--- title: Netflix Roulette App Helps Decide What Movie or TV Show to Stream description: Netflix Roulette App helps decide what movie or TV show to stream. canonical: https://time.com/81153/netflix-roulette-app/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-29T16:49:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:13.774Z og:title: Netflix Roulette App Helps Decide What Movie or TV Show to Stream og:description: Netflix Roulette App helps decide what movie or TV show to stream. og:url: https://time.com/81153/netflix-roulette-app/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67ee0a2ddb5ebcb6/69868cf555a8595f24a80930/464222723.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: Netflix Illustrations Ahead Of Earnings og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Netflix Roulette App Helps Decide What Movie or TV Show to Stream twitter:description: Netflix Roulette App helps decide what movie or TV show to stream. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67ee0a2ddb5ebcb6/69868cf555a8595f24a80930/464222723.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Can't Decide What to Watch on Netflix? 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Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Netflix Inc. logo is displayed on an Apple Inc. iPhone arranged for a photograph in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014\. Netflix Inc., the largest subscription streaming service, is expected to release earnings data on Jan. 22\. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg / Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 29, 2014 4:49 PM UTC Have you ever spent so much time browsing the endless categories of Netflix that you eventually got too tired to watch anything and just fell asleep? If so, next time try using [Netflix Roulette](http://netflixroulette.net/), a very simple web app that will select a movie or TV show for you. You can let the app choose from virtually all of Netflix’s offerings, or you can narrow it down by genre. You can also specify if you want just movies, just TV shows or both, and if you want results with higher ratings. But beware: if you don’t like the suggestion, you can spin again (and again, and again), and then you could end up falling down the same old rabbit hole that got you to Netflix Roulette in the first place. So you should probably commit to whatever you get on the very first try. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/81153/netflix-roulette-app/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/81153/netflix-roulette-app/"},"headline":"Can't Decide What to Watch on Netflix? 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