Cinow
Every movie showtime around you, in one free app
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Details
- External ID
- 1275872
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Cinow
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Android, Movies, Theater
Description
cinow gathers the showtimes of 1,500+ cinemas across France in one free, independent app. No account, no ads, no commission. Pick a radius around you or any address and see the next screenings right away, up to 7 days ahead. All chains plus municipal, community and art-house cinemas. Filter by original version or dubbed, genre, length and time slot. Follow a movie and get notified when a screening is scheduled near you. One tap opens the cinema's own ticketing.
Enrichment
- Niche
- movie and entertainment recommendation apps
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- local movie showtime aggregator for moviegoers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The front-end app and geo-radius search are straightforward, but aggregating and maintaining real-time showtimes for 1,500+ independent, municipal, and chain cinemas across France requires extensive scraping pipelines or commercial data licensing.
What it would actually take: To build this, you would create a mobile or web app using React Native/Flutter backed by a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database. The hardest challenge is building and maintaining robust scraping and parsing pipelines for hundreds of individual theater websites and chain APIs (like Allociné or Cinecheck), managing schema changes, and handling deduplication. A solo builder would likely need to license aggregated movie data or invest significant ongoing engineering effort in scraper maintenance.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 84 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 85 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 292 days after the earliest competitor.
- Cineza · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- SHOWTIME · Theatre Directory · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Cinemeet · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- CineMap 2.0 · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- AD CINEMA · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Netfree · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- flixnivo.com · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- CinePal · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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