Watch Party: Sync Video, Chat & Call by watchpartyapplive

Watch videos together with friends, no matter how far apart you are.

Watch Party keeps everyone's video perfectly in sync — press play once and it plays for the whole room. Add live chat, video calls and reactions on top, and movie night works again even when nobody's in the same city.

It works on any website that plays video — streaming services, sports, anime, lectures, or a clip someone hosted themselves.

WHAT YOU GET

• Perfectly synced playback — play, pause and seek stay in step for everyone, automatically. No "3… 2… 1… go" countdowns.
• Live chat — talk over the video without leaving the page or switching to another app.
• Group video & voice calls — see and hear each other while you watch. Reactions land on screen in real time.
• Works on any site — not just one streaming service. If the page has a video, Watch Party can sync it.
• Public rooms — browse rooms other people opened and drop into one, or keep yours private and invite-only.
• Friends & DMs — add friends, message them, and invite them straight into a room.
• Nothing to install for the video itself — no downloads, no uploads, no re-encoding. Everyone streams from their own account, on their own connection, in full quality.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Open the video page you were going to watch anyway.
2. Click the Watch Party icon in your Firefox toolbar.
3. Create a room and share the invite link.
4. Press play. Everyone watches together, in sync.

WHY NOT JUST SCREEN SHARE?

Screen sharing sends a compressed, laggy, low-frame-rate copy of your screen and destroys your upload bandwidth. Watch Party syncs the timeline instead — everyone plays their own stream at full quality, so a 4K movie stays 4K for every single person in the room.

PERFECT FOR

• Long-distance couples and friends
• Family movie nights across time zones
• Watching a series with someone who lives elsewhere
• Study groups and lecture recordings
• Reacting to a match, a launch, or a finale together

PRIVACY

Watch Party syncs playback state — a timestamp and a play/pause flag — not your video. The video itself is never captured, recorded or re-streamed through us; everyone plays it directly from the site, on their own account. The address of the page a room is watching is shared with the people in that room, so they land on the same video. Your engagement stats are calculated locally in your browser. You can use it as a guest without an account at all.

FREQUENTLY ASKED

Is Watch Party free?
Yes. Creating rooms, syncing video, chat and video calls are all free.

Do I need an account?
No. You can start or join a watch party as a guest. Signing in with Google only adds friends, direct messages and settings that follow you across devices.

Do we need the same subscription?
Yes — everyone plays the video from their own account, so each person needs access to the service you're watching. That's also why the quality stays perfect for everyone.

How many people can watch together?
You set the capacity for each room yourself, up to 500 people.

Can I watch with friends in another country?
Yes. Everyone streams locally, so distance and time zones don't affect playback quality or sync.