Your preferred seats, without the refreshing

Find the seats you actually want.

Choose a movie, theatre, and seats. See what’s available now, or keep watching for a match.

Phone alerts

See what a seat alert looks like.

Add Seat Watcher to your Home Screen, then send yourself a sample alert. Keep the app open while it checks. Important: Closing it or locking your phone stops seat checks.

Install on iPhone or Android
No permission request is made until you use this button.
Search for

Seat availability while this tab stays open.

01

Choose a theatre

Your movie
Choose a movie above
Your theatres
None selected yet

Filter by screen format

Select movies and theatres first

02

Pick an exact showtime

Select movies and theatres first

Customize defaults: any format · 2 seats near centre
03

Set the watch schedule

04

Seat preferences

Choose a screen type to load its auditorium

Refine rows and seat numbers
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Home Screen app

Add Seat Watcher to your phone.

Get a Seat Watcher icon that opens like an app and can request system notifications. Keep it open while you wait. Important: Closing the app or locking your phone stops seat checks.

iPhone or iPad

  1. Open this page in Safari.
  2. Tap the Share button (the square with an upward arrow).
  3. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen. If it is missing, tap Edit Actions first.
  4. If shown, leave Open as Web App turned on, then tap Add.
  5. Open the new Seat Watcher icon and use Enable & send test notification.

See Apple’s illustrated iPhone guide

Android

  1. Open this page in Chrome.
  2. Tap the More menu (the three dots beside the address bar).
  3. Tap Install and create shortcut, then Install. Some phones show Add to Home screen instead.
  4. Open the new Seat Watcher icon and use Enable & send test notification.

See Google’s Android installation guide

Browser extensions

Bring your picks over when you’re already on Cineplex.

Our small browser extensions can copy the movie, theatre, format, showtime, and selected seats from a Cineplex page into this watcher for your review.

Download for Chrome Download for Firefox Private manual install · no browser store required
Install in Chrome
  1. If you are updating, remove the old Cineplex Watch Helper first.
  2. Download and unzip the Chrome file.
  3. Open chrome://extensions and enable Developer mode.
  4. Select Load unpacked and choose the unzipped folder.
Install in Firefox
  1. If you are updating, remove the old Cineplex Watch Helper first.
  2. Download and unzip the Firefox file.
  3. Open about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox.
  4. Select Load Temporary Add-on and choose manifest.json.

Firefox removes unsigned temporary add-ons when it closes, so load it again after restarting Firefox.
01Live Cineplex dataMovies, formats, and seat maps stay current.
02Private by defaultYour watches stay in this browser.
03Browser alertsKeep this tab open and we’ll notify you.