The recommendation tracker

Never lose a recommendation again.

Your friend says “you HAVE to watch this.” Two weeks later it’s gone. Somebody Once Told Me catches every movie, book, show, and restaurant the people you trust tell you about.

  • Save anything in five seconds
  • Twelve media types, one library
  • Thank the person who told you
Download on the App Store Free · iPhone
The Somebody Once Told Me library, showing saved recommendations with who recommended each one.

Amazing recommendations deserve an amazing home.

“What was that show again?”
The one your coworker swore by. Gone — buried under three weeks of group chats.
A notes app full of nothing
Half-typed titles, no context, no idea who told you or whether it’s a book or a movie.
“Did you ever watch it?”
You didn’t. They noticed. Recommendations are a gift — and they go unopened.
Make it yours

What kind of recommendations do you get?

Tap a few — go on, try it. Your library organizes itself around the things people actually tell you about, so it never feels cluttered.

Pick your categories
3 selected
Five seconds flat

Search it, tap it, done.

Type a title, pick it from real results, and note who recommended it. Posters and details fill themselves in — before you’ve even put your phone down.

Add a recommendation
The Bear
TV Show · 2022
The Bear and the Hare
Movie · 2013
Who recommended this?
Saved to your library
Already have a list?

Paste your messy notes. We’ll sort them.

Most people have recommendations scattered across their Notes app. Paste the lot — our AI reads it, finds every title, and sorts them in seconds, not hours.

Import from Notes
dune – ben said it's amazing that chef show everyone talks about atomic habits (from mum) the last of us game!!
Reading your notes…
Dune
The Bear
Atomic Habits
The Last of Us
Keep or skip

Curate with a swipe.

Swipe right to keep, left to skip. It’s the fastest way to turn a pile of suggestions into a library you’ll actually work through. Go ahead — try the buttons.

You finished it. Now close the loop.

Mark something complete and send a thank-you to whoever recommended it. It’s a small thing — and it makes people want to recommend you more.

People are following through.

★★★★★

“I used to forget every recommendation within a day. Now I have a list I actually work through.”

— Maya R., Sydney
★★★★★

“The thank-you feature is genuinely lovely. My friends keep sending me more stuff to watch.”

— James T., Melbourne
★★★★★

“Finally, one place for the book, the show, and the restaurant — instead of three lost notes.”

— Priya N., Brisbane

Stop forgetting. Start following through.

Download Somebody Once Told Me and never lose a great recommendation again.

Download on the App Store