Changelog

We're rolling out a major update to how accounts work on Marathon.

Phone numbers

First up: you can now sign in with your phone number! When you create your account, you can choose the new Continue with phone option and we'll text you a code to verify it's you.

If you already have an account, you can add a phone number in the Security section in settings. You'll be able to use it to sign in.

Change your email

If you have a phone number linked, you can now remove and change your email address in the Security settings. We recommend keeping an email linked, in case you change your phone number.

New onboarding

Tell your friends! We've refreshed our entire onboarding flow to make it faster and easier to get started. For starters, you can now mark your progress on shows with a swipe 😉

We'll be rolling out some features from onboarding to the main app experience over the next few updates.

We're rolling out a major update to our sharing features!

Starting today, you'll see a new and improved share sheet when you share anything: a show, season, episode, review, list, or member.

• Every shareable item now has a custom share image that you can save and share with others.

• Tap the link icon to copy a direct link to the item.

• You can also tap the Instagram icon (if you have it downloaded) to share the image directly to your story.

• Tapping the Twitter or Threads icon will share a text-only post with a link back to Marathon.

• Want to access the default share sheet? Just press the ... icon to open!

As Marathon grows, we'll be adding more image variants and share options to the share sheet.

Please tag us if you post something to your socials! We love to see what you're watching 💚

So good we did it twice! This week, we're rolling out a ton of polish and fixes to make your Marathon experience better.

You'll notice some bigger changes across the app:

• Swipe up on Marathon's topbar to minimize it and get more screen real estate

• Marathon now loads up instantly, with all your data exactly how you left it

• We've added quick filters to your Watchlist, reviews, shows, and more to make finding things easier

• A refreshed overview and ratings section on our show, season, and episode pages

• Tap on posters, backdrops, and avatars to see them at full size

Have more ideas for polishing your experience? Send us some feedback in-app! We'd love to hear from you.

We're rolling out tags to our Marathon+ subscribers!

Tags are a great way to organize your reviews and lists. To get started, open a review or list and start typing in the Add tags field.

To see someone else's tags, we've added a new Tags page to all profiles. Then you can tap on any tag to see all reviews and lists with that tag.

After shipping so many new features, we did a bit of tidying up this week to make sure everything is running smoothly.

You'll notice some bigger changes across the app:

• The Explore page has gotten a major design refresh to make discovering content easier

• There's a new History tab on your Watchlist where you can see all of your recently watched episodes

• Your profile is no longer split into About and Activity tabs — we've merged them into a single view!

There's a bunch of other goodies sprinkled across the app. We hope these all make your Marathon experience better 💚

It's our 2nd birthday! 🥳 🎂 We're celebrating by gifting our longtime members some awards for their Marathon anniversaries.

Two years ago, I never could've imagined being where we are now. I'm so grateful for all of you who have been a part of this journey. And we're still only getting started! We've got a big feature drop (cough cast & crew cough) coming soon that we can't wait to show you...

We're a team of one that runs on your support! If you'd like to contribute, try out a subscription to Marathon+ or drop us a review on the app stores 💚

Reviews are central to Marathon: they allow you to share your thoughts and opinions with the wider community.

We've rewritten our review editor from the bottom-up to help make your reviews bigger and bolder!

• Mention other members with an @ to include them in the conversation

• Add links to include a funny tweet or video in your review

• Quickly add emojis to your review with the new emoji picker — just type : to start a search

• 65+ custom emojis are now available to add a bit of extra flair to your reviews (Have one you want to see? Send us some feedback!)

• Access to the world's most popular GIFs to bring your words to life

• New text formatting to make your review stand out with bold, italic, and strikethrough options

Our new review editor, mentions, and links are now available to everyone!

Custom emojis, GIFs, and text formatting are available exclusively to our Marathon+ subscribers 💚

We're planning to expand our new editor features to comments, lists, and other parts of the app in the near future. Stay tuned!

Today we're excited to introduce Marathon+: a new way to support Marathon and get exclusive features!

Some backstory: Marathon started off as a passion project over two years ago and has since grown into something bigger than I could have ever imagined. As Marathon continues to grow, we have remained a founder-led, bootsrapped project, only ever asking for donations to offset server costs.

We want the core of Marathon to remain free for everyone. We are not interested in serving ads or selling customer data, and we are not beholden to listen to VCs. Our one and only mission is to make Marathon the best user experience for all of you.

Marathon+ is a new way to show your support for our mission. For the low price of 1.99 USD per month, you will receive an exclusive member badge next to your name, the ability to customize your show posters, and a great number of features still to be released.

Your support means the world to us and allows us to keep Marathon ad-free and user-first. Thank you for being part of our journey and for helping us make Marathon the best it can be for everyone. 💚

As part of our new filtering system, we wanted to tackle our most popular feature request with watch progress filters.

You can now filter your watchlist and shows by how much progress you've made:

• Not started is for shows you've added but haven't watched any episodes of

• In progress is for shows you've started and are in the middle of watching

• Caught up is for shows you've watched all available episodes of

• Finished is for shows you're caught up on and that have ended

Our old filtering system was confusing for many members, so today we're introducing a brand new system!

On any filterable page, tap the new Filter button in the top right to bring up all possible filter settings.

There's also a new handy Sort button right next to it to quickly change the order of results.

Some pages, like your watchlist, will save your filters for the next time you open the app! No more re-entering the same few filters every time.