Dailies has two sections, each organized by what you scan. Films, where it opens, goes film by film and answers "what should I see?", under four headings at the top: Now playing, Coming soon, Watchlist and Programs. The Schedule goes theater by theater and hour by hour and answers "when and where?". Now playing has a strip of its own: Next two weeks lists every film playing in the next two weeks, one row each, with where it is on, how long its run lasts (counting every showtime the theaters have listed, not only the next two weeks) and a bar for each day's showtimes (rest the pointer on a bar for that day's count); those rows give dates, never clock times. First-run theaters post their showtimes a week at a time, so a run that reaches the last day a theater has posted says Now playing, with how far its showtimes go, and the days after that are dotted, not posted yet, rather than empty. Pick a day on the strip instead and you get that day film by film, every time at every theater, in time order: tap a time to mark it, as anywhere else. Later, at the end of the strip, lists every film booked to start after the next two weeks, new releases, repertory and events alike, with their first dates, theaters and run. A pill beside a title says where you stand, Going Tue, Interested or On watchlist, and a watchlisted film's heart is filled in rose. In every range, narrow the list to Watchlist (films on your watchlist or with a time you marked), New releases (real runs, films on two or more dates; tick Include one-night screenings for the one-night and festival dates), Repertory or Last chance. Order sorts by Most showtimes, where the two weeks start, Newly listed, Ending soon or A to Z; a single day adds By time, where it starts, and Later has Soonest first and By date. More filters holds Hide wide releases (three or more theaters), New this week, prints On film, films In a program and one borough; on a single day it adds From now (today), Matinee or After, runtime, genre and open captions, as on the Schedule. A row names a print (35mm, 16mm, 70mm) only when every showing is on it; the times say which ones are. New this week heads the two weeks with the new releases that opened in the last 7 days or open in the next 7 and pass your filters (a repertory title a theater has just listed is not a new release); See all lays every one of them out as posters. A marathon or a double feature is shown as the event it is, with a title card and its label, never as another film. The search box at the top narrows the list as you type, by film, director, cast, genre or theater. Every row has the heart and the hide button; tap a film for its details and every showtime. On a wide screen they open in a column beside the list, and its × (or Escape) closes it.

The new releases ahead, in one list: films opening in theaters after the next two weeks, month by month, soonest first, and the better-known first on the same day; Order switches to Most anticipated. Each says when it opens and where a theater here has booked it, with how many dates, or that it is Not booked in NYC yet; tap the heart on any of them to add it to your watchlist, and you hear by email when a theater books it. Only real releases make the list, films coming out in US theaters: never a festival or series date, a shorts program, an event, or a one-night screening of a film that is already out. Those, and repertory booked that far ahead, are under Now playing → Later. For a film no list shows, search at the top of Films → Watchlist.

Tap the heart on a film to add it to your watchlist; it fills in rose. Every film has one, in Films and in a film's details, a new release no theater here has booked yet included; for a film no list shows, Add a film at the top of Films → Watchlist searches every film, released or not, with a heart on each. Films → Watchlist lists each one the way Now playing does, with the next two weeks' showtimes as bars, the theaters it plays at (your favorite theaters first, in brass) and its run: Playing ("Through Oct 12"; "Now playing" for a run that reaches the last day its theaters have posted; or "Opens Oct 23" when a later date is booked), Leaving soon (its last day is today or within two days, and no theater has posted past it) or Not scheduled, which says when a new release opens in US theaters once that is known ("Opens Fri Oct 23"). Tap a film for its showtimes, or switch on Watchlist on the Schedule. You get at most one email a day, when a film on your watchlist gets a new run or plays at a new theater, and never for added showtimes — turn that off in Account → Emails.

Festivals, retrospectives and series: anything the theaters program as two or more films under one name, from today on. Where the theater describes a program, its own words come first (two lines; More reads the rest, and a link goes to the program’s page on the theater’s site); every program then says where, when and how many films. Open one for its films, each with its dates and theaters. A film carries a program’s name in its row when most of its showings are in that program. A one-off occasion (a Q&A, a sing-along, a fan event, a baby-friendly show) is not a program: it belongs to its showing, and you see it beside that time in the film’s details and under the showing in your Plans. The search box narrows programs by their name or their films.

The Schedule answers "when and where?", theater by theater and hour by hour: every screening at NYC's indie and repertory theaters, today plus the next 13 days, under Day, and your own plans under Plans, where it opens. Pick a day on the strip. On a computer the day opens on the Guide: theaters down the side, the hours from 10 AM to 2 AM across, a block for each showing; tap one to open the film with that showing's Interested, Going and Tickets ready, and nothing is marked until you choose. Today the Guide starts at now, so what is still to come is drawn larger and what has started is left out; Earlier, in its corner, brings back the whole day. By theater, beside it in the layout menu, lists the theaters, each with its films and their times. On a phone it opens on Up next, the day in time order from now on, with By theater beside it. For a day film by film, use Films → Now playing and pick the day there. Under the strip are the borough, the order of the theaters and three filters: Watchlist keeps films on your watchlist or with a time you marked, New this week keeps the new releases that opened in the last 7 days or open in the next 7, and other films first listed in the last 7 days, and Hide wide releases drops films playing at three or more theaters. More filters holds the rest: From now hides what has already started today, My theaters keeps your favorite theaters, On film keeps 35mm, 16mm and 70mm prints, Last chance keeps runs about to end, and new releases or repertory, time of day, runtime, genre and open captions. On a phone, From now and My theaters start switched on. The search box at the top narrows the day as you type (title, director, cast, genre or theater) and finds any film on it to open.

Plans lists the showtimes you marked Interested or Going under This week, Next week and Later, by date or by film; Going or Interested shows just those. Compare your options, then press Going on the one you're committing to; press it again to move it back to Interested, or use the cross to remove it. A Going plan adds Tickets, Calendar (a one-event .ics file) and Invite, and two plans that run at the same time are flagged with a note. Add to calendar subscribes your calendar app to your Going plans, so new ones appear there by themselves; it also copies the feed link, downloads your Going plans as one .ics file, and opens Account → Calendar sync, where the link can be regenerated. Invites from friends wait at the top of Plans; Seen, your log of films you went to, and the invites you accepted fold up at the foot.

Tap any showtime to mark it Interested — it fills and takes a bookmark 7:30pm and its Going, Tickets and Invite open right under it. This is non-committal: you're bookmarking a possibility. Tap it again to clear it. A showtime you're going to fills and takes a ticket 7:30pm; tapping it only opens its row, so nothing is undone by accident. A time you haven't marked stays plain, so your plans stand out. Everything you mark gathers under Schedule → Plans.

New marks a film first listed in the last 24 hours — newly booked, not necessarily a new release. New this week means a new release that opened in the last 7 days or opens in the next 7, and any other film first listed in the last 7 days. Last chance marks a run that has been listed for over a week and ends within the next three days, and never one that goes on: first-run theaters post a week at a time, so a run that reaches the last day a theater has posted is still playing. A sold-out show isn't a chance, so it never counts there (a newly booked film that's already sold out is still New). Sold-out showtimes are struck through wherever they appear; the ticket link on your Going list stays live in case returns come up. You get at most one email a day, when a film on your watchlist gets a new run or plays at a new theater, and never for added showtimes — turn that off in Account → Emails.

Add a friend by sending them an invite link from Account → Friends: whoever opens it within 14 days and signs in, or signs up, becomes your friend (each link works once). Friends see the showtimes you're going to — a small initial or number on the time and a Going: line in the film details — but never ones you've only marked Interested. Tap Invite on a showtime or on a Going plan to ask friends along, with an optional note; they'll find it at the top of Schedule → Plans, where accepting marks them going, and a bubble on the Schedule says it is waiting. The friend you ask also gets an email, unless they have turned off Invites from friends under Account → Emails; either way the invite waits in Plans. You can remove a friend from Account at any time.

A midnight movie is listed on the evening it belongs to, not the calendar day it technically starts. A 12:30am show on Friday's list sits at the end of Friday and is marked late — and lands on Saturday in your calendar. Until 4 AM the evening is still today here: after midnight Friday's late shows stay on the Schedule and in Films, Plans calls that night Tonight, and the day moves on at 4 AM.

Connect your Letterboxd username in Account → Letterboxd and Dailies hides the new releases you've already seen: films from the last two years that your Letterboxd diary says you watched, whenever you watched them. It reads your public diary feed when you open Dailies, at most twice a day, and keeps what it reads, so the history it knows grows with your diary; Add older history there imports diary.csv from your Letterboxd export for the entries from before you connected. A second switch, Also hide older films I've seen this year, hides repertory screenings of films you've watched since January 1 and starts over each January. Films on your watchlist and showings you've marked are never hidden, the search still finds every film, and Films says how many it hid, with Show to bring them back for your visit. You can also import your Letterboxd watchlist there: export your data from Letterboxd (Settings → Import & Export), choose watchlist.csv, settle the few titles that need a decision, and the rest go on your watchlist, in Films → Watchlist. To add the films you've seen through Dailies to your Letterboxd diary: a showtime you mark Going moves to Seen, at the foot of Schedule → Plans, once its day has passed, and Download for Letterboxd there saves them as a file you import on Letterboxd (Settings → Import & Export). Each film carries its TMDb id, so it matches the right film.

Tap the hide button on any film in Films, or in a film's details, to hide it everywhere — all theaters, all dates, Coming soon included. To bring one back, go to Account → Hidden films; on your watchlist the same button turns it back on. Films you've seen can be hidden for you too, from your Letterboxd diary: see Letterboxd above.

On both day strips, the Schedule's and Now playing's, a slate dot means you have Interested showtimes that day; a brass dot means you're going to something that day.

The Schedule lists theaters in the order you pick, under Theaters on the Schedule or in Account: Preferred (reorder the list yourself in Account), Neighborhood (grouped by area), Nearest (enter your ZIP code in Account), or A to Z. Tap the heart beside a theater in Account → Theater sort to favorite it, in any order — favorites lead in your watchlist and film details, and My theaters, under More filters on the Schedule, shows only them.

Dailies follows your device's appearance; pick Light or Dark under Account → Appearance to pin it on this device.

Yes — a free account keeps your plans, watchlist, and preferences synced across devices. Sign up with your email and a password; you'll get a confirmation email before you can sign in. Forgot your password? Tap Forgot password? on the sign-in screen, enter your email and tap Change Password, and we'll send you a link to choose a new one. Account, this page and Sign out live under the account button at the top; the ? beside it opens this page too.

BAM, Metrograph, IFC Center, Film Forum, Film at Lincoln Center, Nitehawk (Williamsburg & Prospect Park), Angelika (Houston, Village East & Cinema 123), Quad Cinema, Roxy Cinema, Paris Theater, Cobble Hill Cinemas, Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn, and Spectacle.

Dailies searches each theater's own schedule twice a day; the timestamp at the top shows the last successful search. If a theater's listing fails or comes back empty, or the refresh hasn't run, a banner appears at the top of the page. A page left open checks again every half hour and when you come back to it. The Updated time always describes the schedule the page is showing; reload the page to see a newer one.