Live IMDb scores
Every title card shows its current IMDb rating, pulled straight from the database. No guessing, no leaving Netflix.
Free Chrome extension
Know if it's worth watching before you press play.
Rating Watch is a free Chrome extension that shows the IMDb rating and the Rotten Tomatoes score on every Netflix title card as you browse. The extension needs no account, no second tab, no searching. Just scroll and decide.
- IMDb + Rotten Tomatoes
- Chrome, Edge & Brave
- Extension needs no account
Illustrative scores. The extension fetches real ratings as you browse.
2
rating sources on every card
IMDb + Rotten Tomatoes
0
accounts needed for the extension
no login needed
2
sites it can access
netflix.com + omdbapi.com
$0
cost of the extension
free, no card needed
Illustrative scores, for demonstration only.
Why it matters
Why put IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes scores on Netflix title cards?
Choosing what to watch often turns into a long scroll that ends with giving up or settling for something forgettable. Netflix shows you gorgeous artwork and a one-line hook — but never the one number that actually predicts whether you'll enjoy it. So you open a second tab, search the title, skim a rating, switch back, and repeat. Every single time.
Rating Watch removes that loop entirely. By placing the IMDb user score and the Rotten Tomatoes critic score directly on each title card, the decision happens where you already are. You glance, you compare the audience and the critics in the same look, and you press play with confidence — or scroll on without a second thought.
Because both numbers load in parallel as you browse, there's no lag and no card-by-card waiting. New rows, search results and “More Like This” suggestions are all covered automatically. It's the context Netflix should have shipped years ago — quietly added back in.
“Two trusted scores, on every card, in the time it takes to scroll.”
Overview
Rating Watch in 30 seconds
Before & after
What changes on a Netflix card with the extension?
Without the extension
Great artwork. Zero idea if it's actually good.
With Rating Watch
Audience 8.7, critics 86% (illustrative). Press play.
Features
What can Netflix Ratings do?
Rotten Tomatoes too
Critic scores sit right beside the IMDb number, so you get both the crowd and the critics before you commit.
Loads in parallel
Every visible card fetches its rating at once. Scroll, and the next batch fires automatically — no waiting card by card.
Private by default
The extension needs no account or login and does no tracking. It only talks to the ratings source, so your watch history stays yours.
Fits right in
A subtle badge in the corner of each card. It matches the Netflix UI without covering artwork or breaking your flow.
Always current
Ratings refresh as you browse — new rows, search results, “More Like This.” Everything stays covered.
How it works
How does Netflix Ratings work?
Rating Watch reads the title cards on netflix.com, looks up each title's IMDb rating and Rotten Tomatoes score through the OMDb API, and draws a small badge in the top-right corner of the card. Setup takes three steps.
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Install the extension
Download the zip from this site and load it unpacked in a couple of clicks. No store account required.
- 2
Open Netflix
Browse like you always do. The extension activates automatically on netflix.com.
- 3
See ratings everywhere
IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes scores appear on every card — and on new rows as you scroll.
Loved by binge-watchers
People stop guessing — and start choosing
“I used to keep IMDb open in a second tab the whole time I browsed Netflix. Now the score is just… there. I can’t go back.”
“The Rotten Tomatoes number next to IMDb is the killer feature. Saves my movie nights from a lot of regret.”
“Installed it in under a minute and it just works. No account, no popups asking me to upgrade. Refreshing.”
“It’s the first thing I install on a new laptop now. Browsing Netflix without ratings feels broken.”
Two scores, one card
IMDb tells you what audiences think. Rotten Tomatoes tells you what critics think.
They often disagree — and that gap is exactly what helps you pick. We break down how the two systems work and when to trust each.
Read: IMDb vs Rotten TomatoesIMDb8.7
RT86%
Illustrative example: Stranger Things
Questions, answered
What is Rating Watch?
Rating Watch is a free Chrome extension that shows the IMDb rating and the Rotten Tomatoes score in a small badge on each Netflix title card as you browse. You see both scores without opening another tab or searching anything. It runs on netflix.com in Chromium browsers such as Chrome, Edge and Brave. There is also an optional Pro AR mode that shows the same scores over a TV screen through your phone camera.
Is Rating Watch free?
The Chrome extension is free: no account and nothing to subscribe to. AR mode, which draws ratings over your TV through your phone camera, is Pro: $2.99 a month or $29 a year, with a 3-day free trial that needs no card. You can cancel any time from your account page.
Where do the ratings come from?
Ratings come from OMDb, the Open Movie Database. The extension looks up each Netflix title by name through the OMDb API and reads the IMDb rating and Rotten Tomatoes score OMDb returns. The scores are not calculated or edited by Rating Watch, so they match what OMDb has on file for that title.
How is the Rotten Tomatoes score defined?
The Tomatometer is the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive, according to Rotten Tomatoes. It is a head-count, not an average of how good the reviews were. A title is labelled Fresh when at least 60% of reviews are positive and Rotten below that. The IMDb number is a separate 1 to 10 audience rating.
Does it show ratings for every title?
No. If OMDb has no match for a title, or has an IMDb rating but no Rotten Tomatoes score, the badge shows only the score it found, or nothing. This is most common with very new releases, some Netflix originals and titles whose Netflix name differs from the database listing.
Does it work on the Netflix mobile app or TV?
No. Rating Watch is a browser extension, and its manifest only covers www.netflix.com, so it works when you browse Netflix on a computer in Chrome, Edge, Brave or another Chromium browser. Browser extensions do not run inside the Netflix app on phones, tablets, smart TVs or game consoles, so no badges appear there.
Does it slow Netflix down?
It is designed not to. The extension only adds a small text badge to title cards, waits 300 milliseconds after the page changes before scanning, fetches ratings in a background worker in parallel, and caches repeat lookups locally. It does not touch video playback. We have not published benchmark numbers.
Is Rating Watch affiliated with Netflix?
No. Rating Watch is an independent project by Igor Gazivoda and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Netflix, IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes. Netflix, IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes are trademarks of their respective owners. The extension only reads the title cards that your own browser already displays.
Does the extension collect my data?
No. The extension needs no account or login and does not track your viewing history. The only data it sends is the movie or show title, to OMDb, so it can look up the scores. Its permissions are limited to netflix.com and omdbapi.com. Nothing about you is stored or shared by the extension.
How do I install Rating Watch?
It is not on the Chrome Web Store yet, so you install it from this site. Download the zip from the install page, unzip it, open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode, click Load unpacked and choose the unzipped folder. Then open netflix.com and the badges appear on title cards. The whole process takes about a minute.
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