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NewYour Channel—a shelf that plays video. Paste up to 10 links from YouTube, Vimeo, and most anywhere else, and they play right on your page: full width, muted until someone taps for sound, looping in the order you set. Play or pause, scrub, skip to the next, turn on captions, or go fullscreen—right from the shelf. Drag it to the top of your library to lead your page with it.
NewScores, right on the page—open a film or show and see Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, IMDb, and TMDB; games get Metacritic, Steam, RAWG, and IGDB; books show reader ratings and places show Google's. Each one is a tap through to the source.
NewTrailers play in tonal—films, shows, and games have a play button on the artwork, and the trailer opens right there. No detour to YouTube, and captions stay off unless you turn them on.
NewEvery member has 5 invites—send one from Settings with just an email, and when your friend joins, you automatically follow each other.
UpdatedGame pages open much faster—everything a game detail needs now arrives in one trip instead of several slow ones.
UpdatedDetail pages use the room—facts, credits, and scores settle into four tidy columns on bigger screens, so there's less scrolling to see it all.
FixedOn a phone, a trimmed synopsis always opens up—tap More, or just tap the text.
NewDiscover now surfaces things that share the tone of what you've loved—across films, music, books, and games at once, not just within a genre. It builds from what you love, like, or rate 4 stars and up, shows friends' takes when they have them, and gets sharper as you rate more. The feed from the people you follow is now Activity.
NewOpen an artist and a quick note explains how ratings work—stars live on the albums and songs, and an artist gets your heart or a like.
UpdatedBook covers now match the edition you actually read—the printing on your shelf—with cleaner manga and comic volume art, pulled from more sources including Google Books, so the right cover shows up far more often.
NewGame studios have their own pages—open a game and tap the developer to see the studio's other games, with a short bio.
FixedCovers show up reliably everywhere—album art, book covers, film and show posters, and real artist press photos, including brand-new titles—and they come through even with an ad blocker or tracking protection on.
FixedOn iPhone, large libraries no longer crash or reload in a loop—the library loads and edits smoothly no matter how much you've added.
FixedHalf-star ratings stick—set 3½ and it stays. On a phone, drag across the stars to set them.
FixedMusic search forgives typos, and album and song covers match the right release.
NewAn all-new Discover page—a clean feed of what the people you follow are into, newest first, with their ratings at a glance and a tap straight through to anything.
NewRicher detail pages everywhere—bigger artwork with the title over it, a synopsis, and connected cast, creators, and related picks—the same view from your shelf, a search, or a friend's page.
NewRate and review what you finish—stars, thumbs, and a written note on any item, kept with it on any shelf—and log your take right from anyone's page.
NewEvery item has its own shareable link—open something and the address bar updates, so you can share the exact film, album, or book.
NewSearch all of tonal or just your library from one place, with sharp cover art for brand-new music.
NewImport from more sources—Steam, Apple Music, StoryGraph, Trakt, Audible, and podcasts from YouTube and Overcast—and disconnecting keeps what you already imported.
UpdatedYour music "Recent" shelves track what you've actually been playing lately, so recent listening rises to the top.
UpdatedList view got a full pass—covers in each medium's true shape, ratings aligned on the right, and tidy shelves with a Show more, reliable section jumps, and filters.
NewIn-progress shelves: Reading, Playing, and Watching.
UpdatedEditing your page ends with one tap—Done—and every change saves as you make it.
RemovedProfiles are username-only now (plus an optional photo and link), and your collection is called your library.
PrivacyA plain-language data page, reviewed line by line against what tonal actually stores.
NewBranded sign-in emails with one-tap magic-link login.
UpdatedLight and dark themes that follow your system, with a manual override.

Exploring

Open it where you areexploring: Jump out to anything in your own service—Spotify, Apple Music, wherever—through neutral links, never one partner's.
Playlists out to Apple Musicexploring: Build a playlist on Apple Music straight from your shelves—Apple allows it, so it's a matter of building, not waiting.
Custom shelvesexploring: Make your own shelves—named by you, mixing any media—beyond the built-in ones.
Listsexploring: Hand-built collections that run across every medium, not just one.
Discovery from who you followexploring: Find your next thing through the people you follow and what they're into.
Deeper, sourced detailexploring: Richer, more accurate detail on every item—where the facts came from, plus outside ratings and reviews.
Smarter imports & exportsexploring: Scheduled, batched, hands-off syncs—with help setting them up so your library stays current on its own.
A look back at your yearexploring: The shape of your taste over a year, gathered into a recap.

Not now—and why

Playlists into Spotifynot now: Spotify reserves the broad API access this needs for apps with 250,000+ monthly active users—we'll apply once we're there.
One-tap Spotify loginnot now: Same restriction as above—so for now you bring your music and podcasts in from a data export instead.

By design

Taking a side between servicesby design: We won't wire tonal to favor or lock you into one platform—jump-outs always land in your own service.
How public you areby design: Your username is all that's required—add a photo or a custom link if you want to be more findable, or don't. How public or private you are is your call.