About Wibely

The story behind Wibely.

A small frustration, a long list of things worth remembering, and one person who decided to build the app he wished existed.

Where it started

It started in 2020. Everything we watched, read, played and listened to lived in a different app. A movie in one, a show in another, songs somewhere else, books and games nowhere at all. Recommending any of it to a friend meant a screenshot and a link that was lost by the next morning.

Worse, a year on, none of us could remember half of what we had loved. The film that made a whole weekend. The song on repeat all of March. The game that ate a winter. Gone, or scattered across five places that never spoke to each other.

"I didn't want a smarter feed. I wanted a memory, and a way to hand the good stuff to the people I care about."

What we built

So Wibely became one place for all five: Movies, TV, Music, Books and Games. You rate what you finish, in your own words. You save what you're curious about and see where it's streaming. And when the people whose taste you trust turn up, you see what they thought, and what they can't stop recommending.

The log comes first, for you. The friends are the reason you'll keep it.

What we hold to

Your log stays yours. No ads, no selling your data, no camera or gallery access. Delete your account and everything goes with it, any time.

Every kind gets the same care. A song deserves as much as a movie, a game as much as a book. Each of the five gets the details that matter for it.

Taste from people, not algorithms. Your feed is the people you follow. What to pick next comes from someone whose taste you already know.

Our mission

Keep entertainment simple.

You shouldn't spend the evening scrolling for something to watch, or the year forgetting what you loved. One place, all five kinds, and the answer to "what next" in a minute.

Our vision

A community of access.

A place where the love for Movies, TV, Music, Books and Games is shared openly, and a great recommendation travels from one person to the next as easily as saying it out loud.

Spreading the wibes.

Majin Bala, founder of Wibely
Majin Bala Founder of Wibely Building Wibely since 2020 Sydney, with roots in Chennai bala@wibely.com

A note from the founder

I built the app I kept wishing someone else would.

I have always been the friend who sends recommendations. The show you have to see, the song you need before the drive, the book that will fix your week. For years those went out as screenshots and links, and most of them disappeared into a chat scroll nobody looked at again.

I also kept losing my own list. I could not tell you what I had watched two winters ago, let alone which ones I had actually loved. Every app remembered a slice of it, and none of them remembered me.

So I started Wibely. I built it myself: the design, the app, the servers, and the emails you get when something goes wrong. A small team of friends has been with it from the start, testing every build, arguing over every screen and catching what I miss. It is made from Sydney, shaped by Chennai, and used every day by us before anyone else.

If something in it feels off, or you have an idea that would make it better, write to me. I read everything, and I usually reply the same day.

Bala

Start with one rating.

A year from now you'll have a record of everything you loved. Free on iOS and Android.

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