic membership tier.

  • Now Playing: In addition to being able to adjust the global trailer length, you can now set the trailer length the app uses to calculate end times on a chain by chain basis.

  • Sync: Expanded iCloud sync. Most settings besides theme, accent color, and icon now sync across devices.

  • How I Spend: Tap the How I Spend chart to see every category and amount, including the small ones too thin to label.

Bug Fixes:

  • Widgets: The widget was silently unavailable to anyone on iOS 18.0 through 18.5. It now installs on every supported version. On a fresh install posters would not show on widgets until a movie was added or edited. Widgets will now populate immediately.

  • Savings & Stats: Stat tiles and their breakdown popups disagreed on custom programs. Combined view double-counted companion waived fees, and leftover companion ticket info could inflate Total Value and Total Savings. Home now refreshes after points edits and after a membership renewal charge.

  • Custom Programs: Added protections from deleting a custom program. App will now block deletion if there are any rewards points attributed to it in addition to movie entries.

  • Entry Add/Edit: Changing an entry's theater to another chain is now blocked if it would strand rewards on a membership that doesn't work there.

  • Concession Programs: Save was permanently disabled when editing an existing program.

  • Backup & Restore: Saved filters are now carried through backup and restore.

  • Auditorium: Fixed an issue where PLF may flip back to standard projection when you edit the auditorium, and where toggling a format to or from IMAX left the aspect ratio stale.

  • Manual Entry: Fixed a bug that would cause the photo picker to instantly close when adding a poster to a manual entry.